Finding the right pricing for music downloads is of ample importance to the recording industry and music download service providers. For the recently introduced music downloads, re...
Software engineering has traditionally focussed on functional requirements and how to build software that has few bugs and can be easily maintained. Most design approaches include...
Abstract. We explore a new general-purpose heuristic for nding highquality solutions to hard optimization problems. The method, called extremal optimization, is inspired by self-or...
Stefan Boettcher, Allon G. Percus, Michelangelo Gr...
: An essential building-block for construction of future real-time computer systems (RTCS’s) is a timeliness-guaranteed operating system. The first co-author recently formulated ...
K. H. (Kane) Kim, Luiz F. Bacellar, Yuseok Kim, Ch...
This paper reports on an implementation of Bayer's Time Interval concurrency control method and compares it to the performance of a conventional timestamp method. The impleme...