In this chapter we present recent contributions in the field of sequential job scheduling on network machines which work in parallel; these are subject to temporary unavailability...
Florian Diedrich, Klaus Jansen, Ulrich M. Schwarz,...
— A raytracer calculates how a camera would observe a potentially complex scene consisting of numerous objects and light sources. If all the objects are modeled by n primitives, ...
Demands for implementing original OSs that can achieve high I/O performance on PC/AT compatible hardware have recently been increasing, but conventional OS debugging environments ...
Electrical and mechanical equipment such as gearboxes in an industrial robot or electronic circuits in an industrial printer sometimes fail to operate as intended. The faulty compo...
In this paper we introduce a formalism which combines reliability and complexity as performance measures for Intelligent Machines. For a given desired reliability, di erent algori...