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7 A flue gas washer is a plant for the absorption of noxious components of industrial gas output. The type of flue gas washers that is considered here is a spray tower. In the towe...
The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) is a widely used communication protocol. In this paper, a portion of the protocol is chosen for modeling and verification, namely th...
The key notion for modelling calendar systems and many other periodic temporal notion is the mathematical concept of a partitioning of the real numbers. A partitioning of R splits ...
The World Wide Web (WWW) has experienced a dramatic increase in popularity since 1993. Many reports indicate that its growth will continue at an exponential rate. This growth has ...