When creating mission-critical distributed systems using off-the-shelf components, it is important to assess the dependability of not only the hardware, but the software as well. ...
Philip J. Koopman Jr., John Sung, Christopher P. D...
Though program verification is known and has been used for decades, the verification of a complete computer system still remains a grand challenge. Part of this challenge is the in...
Two different operating system types are currently considered for sensor networks: event driven and multithreaded. This paper compares the two well-known operating systems TinyOS ...
Cormac Duffy, Utz Roedig, John Herbert, Cormac J. ...
Critical industrial applications or fault tolerant applications need for operating systems (OS) which guarantee a correct and safe behaviour in spite of the appearance of errors. ...
The growth and popularity of loosely-coupled distributed systems such as the World Wide Web and the touting of Java-based systems as the solution to the issues of software mainten...