The current paper illustrates the importance of clustering the frequent items of code coverage during test suite reduction. A modular Most maximal frequent sequence clustered algorithm has been used along with a Requirement residue based test case reduction process. DU-pairs form the basic code coverage requirement under consideration for test suite reduction. This algorithm farewell when compared with few other algorithms like Harrold Gupta and Soffa (HGS) and Bi-Objective Greedy (BOG) algorithms and Greedy algorithms in covering all the DU-Pairs. The coverage criteria achieved is 100% in many cases, except for few insufficient and incomplete test suites.
The article deals with interaction of tumour cells and leucocytes in the cylindrical cavities. This type of interaction is typical in the cases of development of a tumour in the intestine, blood vessel or in a bone cavity. Two cases are separated: the case of soft and hard tumour. In the case of a solid tumour, leucocytes can interact only with the surface cells of the tumour. This type of interaction is described by the system of two nonlinear first degree differential equations. The expressions of stationary points are obtained and analysis of their stability is performed. In the case of a soft tumour the system of two partial differential equations with first order derivatives and initial and boundary conditions is proposed. An algorithm for computing the numeric solution of the mathematical model is applied. In this case the diffusion of leucocytes and their ability to reach the tumour cells in the whole volume of the tumour is included. The algorithm is constructed and the system is solved numerically. Bifurcation curve is obtained. It separates two qualitatively different areas on the two parameter plane. Under the same initial parameters in the first area development of the tumour cells cannot be stopped, whereas in the second area leukocytes defeat the tumour cells.
Service oriented architecture (SOA) is an architecture for distributed applications composed of distributed services with weak coupling that are designed to meet business requirements. One of the research priorities in the field of SOA is creating such software design and development methodology (SDDM) that takes into account all principles of this architecture and allows for effective and efficient application development. A lot of investigation has been carried out to find out whether can one of popular SDDM, such as agile methodologies or RUP suits, be adapted for SOA or there is a need to create some new SOA-oriented SDDM. This paper compares one of SOA-oriented SDDM – SOUP – with RUP and XP methodologies. The aim is to find out whether the SOUP methodology is already mature enough to assure successful development of SOA applications. This aim is accomplished by comparing activities, artifacts of SOUP and RUP and emphasizing which XP practices are used in SOUP.
The amount of information on the internet grows exponentially. It isnot enough anymore just to have a general access to this huge amount of data,instead it is becoming a necessity to be able to use different kinds ofautomatic filters to retrieve just the information you actually want. One solution for the information filtering and retrieval is context analysis in which one of the contexts of interest is the geographic context. This paper studies the problem and methodology of geoparsing – recognition of geographic names in unstructured textual content for the aim of extracting geographic context. A prototype implementation of a geoparsing system, capable of automatically analyzing unstructured text, recognizing geographic information and marking geographic names, is developed. Empirical evaluation of the system using articles from real-world news showed that the average quality of its geographic name recognition varies around 75-100%. Possible applications of the developed prototype include automated grouping of any texts by their geographic contexts (e.g., in news portals) and location-based search. Preliminary results of empirical evaluation showed that the average rate of its geographic name recognition varies around 75-100%.
Journal:Archaeologia Baltica
Volume 20 (2013): Frontier Societies and Environmental Change in Northeast Europe, pp. 190–199
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The set of Palaeolithic and Mesolithic artefacts from Aukštumala consists exclusively of flint manufactured items. This paper presents exhaustive data on studies of the flint artefacts, and on the reconstruction of their manufacture technique, based on observable characteristics of their manufacture. The functions of the artefacts found in the settlements were established at the Archaeological Material Research Laboratory at Klaipėda University, by means of an Olympus SZX16 microscope, and simultaneously their typology and the chronology of individual items were revised.
Journal:Archaeologia Baltica
Volume 20 (2013): Frontier Societies and Environmental Change in Northeast Europe, pp. 174–189
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In 2004, an archaeological survey was carried out in Aukštumala upland bog (in the Šilutė district in western Lithuania), during which the remains of settlements from the Late Palaeolithic and Middle Mesolithic periods were discovered. These were the first sites from the Late Glacial and Early Holocene periods to be found in the lower reaches of the River Nemunas. The chronology and topography of the sites helped to identify the chronology of the area’s population, and to localise the natural environment in which the people of these periods lived. Based on the typology of the discovered artefacts, manufactured flint items in the Palaeolithic settlement were identified as being close to Late Arensburgian culture, and those of the Middle Mesolithic to Maglemosian or Early Nemunas culture.
Journal:Archaeologia Baltica
Volume 20 (2013): Frontier Societies and Environmental Change in Northeast Europe, pp. 162–173
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This paper deals with the function of rectangular bladelets produced in experimental studies. The function of the bladelets produced experimentally was compared with that of a similar flint inventory discovered at the Katra I settlement. The experimental studies were carried out in the traceological laboratory at Klaipėda University. The functional dependence of the laboratory-produced flint blades and artefacts found at the Katra I settlement (in the Varėna district) were established with an Olympus SZX16 microscope. The experimental items were used in contact with dry reeds (Phragmites). It was established that the functions of the laboratory-produced blades and the ones discovered at the Katra I settlement coincided: most of the artefacts from the Mesolithic and Neolithic periods from the Katra I settlement were used for reed cutting.
Journal:Archaeologia Baltica
Volume 20 (2013): Frontier Societies and Environmental Change in Northeast Europe, pp. 150–159
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This paper discusses the most important ancient amber tubular beads from the Zvidze settlement in the Lake Lubāns wetlands, and their analogies in the forest zone of Eastern Europe. Special attention is paid to specific forms of amber bead: cylindrical, beads with a thickening in the middle part, rounded, arched diamond-shaped and other archaic beads, long and short barreltype, spool-type, beads with oval pinched cross-cuts, and spherical beads. Analogies of amplified amber beads (with a thickening in the middle) have been found in the very wide area of the forest zone of Eastern Europe (Konchanskoe, Repistche, Tudozero, and so on). A review of the Zvidze tubular amber beads allows us to consider that some bead types (barrel-shaped, spherical, diamond-shaped) are more widespread in the ancient world.