Real-time systems are notoriously difficult to design and implement, and, as many real-time problems are safety-critical, their solutions must be reliable as well as efficient and ...
Chris Andreae, Yvonne Coady, Celina Gibbs, James N...
In efforts to overcome the complexity of the syntax and the lack of formal semantics of conventional hardware description languages, a number of functional hardware description la...
Modern programs frequently employ sophisticated modular designs. As a result, performance problems cannot be identified from costs attributed to routines in isolation; understand...
Nathan R. Tallent, John M. Mellor-Crummey, Michael...
Dynamic object reclassification allows changes to the type of an object at runtime. This paper makes the case for object evolution, a restriction of general reclassification by ...
Message Sequence Charts (MSCs) are a graphical language for the description of scenarios in terms of message exchanges between communicating components in a distributed environment...