The essence of the multidisciplinary collaborative design problem (MCDP) is the coordination of the design variables among multiple disciplines on the basis of the all constraints of all disciplines. There exist some problems such as the early detection of design conflicts and the determination of the consistency domains of the design variables, etc. The resolving of these problems can help des...

This paper discusses memory consistency models and their influence on software in the context of parallel machines. In the first part we review previous work on memory consistency models. The second part discusses the issues that arise due to weakening memory consistency. We are especially interested in the influence that weakened consistency models have on language, compiler, and runtime syste...

This project explores the topic of what causes respondents in a survey situation to answer more or less consistently across time to the identical political issue questions. This discussion was begun by Philip Converse in 1964, who used data from the 1956-1958-1960 American National Election Studies panel survey to put forth the idea that certain respondents were generally more consistent across...

Keeping data safe in the presence of crashes is a fundamental problem storage systems. Although high-level ideas for crash consistency are relatively well understood, realizing them practice surprisingly complex and full challenges. The systems research community actively working on solving this challenge, papers examined here offer three solutions.