A major challenge in the area of global market economy is to develop new techniques for solving real world scheduling, planning, logistic and resource allocation problems. Indeed, any industrial organisation can only be economically viable by maximising customer services, maintaining efficient, low cost operations and minimising total investment. Significant domains exhibiting these characteris...

Two previous CTAHR Economic Issues publications, EI-3 (Agriculture’s Contribution to Hawaii’s Economy—An Update) and EI-4 (The Linkages of Agri­ culture to Hawaii’s Economy) have examined agricul­ tural industries’ economic contribution and their link­ ages to the rest of Hawaii’s economy (see Notes, p. 11). The present publication examines the growth and sta­ bility of agricultural production ...

Fire may have been a crucial component in the evolution of the Cape flora of South Africa, a region characterized by outstanding levels of species richness and endemism. However, there is, to date, no critical assessment of the age of the modern fire regime in this biome. Here, we exploit the presence of two obligate post-fire flowering clades in the orchid genus Disa, in conjunction with a rob...

Data-intensive software systems work in different contexts for different users with the aim of supporting heterogeneous tasks in heterogeneous environments. Most of the operations carried out by dataintensive systems are interactions with data. Managing these complex systems means focusing the attention to the huge amount of data that have to be managed despite limited capacity devices where da...

This paper presents a Computer Aided Testability tool named STA (System Testability Assistant), aiming at proposing a testa-bility strategy for systems as early as possible in the design process. Given a system description, STA rst compiles it in order to create system, boards, and circuits objects, and then proceeds bottom-up, from the circuit to the system, in order to evaluate the actual tes...