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TMM
2002
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On a unified architecture for video-on-demand services
Abstract--Current video-on-demand (VoD) systems can be classified into two categories: 1) true-VoD (TVoD) and 2) near-VoD (NVoD). TVoD systems allocate a dedicated channel for ever...
Jack Y. B. Lee
TISSEC
2002
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Termination in language-based systems
Language runtime systems are increasingly being embedded in systems to support runtime extensibility via mobile code. Such systems raise a number of concerns when the code running...
Algis Rudys, Dan S. Wallach
TCS
2002
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A guide to membrane computing
Membrane systems are models of computation which are inspired by some basic features of biological membranes. In a membrane system multisets of objects are placed in the compartme...
Gheorghe Paun, Grzegorz Rozenberg
TCS
2002
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Specification of real-time and hybrid systems in rewriting logic
This paper explores the application of rewriting logic to the executable formal modeling of real-time and hybrid systems. We give general techniques by which such systems can be s...
Peter Csaba Ölveczky, José Meseguer
TC
2002
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The Timely Computing Base Model and Architecture
Abstract-- Current systems are very often based on largescale, unpredictable and unreliable infrastructures. However, users of these systems increasingly require services with time...
Paulo Veríssimo, Antonio Casimiro
TSMC
1998
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Discrete event representation of qualitative models using Petri nets
—The paper discusses how Petri nets may be used for the qualitative modeling of physical systems. The qualitative state of a system is represented by the marking of the net. The ...
Alessandra Fanni, Alessandro Giua
TSE
1998
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A Strategy for Improving Safety Related Software Engineering Standards
—There are many standards which are relevant for building safety or mission critical software systems. An effective standard is one that should help developers, assessors, and us...
Norman E. Fenton, Martin Neil
TMI
1998
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Predicting error in rigid-body, point-based registration
— Guidance systems designed for neurosurgery, hip surgery, and spine surgery, and for approaches to other anatomy that is relatively rigid can use rigid-body transformations to a...
J. Michael Fitzpatrick, Jay B. West, Calvin R. Mau...
SIGMETRICS
2002
ACM
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Performance study of dispatching algorithms in multi-tier web architectures
The number and heterogeneity of requests to Web sites are increasing also because the Web technology is becoming the preferred interface for information systems. Many systems host...
Mauro Andreolini, Michele Colajanni, Ruggero Morse...
SPE
1998
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Implementing a Zooming User Interface: Experience Building Pad++
We are investigating a novel user interface paradigm based on zooming, in which users are presented with a zooming view of a huge planar information surface. We have developed a s...
Benjamin B. Bederson, Jonathan Meyer