Most microprocessor chips today use an out-of-order instruction execution mechanism. This mechanism allows superscalar processors to extract reasonably high levels of instruction ...
A complete workflow specification requires careful integration of many different process characteristics. Decisions must be made as to the definitions of individual activities, th...
Shazia W. Sadiq, Maria E. Orlowska, Wasim Sadiq, C...
Abstract--Change Management, a core process of the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL), is concerned with the management of changes to IT infrastructure and servic...
The Alloy tool-set has been gaining popularity as an alternative to traditional manual testing and checking for design correctness. Alloy uses a first-order relational logic for m...
—There is an ever-increasing demand for more complex transactions and higher throughputs in transaction processing systems leading to higher degrees of transaction concurrency an...