A reward-based task typically consists of a mandatory part that must be accomplished before the given deadline, and an optional part that is associated with rewards for partial co...
Abstract—Recent results have shown that the feasibility problem of scheduling periodic tasks with self-suspensions is NPhard in the strong sense. We observe that a variation of t...
Abstract—The functional consolidation induced by the costreduction trends in embedded systems can force tasks of different criticality (e.g. ABS Brakes with DVD) to share a proce...
Dionisio de Niz, Karthik Lakshmanan, Ragunathan Ra...
Consider a team of robots equipped with sensors that collaborate with one another to achieve a common goal. Sensors on robots produce periodic updates that must be transmitted to ...
It is challenging to support the timeliness of realtime data service requests in data-intensive real-time applications such as online auction or stock trading, while maintaining t...