The benefits that can be derived from reusing software include accelerated development, reduced cost, reduced risk and effective use of specialists. Reuse of software artifacts during the initial stages of software development increases reuse benefits, because it allows subsequent reuse of later stage artifacts derived from earlier artifacts. UML is the de facto modeling language used by softwa...

In the past, research in traffic assignment modeling has been directed primarily towards the deterministic model. Alternative, more behavioral principles were thought to be too demanding computationally. This paper presents two mathematical contributions that enable one to solve a logit assignment model with flow-dependent travel times at a reduced cost. First, a convergence test for Fisk's min...

abstract comparative advantage is an economic term which is used to compare potential and actual production capacity of a country in a given commodity with the rest of the world. therefore, researches in this field could have a dual approach. in one hand it could demonstrate country’s production capacity in the production of commodities that are not produced yet and in the other hand it can ill...

The market interest in developing reliable and stable products at shorter development time and reduced cost, has led to an increasing surge of interest in Component-Based Software Engineering. The success of these systems largely depends on the effective selection of components that meet users requirements. In this context, the products evaluation needs to be a simultaneous process with the req...

Cardiac monitoring is an important application of mobilemonitoring systems. Such systems typically require experts to label electrocardiogram (ECG) data; however, large interand intra-expert variation limits the reliability and accuracy of diagnosis. This paper presents a process of integrating the mobile end of the system with a back-end annotation system for reviewing and scoring the quality ...

287 Numerous organizations are involved in distributing goods and materials. When shipping alternatives exist, the selection of the appropriate shipping alternative (mode) for each shipment may result in significant cost savings. This paper describes a highly flexible dispatching system that selects the shipping mode to be used for each shipment while minimizing the overall shipping costs. Mult...

The rapid development in the technologies for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) have generated a huge interest among embedded developers as it gives freedom from wires, easy development, reduced cost of hardware, reduced maintenance and very useful in unattended situations. WSN provides low cost solutions to variety of real-world problems. Sensors are low cost tiny devices with limited storage, co...

From the mid-1980s until 1994, U.S. oil and gas exploration and production steadily declined, forcing a significant increase in U.S. imports of crude oil. For example, in 1994, the United States imported more than 50 percent of the nation's total demand, which was the highest level since 1990. To economically develop U.S. oil production in deep-water locations, the industry needed strong, light...

Against the backdrop of new economic realities, one of the larger forces that is affecting businesses worldwide is cloud computing, whose benefits include agility, time to market, time to capability, reduced cost, etc. The intent of this research was to contribute to the body of knowledge that could be applied by researchers, businesses, and IT organizations alike to achieve optimal results thr...

This paper defines a generic class of monitoring extensions to component-based distributed enterprise software. Introducing a monitoring extension to a legacy application system can be very cost-ineffective. In this paper, we identify the minimum support for application monitoring within the generic components of a distributed system, necessary for rapid development of new monitoring extensions...