Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) has become the most strategic tool for an organization to employ. A leading ERP solution is SAP®. It has been employed by organizations to enable them to collaborate on different projects and to integrate all aspects of operations. Just as organizations have adopted ERP solutions, they employed quality initiatives that are designed to help organizations ma...

For some years now the Internet and World Wide Web communities have envisaged moving to a ‘next generation’ of Web technologies by promoting a globally unique, and persistent, identifier for identifying and locating many forms of ‘published objects’. These identifiers are called Universal Resource Names (URNs) and they hold out the prospect of being able to refer to an object by what it is (sig...

In this report, we present a plan for upgrading the Sequoia 2000 network, a widearea network connecting five UC campuses operating at tens of megabits per second, to gigabit per second speeds. We present our motivation for a gigabit network by describing the new direction of the Sequoia project, now called “Redwood”, and describing the applications that drive our decisions for upgrading the net...

The prevalence of online scholarly, technical work is increasing at a great rate. In 1995, Hitchcock, Carr, and Hall [6] reported that there were 115 scholarly peer-reviewed online journals in Science and Technology, plus a comparable number in the Social Sciences; in 1999 Maclennan [9] estimated that 10,000 electronic journals were in existence. With this increase in electronic literature, the...

A computationally efficient algorithm for characterizing the superposition process of N heterogeneous and independent Interrupted Bernoulli Processes is introduced. The algorithm is then used to analyze a statistical multiplexer with finite buffer. Finally, numerical examples highlighting the algorithm accuracy are given. "Supported in part by BelJSouth, GTE Corporation, and NSF and DARPA under...