Despite considerable attention paid on software architecture, the organizational aspects of architecture design remain largely unexplored. This study analyses the stakeholders participating in architecture design in three software companies, their problems in relation to architecture, and the rationale for architecture description they emphasize. This qualitative, grounded-theory-based, study s...

Advances in microfluidic technologies have led to the emergence of biochip devices for automating laboratory procedures in biochemistry and molecular biology. Corresponding systems are revolutionizing a diverse range of applications, e.g. air quality studies, point-of-care clinical diagnostics, drug discovery, and DNA sequencing – with an increasing market. However, this continued growth depend...

As demand rises for circuits with higher performance, higher complexity, and decreased feature size, asynchronous (clockless) paradigms will become more widely used in the semiconductor industry, as evidenced by the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors’ (ITRS) prediction of a likely shift from synchronous to asynchronous design styles in order to increase circuit robustness, decr...

Future wireless networks will consist of multiple heterogeneous access technologies such as UMTS, WLAN, and WiMax. These technologies differ greatly regarding medium access scheme, network capacity, QoS support, choice of data rates, and other various parameters such as power consumption and AAA aspects. In the literature, different network access selection and handover strategies have been dis...

In this paper we present the ImpUNITY framework, a framework that supports the development of parallel and distributed programs from speciication to implementation in a stepwise manner. The ImpUNITY framework is an extension of UNITY, as introduced by Chandy and Misra, with features of the Action System formalism of Back and Kurki-Suonio. Due to this extension, the ImpUNITY framework is more su...

This paper surveys statistical methodologies and associated software tools in use within semiconductor manufacturing to support process characterization, process control, and yield improvement. Current difficulties and challenges are discussed as well as emerging trends that will require the development of new methods and the software to support them.

Recently, one can recognize an increased awareness in the object-oriented research community with respect to the role of software architectures. Examples of this can, among others, be found in object-oriented frameworks and design patterns. In the call for papers for the workshop, the following topics were identified where software architecture, patterns and frameworks should be studied in more...

Automatic generation of manufacturing information from design has been the research focus in advanced CAD/CAM applications, i.e. feature-based applications for design, process planning and other automated manufacturing applications. However, our current development mode has seriously troubled research in these application fields. For example, with our current development mode, the functionality...

The semiconductor industry is reaching a fascinating confluence in several evolutionary trends that will likely lead to a number of revolutionary changes in how computer systems are designed, implemented, scaled, and used. Since Moore’s Law, which has driven the evolution in systems for the last several decades, is imminently approaching real and severe limitations, the ability to create three-...