Modern operating systems frequently support applications with a variety of timing constraints including hard real-time, soft real-time, and best-effort. To guarantee performance, ...
An active research area in telecommunications concerns how to specify and control the addition of new services, such as call waiting or instant messaging, into existing software. ...
Emden R. Gansner, John M. Mocenigo, Stephen C. Nor...
In software engineering it is widely acknowledged that the usage of metrics at the initial phases of the object oriented software life cycle can help designers to make better decis...
M. Esperanza Manso, Marcela Genero, Mario Piattini
Abstract-- This paper describes the design and implementation1 of IRIS: an intentional resource indicator service. IRIS springs from the concept that end-users should not be bogged...
In order to accommodate the spectrum of configuration options currently required for competitive system infrastructures, many systems leverage heavy usage of C preprocessor contro...