The Available Bit Service (ABR) is a promising “best effort” service designed to achieve in ATM networks high efficiency and low cell loss. Since the ATM Forum approved a first standard, intensive research has been done about ABR. The aim of this paper is to analyse the main research topics involved in ABR, namely: the evaluation of traffic and congestion control schemes, conformance definition...

Officially organized, spectator driven eSport tournaments occur within the notoriously transgressive and ruthless game EVE Online. In these tournaments spying, bribing and throwing matches is commonplace. Based on results from interviews with competitors and spectators, this paper discusses the appeal of this unique eSport and explores the way in which the relatively ‘unbounded’ approach in EVE...

Parallel prefix networks are widely used in highperformance adders. Networks in the literature represent tradeoffs between number of logic levels, fanout, and wiring tracks. This paper presents a three-dimensional taxonomy that not only describes the tradeoffs in existing parallel pre fix networks but also points to a family of new networks. Adders using these networks are compared using the me...

This (short) paper presents the Clockwise, a mixedmedia file system. The primary goal of the Clockwise is to provide a storage architecture that supports the storage and retrieval of best-effort and real-time file system data. Clockwise provides an abstraction called a dynamic partition that groups lists of related (large) blocks on one or more disks. Dynamic partition can grow and shrink in si...

<p style='text-indent:20px;'>Promoting the sale of green agriculture products through online platforms has become main focus agricultural industries. In a supply chain consisting an e-tailer and third-party logistics (TPL), both promotion effort service TPL can affect demand. Considering that contracts may be provided by or TPL, this study defines two different timing sequences. Three typ...

The Guaranteed Frame Rate service category is currently under discussion for incorporation into the specification documents of the ATM-Forum. The concept of the GFR service is to provide a minimum service guarantee to classical best-effort services, taking into account the frame-based nature of todays data-traffic. In this paper we present a discrete-time analysis of the GFR service and discuss...

Product customization has been used for many years, and with this concept, product families can be designed that are better matched to the needs of customers through the use of market segmentation and modular architecture. This study is composed of two phases: the first phase establishes the modular architecture, and taking a bicycle as the case study, applies the Interpretive Structural Model ...

Cost overrun of software projects is major cause of their failures. In order to facilitate accurate software cost estimation, there are several metrics, tools and datasets. In this paper, we evaluate and compare different metrics and datasets in terms of similarities and differences of involved software attributes. These metrics forecast project cost estimations based on different software attr...