Developing e-business applications more efficiently and reliably is a critical challenge for
many enterprises since existing approaches are characteristically complex and costly. Web …

From entertainment to personal communication, and from business to safety-critical
applications, the world increasingly relies on distributed systems. Despite looking simple …

Raising the abstraction level is widely seen as a solution to increase productivity, in order to
handle the growing complexity of real-time embedded applications and the time-to-market …

We propose the first systematic, sensor-centric approach for quantitative design of sensor
network appliances. We demonstrate its use by designing light appliance devices and the …

Two orchestrated processes interacting with each other have to maintain their own states.
Messages are used to synchronize states between orchestrated processes. Server crash …

Reliable request-response interactions, in which the server never executes a given request
more than once, are being used to support business and safety-critical operations in diverse …

The development of distributed architectures and server-side component model for
pervasive and safety-critical client-side manufacturing applications represents a very …

Reliable communication is nowadays pervasively supported by TCP, which is poorly
adapted for message-based communications, because it offers a streaming channel with no …

The asynchronous nature of communications in message-based systems like service-
oriented architectures introduces two major issues: inability to detect lost and out-of …

In this paper, the problem of blind estimation of the convolutional interleaving parameters,
an important feature parameters of communication emitter, is studied. The unitive …