In existing studies, no consensus has been reached on the relationship between natural resource dependence and human capital accumulation. To narrow the divergence, this paper carries out a normative research to explain the co-existence of the phenomena of the resource curse and the resource blessing based on an organic combination of conceptual and mathematical models. It first establishes a c...

Coalbed methane (CBM) plays an important role in coal mining safety and natural gas production. In this work, The CBM potential of B2 seam in Parvadeh IV coal deposit, in central Iran, was evaluated using a combination of local regression and geostatistical methods. As there were 30 sparse methane sampling points in the Parvadeh IV coal deposit, no valid variogram was achieved for the methane c...

Grid is an extensive environment in which different resources are dispersed geographically. A user may need a resource or a combination of resources in order to solve a problem. The task to find such a resource is borne by resource discovery algorithms. Therefore, the resource discovery algorithms are of high importance in grids. The methods proposed to resource discovery so far have not sugges...

Embedded Systems combine one or more processing cores to support dedicated logic running on an ASIC or FPGA and meets design goals with optimized resource utilization. Optimization of resource utilization can be achieved by estimating the requirement of an application with a variety of aspects like performance, memory usage, resource usage, cache hit versus cache misses, energy consumption, etc...

This paper presents an integrated approach for scheduling in distributed computing with strategies as sets of job supporting schedules generated by a critical works method. The strategies are implemented using a combination of job-flow and application-level techniques of scheduling within virtual organizations of Grid. Applications are regarded as compound jobs with a complex structure containi...

In conventional networks, correlating path information to resource utilisation on the granularity of packets is a hard problem when using policy-based traffic handling schemes. We introduce a new approach termed ‘intrinsic monitoring’ which relies on the use of IPv6 extension headers in combination with formal behaviour models to gather resource information along a path. This allows a network m...

Evaluating rangelands means to identify and create potential and actual rangelands in order to utilize this valuable natural resource properly. Hence, one of the important factors in rangeland management is to determine range suitability and recognize factors affecting it. Weighted Linear Combination Method (WLC) is one of the most common methods used for locating and Analytic Hierarchy Process...

The paper illustrates a Decision Support System (DSS) for multi-reservoir water resource systems, named WARGI (Water Resources system optimization aided by Graphical Interface). WARGI was upgraded in the SEDEMED II Project to implement a mixed approach that uses optimization and simulation techniques to select the best combination of proactive and reactive measures under drought conditions. The...

We consider a resource access control scenario in an open multi-agent system. We specify a mutable set of rules to determine how resource allocation is decided, and minimally assume agent behaviour with respect to these rules is either selfish or responsible. We then study how a combination of learning, reputation, and voting can be used, in the absence of any centralised enforcement mechanism,...