Time synchronization is a crucial component of a large class of sensor network applications, traditionally implemented as a standalone middleware service that provides a virtual gl...
—Service Level Agreements (SLA) are commonly used to define terms and conditions of service provisioning. WS-Agreement1 is an SLA specification that addresses the need of both ...
K. P. Clark, Martijn Warnier, Frances M. T. Brazie...
Many software systems rely on third-party components during their build process. Because the components are constantly evolving, quality assurance demands that developers perform ...
Il-Chul Yoon, Alan Sussman, Atif M. Memon, Adam A....
—Ageing populations and the necessity to reduce environmental impact raise new challenges on our living buildings. Convergence of home control systems (air conditioning, light ma...
Java, as a safe and platform independent language, avoids access to low-level I/O devices or direct memory access. In standard Java, low-level I/O it not a concern; it is handled ...
Martin Schoeberl, Christian Thalinger, Stephan Kor...