Exploiting thread level parallelism is paramount in the multi-core era. Transactions enable programmers to expose such parallelism by greatly simplifying the multi-threaded progra...
Media sharing over mobile devices is quickly becoming a common practice, used to support a variety of social processes. Most existing systems employ a model of sharing that treats...
With growing system complexities, system-level communication design is becoming increasingly important and advanced, network-oriented communication architectures become necessary....
The necessity and utility of visual attention are discussed in the context of stereo vision in machines and primates. Specific problems that arise in this domain including binocul...
Distributed Real-Time Embedded systems (DRE) increasingly rely on COTS middleware to meet their distribution needs. Yet, there is a technology gap between the design of COTS middl...