Abstract. The paradigm shift in processor design from monolithic processors to multicore has renewed interest in programming models that facilitate parallelism. While multicores ar...
Shan Shan Huang, Amir Hormati, David F. Bacon, Rod...
Our objective is to obtain the level of usability of a software application over the different tasks for which it has been developed. Nowadays, usability is measured through diffe...
Increasingly, high-assurance applications rely on autonomic systems to respond to changes in their environment. The inherent uncertainty present in the environment of autonomic sy...
Agent-based computing represents an exciting new synthesis both for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and, more generally, Computer Science. It has the potential to significantly impro...
—Embedded computer systems are characterized by the presence of a processor running application-specific dedicated software. A large number of these systems must satisfy real-ti...