When designing a software module or system, a systems engineer must consider and differentiate between how the system responds to external and internal errors. External errors can...
Embedded systems require control of many concurrent real-time activities, leading to system designs which feature multiple hardware peripherals with each providing a specific, ded...
A critical issue for complex component-based systems design is the modeling and analysis of architecture. One of the complicating factors in developing architectural models is acc...
Abstract. Modern systems are heterogeneous, geographically distributed and highly dynamic since the communication topology can vary and the components can, at any moment, connect t...
Dan Hirsch, Jeff Kramer, Jeff Magee, Sebasti&aacut...
Intelligent agents provide a means to integrate various manufacturing software applications. The agents are typically executed in a computer-based collaborative environment, refer...