A real-time system is adaptive if it is able to adjust its internal strategies in response to a change in the environment, to keep the system performance at a desired level. [more]
Motion-sensitive video algorithms (MPEG (de)coding, but also temporal scaling, and (de)interlacing) may have highly varying loads with strict timing requirements: tight jitter requirements on input ... [more]
As sensor networks operate in the real world, (real) timeliness constraints are important. These stem from both the interaction of the system with the (real) outside world, via services and ... [more]