The design guideline avoid dependency cycles among modules was ļ¬rst alluded to by Parnas in 1978. Many tools have since been built to detect cyclic dependencies among a programā...
Many mission-critical distributed real-time applications must handle aperiodic tasks with end-to-end deadlines. However, existing middleware (e.g., RT-CORBA) lacks schedulability ...
Yuanfang Zhang, Chenyang Lu, Christopher D. Gill, ...
Abstract. The FRR (Friendly Rest Room) project creates and evaluates prototypes of a more user friendly intelligent toilet for old persons and for persons with disabilities. Additi...
Paul Panek, Georg Edelmayer, Charlotte Magnusson, ...
This paper describes the multi-agent organization of a computer system that was designed to assist operators in decision making in the presence of emergencies. The application was ...
The large amount of information that is spread over the Internet is an important resource for all people but also introduces some issues that must be faced. The dynamism and the un...
Sonia Bergamaschi, Giacomo Cabri, Francesco Guerra...