Biology has played a key role in influencing the development and optimization of a significant variety of sensors that provide engineers new ideas for improvements to current technology, new sensor technology, and pot...
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Biology has played a key role in influencing the development and optimization of a significant variety of sensors that provide engineers new ideas for improvements to current technology, new sensor technology, and potential sensor miniaturization. Biological systems, such as plants and insects offer significant methods of flight, imaging, sensing, adaptation to environment, and locomotion. The biological domain provides inspiration at many levels, such as cellular, organism, and species. A biological system is any biological organism, organism subsystem, or portion of an organism that is observed to exist. Abstraction of the biological system using analogical reasoning allows an engineering designer to look for a specific solution through mimicry in an approach to biology-inspired design. The analogous approach relies on the idea of figuring out the basis of overall biological system and of each part or subsystem that achieves the overall goal.
Protein structure prediction in three dimensions represents a fundamental challenge in Structural Bioinformatics. Leveraging problem-specific information such as fragment insertion, secondary structure, and contact ma...
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This paper presents an intelligent offer policy in a negotiation environment, in which each agent involved learns the preferences of its opponent in order to improve its own performance. Each agent must also be able t...
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Potential of intrusion during smart meter data collection is an important problem for household privacy in next-generation smart homes. There are various privacy protection methods such as hiding the real usage with r...
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In this article, we present an innovative approach to enhance the online shoe shopping experience. The convolutional neural network (CNN) image recognition technology was used to enhance shoe classification and recomm...
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The elastic provisioning of Virtual Infrastructures (VIs) enables a dynamic management of cloud resources (computing and communication) in order to meet the hosted application's requirements. Thus, to perform elas...
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The elastic provisioning of Virtual Infrastructures (VIs) enables a dynamic management of cloud resources (computing and communication) in order to meet the hosted application's requirements. Thus, to perform elasticity requests, providers usually rely on reallocation mechanisms and policies. The concerns regarding the environment and the operational costs indicate energy consumption of the data centers as recurring topic in providers policies. Moreover, energy-aware provisioning is beneficial for tenants also. Recent cost models have introduced an implicit incentive to use computing and networking resources just when need to avoid high rent costs. However, reallocation and elasticity requests can unbalance the Data Center (DC) unnecessarily increasing the number of active servers. In this paper we propose EAVIRA algorithm, which takes into account the proportional sharing of CPU usage of DC servers to calculate individual usage costs to: disable idle equipments, and reallocate VIs. EAVIRA acts on online requests for elasticity configuration and performs an offline load balancing, triggered by the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) provider. Our experimental analysis indicates a reduction of energy consumption and an increasing on acceptance ratio of allocation requests.
In the management of distributed software development, project managers face many challenges. Some of the most critical ones are related to the allocation of tasks between remote teams. To assign a task to a site or t...
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(纸本)9781509012268
In the management of distributed software development, project managers face many challenges. Some of the most critical ones are related to the allocation of tasks between remote teams. To assign a task to a site or team, the project manager should take into account several factors such as team's technical expertise and cultural similarities. He or she usually makes this decision in a subjective way. The verbal decision analysis is an approach based on solving problems through multi-criteria qualitative analysis, which means it considers the analysis of subjective criteria. This paper describes the application of verbal decision analysis method ZAPROS III-i to rank order the factors that the project managers should take into account when allocating tasks in distributed software development projects.
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Goel, AsvinMIT
Zaragoza International Logistics Program Zaragoza Logistics Center Spain Department of Computer Science
Applied Telematics/e-Business Group University of Leipzig Germany
In September 2008 new regulations for managing heavy vehicle driver fatigue entered into force in Australia. According to the new regulations there is a chain of responsibility ranging from drivers to dispatchers and ...
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In September 2008 new regulations for managing heavy vehicle driver fatigue entered into force in Australia. According to the new regulations there is a chain of responsibility ranging from drivers to dispatchers and shippers. Thus, carriers must explicitly consider driving and working hour regulations when generating truck driver schedules. This paper presents various heuristics for scheduling driving and working hours of Australian truck drivers.
In an automated negotiation process, it is usual for one party not to reveal their preferences to its opponent. In an attempt to adjust itself to this process, each trade agent can be endowed with capabilities of lear...
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The present study examines how organizational work environments affect employee turnover at Delmon Poultry Company. The researcher used a structured questionnaire and a quantitative approach to collect data from 340 e...
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