Abstract. Collaboration diagrams as described in the official UML documents specify patterns of system structure and interaction. In this paper, we propose their use for specifying...
In an interactive embedded system, special task execution patterns and scheduling constraints exist due to frequent human-computer interactions. This paper proposes a transaction-...
Interactive Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR), a process in which searcher and system collaborate to find documents that satisfy an information need regardless of the la...
It is commonly agreed that scheduling mechanisms in general purpose operating systems do not provide adequate support for modern interactive applications, notably multimedia appli...
With the integration of cameras, mobile phones have evolved into networked personal image capture devices. Camera-phones can perform image processing tasks on the device itself an...