The purpose of this paper is to investigate how discrete event simulation can support the growing need of information in the production system. Agility, one key to future competit...
Although many efficient concurrency control protocols have been proposed for real-time database systems, they are mainly designed for the systems with a single type of real-time t...
Internet services like the world-wide web and multimedia applications like News- and Video-on-Demand have become very popular over the last years. Due to the large number of users ...
Although the main fault-tolerance techniques are known for a long time, there exists no consistent approach for implementing dependable applications in the sense that the fault-to...
A large body of human image processing techniques use skin detection as a first primitive for subsequent feature extraction. Well established methods of colour modelling, such as...