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Chapter and Conference Paper
Temporal-Awareness in SLAs: Why Should We Be Concerned?
Traditionally, Service Level Agreements have been decomposed in two sets of properties: functionals (what) and non-functionals (how). However, in our opinion, there has been a third key element that has had a ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Improving Temporal-Awareness of WS-Agreement
WS-Agreement (WS-Ag) is a proposed recommendation of the Open Grid Forum that provides a schema to describe SLAs and a protocol to create them based on a mechanism of templates. However, although it identifies...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A co-simulation concept for an efficient analysis of complex logic designs
The focus of this paper is the presentation of our work on develo** a novel co-simulation concept for synchronous logic designs. The growing complexity of programmable devices (FPGAs and CPLDs) requires comp...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
How to Find Suitable Parametric Models using Genetic Algorithms. Application to Feedforward Neural Networks
Most of nonlinear models based on polynoms, wavelets or neural networks, have the universal approximation ability, [Barron, 1993]. This ability allows the nonlinear models to outperform linear models as soon a...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
SSM: A Statistical Stepwise Method for Weight Elimination
The multilayer feedforward network1 has a now well-known approximation capability, which can be used to achieve any association task with a very good accuracy. See Leshno et al. [8] for the most recent results an...
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Chapter
Dialog Design: Principles and Experiments
Programming methodology has emphasized different criteria for judging the quality of software during the three decades of its existence. In the early days of scarce computing resources the most important aspec...