The Second Harmonic Generation (SHG), a process that turns out to be a good test case in the physics lab, can also be considered as a fairly simple theoretical test function for g...
The C programming language was devised in the early 1970s as a system implementation language for the nascent Unix operating system. Derived from the typeless language BCPL, it ev...
In this paper, we document the evolution of a banner ad delivery system from a simple CGI script written in Perl running on a single host into a distributed computing application ...
This paper reports on some practical work undertaken to assess the use of a formalised configuration language to support industrial system development and evolution. The language a...
Complexity arises from many sources – both within and outwith the system. Internal sources include modern hardware, e.g. super-scalar processors, and external sources include th...