An animating spirit

Naiad: The Animating Spirit of Rivers and Streams

Distributed data-parallel computation has taken systems research by storm in recent years, with sharednothing architectures allowing tremendous scale. MapReduce [1] led with a simple programming model consisting solely of pairs of map and reduce operations. However, this simplicity exposed new design challenges, in particular the constraints of the MapReduce model introduce inefficiencies for a...

Application Design -- An Animating Approach using RADD

This paper presents an approach to support the design of ‘dynamic’ databases where large amounts of data are updated frequently. The basis of our approach is formed by schemata of an extended entity-relationship model which are constructed in a modular way and can then be enriched by behavior specifications, functions, and view definitions. The goal is to derive the retrieval and update semanti...

An approach to animating Z specifications

Animating the Web { an SGML-based approach

The DejaVu framework ooers access to the Web as one of the facilities in a collection of software components for developing multimedia user interfaces and hypermedia applications. It provides a vehicle for experimenting with true hypermedia extensions to the Web. Our approach, which is essentially object-oriented, allows for integrating the Web in applications and vice versa, for composing a We...

The Entrepreneurial Spirit of Rural Women: An Example from Iran

This study aimed to investigate the personality characteristics related to entrepreneurial spirit of rural women. The statistical population of the study included rural women in the central district of Nimrooz County in Sistan and Baluchistan Province (N=406). Krejcie and Morgan Table was used to determine the sample size. To this end, 186 participants were selected through stratified random sa...