The increasing functional and nonfunctional requirements of real-time applications, the
advent of mixed criticality computing, and the necessity of reducing costs are leading to an …

This paper introduces the OROCOS project that aims at becoming a general-purpose and
open robot control software package. OROCOS follows the open source development model …

After natural disasters such as earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, tornados and fires, providing
emergency management schemes which mainly rely on communications systems is …

In this paper we introduce a general-purpose software tool for discrete event system
specification (DEVS) modeling and simulation oriented to the simulation of hybrid systems …

Research with autonomous unmanned aircraft systems is reaching a new degree of
sophistication where targeted missions require complex types of deliberative capability …

Similarity search in multimedia databases requires an efficient support of nearest neighbor
search on a large set of high dimensional points as a basic operation for query processing …

The recent developments in virtualisation technologies have made feasible the execution of
complex and performance-critical applications in virtual machines. Some of such …

This paper presents an experimental study of the latency behavior of the Linux OS. We
identify major sources of latency in the kernel with the goal of providing real-time …

During the past few years there has been an dramatic upsurge in research and
development, implementations of new technologies, and deployments of actual solutions …

This paper describes reference broadcast infrastructure synchronization (RBIS), a clock
synchronization protocol for IEEE 802.11 infrastructure wireless networks. The protocol is …