Abstract. Identifying and protecting the trusted computing base (TCB) of a system is an important task, which is typically performed by designing and enforcing a system security po...
: Context-aware systems offer entirely new opportunities for application developers and for end users by gathering context data and adapting systems behaviour accordingly. Especial...
Systems engineering is the process which takes requirements specifications and engineers products and product families which involve hardware, software and possibly mechanical sub...
Commodity computer clusters are often composed of hundreds of computing nodes. These generally off-the-shelf systems are not designed for high reliability. Node failures therefore...
Abstract. Exception handling is a well-established mechanism in sequential programming. Concurrency and asynchronous calls introduce the possibility for multiple simultaneous excep...