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Jiffy (time)

Known as: Tick-less kernel, Jiffies, Jiffie 
Jiffy is an informal term for any unspecified short period of time, as in "I will be back in a jiffy". From this it has acquired a number of more… 
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Review
2011
Review
2011
Evolutionary and Revolutionary Effects of Transcomputation
Mathematics in Defence 2011 Abstract. We review transreal arithmetic and present transcomplex arithmetic. These arithmetics have… 
2007
2007
Evaluation of Elite Native Strawberry Germplasm for Resistance to Anthracnose Crown Rot Disease Caused by Colletotrichum Species
Anthracnose crown rot of cultivated strawberry (Fragaria ·ananassa Duchesne ex Rozier) has been a major disease problem in the… 
2006
2006
The Effect of Sweet Potato Virus Disease and its Viral Components on Gene Expression Levels in
Sweet potato virus disease (SPVD) is the most devastating disease of sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.) globally. It is… 
2005
2005
An Algorithm for Scheduling Exchanges over a Bus with Centralized Control and an Analysis of Its Efficiency
In certain real-time systems, in particular, in onboard systems, it is often required to schedule of exchanges over a centralized… 
2002
2002
Window-Constrained Process Scheduling for Linux Systems
This paper describes our experience using Dynamic Window-Constrained Scheduling (DWCS) [13, 14, 12, 11] to schedule processes… 
1994
1994
Bused Hypercubes and Other Pin-Optimal Networks
  • C. M. Fiduccia
  • IEEE Trans. Parallel Distributed Syst.
  • 1994
  • Corpus ID: 45729294
Pin minimization is an important issue for massively parallel architectures because the number of processing elements that can be… 
1991
1991
Inventing Multiloop Control Systems in a Jiffy with Interactive Graphics.
For example, consider being presented with a challenge to synthesize a control system (and to demonstrate that it works!) for the… 
1988
1988
Theory of periodic contention and its application to packet switching
  • S.-Y.R. Li
  • IEEE INFOCOM '88,Seventh Annual Joint Conference…
  • 1988
  • Corpus ID: 54035776
The following model of a packet switch is considered: at each clock tick, the switch attempts to route the head-of-line packet at… 
1981
1981
A necessary and sufficient condition for fundamental periods of cascade machines to be products of the fundamental periods of their constituent finite state machines
1977
1977
CACDA Jiffy War Game Technical Manual. Part 1: Methodology
Abstract : The 'Jiffy' war gaming process is a computer-assisted, manual war game developed and operated at the USATRADOC… 
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