Contract-based design is an expressive paradigm for a modular and compositional specification of programs. It is in turn becoming a fundamental concept in mainstream industrial co...
Yann Glouche, Paul Le Guernic, Jean-Pierre Talpin,...
Pipeline, Delta, and Black Hole are three simple patterns used in concurrent software design. We recently presented these and other patterns for parallelism at a nine-hour worksho...
Matthew C. Jadud, Jon Simpson, Christian L. Jacobs...
The specification of the sporadic server real-time scheduling policy in the IEEE POSIX standard is defective, and needs to be corrected. Via experiments using a POSIX sporadic se...
Mark J. Stanovich, Theodore P. Baker, An-I Wang, M...
—The problem of scheduling a set of tasks on a multiprocessor architecture is addressed. Tasks are assumed to be sporadic with arbitrary deadlines and may migrate between process...
Embedded systems are complex as a whole but consist of smaller independent modules minimally interacting with each other. This structure makes embedded systems amenable to composi...