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Most Hierarchical Real-time Scheduling (HiRTS) techniques have focused on temporal resource partitions which time units are periodically distributed. Although such periodic partitions could provide great flexibility for resource partitioning, engineers are stuck when trying to determine the schedulability of real-time tasks running on them. The main reason is that periodic partitions fail to ef...

In most of the multi-agent systems, resource distribution is one of the major applications. An efficient distribution control can further improve the results and utilize the resources among agents. In this paper, we exploit multisoccer agents to tackle with a human resource management system. By consideration of the soccer tactics and formation, it can distribute the resources more evenly. In a...

Since 1949, China's progress in mortality reduction has far exceeded that experienced by other developing countries with comparable levels of national income. This achievement has taken place in the context of a development strategy oriented, in part, to the elimination of the worst aspects of poverty. Using recent cross-section data, this paper provides a statistical assessment of the extent t...

This paper describes the layout and experience in distributing large volumes of data from SLAC to CC-in2p3 and RAL. We describe the experience using the Storage Resource Broker to distribute more than 120TB of data from SLAC to CC-in2p3 and the experience in using a Grid tool in a production environment. We also describe the plans for extending the system to distribute BaBar data to RAL using t...

Disaster rescue is one of the most serious social issues which involve very large numbers of heterogeneous rescue teams. In this paper, we introduce a co-ordination strategy for strengthening civil agents’ lives in the RoboCup-Rescue simulator scenario based on Multiple-Criteria Decision Techniques. The coordination strategy allows distributing the ambulance teams (resources) to the victims tha...

Pipe systems are in the cores of many real life applications including water, oil and gas distribution as well as airconditioning and compressed air management. Modeling and analysis of flow in pipe networks is of great practical significance in all these areas. Pipe networks are usually made up of thousands of components such as pipes, pumps, valves, tanks and reservoirs. One common way to mod...

The paper describes an OLG economy with a single exhaustible resource that has amenity value. The steady states of this economy form a continuum, implying pathdependency. We compare three policy scenarios; first, a ‘zero extraction’ policy of enforced conservation that avoids environmental degradation, possibly at the expense of intertemporal efficiency. Second, a ‘grandfathering’ policy that e...

Despite the growth in the number of linguistic data centers around the world, their accomplishments and expansions and the advances they have help enable, the language resources that exist are a small fraction of those required to meet the goals of Human Language Technologies (HLT) for the world’s languages and the promises they offer: broad access to knowledge, direct communication across lang...

For an organisation with a Pareto-like distribution of the relevant resources we determine the social free energy and related social quantities using thermodynamical formalism. Macroscopic dynamics of the organisation is linked with the changes in the attributed thermodynamical quantities through changes in resource distribution function. It is argued that quantities of thermodynamical origin f...