HTCondor is a distributed job scheduler developed by the University of Wisconsin-Madison, which allows users to run their applications in other users’ machines when they are not being used, thus providing a considerably increase in the overall computational power and a more efficient use of the computing resources. Our institution has been successfully using HTCondor for more than ten years, an...

This paper reports about our research to design and implement a spoken language dialogue system (SLDS) that can be conngured easily and rapidly to diierent applications. In contrast to nite-state models for information dialogues, we outline a different knowledge-based approach capable to handle dialogues of greater complexity than those following a nite-state argumentation structure. We show ho...

Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have penetrated all areas of contemporary life. In this context, digital literacy has become much more than the ability to handle computers – just like traditional literacy and numeracy, it comprises a set of basic skills which include the use and production of digital media, information processing and retrieval, participation in social networks...

Labuhanbatu is a regency in North Sumatra Province which geographically located on the main route of east coast Sumatra. Due to its geographical location, this district has an increasing population. Employment problems Regency are estimated be increasingly complex, not mention driven by increase Open Unemployment Rate (TPT) Regency, encourage local government expand and develop employment oppor...

This paper seeks to investigate the e↵ects of Ban-the-Box laws across the United States. Ban-the-Box laws make it illegal to ask whether an applicant has been convicted of a crime on a job application. The e↵ects are consistent with that of statistical discrimination where the policy is having adverse e↵ects on individuals labor market outcomes. I find that without perfect information about an ...

Failures are increasingly threatening the efficiency of HPC systems, and current projections of Exascale platforms indicate that rollback recovery, the most convenient method for providing fault tolerance to general-purpose applications, reaches its own limits at such scales. One of the reasons explaining this unnerving situation comes from the focus that has been given to per-application compl...