—The IEC61499 standard is the first step towards the development of the next generation agile manufacturing systems where distribution, interoperability and re-configuration are ...
Modern buildings are equipped with high-tech systems that take care of several fundamental aspects, e.g., air-conditioning, heating and water supply. The requirements posed on fac...
Katja Hose, Marcel Karnstedt, Daniel Klan, Kai-Uwe...
Abstract This paper is sort of a confession. Issues of synchrony, asynchrony, and synchronization, arise frequently in designing embedded systems from components, like everyone I k...
Software systems development happens within a context which organizational processes are wellestablished. Hence, software needs to be built with flexible architectures based in so...
Carla T. L. L. Silva, Jaelson Brelaz de Castro, Jo...
This report illustrates the use of qualitative methods and an interpretive framework (Cultural Historical Activity Theory) to examine educational interventions. The techniques are...