I/O Subsystem performance is one of the key components that impact the business operations of today's organisations. The objective of this paper is to provide a detailed performance evaluation of various storage architectures ...

People work together to solve a wide variety of problems using different forms of cooperation for each class of problem. Modern technology is complex, and therefore it is unusual for an individual to attempt the development ...

The rapidly changing·end-user computing environment requires an informed recipient of information who can play an active role in the design of information systems to capture. retrieve and interpret data [6). We need our ...

The associative network presents a practical and efficient means for the storage and retrieval of data. Although the recall abilities of single-layer associative memories have been well researched[3], little investigation ...

Software quality assurance for object-oriented information systems development is the issue dealt with here. A Quality Assurance Reference Model is proposed based on the Revised Spiral Life Cycle Model. The Quality Assurance ...

The real-time services offered by modern high speed networks are complex enough to prompt a new look at how these services should be paid for. In this article, it is motivated that paying for the use of guaranteed services ...

Software Reuse is the technique of reusing software components previously developed in order to reduce the effort required to develop new software. It is generally accepted that software reuse can improve the rate of ...

This paper discusses the development and implementation of a set of measures which support a Total Quality Management (TOM) process in a Systems Development environment. This process is taking place in the background of ...

The ability to learn from observations and to modify our understanding of the world based on experience is an essential aspect of intelligent behavior. Machine learning has thus become an important sub-area of artificial ...

There are three major agents in a computer-based instruction (CBI) environment: the tutor, the tutoring system and the tutee. The emphasis of this paper is on the tutoring system which contains the instructional content ...