Article Watch, September 2012

Rzeszow – Sofia September 2012

We consider queuing systems as models of distance learning system we analyze how characteristics of business process in the system affect on throughput and on learning outcomes. The processes of executing tasks and tasks validation process are the key processes in the distance learning. A model of the process performed by a student is a queuing system with refusals. A model of the process perfo...

In the September 2012 issue

5 - 1 - 2012 The indefinite article – Indefinite ? – Article ?

Perlmutter (1970) argued that the indefinite article is categorically different from the definite article and proposed that it is a clitic version of the numeral "one". But there are, as Perlmutter himself pointed out, instances of "a" as well as of "one" that don't seem to have the semantics of the numeral. Hence a divorce of "a" (and of "one") from "numeral"-hood is called for. Furthermore, t...

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Nowadays, the growing necessity for secure and private off-site storage motivates the appearance of novel storage infrastructures. In this sense, it is increasingly common to find storage systems where users interact just with a set of trustworthy participants, such as in Friend-to-Friend (F2F) networks. In general, these systems have been treated as a particular case of P2P networks where link...

2012 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC 2012) : San Jose, California, USA, 9 - 12 September 2012