This paper describes an approach that begins with asynchronously capturing individual conceptual models into separate knowledge-based systems using a technique known as Ripple-Down Rules. The rules are combined and used by Formal Concept Analysis to develop the group’s conceptual model thereby revealing common ground and differences between the stakeholders. As group process is offered which al...

Shared memory multiprocessors are widely used as platforms for technical and commercial computing [2]. Performance evaluation is a key technology for design in computer architecture. The continuous growth in complexity of systems is making this task increasingly complex [7]. In general, the problem of developing effective performance evaluation techniques can be stated as finding the best trade...

In software systems, individual components interact not only through explicit function invocations, but also through implicit resource sharing. The use of shared resources significantly influences the duration of the invoked functions. For resources that are heavily shared, capturing this influence can lead to performance models that have a large number of elements and a large number of depende...

p2x 7 antagonist activity for a set of 49 molecules of the p2x 7 receptor antagonists, derivatives of purine, was modeled with the aid of chemometric and artificial intelligence techniques. the activity of these compounds was estimated by means of combination of principal component analysis (pca), as a well-known data reduction method, genetic algorithm (ga), as a variable selection technique, ...

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Multiprocessor systems-on-chip (MPSoC) with distributed shared memory and caches are flexible when it comes to inter-processor communication but require an efficient memory consistency and cache coherency solution. In this paper we present a novel consistency model, streaming consistency, for the streaming domain in which tasks communicate through circular buffers. The model allows more reorder...