To compare the outcomes of participatory and user-centered contextual design, case study methods and the Activity Checklist derived from Activity Theory are used to analyze two sy...
In this paper we introduce tag expression, a novel form of preference elicitation that combines elements from tagging and rating systems. Tag expression enables users to apply aff...
Adaptive, or self-aware, computing has been proposed to help application programmers confront the growing complexity of multicore software development. However, existing approache...
Henry Hoffmann, Jonathan Eastep, Marco D. Santambr...
Modern VLSI technology has changed the economic rules by which the balance between processing power, memory and communications is decided in computing systems. This will have a pr...
This paper presents a practical approach to communication synthesis for hardware/software system specified as tasks communicating through lossless blocking channels. It relies on ...