Integrating optical circuit switches in data-centers is an ongoing research challenge. In recent years, state-of-the-art solutions introduce hybrid packet/circuit architectures for different optical circuit switch technologies, control techniques, and traffic rerouting methods. These solutions are based on separated packet and circuit planes which do not have the ability to utilize an optical c...

Abs t r ac t . We propose the share-confidence framework for knowledge discovery from databases which addresses the problem of mining itemsets from market basket data. Our goal is two-fold: (1) to present new itemset measures which are practical and useful alternatives to the commonly used support measure; (2) to not only discover the buying patterns of customers, but also to discover customer ...

Using large deviation techniques, we analyze the tail behavior of the stationary distribution of the buuer content process for a two-station communication network. We also show how the associated rate function can be expressed as the solution to a nite-dimensional variational problem. Along the way, we develop a number of results and techniques that are of independent interest, including contin...

Academic journals, charities, research funders, and institutes have committed themselves to sharing data and results relevant to the current Zika virus outbreak and future public health emergencies as rapidly and openly as possible. The organisations, including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Médecins Sans Frontières, the US National Institutes of Health, and the UK health research chari...

Background: The National Health Accounts keep track of all healthcare related activities from the beginning (i.e. resource provision), to the end (i.e. service provision). This study was conducted to address following questions: How is the Iranian health system funded? Who distribute the funds? For what services are the funds spent on?, What service providers receive the funds? Methods: The...

In the context of our research team (multidisciplinary with numerous and various TEL systems), we have been working during the last three years on the design and implementation of an open platform to collect, save and share experimental data drawn from the interaction with TEL systems, which could build, save and share analysis processes executed on these data. From our point of view both data ...