PC/workstation DBMS provide a set of data management functions in a stand-alone fashion as a single-user system on a personal computer or workstation. There is no real data exchange between a PC/workstation DBMS and other data management systems, remote users, or DBMS at another place. Some PC/workstation DBMS provide limited functions to extract data as a "snapshot" from a remote database to p...

In this paper, we present the optimization and performance evaluation of a software-based H.263 video encoder. The objective is to maximize the encoding rate without losing the picture quality on an ordinary single-processor computer such as a PC or a workstation. This requires optimizations at all design and implementation phases, including algorithmic enhancements, efficient implementations o...

It is generally desirable to complete design tasks in parallel in order to reduce the overall development time. However, completing tasks in parallel may sometimes increase the total amount of rework that must be done, thereby increasing the total engineering effort, the development cost and the lead time. The technique described in this paper helps to decide between serial and parallel schedul...

1 Based on “Portable Integrated Multi-Signal Patient Monitoring System ", by M. El Korek, R. Aloul, T. Landolsi, A.R. Al-Ali, and Y. Al-Assaf which appeared in the 3rd International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology (IIT06). © [2006] IEEE. Abstract—In this paper, we propose a wireless stand-alone, embedded system design that integrates the monitoring of three biomedical parame...

Disregarding ergonomics in designing a workstation has been identified as major cause of inefficiency, low productivity and injury to personnel, especially among indigenous food processing operators. Operations such gari-frying require an ergonomic but due unavailability or insufficient data, this not possible. This study focused on the collection anthropometric data population six southwestern...

Automated flow-oriented machining lines are typically encountered in the mechanical industry (Groover, 1987; Hitomi, 1996; Dashchenko, 2003). They are also called transfer (or paced) lines, being preferred mainly for the mass production, as they increase the production rate and minimize the cost of machining parts (Hutchinson, 1976). They consist of a linear sequence of multi-spindle machines (...

Friday " I don't see what's so funny? " " Really, " Dr. Egerton continued to force a thin dry chuckle. " Because I think it's pretty funny. Don't you feel funny even saying it? " " No I do not feel funny saying it, " XienCheng spat back with disdain. " Because it isn't funny. It isn't funny at all. Do you have any idea how much money the Ceres mine lost last week? " " I have no idea, " Egerton ...

A CAD environment requires a significantly different model of transaction from that developed for typical data-processing applications. A viable model of CAD transaction must allow a group of cooperating designers to arrive at a design without being forced to wait over a long duration. It must also allow a group of designers to collaborate on a design with another group by assigning subtasks. I...

Three dimensional (3D) models became a very important issue in the last few decades due to the increasing demand for a realistic presentation of the real world. A 3D model gives better presentation and facilitates the processes of planning, control and decision making especially in the urban areas. Furthermore modern workstations available on the market allow already to handle and visualize lar...