The visual system prioritizes information through a variety of mechanisms, including “attentional control settings” that specify features (e.g., colour) that are relevant to current goals. Recent work shows that these control settings may be more complex than previously thought, such that participants can monitor for independent features at different locations (Adamo, Pun, Pratt, & Ferber, 2008...

Iran is located in a high-risk seismic zone of earthquakes. It has thousands of valuable historic buildings, mostly made of unreinforced masonry, which is quite vulnerable to natural hazards, especially earthquakes. The conservation and seismic upgrading of these buildings is vital for their survival. However, resources are limited and some sort of prioritization is needed in order to alloca...

Optimizing the scheduling algorithm is a key problem to improving service efficiency of urban heterogeneous computing platforms. In this paper, we propose novel list-based called Modified Predict Earliest Finish Time (MPEFT) for systems with aim minimize total execution time. The consists two stages: task prioritization and processor selection. phase, priority tasks calculated by time cost all ...

Test case prioritization techniques have been shown to improve regression-testing activities by increasing the rate of fault detection, thus allowing testers to fix faults earlier. The current techniques, mostly code coveragebased, treat all faults equally. We build upon this work to develop a prioritization scheme with two main goals: identifying the severe faults earlier and minimizing the co...

BACKGROUND Zoonoses account for over half of all communicable diseases causing illness in humans. As there are limited resources available for the control and prevention of zoonotic diseases, a framework for their prioritization is necessary to ensure resources are directed into those of highest importance. Although zoonotic outbreaks are a significant burden of disease in North America, the sy...

The order in which test-cases are executed has an influence on the rate at which faults can be detected. In this paper we demonstrate how test-case prioritization can be performed with the use of model-checkers. For this, different well known prioritization techniques are adapted for model-based use. New property based prioritization techniques are introduced. In addition it is shown that prior...

Requirements prioritization method is an essential activity in software development to identify most important functionalities of the project within limited resources. This work evaluates various requirements prioritization methods with respect to a number of parameters viz. size of the project, feasibility measure, conflicts resolution, complexity analysis and keeps the developer focused on mo...

1 2 During regression testing, a modified system is often retested using an existing test suite. Since the size of the test suite 3 may be very large, testers are interested in detecting faults in the modified system as early as possible during this retesting 4 process. Test prioritization attempts to order tests for execution so that the chances of early detection of faults during retest5 ing ...