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Real-Time System Constraints: Where do They Come From and Where do They Go?

Within the real-time community a great deal of research has been, and is being, conducted on scheduling. There exist a diversity of different scheduling algorithms as well as constraints that should be satis£ed by a feasible schedule. What is not commonly discussed though is how the constraints relate to the requirements on the actual real-time system. In fact, many constraints are mere artifac...

CATs: Whither and whence

In this essay I sketch the background that gave rise to adaptive testing and frame a discussion of CAT’s progress around Bert Green’s expectations of the advantages of this technology. Data from the first decade of operational CATs are used to compare what has happened to what was hoped for. I find that some of the goals for CAT that Green expressed are close to being accomplished, but that mos...

They Always Come Back

As a result of personal experience on the staffs of Holloway Prison and of the Aylesbury Borstal Institution, the writer of this book can speak with some authority on the methods of treating women prisoners and delinquent girls as she found them to exist; from the knowledge gained by training as a Psychiatric Social Worker she has formed very definite convictions as to the much better methods w...

TLA+: Whence, Wherefore, and Whither