Internet software tightly integrates classic computation with communication software. Heterogeneity and complexity can be tackled with a component-based approach, where components are developed by application experts and integrated by domain experts. Component-based systems cannot be tested with classic approaches but present new problems. Current techniques for integration testing are based up...

In 1986 S. Sattolo introduced a simple algorithm for uniform random generation of cyclic permutations on a fixed number of symbols. Recently, H. Prodinger analysed two important random variables associated with the algorithm, and found their mean and variance. H. Mahmoud extended Prodinger’s analysis by finding limit laws for the same two random variables.The present article, starting from the ...

The overall goal of this research is to improve self-healing development environments to facilitate self-managing capabilities such as self-healing. Self-healing is an approach to evaluating constraints defined in a target system and to apply an appropriate strategy when the constraints have been violated. Much attention has recently been focused on self-healing ability that recognizes problems...

The simplest definition of self-medication is the use drugs (medications) without a doctor's prescription. These are sold in pharmacies and other shops referred to as 'Over counter' or 'Non-prescription.' This phenomenon rapidly evolving. People take medicines permission for many different reasons. During clinical consultations, some people want cut down on time money they s...

The most prominent property of life on Earth is its ability to evolve. It is often taken for granted that self-replication– the characteristic that makes life possible–implies evolvability, but many examples such as the lack of evolvability in computer viruses seem to challenge this view. Is evolvability itself a property that needs to evolve, or is it automatically present within any chemistry...

ree access to the articles is becoming more popular since it gives thousands of researchers access to millions of publications resulting in higher visibility and receiving much more citations, which often times might be the ultimate goal. for this reason, authors may seek a way to make the papers easily accessible to other researchers via uploading the full text to their personal website and/or...

While previous research on readability has typically focused on document-level measures, recent work in areas such as natural language generation has pointed out the need of sentence-level readability measures. Much of psycholinguistics has focused for many years on processing measures that provide difficulty estimates on a word-by-word basis. However, these psycholinguistic measures have not y...

This paper surveys the theoretical literature on currency crises in order to determine the usefulness and limitations of existing models in understanding the recent currency crises, particularly the one in East Asia, which began with the forced devaluation of the Thai baht in July 1997. One may delineate three broad groups of models. The ‘first generation’ models are based on the canonical pape...