Efficient and robust metacomputing requires the decomposition of complex jobs into tasks that must be scheduled on distributed processing nodes. There are various ways of creating...
Prior to 1994, student registration at Newcastle University involved students being registered in a single place, where they would present a form which had previously been filled ...
Mark C. Little, Stuart M. Wheater, David B. Ingham...
We survey some issues that relate to context dependence and context sensitivity in the development of software, particularly in relation to information systems by defining a range...
Semistructured databases are treated as dynamically typed: they come equipped with no independent schema or type system to constrain the data. Query languages that are designed fo...
In urban areas, city noises represent today a great problem. They are real nuisances for city-dwellers. Noises are caused by traffic, road works, factories, and also by people. So...