This paper discusses the CRISTAL object lifecycle management system and its use in provenance data management and the traceability of system events. This software was initially used to capture the construction and calibration of the CMS ECAL detector at CERN for later use by physicists in their data analysis. Some further uses of CRISTAL in different projects (CMS, neuGRID and N4U) are presente...

Although many approaches for architecturebased reliability estimation exist, these approaches are typically limited to certain classes or exclusively concentrate on software reliability, neglecting the influence of hardware resources, component reliability, component replica and software deployment. In this paper, a reliability estimation model based on software architecture (SA) is presented. ...

Does experimental evidence of the common difference effect imply that intertemporal preferences are time inconsistent? Do these features of choice suggest inherent characteristics of preferences, or could they be traced to an underlying factor that shapes the environment? The effect of uncertain lifetime on intertemporal preferences is studied. A demographic model that allows for unobservable h...

In this paper the authors discuss the misunderstanding that arose over the years around the broadly defined term of the objectrelational mismatch. It occurs in many different aspects of programming. There are three concerns considered the most important: mismatching data models, mismatching binding times and mismatching object lifecycle. This paper focuses on the data model mismatch. The author...

customer activity has received more attention due to the increase of social network applications. moreover, customer activity could be an answer to the research debate about the significant relationship between retention rate and lifetime profitability of customers. several researchers believe that an increase in the retention rate of customers may enhance their customer lifetime value (clv), o...

in the current engineering practices, buildings are commonly designed for an effective lifetime of 50 years. this lifetime can increase the cost of buildings with short lifetimes and can reduce the safety level of buildings with large lifetimes. in this paper, a “service-life factor” has been defined. applying this factor into the nominal values of live, earthquake, wind, and snow loads, the ef...

Abstract. Atmospheric methane (CH4) has changed considerably in the time between last glacial maximum (LGM) and preindustrial (PI) periods. We investigate these changes transient experiments with an Earth system model capable of simulating global cycle interactively, focusing on rapid during deglaciation, especially pronounced Bølling–Allerød (BA) Younger Dryas (YD) consider all relevant natura...

[1] Wet scavenging is an important sink term for many atmospheric constituents. However, production of precipitation in clouds is poorly understood, and pollutant removal through wet scavenging is difficult to separate from removal through dry scavenging, atmospheric mixing, or chemical transformations. Here we use airborne data from the International Consortium for Atmospheric Research on Tran...

The global mean OH concentration ([OH]GM ) has been used as an indicator of the atmospheric oxidizing efficiency and its changes over time. It is also used for evaluating the performance of atmospheric chemistry models by comparing with other models or with observationally-based reference [OH]GM levels. We contend that the treatment of this quantity in the recent literature renders it problemat...

The combination of atmospheric drag and lunar and solar perturbations in addition to Earth's oblateness influences the orbital lifetime of an upper stage in geostationary transfer orbit (GTO). These high eccentric orbits undergo fluctuations in both perturbations and velocity and are very sensitive to the initial conditions. The main objective of this paper is to predict the reentry time of the...