Multi/Many-core systems are envisioned to satisfy the ever increasing performance requirements of complex applications in various domains such as embedded and high performance computing (HPC). Such systems need to cater for increasingly dynamic workloads, requiring e cient dynamic resource allocation strategies in order to satisfy hard or soft real-time constraints. This article provides an ext...

Embedded Systems have a very important role in the modern life. We use them in our home, work, transportation, medical procedures, leisure time and so on. Despite of its great importance to our lives this kind of system steel lake a better process to improve the quality of its software. In this paper we present the results from a field research that focused the state of the practice of the embe...

The promise of the grid is that it will enable public access and sharing of immense amounts of computational and data resources among a large number of individuals and institutions. However, the current grid solutions make several limiting assumptions that curtail their widespread adoption in the emerging decentralized, resource constrained, embedded, autonomic, and mobile (DREAM) environments:...

Since the 1990s power markets are being restructured worldwide and nowadays electrical power is traded as a commodity. The liberalization and with it the uncertainty in gas, fuel and electrical power prices requires an effective management of production facilities and financial contracts. Thereby derivatives build essential instruments to exchange volume as well as price risks. The challenge fo...

The City of Seattle’s pioneering Mobile City Government Project has received wide attention, since it promises greatly improved fieldwork operations in local government. Three years into operation and with another fieldwork unit in the process of adopting mobile applications, our research studies the work domains of the units involved to better understand the premises, requirements, and effects...

Maintaining a ‘critical reflexivity’ (Heaphy 2008) or ‘investigative epistemology’ (Mason 2007) in relation to the sedimented assumptions built up over the course of one’s own research history and embedded in common research boundaries, is difficult. The type of secondary analysis discussed in this paper is not an easy or quick ‘fix’ to the important issue of how such assumptions can embed them...

Culture, a popular though complex concept, has been recognized to influence implementation and usages of Information Technologies. Many empirical studies, using a cultural framework, have been carried out in Information Systems research. Most of them focus on the organizational and/or the national culture as surrogates to evaluate the role of culture within IS contexts. In this paper we categor...

This report surveys recent results and approaches from the field of control reconfiguration within a general fault-tolerant control framework. Open problems for future research are identified. Control reconfiguration is embedded within a wider fault-tolerant control context and set apart from other approaches to achieve fault tolerance. It is explained why simpler approaches than control reconf...

Wireless sensor networks can be termed as a new generation of distributed embedded systems that has a capability of meeting broad range of real-time applications. Examples include radiation monitoring, fire monitoring, border surveillance, and medical care to name but a few. Wireless sensor networks that are deployed in time/mission-critical applications with highly dynamic environments have to...