GNU/Linux systems are today used in servers, desktops, mobile and embedded devices. One of the critical operations is the installation and maintenance of software packages in the system. Currently there are no frameworks or tools for evaluating Package Management Systems (PMSs), such as RPM, in Linux and for measuring their reliability. The authors perform an analysis of the robustness of the R...

Peritoneal dissemination is the most common cause of death in gastric cancer patients. The hypoxic microenvironment plays a major role in controlling the tumor stem cell phenotype and is associated with patients' prognosis through hypoxia-inducible factor-1α (HIF-1α), a key transcriptional factor that responds to hypoxic stimuli. During the peritoneal dissemination process, gastric cancer stem/...

industrial organizations are complex systems` where the interactions among the various functions such as sales, distribution, manufacturing, materials, finance, human resources and maintenance have to be man-aged towards a common purpose of delivering the customers satisfaction. however, since most of these or-ganizations have a `functional structure`, each function or department works towards ...

Purpose Despite increasing attention to employee development, past research has mostly studied performance management systems (PMSs) in relation task-related behaviors compared proactive behaviors. Accordingly, this study addresses the between PMSs and innovative work behavior (IWB). Design/methodology/approach Building on signaling theory human resource (HRM) system strength research, authors ...

Traditional information systems struggle with the requirement to provide flexibility and process support while still enforcing some degree of control. Accordingly, adaptive process management systems (PMSs) have emerged that provide some flexibility by enabling dynamic process changes during runtime. Based on the assumption that these process changes are recorded explicitly, we present two tech...

“Sequences set” is a mathematical model used in many applications such as scheduling, text process and biological sequences analysis. As the number of the sequences becomes larger, “single” sequence set model is not appropriate for the rapidly increasing problem sizes. For example, more and more text processing applications separate a single big text file into multiple files before processing. ...

Industrial organizations are complex systems` where the interactions among the various functions such as Sales, Distribution, Manufacturing, Materials, Finance, Human Resources and Maintenance have to be man-aged towards a common purpose of delivering the customers satisfaction. However, since most of these or-ganizations have a `Functional Structure`, each function or department works towards ...

Process Management Systems (PMSs) are currently more and more used as a supporting tool to coordinate the enactment of processes. YAWL, one of the best-known PMSs coming from academia, allows to define stable and well-understood processes and provides support for the handling of expected exceptions, which can be anticipated at design time. But in some real world scenarios, the environment may c...

We present the ASCA results of intermediate-mass pre-main-sequence stars (PMSs), or Herbig Ae/Be stars (HAeBes). Among the 35 ASCA pointed-sources, we detect 11 plausible X-ray counterparts. X-ray luminosities of the detected sources in the 0.5–10 keV band are in the range of log LX ∼30−32 ergs s , which is systematically higher than those of low-mass PMSs. This fact suggests that the contribut...