Open real-time systems provide for co-hosting hard-, soft- and non-real-time applications. Microkernel-based designs in addition allow for these applications to be mutually protec...
The management of IT landscapes consisting of thousands of business applications, different middleware systems, and supporting various business processes is a challenge for modern...
As the IT industry is becoming more and more interested in service oriented business models and upcoming technologies like Web Services or Grid Computing, the need for automated c...
The hybrid redundancy structure found at the cellular level of higher animals provides complex organism with the three key features of a reliability-engineered system: fault toler...
In High Volume Manufacturing (HVM), system control is shared between automation and human workers. The social organisation of workers plays an important role in supporting human d...