Learning software is not designed for data analysis and mining. Because usage data is not stored in a systematic way, its thorough analysis requires long and tedious preprocessing....
Abstract Queueing Petri nets are a powerful formalism that can be exploited for modeling distributed systems and analyzing their performance and scalability. By combining the model...
— As the scale and complexity of parallel systems continue to grow, failures become more and more an inevitable fact for solving large-scale applications. In this research, we pr...
We propose a novel model of visual contrast measurement based on segregated ON and OFF pathways. Two driving forces have shaped our investigation: (1) establishing a mechanism sele...
Batching jobs in a manufacturing system is a very common policy in most industries. The main reasons for batching are avoidance of set ups and/or facilitation of material handling...