We take the position that large-scale distributed systems are better understood, at all levels, when locality is taken into account. When communication and mobility are clearly se...
We examine opportunities for ubiquitous technologies in retail shopping, jewelry shopping in this case, to supplement the unique information needs inherent to physical trials of t...
Maurice Chu, Brinda Dalal, Alan Walendowski, Bo Be...
The integration of distributed, data dependent components requires a data synchronisation model. We consider a class of systems where data-dependent components produce data in dis...
Soft-core programmable processors on field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) can be custom synthesized to instantiate only those hardware units, such as multipliers and floating-po...
David Sheldon, Rakesh Kumar, Frank Vahid, Dean M. ...
In this paper, we analyze the use of UML as a starting point to go from design issues to end of production testing of complex embedded systems. The first point is the analysis of ...
Andrea Baldini, Alfredo Benso, Paolo Prinetto, Ser...