(1) Processing a group of files or databases from start to completion rather than having the user open, edit and save each of them one at a time. For example, a graphics conversion utility can change ...

Nowadays many corporates deal with a large number of images that are shared for business marketing, e-commerce, and social networking sites, and in such cases applying post-processing work to every ...

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 ...