Increasingly, content delivery solutions leverage client resources in exchange for services in a peerto-peer (P2P) fashion. Such peer-assisted service paradigm promises significant infrastructure cost reduction, but suffers from the unpredictability associated with client resources, which is often exhibited as an imbalance between the contribution and consumption of resources by clients. This i...

Increasingly, content delivery solutions leverage client resources in exchange for services in a peerto-peer (P2P) fashion. Such peer-assisted service paradigm promises significant infrastructure cost reduction, but suffers from the unpredictability associated with client resources, which is often exhibited as an imbalance between the contribution and consumption of resources by clients. This i...

The min-max Split Delivery Multi-Depot Vehicle Routing Problem with Minimum Service Time Requirement (min-max SDMDVRP-MSTR) is a variant of the Multi-Depot Vehicle Routing Problem. Each customer requires a specified amount of service time. The service time can be split among vehicles as long as each vehicle spends a minimum amount of service time at a customer. The objective is to minimize the ...

The unprecedented scale of IT service delivery requires careful analysis and optimization of service systems. Simulation is an efficient way to handle the complexity of modeling and optimization of real-world service delivery systems. However, typically developed custom simulation models lack standard architectures and limit the reuse of design and implementation artifacts across multiple model...

patient satisfaction is one of the sensitive indicators in determining the effectiveness of service rendered in hospitals. the study focus on comparing the health care services of  two cardiology based corporate hospitals in hyderabad, andhra pradesh, india. the data for the study was collected through a questionnaire consisting of two sections. an attempt has been made to elicit the informatio...

 ABSTRACT Background: As any delay in the onset of milk production and ejection in the first few days after delivery can cause breast-feeding failure, this study has been done to determine factors that may affect the onset time of lactation in vaginal and cesarean section deliveries with and without labor pain (elective). Methods: 300 partUJient mothers selected from two private and university ...

The heterogeneous, dynamic nature of ubiquitous environments necessitates that all system components that form part of a personalisation framework should be context aware. Personalised service delivery requires that the system must detect and interpret device modality contexts in real time and provide automated adaptation on behalf of the user. Towards this aim, this paper presents the design a...