process: Designers must define higher abstraction levels that allow system modeling. They must use description languages that handle both hardware and software components to descri...
As cloud computing environments become explosively popular, dealing with unpredictable changes, uncertainties, and disturbances in both systems and environments turns out to be on...
Engineering distributed systems is a challenging activity. This is partly due to the intrinsic complexity of distributed systems, and partly due to the practical obstacles that de...
Yanyan Wang, Matthew J. Rutherford, Antonio Carzan...
HCI has moved from considering how individuals interact with computers to thinking about how groups collaborate using technology. While there has been research focused on large-sc...
Barry A. T. Brown, Kenton O'Hara, Tim Kindberg, Am...
—The industry is now in agreement that the future of architecture design lies in multiple cores. As a consequence, all computer systems today, from embedded devices to petascale ...