soil infiltration characteristics affect the design, evaluation and management of furrow irrigation over afield. on the other hand, different variables influence furrow infiltration, making infiltration modeling for afield a complex process. this study was conducted to investigate the direct and indirect effects of allvariables affecting furrow infiltration. the blocked furrow method was used t...

In automatic speech recognition complex state spaces are searched during the recognition process. By limiting these search spaces the computation time can be reduced, but unfortunately the recognition rate mostly decreases, too. However, especially for time-critical recognition tasks a search-space pruning is necessary. Therefore, we developed a dynamic mechanism to optimize the pruning paramet...

The provision of multi-organizational time-critical services requires integrated data exchange across partners, but achieving this technical goal requires sustained and comprehensive attention to inter-organizational relationships and governance mechanisms. This article first describes a general framework that captures the requirements for multi-organizational collaboration for different time-c...

The e ective communication of information is an important concern in the design of an expert consultation system. Several researchers have chosen to adopt a critiquing mode, in which the system evaluates and reacts to a solution proposed by the user rather than presenting its own solution. In this proposal, I present an architecture for a critiquing system that functions in real-time, during th...

Real-time systems need to be time-predictable in order to prove the timeliness of all their time-critical responses. While this is a well-known fact, recent efforts of the community on concretizing the predictability of task timing have shown that there is no common agreement about what the term timepredictability exactly means. In this paper we propose a universal definition of time-predictabi...