: Many industries are shifting from mass production to mass customization, which demands quick response to the needs of individual customers with high quality and low costs. The de...
This paper presents our experience developing applications in Jade, a portable, implicitly parallel programming language designed for exploiting task-level concurrency. Jade progr...
The past decade has seen the development of a perspective holding that technology is socially constructed (Mackenzie and Wacjman, 1985; Bijker, Hughes and Pinch, 1987; Bijker and L...
We describe a simple on-line heuristic for scheduling job-shops. We assume there is a fixed set of routes for the jobs, and many jobs, say N, on each route. The heuristic uses saf...
Component Based Development (CBD) aims at constructing software through the integration, using interfaces and contracts, between pre-existing components. The main goal of this wor...
Robson P. de Souza, Marcelo N. Costa, Regina M. M....