A two-level Hierarchical Timber Allocation model was developed that iteratively negotiates medium-term (sustainable forest management) decisions with operational (lumber production) plans. At the medium-term level, a multi-criteria timber allocation model optimally allocates forest land units, called stewardship units, to different forest products companies based on five sustainability criteria...

Resource usage models are important asset to analyze and ensure the adequate usage of the system platform resources such as processors and memory elements. In this paper, we present how to construct resource usage models using actual execution information of a large software-intensive system. We have constructed this type of models for an MRI system (a representative large software-intensive sy...

Data Grids support data-intensive applications in wide area Grid systems. They utilize local storage systems as distributed data stores by replicating datasets. Replication is a commonly used technique in a distributed environment. The motivation of replication is that replication can improve data availability, data access performance, and load balancing. Usually a complete file is copied to ma...

A number of approaches, including cognitive radios, dynamic spectrum allocation, and spectrum auction, have been proposed and used to improve the spectrum usage. A natural characteristic of spectrum usage is that requests for spectrums often come in an online fashion. Thus, it is imperative to design efficient and effective online dynamic spectrum allocation methods. Another challenge is that t...

Abstract RNA splicing, and variations in this process referred to as alternative are critical aspects of gene regulation eukaryotes. From environmental responses plants being a primary link between genetic variation disease humans, splicing differences confer extensive phenotypic changes across diverse organisms (1–3). Regulation occurs through differential selection splice sites reaction, whic...

How are the over 30,000 people employed in therapeutic recreation staying current in their field? A number of therapeutic recreation professionals have designed web sites with information specific to the therapeutic recreation field. The two national organizations (ATRA and NTRS) and the national certification council (NCTRC) also maintain web sites. In addition, a few therapeutic recreation pr...

The transmission usage cost allocation is one of the major issues experienced by the Electric Supply Industries. In this paper, authors have considered Line Outage Distribution Factor (LODF) for allocating the transmission usage cost allocation under contingency condition. Authors have modified the distribution factor for maximum flow and propose a novel Maximum Line Outage Distribution Factor ...

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Understanding customer satisfaction is critical to the successful operation of both privately and publicly managed recreation venues. A popular tool for assessing recreation visitor satisfaction is ImportancePerformance Analysis (IPA). IPA provides resource managers, government officials, and private businesses with easy-to-understand and -use information about visitor prefer...