This paper proposes an efficient priority assignment algorithm for fixed priority preemption threshold scheduling (PTS), which we named FAST-TRAVERSE. It is optimal in the sense that it always finds a feasible priority assignment if one exists. While there are existing optimal algorithms, they are inefficient to be used in practice. The key ideas of FAST-TRAVERSE are to prune sibling traverses ...

The title to traverse an inquisition by a person who has been found lunatic is a matter of right; but the Court, before granting the writ, will satisfy itself, by personal (or other) examination, that the alleged lunatic is able to exercise volition, and really desires to traverse the finding of the jury. In order to keep the expenses of a petition to traverse within proper limits, the Lord Cha...

There are huge and growing amounts of biological data that reside in different online repositories. Most of these Web-based sources only focus on some specific areas or only allow limited types of user queries. To obtain needed information, biologists usually have to traverse different Web sources and combine their data manually. In this research, we propose a system that can help users to over...

Early Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) deployments feature a "fat" Access Point (AP), which serves as a stand-alone interface between the wired and wireless network segments. However, this model raises scaling, mobility, and manageability issues, and the Control and Provisioning of Wireless Access Points (CAPWAP) protocol is meant to address these issues. CAPWAP effectively splits the fat AP ...

It is important that all pedagogical design decisions in educational learning environments are made explicit to the educator. However, implicit assumptions affecting or even contradicting the “official” pedagogical method may unbeknownst slip into the design. We discuss a concrete problem in the area of adaptive hypermedia systems related to the notion of a prerequisite. Prerequisites are frequ...