Schedulability analysis of fixed priority preemptive scheduled systems can be performed by calculating the worst-case response-time of the involved processes. The system is deemed schedulable if the calculated responsetime for each process is less than its corresponding deadline. It is desirable that the Response-Time Analysis (RTA) can be efficiently performed. This is particularly important i...

Consider a quantum computer in combination with a binary oracle of domain size N . It is shown how N/2 + √ N calls to the oracle are sufficient to guess the whole content of the oracle (being an N bit string) with probability greater than 95%. This contrasts the power of classical computers which would require N calls to achieve the same task. From this result it follows that any function with ...

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In order to make software applications simpler to write and easier to maintain, a software digital signal processing library that performs essential signal and image processing functions is an important part of every DSP developer’s toolset. In general, such a library provides high-level interface and mechanisms, therefore developers only need to known how to use algorithm, not the details of h...

Currently, many software systems are developed in offices geographically distributed in different locations. Furthermore, it is also common for a software system development project contracting to different software houses. These contracted software development projects, very ojien, are further sub-contracted to some other software houses. These software development modes can be supported and m...

It is a general consensus that automated support for software development is essential to harness the ever increasing complexity of today’s software. Many software development models, tools, and environments have been introduced to address such a need; however, they are usually methodology-specific and impose a rather authoritarian policy on the way software is developed. This paper advocates t...

Computer-based visual languages have been developed primarily in order to help people program and operate computers. Now that many people in the world have personal computers with good graphics and Internet connections, we are seeing a great deal of informal electronic visual communication via web pages. More formal visual languages can be expected to appear on the Internet in the near future. ...

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We propose a new approach to nonuniform time compression, called Mach1, designed to mimic the natural timing of fast speech. At identical overall compression rates, listener comprehension for Mach1-compressed speech increased between 5 and 31 percentage points 2 over that for linearly compressed speech, and response times dropped by 15%. For rates between 2.5 and 4.2 times real time, there was ...

Tuberculosis is an important public health problem in developing countries and BCG plays an important role in preventing serious form of the disease in children. BCG induced tuberculin sensitivity is a quantitative characteristic and has been used to compare vaccine efficacy. The standard dose of BCG vaccine is 0.1mg in 1 ml though manufacturers of certain strains of BCG, i.e., Copenhagen 1331 ...