Inside DiffServ, the Assured Forwarding per hop behavior defines a service that guarantees the contracted target rate to the users and allows consuming more bandwidth if the network load is low. In this paper we perform an experimental study, whose key contribution is that current techniques and commercial equipment do not meet the goals of the AF PHB service in a scalable way.

Day-to-day information is increasingly being implemented in transit networks worldwide. Feeder bus service (FBS) plays a vital role in a public transit network by providing feeder access to hubs and rails. As a feeder service, a space-time path for frequent passengers is decided by its dynamic strategy procedure, in which a day-to-day information self-learning mechanism is identified and analyz...

This paper begins with a thorough review of previous quantitative literature dedicated to the development of ratings for college and professional football teams, and also considers various methods that have been proposed for predicting the outcomes of future football games. Building on this literature, the paper then presents a straightforward application of linear modeling in the development o...

This paper presents how the function-behaviour-structure (FBS) ontology can be used to represent processes despite its original focus on representing objects. The FBS ontology provides a uniform framework for classifying processes and includes higher-level semantics in their representation. We show that this ontology supports a situated view of processes based on a model of three interacting wo...

The Assured Forwarding Per Hop Behavior (AF PHB) has been devised by the IETF Differentiated Services (DiffServ) working group to provide drop level differentiation. The intent of AF is to support services with different loss requirements, but with no strict delay and jitter guarantees. Another suggested use of AF is to provide differentiated support for traffic conforming to an edge conditioni...

This paper argues that an explicit account of rationale is essential for the effective management and evolution of semi-structured processes. Our approach is based on a view of semi-structured process models as unfinished products whose design is implicitly completed through their execution by process model users. The resulting refinements and modifications of the process models are instances o...

The complete model included Innovativeness as the strategic orientation of the firm, firm size, industry, and business strategy (See Figure 2). For a complete description of all the variables measured in this study the reader is referred to an earlier research brief. Results The anticipated relationships were supported by our analyses. Business strategy was not found to impact the relationship ...

This paper presents an ontological account of creative designing. It identifies processes and activities in designing that can produce novel design concepts to change the state space of possible designs. Activities that foster creativity are integrated in an ontological framework of design, the situated function-behaviourstructure (FBS) framework. This provides a foundation for locating these a...

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