Utility programs, which perform similar and largely independent operations on a sequence of inputs, include such common applications as compilers, interpreters, and document parse...
Xipeng Shen, Michael L. Scott, Chengliang Zhang, S...
Abstract—Performance is a key feature of large-scale computing systems. However, the achieved performance when a certain program is executed is significantly lower than the maxi...
Electronic commerce (e-commerce) covers a wide range of business transactions. Usually, a transactions includes products, i.e. goods or services. Often, e-commerce websites are int...
Humans will have to live with software for a long time. As demonstrated by the Y2K problem, computer professionals used a wrong time scale when thinking about software. Large soft...
The Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling Problem(RCPSP) is a significant challenge in highly regulated industries, such as pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals, where a large numb...