Evaluation of non-functional properties of a design (such as performance, dependability, security, etc.) can be enabled by design annotations specific to the property to be evalua...
C. Murray Woodside, Dorina C. Petriu, Dorin Bogdan...
Future wireless internet enabled devices will be increasingly powerful supporting many more applications including one of the most crucial, security. Although SoCs offer more resi...
Video on Demand (VoD) services are very appealing these days. In this work, we discuss four distinct alternatives for the architecture of a VoD server and compare their performanc...
Daniela Alvim Seabra dos Santos, Alex Borges Vieir...
It has become increasingly popular to construct large parallel computers by connecting many inexpensive nodes built with commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) parts. These clusters can ...
Learning from software failures is an essential step towards the development of more reliable software systems and processes. However, as more intricate software systems are devel...