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WSC
2000
15 years 8 months ago
Applications of business process simulation and lean techniques in British Telecommunications PLC
Business processes are increasingly key to the success of companies in the service industry. It is important that these processes are designed and maintained to deliver the most c...
Simon Dennis, Ben C. King, Martin Hind, Stewart Ro...
ERCIMDL
2010
Springer
139views Education» more  ERCIMDL 2010»
15 years 7 months ago
User-Contributed Descriptive Metadata for Libraries and Cultural Institutions
: The Library of Congress and other cultural institutions are collecting highly informative user-contributed metadata as comments and notes expressing historical and factual inform...
Michael A. Zarro, Robert B. Allen
HUC
2010
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
ALIS: an interactive ecosystem for sustainable living
Engaging occupants in conservation efforts is a key part of reducing our ecological footprint. To this end, we have developed the Aware Living Interface System (ALIS), an integrat...
Johnny Rodgers, Lyn Bartram
HPDC
2008
IEEE
15 years 6 months ago
A two-level scheduler to dynamically schedule a stream of batch jobs in large-scale grids
This paper describes the study conducted to design and evaluate a two-level on-line scheduler to dynamically schedule a stream of sequential and multi-threaded batch jobs on large...
Marco Pasquali, Ranieri Baraglia, Gabriele Capanni...
IANDC
2008
140views more  IANDC 2008»
15 years 6 months ago
Information flow security in Boundary Ambients
A variant of the Mobile Ambient calculus, called Boundary Ambients, is introduced, supporting the modelling of multi-level security policies. Ambients that may guarantee to proper...
Chiara Braghin, Agostino Cortesi, Riccardo Focardi