We present a tangible user interface based upon mediaBlocks: small, electronically tagged wooden blocks that serve as physical icons (“phicons”) for the containment, transport...
One of the price tags attached to the blessings that OO brings about is a drop in efficiency due to dynamic method dispatch. Much research effort is being spent on the problem of e...
The development of complex distributed systems demands for the creation of suitable architectural styles (or paradigms) and related run-time infrastructures. An emerging style tha...
Gianpaolo Cugola, Elisabetta Di Nitto, Alfonso Fug...
The design, implementation, and testing of virtual environments is complicated by the concurrency and realtime features of these systems. Therefore, the development of formal meth...
Rajesh Mascarenhas, Dinkar Karumuri, Ugo A. Buy, R...
We present a technique for deriving predictions for the run times of parallel applications from the run times of "similar" applications that have executed in the past. T...