Embedded computer systems are ubiquitous, and contemporary embedded applications exhibit demanding computation and efficiency requirements. Meeting these demands presently requires the use of applicationspecific integrated circuits and collections of complex system-on-chip components. The design and implementation of application-specific integrated circuits is both expensive and time consuming....

Object-oriented programming using C++ classes is established practice in the general programming community and is beginning in computer music applications (Chaudhary, Freed et al. 1988; Chaudhary 1998). However, large components of computer music systems are still commonly written in the C programming language, either because object-orientation is felt unnecessary or more often because of effic...

For most real applications of computer vision, variations in operating conditions result in poor reliability. As a result, real world applications tend to require lengthy set-up and frequent intervention by qualified specialists. In this paper we describe how autonomic computing can be used to reduce the cost of installation and enhance reliability for practical computer vision systems. We begi...