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Build-time configuration and environment assumptions are hampering progress and usability in scientific software. That which would be utterly unacceptable in non-scientific software somehow passes for the norm in scientific packages. The…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-07-11 Jed Brown , Matthew G. Knepley , Barry F. Smith

In computer science, there is a distinction between closed systems, whose behavior is totally determined in advance, and open systems, that are systems maintaining a constant interaction with an unspecified environment. Closed systems are…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2009-11-18 Axel Legay , Marco Faella

Despite much progress, developing a pervasive computing application remains a challenge because of a lack of conceptual frameworks and supporting tools. This challenge involves coping with heterogeneous devices, overcoming the intricacies…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2012-03-30 Damien Cassou , Julien Bruneau , Charles Consel , Emilie Balland

Graphs are widespread data structures used to model a wide variety of problems. The sheer amount of data to be processed has prompted the creation of a myriad of systems that help us cope with massive scale graphs. The pressure to deliver…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-10-09 Luis M. Vaquero , Felix Cuadrado , Matei Ripeanu

We present CheckSoft, a scalable event-driven software architecture for keeping track of people-object interactions in people-centric applications such as airport checkpoint security areas, automated retail stores, smart libraries, and so…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Rohan Sarkar , Avinash C. Kak

Agentic AI systems - systems that can pursue goals through multi-step planning and tool-mediated action with limited direct supervision - are moving from experimental prototypes to enterprise deployments. This transition introduces tensions…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Nelly Dux , Cristina Alaimo , Philippe Roussiere , Abhishek Kumar Mishra

During its execution, a task is independent of all other tasks. For an application which executes in terms of tasks, the application definition can be free of the details of the execution. Many projects have demonstrated that a task system…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Burkhard D. Burow

Reconfigurable computing refers to the use of processors, such as Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), that can be modified at the hardware level to take on different processing tasks. A reconfigurable computing platform describes the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Darran Nathan , Kelvin Lim Mun Kit , Kelly Choo Hon Min , Philip Wong Jit Chin , Andreas Weisensee

The universal scalability law (USL) is an analytic model used to quantify application scaling. It is universal because it subsumes Amdahl's law and Gustafson linearized scaling as special cases. Using simulation, we show: (i) that the USL…

Performance · Computer Science 2008-09-16 Jim Holtman , Neil J. Gunther

Service robots are expected to reliably make sense of complex, fast-changing environments. From a cognitive standpoint, they need the appropriate reasoning capabilities and background knowledge required to exhibit human-like Visual…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Agnese Chiatti , Gianluca Bardaro , Enrico Motta , Enrico Daga

The aim of this paper is to promote the terms thing and thinging (which refers to the act of defining a boundary around some portion of reality and labeling it with a name) as valued notions that play an important role in software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Sabah Al-Fedaghi

We introduce IsalProgram (Instruction Set and Language for Programming), a novel assembly-like programming language with three distinctive theoretical properties: (1) it is a regular language in the sense of formal language theory, meaning…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Ezequiel López-Rubio

Design of next generation computer systems should be supported by simulation infrastructure that must achieve a few contradictory goals such as fast execution time, high accuracy, and enough flexibility to allow comparison between large…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-04-02 Ori Chalak , Cai Weiguang , Li Wei , Fang Lei , Zheng Libing , Wang Jintang , Wu Zuguang , Gu Xiongli , Wang Haibin , Avi Mendelson

Languages, compilers, and computer-aided design tools will be essential for scalable quantum computing, which promises an exponential leap in our ability to execute complex tasks. LIQUi|> is a modular software architecture designed to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-20 Dave Wecker , Krysta M. Svore

Task based parallel programming has shown competitive outcomes in many aspects of parallel programming such as efficiency, performance, productivity and scalability. Different approaches are used by different software development frameworks…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-05-09 Afshin Zafari

The Coherent Multiplex is formalized and validated as a scalable, real-time system for identifying, analyzing, and visualizing coherence among multiple time series. Its architecture comprises a fast spectral similarity layer based on cosine…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-28 Noah Shore

The paper considers the concept of building the architecture of an information system that provides a seamless connection between architectural representations of various levels of abstraction. The concept is based on the application of the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-12-11 Grigory Tsiperman

The generation of comprehensible explanations is an essential feature of modern artificial intelligence systems. In this work, we consider probabilistic logic programming, an extension of logic programming which can be useful to model…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Germán Vidal

What is Software Architecture? The rules, paradigmen, pattern that help to construct, build and test a serious piece of software. It is the practical experience boiled down to abstract level. Software Architecture builds on System…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Andre Adrian

Developers usually use diagrams and source code to jointly discuss and plan software architecture changes. With this poster, we present our on-going work on a novel approach that enables developers to collaboratively use software city…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Alexander Krause-Glau , Malte Hansen , Wilhelm Hasselbring