Invited Talks -- The Pervasive Sensor -- From Everyday Things to Everyday Memories: Two Kinds of Interactions with Objects in a House -- Location-aware Computing -- Design, Implementation and Evaluations of a Direction Based Service System for Both Indoor and Outdoor -- Designing Transparent Location-Dependent Web-Based Applications on Mobile Environments -- Position Tracking Using Infra-Red Si…
NTP: The Key to Time Transcendence -- Multiple Views of Time -- Network Administration and IT Trends Throughout History! -- NTP: The Story Behind the Accuracy and Synchronization of Network Time -- NTP Operational, Historical, and Futuristic Overview -- NTP Architecture -- NTP Design, Configuration, and Troubleshooting.Have you ever tried to figure out why your computer clock is off, or why you…
Overview -- Processor Design Issues -- RISC Principles -- Architectures -- MIPS Architecture -- SPARC Architecture -- PowerPC Architecture -- Itanium Architecture -- ARM Architecture -- MIPS Assembly Language -- SPIM Simulator and Debugger -- Assembly Language Overview -- Procedures and the Stack -- Addressing Modes -- Arithmetic Instructions -- Conditional Execution -- Logical and Shift Operat…
Overload Management -- Temporal Protection -- Multi-Thread Applications -- Synchronization Protocols for Hard and Soft Real-Time Systems -- Resource Reclaiming -- Quality of Service Management -- Feedback Scheduling -- Stochastic Scheduling.Hard real-time systems are very predictable, but not sufficiently flexible to adapt to dynamic situations. They are built under pessimistic assumptions to c…
Socio-Technical Interaction Networks in Free/Open Source Software Development Processes -- Open Source Software Development Process Modeling -- Software Dependability Applications in Process Modeling -- Simulation Process Modelling for Managing Software Evolution -- Software Process Modelling -- Motivation and Process Improvement -- Managing Organizational Change for Software Process Improvemen…