location selection is one of the most important activities in establishment of bank branches. choosing a suitable location have a direct impact on the performance of banks and also facilitating the achievement of other objectives. there are a lot of influential factors on the location selection which are complicated and therefore the traditional methods cannot be used. so we need to have a suit...

Multiple virtual machine (VM) workloads are increasingly common, given the growth of managed enterprise application systems and consolidated virtual servers. Until now, there has been no principled approach to partitioning memory resource between multiple co-located VMs. In this paper, we develop a general framework for multi-VM heap sizing, based on the principle of utility maximization from m...

This paper deals with model transformation based on attributed graph rewriting. Our contribution investigates a single pushout approach for applying the rewrite rules. The computation of graph attributes is obtained through the use of typed λ -calculus with inductive types. In this paper we present solutions to cope with single pushout construction for the graph structure and the computations f...

This work is a part of a surveillance system where contentbased image retrieval is done in terms of people appearance. Given an image of a person, our work provides an automatic description of his clothing according to the colour, texture and structural composition of its garments. We present a two-stage process composed by image segmentation and a region-based interpretation. We segment an ima...

Principal Agent Theory (PAT) seeks to identify incentives and sanctions that a consumer should offer a producer as part of a contract in order to maximise the former’s utility. However, identifying optimal contracts in large systems is difficult, particularly when little information is available about producer competencies. In this work we propose that a global contract be used to govern such i...