In this study, we describe obtaining hard real-time performance and rich Linux features together in a compounded real-time operating system (cRTOS). This system creates two realms with a partitioning hypervisor: a normal realm of Linux and a hard real-...

We present Cider, an operating system compatibility architecture that can run applications built for different mobile ecosystems, iOS or Android, together on the same smartphone or tablet. Cider enhances the domestic operating system, Android, of a ...

GPU accelerated applications including GPGPU ones are commonly seen in modern PCs. If many applications compete on the same GPU, the performance will decrease significantly. Some applications have a large impact on user experience. Therefore, for such ...

ZL is a C++-compatible language in which high-level constructs, such as classes, are defined using macros over a C-like core language. This approach makes many parts of the language easily customizable. For example, since the class construct can be ...

Although the Eclipse IDE offers an extremely useful built-in support for developing Eclipse plug-ins, it lacks the ability to perform dynamic updates of plug-ins in a running instance of the application being developed. Because of the nature of the ...

The promises of object-orientation and distributed computing could be delivered if the software we needed were written in stone. But it isn't, it changes. The challenge of distributed object-oriented maintenance is to find a means of evolving software, ...