The appeal of persistent class-oriented programming languages is great. Allowing class definitions to be persistent, in addition to instance data, greatly increases the ease of ac...
Many systems execute untrusted programs in virtual machines (VMs) to limit their access to system resources. Sun introduced the Java VM in 1995, primarily intended as a lightweigh...
The requirement for 24/7 availability of distributed applications complicates their maintenance and evolution as shutting down such applications to perform updates may not be an a...
Robert Pawel Bialek, Eric Jul, Jean-Guy Schneider,...
To realize large scale socially embedded systems, this paper proposes a multiagent-based participatory design that consists of steps called 1) participatory simulation, where scen...
Abstract. In this article we elaborate on portability in componentbased operating systems, focusing in the hardware mediator construct proposed by Frhlich in the Application-Orient...