The paper reports the development of a software platform, named PES (Parallelized Evolution System), that parallelizes the fitness evaluations of evolutionary methods over multiple computers connected via a network. The platform creates an infrastructure that allows the dispatching of fitness evaluations onto a group of computers, running both Windows or Linux operating systems, parallelizing t...

The system has been specifically developed to manage nursing operation of a multi ward cardiology department. Main characteristics of the system are: internet access technology; data integration in the Hospital Information System by using a specific middleware; local or remote DBMS enquired by SQL. The system is based on a "Client-Server" architecture referring to a centralized data base, insta...

In this paper, we propose a novel adaptive admission control algorithm, in which a client is admitted for service by a multimediaserver only if the extrapolation from the past measurements of the storage server performance characteristics indicate that the service requirements of all the clients can be met satisfactorily. Each client may request the retrieval of a variable bit rate (VBR) encode...

This paper describes the adaptive component migration facility in the Bifrost Location-Independent Computing System. We present a facility that allows mobile clients to selectively invoke application component functionality locally or remotely in order to improve user response time. The Bifrost runtime system uses a decision-making process that takes into account a variety of issues affecting t...

Background: The present work investigates the ridge characteristics and ridge density of fingerprints to determine gender differences among population of Punjab. The main characteristics studied were general pattern type, ridge density and minutiae or ridge characteristics with respect to general pattern type. Further, instead of using conventional method of ridge counting, Adobe Photoshop cs5 ...

End-to-end performance measurement is fundamental to building high-performance Internet services. While many Internet services often operate using HTTP over SSL/TLS, current monitors are limited to plaintext HTTP services. This paper presents sMonitor, a non-intrusive server-side end-to-end performance monitor that can monitor HTTPS services. The monitor passively collects live packet traces fr...

Considerable attention has been paid to dynamic searchable symmetric encryption (DSSE) which allows users search on dynamically updated encrypted databases. To improve the performance of real-world applications, recent non-interactive multi-client DSSE schemes are targeted at avoiding per-query interaction between data owners and users. However, existing do not consider forward privacy or backw...

This paper describes the design, implementation, and performance evaluation of ST-TCP (Server fault-Tolerant TCP), which is an extension of TCP to tolerate TCP server failures. This is done by using an active backup server that keeps track of the state of the TCP connection and takes over the TCP connection whenever the primary fails. This migration of the TCP connection to the backup is comple...

RESULTS: Twenty-nine studies were identified, most of which were based on client surveys. Most conceptualized quality as a multidimensional construct, but a uniform definition of quality is lacking, and the domains studied have not been consistent. The available studies focus on four areas: assessments of quality, its correlates, its consequences for client behavior and attitudes, and clients’ ...

The widespread diffusion of mobile computing along with the integration of telecommunication systems and the Internet enables a scenario where the promise of ubiquitous computing is starting to be realised. This scenario calls for novel services the can be deployed on-demand close to the user and customised to not only client needs, but also to the client current location. In particular, group ...