Introduction The past decade has witnessed rapid development and implementation of numerous syndromic and other advanced surveillance systems to supplement traditional laboratory testing to identify the presence of novel influenza strains and track the impact on local populations. While much of the development and widespread implementation of these systems had been supported by public health pr...

In this paper we propose a search approach that can process large volumes of textual data efficiently and effectively even in environments where computational resources are limited. The traditional search solution for large collections assumes availability of practically unlimited computational resources. For many applications and organization this assumption is not realistic. Empirical evaluat...

Reasoning with limited computational resources (such as time or memory) is an important problem, in particular in knowledge-intensive embedded systems. Classical logic is usually considered inapropriate for this purpose as no guarantees regarding deadlines can be made. One of the more interesting approaches to address this problem is built around the concept of active logics. Although a step in...

This paper considers the problem of composing or scheduling several (non-deterministic) behaviors so as to conform to a specified target behavior as well as satisfying constraints imposed by the environment in which the behaviors are to be performed. This problem has already been considered by several works in the literature and applied to areas such as web service composition, the composition ...

A systematic method of designing TSC checker for Q class (even code length) of Borden’s code [l] is proposed, where a modular approach is used. In a comparative study, it is found that the proposed method is much better than [2,3] and it has a larger capability than [4,5] in designing the checker. For instance, the 3/12 code in C(12,2) can be identified in one of four ways, corresponding to PT’...

Optimum utilization of limited resources in the production floor demands that the production manager makes decisions on the best allocation of limited resources. This study applied linear programming techniques to production planning problem in a feed mill producing company. Linear Programming model was formulated based on data obtained from the company operations’ diary. Data was processed wit...