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Issues in holistic system design

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Julia L. Lawall,

Christian W. Probst,

Ulrik Pagh SchultzAuthors Info & Claims

PLOS '06: Proceedings of the 3rd workshop on Programming languages and operating systems: linguistic support for modern operating systems

Pages 12 - es

https://doi.org/10.1145/1215995.1216007

Published: 22 October 2006 Publication History

Abstract

The coordination of layers in computer and software systems is one of the main challenges in designing such systems today. In this paper we consider Holistic System Design as a way of integrating requirements and facilities of different system layers. We also discuss some of the challenges that this kind of system design poses for computer science in general as well as programming languages and operating systems in particular.

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PLOS '06: Proceedings of the 3rd workshop on Programming languages and operating systems: linguistic support for modern operating systems

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DOI:10.1145/1215995

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Bogonikolos NMantas GKostopoulos G(2010)ARATOS: An intelligent machine-to-machine framework for services based on satellite Earth Observation data2010 IEEE International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Information Security10.1109/WCINS.2010.5542314(338-342)Online publication date: Jun-2010
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