Network convergence and new applications running on endhosts result in increasingly variable and unpredictable traffic patterns. By providing origin-destination pairs with several possible paths, loadbalancing has proved itself an excellent tool to face this uncertainty. Formally, load-balancing is defined in terms of a convex link cost function of its load, where the objective is to minimize t...

In this study a deterministic inventory model for deteriorating items with stock dependent demand is developed. In this model the shortages are allowed and partially backlogged and the effect of inflation rate and delay in payments are discussed. This paper establishes an inventory model for the deteriorating items and stock dependent demand rate under inflation when the supplier offers a permi...

The Rooted Distance-Constrained Minimum Spanning Tree Problem (RDMSTP) is defined as follows: given a graph G = (V,E) with node set V = {0,1,...,n} and edge set E, two integer weights, a cost ce and a delay we associated with each edge e of E, and a natural (time limit) number H, we wish to find a spanning tree T of the graph with minimum total cost and such that the unique path from a specifie...

In this paper we study the problem of how to identify multiple disjoint paths that have the minimum total cost OPT and satisfy a delay bound D in a graph G. This problem has lots of applications in networking such as fault-tolerant quality of service (QoS) routing and network-flow load balancing. Recently, several approximation algorithms have been developed for this problem. Here, we propose a...

To determine the effect of barbiturates on sleep two subjects, after a control period, received 200 mg. of sodium amylobarbitone for 26 nights. All night sleep records taken during this period showed that the barbiturate shortened the delay to sleep, increased the total sleep period, lengthened the delay to rapid eye movement (R.E.M.) sleep, and depressed R.E.M. sleep. After five nights R.E.M. ...

 Ramp metering has been recognized as one of viable strategies of freeway traffic management, which may improve travel speed as well as reduce delay. In this study, a dynamic model is developed to optimize metering rates of a series of on-ramps which maximize the total throughput subject to vehicle density, roadway capacity, and queue length constraints with simultaneous perturbation stochasti...

In the field of management, the delay within projects is a prominent and contentious issue. Due to the fact that delay leads to cost and time over-runs, it is often the subject of litigation claims and creation of managerial tensions. In a bid to bring such delays under control and also to diminish managerial tensions, it is necessary to recognize and understand the following four concepts:"typ...

BACKGROUND Delay in tuberculosis (TB) diagnosis may worsen the disease and increase TB transmission. Therefore, timely diagnosis and treatment is critical in TB control. We aimed to assess the treatment delay of pulmonary TB and its determinants in two Ugandan districts where TB infection control (TBIC) guidelines were formerly implemented. METHODS A facility based cross-sectional study was c...

This paper analyzes the dynamic traffic assignment problem on a two-alternative network with one alternative subject to a dynamic pricing that responds to real-time arrivals in a system optimal way. Analytical expressions for the assignment, revenue and total delay in each alternative are derived as a function of the pricing strategy. It is found that minimum total system delay can be achieved ...

Two different controller-level fault-tolerant models for Ethernet-based Networked Control Systems (NCSs) are presented in this paper. These models are studied using unmodified Fast and Gigabit Ethernet. The first is an in-loop controller model while the second is a direct Sensor to Actuator (S2A) model. OMNeT++ simulations showed the success of both models in meeting system end-to-end delay and...