In spite of significant work on real-time content distribution, providing consistent service quality across the Internet remains a challenge. Multicast applications further exace...
1 Electronic book is an application with a multimedia database of instructional resources, which include hyperlinked text, instructor’s audio/video clips, slides, animation, stil...
The analysis of real-time properties of an embedded system usually relies on the worst-case execution times (WCET) of the tasks to be executed. In contrast to that, in real world ...
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Web Services (WS) have received significant attention recently. Even though WS are based on open standards and support software interoperab...
Common to Grid services, Web Services, software agents and software components is that they are independently built and provide services aimed for composition. A key issue is wheth...