Distributed database systems use commit protocols to ensure atomicity in case of distributed transactions and a wide variety of commit protocols have been proposed so far. Two–phase commit (2PC) is a widely accepted standard protocol for distributed transactions. But 2PC suffer from blocking problem due to which three-phase commit (3PC) protocol was proposed which is an extension of 2PC. This p...

A method is proposed to determine the phase-volume fractions in tomographic representations of two-phase systems. The method is applicable in cases where no independent mean values for the phase-characteristic property (a) are available, such as in standard X-ray computed tomography (CT) using a polychromatic source. The proposed procedure is based on ®tting a sum of three parametric expression...

the pressure drop of refrigerant r-134a flow boiling inside a horizontal tube has been investigated experimentally. the test set-up which was used in this investigation is a well instrumented vapor compression refrigeration system. these instruments are thermocouples, flow meter, pressure gauges and the pressure drop measuring apparatus. this system consisted of three electrically heated evapor...

A safe and deadlock free lock policy is introduced, called pre-analysis locking. Pre-analysis locking is based on an efficient geometric algorithm which inserts lock and unlock operations into the transactions. Pre-analysis locking is the first safe and deadlock free general locking policy which is not a variant of two-phase locking. It is an approach conceptually different from policies follow...

This paper investigates the integrated optimization of production, distribution and inventory decisions related to supplying multiple retailers from a central production facility. A single-item uncapacitated lot-sizing problem is defined for optimizing production decisions and inventory management. The optimization of daily distribution is modeled as a traveling salesman problem or a vehicle ro...

a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t The level-set method is a popular interface tracking method in two-phase flow simulations. An often-cited reason for using it is that the method naturally handles topological changes in the interface, e.g. merging drops, due to the implicit formulation. It is also said that the interface curvature and normal vectors are easily calculated. This last point is...

Due to the unpredictability of mobile network, it is difficult to meet transaction deadlines in a mobile distributed real-time database system (MDRDTBS). We propose the idea of transaction shipping to reduce the overheads in processing a transaction over mobile network and in resolving priority inversion. We consider a distributed lock-based real-time protocol, the Distributed High Priority Two...

In this paper we derive rates of convergence for regularizations of the multidimensional two-phase Stefan problem and use the regularized problems to define backward-difference in time and C° piecewise-linear in space Galerkin approximations. We find an L2 rate of convergence of order \^ in the e-regularization and an L rate of convergence of order (h2/e + Ai/ \6F) in the Galerkin estimates whi...

To operate effectively in complex environments learning agents have to selectively ignore irrelevant details by forming useful abstractions. In this paper we outline a formulation of abstraction for reinforcement learning approaches to stochastic decision problems by extending one of the recent minimization models, known as ǫ-reduction. The technique presented here extends ǫ-reduction to SMDPs ...