The subject matter of this work is focused in the development of an application for team work over a distributed system belonging to an organization.
This choice is based in the organizations need of their members’ continuing formation/training, and of…

There is a need of counting on precise measurements of subjective losses that can be used for predicting the quality of an image. The objective of the present work is to determine these distortion measurements and test the use of…

The main goal of this thesis was to design new parallel processing strategies specially conceived for distributed environments in order to solve numerical and structural problems from the field of process systems engineering more efficiently. More specifically, the numerical sample…

The goal of this Thesis is reducing the global penalty associated to branch mispredictions, in terms of both performance degradation and energy consumption, through the use of confidence estimation. The reduction of this global penalty has been achieved, firstly, by…

This paper reports two case studies of the use of the business excellence model (BEM) in two small- to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) which entered the 1999 East of England Excellence (EEE) regional Quality Award. The experiences of these organisations will…

This paper studies the effect of labor relations on product quality. We consider whether a
long, contentious strike and the hiring of permanent replacement workers by
Bridgestone/Firestone in the mid-1990s contributed to the production of an excess
number of defective…

In 1987 the federal government permitted states to raise the speed limit on their rural interstate roads, but not on their urban interstate roads, from 55 mph to 65 mph for the first time in over a decade. Since the…

This book presents an approach based on Linux operating system, including issues such as kernel per se, units use and construction, different types of them, debugging techniques, as well as time management, interruptions, DMA (direct memory access), different buses and…

This text introduces comprehensively the reader to the distance teaching/learning process.
With this purpose, it presents a model of the Distance Education System to be used for understanding its embedded elements: contents, instructional design, communications, interaction, learning environment, and administration.

The area of multi-objective optimization is receiving increasing attention by the comunity of evolutionary computation. In this book the authors present a complete state-of-the art in the field.