Sofia Grigorievna Lepneva (1883-1966)

1883 - 4566

Mobile robot networks emerged in the past few years as a promising distributed computing model. Existing work in the literature typically ensures the correctness of mobile robot protocols via ad hoc handwritten proofs, which are both cumbersome and error-prone. This paper surveys state-of-the-art results about applying formal methods approaches (namely, model-checking, program synthesis, and pr...

Leonard Colebrook, 1883-1967.

Leonard Colebrook (1883?1967)

Leonard Colebrook was a physician who researched bacteria and infections in England during the twentieth century. In 1936, Colebrook deployed the antibiotic Prontosil to treat puerperal fever, a disorder that results from bacterial infections in the uterine tracts of women after childbirth or abortions. Colebrook also advanced care for burn patients by advocating for the creation of burn units ...

Muriel Robertson, 1883-1973.

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...