In recent years the requirements for business information systems have changed. Knowledgeand process-management demand for flexible, dynamic and distributed software environments including the ability to work across the organization’s boundaries. With traditional software not up to these challenges new concepts have been developed. This paper reviews the state of the art in workflow modelling, ...

In "high level" synthesis basic blocks are caused by the control schemes and the block structure of the specification language (branches, loops). These schemes must be considered by the construction of the controller. A method is presented to handle the basic blocks in a more flexible way which allows to move operations between basic block boundaries. The goal is to improve the number of contro...

Several methods have been previously used to approximate free boundaries in tinitedifference numerical simulations. A simple, but powerful, method is described that is based on the concept of a fractional volume of fluid (VOF). This method is shown to be more flexible and efftcient than other methods for treating complicated free boundary configurations. To illustrate the method, a description ...

Agents are problem-solving units with well-defined boundaries and interfaces operating in given environments. Agents receive inputs about the state of their environment through their sensors, may change their environment via their actors, have specific goals, control their inner state and actions autonomously, and apply flexible problem-solving algorithms to hit their target, i.e. react upon th...

Implementing an analysis and display architecture for the next generation of HP logic analyzers presented opportunities and challenges for the cross-functional design team assigned to the task. Freed from the boundaries of commercial real-time instrument operating systems and needing to offer a flexible and high-performance window-based interface, the project team took a long look at both techn...

Fedora's popularity amongst institutions is largely due to its scalability and flexibility to handle a large variety of data types. With the increased take up rate, the need to support federated authentication and flexible authorization is becoming more and more evident. The main drivers are the need by end users to share data across institutional boundaries, and the ability to specify new and ...

Modern embedded systems have an emerging demand on high performance and low power circuits. Traditionally special functional units for each application are developed separately. These are plugged to a general purpose processors to extend its instruction set making it an application specific instruction set processor. As this strategy reaches its boundaries in area and complexity reconfigurable ...

We describe a flexible class of stochastic models that aim to capture key features realistic patterns animal movements observed in radio-tracking and global positioning system telemetry studies. In the model, are represented as diffusion-based process evolving differently heterogeneous regions. this article, we extend inference for movement case which boundaries habitat regions unknown need be ...

Abstract This paper develops manifold learning techniques for the numerical solution of PDE-constrained Bayesian inverse problems on manifolds with boundaries. We introduce graphical Matérn-type Gaussian field priors that enable flexible modeling near boundaries, representing boundary values by superposition harmonic functions appropriate Dirichlet conditions. also investigate graph-based appro...