The increasingly constrained power budget of today's microprocessor has resulted in a situation where power savings of all components in a system have to be taken into consid...
Message Sequence Charts (MSCs) are a well known language for specifying scenarios that describe how different actors (e.g., system components, people, or organizations) interact. M...
Design patterns are important in object-oriented programming because they offer design motifs, elegant solutions to recurrent design problems, which improve the quality of software...
Ubiquitous applications are facing a large diversity of execution contexts. However, this diversity requires some continual adaptation to preserve the correct execution of these ap...
Abstract--Reliability and sensitivity analysis is a key component in the design, tuning, and maintenance of network systems. Tremendous research efforts have been expended in this ...