1. Abstract Due to rise of environmental awareness and enactment of legislation in recent years, products that reach their end-of-life need to be collected, disassembled and reused / recycled. However, since every component that comprises a product is not reused / recycled from a cost effective standpoint, a product needs not be completely disassembled and only components to be reused / recycle...

Many computer programs have graphical user interfaces (GUIs). UI layout supports efficient use of screen real estate. Most GUIs do not have a fixed layout, but are resizable and able to adapt sizes of window, screen and widgets. Constraints are a powerful tool for specifying adaptable GUI layouts: they are used to specify a layout in a general form, and a constraint solver is used to find a sat...

Due to the explosive growth in the size of scientific data sets, data-intensive computing and analyzing are an emerging trend in computational science. In these applications, data pre-processing is widely adopted because it can optimize the data layout or format beforehand to facilitate the future data access. On the other hand, current research shows an increasing popularity of MapReduce frame...