Path prediction is currently being considered for use in the context of mobile and wireless computing toward more efficient network resource management schemes. Path prediction allows the network and services to furth...
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Path prediction is currently being considered for use in the context of mobile and wireless computing toward more efficient network resource management schemes. Path prediction allows the network and services to further enhance the quality of service levels the user enjoys. Such mechanisms are mostly meaningful in infrastructures like wireless LANs. In this article we present a path prediction algorithm that exploits the machine learning algorithm of learning automata. The decision of the learning automaton is driven by the movement patterns of a single user but is also affected by the aggregated patterns demonstrated by all users. Simulations of the algorithm, performed using the Realistic Mobility Pattern Generator, show increased prediction accuracy.
Software engineering is not only about technical solutions. It is to a large extent also concerned with organizational issues, project management and human behaviour. For a discipline like software engineering, empiri...
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Software inspections are regarded as an important technique to detect faults throughout the software development process. The individual preparation phase of software inspections has enlarged its focus from only compr...
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Information systems for organizations such as e-business and knowledge management systems must continually evolve to adapt to their operational environment. Unfortunately, current development methodologies do not supp...
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Information systems for organizations such as e-business and knowledge management systems must continually evolve to adapt to their operational environment. Unfortunately, current development methodologies do not support system evolution well, making software an obstacle to organizational changes. The paper describes a framework that develops and evolves seamlessly a system-to-be within its organizational environment. We adopt a set of social structures - organizational styles and social patterns - based on concepts of organization theory and agent approaches, as a foundation to model early and late requirements as well as architectural and detailed design. We illustrate the use of the social structures through a case study, and we specify one of the styles in Formal Tropos language. This research has been conducted within the context of the Tropos project. Copyright 2002 ACM.
This paper presents a comprehensive study of the effect of job interleaving by preemption on the throughput of a single server where requests arrive with a given processing time and slack. The problem is to decide whi...
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This paper presents a comprehensive study of the effect of job interleaving by preemption on the throughput of a single server where requests arrive with a given processing time and slack. The problem is to decide which requests to serve so as to maximize the server's utilization. This simple model captures many situations, both at the application (e.g., delivery of video) as well as at the network/transmission levels (e.g., scheduling of packets from input to output interface of a switch). The problem is on-line in nature, and thus we use competitive analysis for measuring the performance of our scheduling algorithms. We consider two modes of operation - with and without commitment - and derive upper and lower bounds for each case. Since competitive analysis is based on the worst-case scenario, the average-case performance of the algorithms is also examined by a simulation study.
We present a method for recognizing the existence of outer frames in binary trademark images and segmenting a trademark that contains an outer frame into the frame and its inner figure, even if both touch. This focuse...
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Various approaches are presented in the literature to identify faultprone components. The approaches represent a wide range of characteristics and capabilities, but they are not comparable, since different aspects are...
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In spite of the impressive progress in the development of the two main methods for formal verification of reactive systems - Symbolic Model Checking and Deductive Verification, they are still limited in their ability ...
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We present polynomial{time approximation algorithms for string folding problems over any finite alphabet. Our idea is the following: describe a class of feasible solutions by means of an ambiguous contextfree grammar ...
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