In complex hard real-time systems with tight constraints on system resources, small changes in one component of a system can cause a cascade of adverse effects on other parts of t...
Locking and timestamping are two popular approaches to concurrency control in databases systems. Although more than a dozen analytic performance studies of locking techniques have...
Modern distributed software applications generally operate in complex and heterogeneous computing environments (like the World Wide Web). Different paradigms (client-server, mobili...
The latest ITU-T standard syntax of Message Sequence Charts (MSCs) 16] o ers several operators to compose MSCs in a hierarchical, iterating, and nondeterministic way. However, curr...
Genetic algorithm and neural network (GNN) are integrated to build a financial early warning system. An example of Taiwanese banking industry is discussed to test the hit ratio of...