Markets are often considered superior to other global scheduling mechanisms for distributed computing systems. This claim is supported by: a casual observation from our everyday life that markets successfully equilibrate supply and demand, and the features of markets which originate in the general equilibrium theory, e.g., efficiency and the lack of necessity of a central controller. This paper...

Adversary imaging condition such as in a hazy weather is a challenge in the community of image processing. To address the challenge of haze removal, several model-based approaches have been reported recently. Among them, a single image haze removal scheme based on dark channel prior (DCP) was presented in [1] and has been getting popular because of its satisfactory performance for most of cases...

In construction management the definition of a robust schedule is often more important than finding a time and cost efficient schedule. In nearly every construction project the planned schedule must be continually adapted due to disruptions. Therefore, it is imperative that a robust schedule should be generated regarding the different project objectives. In the context of planning and schedulin...

Measuring sensitivity of hydraulic structures is considered as an approach for evaluation of water projects performance, due to lower distribution efficiency in Irrigation and Drainage project schemes. Sensitivity analysis approach for irrigation structures is one of flow analysis methods which are developed in recent years in order to measure the behavior of flow in hydraulic structures in an ...

Software project management is one of the significant activates in the software development process. Software Development Effort Estimation (SDEE) is a challenging task in the software project management. SDEE is an old activity in computer industry from 1940s and has been reviewed several times. A SDEE model is appropriate if it provides the accuracy and confidence simultaneously before softwa...