background: several reservoir systems have been constructed for hydropower generation around the world. hydropower offers an economical source of electricity with reduce carbon emissions. therefore, it is such a clean and renewable source of energy. reservoirs that generate hydropower are typically operated with the goal of maximizing energy revenue. yet, reservoir systems are inefficiently ope...

Generic relationships between QoE and QoS have been intensively discussed in literature for single QoS parameters and often found to be logarithmic or exponential. While there are many experimental studies investigating statistically the influence of several parameters on QoE, the generic relationship between them, and how to best model it, have not been discussed so far. For communication netw...

Awareness of the level of river flow and its fluctuations at different times is one of the significant factor to achieve sustainable development for water resource issues. Therefore, the present study two hybrid models, Wavelet- Adaptive Neural Fuzzy Interference System (WANFIS) and Wavelet- Artificial Neural Network (WANN) are used for flow prediction of Gamasyab River (Nahavand, Hamedan, Iran...

We provide a multi-factor real option model for a single harvest and then for perpetual forest harvesting, which extends the Faustmann (1849) approach to infinite rotations with multi-factor uncertainty. We examine separately forest growth and timber prices (and eventually credits/penalties for CO2 uptake/release upon harvest), so the forester can focus on critical exogenous and partially endog...

Next-generation processor architectures (multi-core, multi-threaded) hold the promise of delivering enormous amounts of compute power in a small form factor and with low power requirements. However, new programming models are required to realize this potential. Our objectives are to deploy data processing and vehicle control systems onto a variety of “systems on a chip” (SOC) to provide more au...