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Typically, most applications consist of both batch and online workloads. This is true even today, when most of our attention has turned to online and web-based interaction. Sure, online activities are ...

Batch process scheduling and optimisation is a critical area of research that addresses the timing, sequencing, and allocation of production tasks in industries where manufacturing is carried out in ...

Streaming data records are typically small, measured in mere kilobytes, but the stream often goes on and on without ever stopping. Streaming data, also called event stream processing, is usually ...

Arla Foods’ new dairy plant in England provides ample evidence that necessity is indeed the mother of invention. Head of engineering Soeren Vonsild describes Arla’s necessity this way. “In this dairy, ...

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Batch processing, or batch production, is a scaled-down version of assembly line production. Products are produced in groups instead of in continuous streams as they are on assembly lines. However, ...

During its 18 months of operation in the early 1860s, the Pony Express was a shining example of the inextricable link between data delivery and data processing. While an innovation for its time, the ...