This paper presents the StAC Structured Activity Compensation language and its operational semantics. StAC is a business process modelling language and a distinctive feature of the language is its support for compensation. A compensation is an action taken to recover from error or cope with a change of plan, especially...
OTTAWA -- Solace Systems, the leading supplier of high-speed, low-latency content networking systems, today announced the results of testing of its guaranteed messaging solution with the Securities Technology Analysis Center STAC. Testing revealed that a single high-availability pair of Solace routers configured for guaranteed message delivery is...
Open Evaluation Process Continues Company's Industry-First Policy of Freely Available CEP Product Evaluation and Development MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- Coral8, Inc., a leading provider of Complex Event Processing CEP software, today announced that it has joined the STAC Benchmark Council and has also provided the...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Caption: Artist Beth S. Goldberg is pictured in front of her painting "Indian Beauty" with Smithtown Township Arts Council STAC Executive Director Allison Cruz at the reception for STAC's "Circling the Globe through Women's Lives" exhibit. Also included in the exhibit is Goldberg's piece "Banana Varnishers."...
Jun 30, 2008 Bolivia's leftist government is preparing a state takeover of the country's three biggest airports, currently run by a subsidiary of Spain's Abertis, a local newspaper reported on Friday. The airports serve the main cities of La Paz, Santa Cruz and Cochabamba. Daily...
Jun 30, 2008 EasyJet, Milan EasyJet expanded its Milan Malpensa operation with an 11th based aircraft and announced it will base two additional aircraft at MXP by the beginning of the winter schedule. Aircraft will fly on new routes to Copenhagen, Stockholm Arlanda,...
GILBERT, Ariz. -- Evolution Solar Corp. (OTC:EVSO) has formed a Solar Technology Advisory Committee STAC to further qualify and commercialize solar technologies and research market opportunities in the solar powered energy industry. The members of the Committee will be nominated by, appointed by, and will...
The ITER Organization and the European Organization for Nuclear Research CERN have signed a Cooperation Agreement. The Agreement provides the opportunity for CERN and ITER to co-operate not only in the fields of technology such as superconductors, magnets, cryogenics, control and data acquisition...
The collapse of the fishery for native oysters Crassostrea virginica in Chesapeake Bay, USA has fueled interest in the introduction of an exotic species to revitalize a fishery and, more recently, recover lost ecosystem services. Beginning in the early 1990's, the seafood industry within the region began...
ABSTRACT The Suminoe oyster Crassostrea ariakensis is being considered for introduction into the Chesapeake Bay. However, our current understanding of the biology and ecology of C. ariakensis is insufficient to predict whether an introduction will be successful, provide desired benefits, or have adverse impacts. Behavior of native...
I WROTE recently about the commendable habit of climbing Munros and Corbetts together, allowing you to work through both lists simultaneously. Of the number of combinations that offer exceptional days on the Scottish hills, among the best is the Wester Ross-shire coupling of Maol Chean-dearg, 3061 ft/933m, the Munro, and...
Combination of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, IBM BladeCenter([R]) and 10 Gigabit Ethernet Technology on RMDS Provides Exceptional Performance Boosts for the Financial Services Industry RALEIGH, N.C. -- Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1, in...
An unusual layer of rocks found along Britain's northwestern coast formed from debris thrown out of a crater during a meteorite strike more than 1 billion years ago, geologists say. The Stac Fada stratum, long thought to be of volcanic origin, stretches for 50 kilometers along the Scottish...
As yet another industry-first milestone,Teak Technologies recently demonstrated unmatched throughput performancefrom its AZ-10GE switching solution for IBM BladeCenter running the ReutersMarket Data System RMDS application suite used by securities firmsworldwide to supply real-time data to traders and automated tradingapplications. "We recently completed Phase-1 tests on Teak's equipment using the ReutersMarket...
TWIN Munros are not uncommon in Scotland. I am thinking of Ben More Assynt and Conival; A'Chailleach and Sgurr Breac; Ruadh Stac Mor and A'Mhaighdean; the Saddle and Sgurr na Sgine; Ben More and Stobinian. All hills that you wouldn't really consider climbing individually. They go together like bread and...
Dark pools are more trouble than they're worth. That's the sentiment of some members on the buyside, who lament the electronic crossing systems' lack of transparency, low crossing rates, exclusivity and sheer numbers. "I'm not a big fan of them,"...
The Securities and Exchange Commission, despite trader complaints about market fragmentation, pronounced Regulation NMS a triumph. According to an analysis conducted by SEC economists, key market metrics such as speed, width of spreads and depth have all improved since Reg NMS went into...
The Securities and Exchange Commission, despite trader complaints about market fragmentation, pronounced Regulation NMS a triumph. According to an analysis conducted by SEC economists, key market metrics such as speed, width of spreads and depth have all improved since Reg NMS went into effect. On top of that,...
Dark pools are more trouble than they're worth. That's the sentiment of some members on the buyside, who lament the electronic crossing systems' lack of transparency, low crossing rates, exclusivity and sheer numbers. "I'm not a big fan of them," Joe Burrello, the director of global...
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