Abstract. Software systems obey the 80/20 rule: aggressively optimizing a vital few execution paths yields large speedups. However, finding the vital few paths can be difficult, e...
The Internet pervades many aspects of our lives and is becoming indispensable to critical functions in areas such as commerce, government, production and general information disse...
Although the Internet provides powerful tools for social interactions, many tasks—for example, information-seeking—are undertaken as solitary activities. Information seekers a...
—As Electronic Control Units (ECUs) and embedded software functions within an automobile keep increasing in number, the scale and complexity of automotive embedded systems is gro...
The dynamically configurable distributed object (DCDO) model helps enable object evolution and facilitate the development of distributed objects from multiple independent implemen...