Distributed applications that can adapt at runtime to changing quality of service (QoS) require a model of the expected QoS and of the possible application adaptations. QoS models ...
Application-specific processor design is a promising approach for meeting the performance and cost goals of a system. Application-specific processors are especially promising for ...
To ameliorate the need to spend significant programmer time modifying parallel programs to achieve highperformance, while maintaining compact, comprehensible source codes, this pa...
Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) software components are being used within complex safety-critical applications. However, to use them with confidence, it is necessary to ensure tha...
Users frequently have to choose between functionality and security. When running popular Web browsers or email clients, they frequently find themselves turning off features such a...