Hard-disk drive power consumption reduction methods focus mainly on increasing the amount of time the disk is in standby mode (disk spun down) by implementing aggressive data read...
Basic retiming is an algorithm originally developed for hardware optimization. Software pipelining is a technique proposed to increase instruction-level parallelism for parallel p...
Existing real-time ORB middleware standards such as RT-CORBA do not adequately address the challenges of 1) providing robust performance guarantees portably across different platf...
In the near future, Ambient Intelligence (AmI) will become part of everyday life. Combining feature-rich multimedia with AmI (dubbed Ambient Multimedia for short) has the potentia...
Abstract. We propose a pattern-based software development method comprising analysis (using problem frames) and design (using architectural and design patterns), of which especiall...