Emerging device technologies including phase-change-memory (PCM), spin-torgue transfer RAM (STT-RAM) and memristors promise high-speed storage. These technologies collectively are termed storage-class memory (SCM) as data can be accessed through ordinary load/store instructions rather than through I/O requests. Hence, user-mode code can access data directly, so there is no need for the OS to me...

Manual order-picking warehouses are highly influenced by its’ layout design. In fact, layout parameters play the most important role in determining the route length which is responsible for the largest share in a warehouse operating costs. Conventional simulation techniques are not capable to capture the complexities in dynamic systems. Therefore, this paper develops an agent-based model to sim...

there has been a recent development and explosion of interest among academicians across a wide range of disciplines in the use of virtual class room. utilization of the virtual class room as a laboratory experimentation for teaching and learning has increased significantly in recent years as development tools for web based applications have become easier to use and computers have become more ca...