Swimming buses

Buses in Parking Depots

Introduction Giorgio Gallo Federico Di Miele Dispatching Buses in Parking Depots Department of Computer Science, University of Pisa, Corso Italia 40, 56125 Pisa, Italy [email protected] Among the many different problems arising in the day-by-day operations of urban transportation companies, the problem of optimally managing the parking space in a vehicle depot has attracted little attention. Th...

“standard Buses, Modular Buses, and Plug-and-play Buses; What Is the Difference and Why Does It Matter?”

There is significant confusion in the space industry today over the terms used to describe satellite bus architectures. Terms such as “standard bus” (or “common bus”), “modular bus” and “plug-and-play bus” are often used with little understanding of what the terms actually mean, and even less understanding of what the differences in these space architectures mean. It may seem that these terms a...

Buses and Crossbars

Bus: A bus is a shared interconnect used for connecting multiple components of a computer on a single chip or across multiple chips. Connected entities either place signals on the bus or listen to signals being transmitted on the bus, but signals from only one entity at a time can be transported by the bus at any given time. Buses are popular communication media for broadcasts in computer systems.

Seats on school buses.

Buses, Bullies, and Bijections

In times past in a country far away, passengers on intercity buses were all assigned seat numbers, and the buses were always full. There were many casual people, and there were a few people who were real sticklers for the rules. This is where our problem begins. Adam is the first person to enter an n seat intercity bus, and, since he is a casual person, he takes a seat at random. Subsequently, ...