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Fawaz Ahmed Masoud

Publications 2

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Performance Evaluation of Database Systems Using Colored Petri Nets

Adel Ben Mnaouer, Khaled Day, Mohammad H. Al-Towaiq et al. · Sultan Qaboos University Journal for Science · 2003 · 10.24200/squjs.vol8iss1pp33-46

We propose Colored Petri Net (CPN) models for replicated and centralized database systems and conduct a comparative study of their performance. The designed CPN models capture the dynamics of the studied database systems and estimate their expected performance with an appropriate level of abstraction. A number of simul …

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Applying Halstead's Metric to Oberon Language

Fawaz Ahmed Masoud · Sultan Qaboos University Journal for Science · 1999 · 10.24200/squjs.vol4iss0pp45-53

Oberon is a small, simple and difficult programming language. The guiding principle of Oberon was a quote from Albert Einstein: "Make it as simple as possible, but not simpler". Oberon language is based on few fundamental concepts that are easy to understand and use. It supports two programming paradigms: the procedura …

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