In this article, we present our efforts1 on realizing transformation independence in open, extensible, and highly distributed multimedia information The main focus is on the abstra...
We apply the XMC model checker to the Java metalocking algorithm, a highly optimized technique for ensuring mutually exclusive access by threads to object monitor queues. Our abst...
Abstract. In this paper we suggest a strategy to design job scheduling systems. To this end, we first split a scheduling system into three components: Scheduling policy, objective ...
Abstract. This paper reviews and relates two default reasoning mechanisms, lexicographic (lex) and maximum entropy (me) entailment. Meentailment requires that defaults be assigned ...
A language for defining design discipline characteristics is proesign discipline characteristics such as abstraction levels, design object classifications and decompositions, desi...