A new spiral curriculum in Electrical Engineering was launched in the ECE Department of
the University of Detroit Mercy in Fall 2005. The prime motivation was to address several …

Current Web service platforms (WSPs) often perform all Web services-related processing,
including security-sensitive information handling, in the same protection domain …

This paper describes and proposes an autonomic computing system for PDAs or smart
phone devices. The proposed system incorporates two major functions: self healing and self …

There is an increasing demand for variability and dynamic customization of middleware.
Security, a key middleware service, requires variations at design-time, deploy-time as well …

Dans cet article, nous présentons un ADL pour les architectures à composants hétérogènes
et distribuées, et son utilisation au moment du déploiement. Actuellement, il n'existe pas de …

In this paper we discuss an approach for designing middleware that is based on hardware
motherboards. This approach defines middleware with two distinct views: the middleware …

This paper focuses on the system-level software required for efficient streaming applications
on single smart cameras as well as on networks of DSCs. Embedded platforms with limited …

2 Background A large number of gossip protocols have been developed in the last few years
to address a wide range of functionalities. A gossip-based protocol prescribes individual …

Sustainability issues involving materials processing and manufacturing are still very poorly
investigated. This is true in particular for non-energy parts of such systems. Thermodynamics …

This thesis addresses negotiation of bindings in QoS aware open systems and in particular
how to characterize possible contracts, requirements and capabilities of heterogeneous …