the decisions made in the planning phase of a building project greatly affect its future operation and maintenance (o&m;) cost. recognizing the o&m; cost of condominiums’ common facilities as a critical issue for home owners, this research aims to develop an artificial neural network (ann) o&m; cost prediction model to assist developers and architects in effectively assessing the impacts of the...

The Internet is growing rapidly, causing concerns that the address space for IPv4 may soon be used up. Taking a snapshot of the Internet size can help in planning the future evolution and capabilities of the Internet as well as planning the implementation of the next generation IPv6. We extended our previous work on measuring the number of publicly accessible web servers to make more accurate m...

In this paper, we formulate a novel problem called Which-Edge question on shortest path queries. Specifically, this problem aims to find k edges that minimize the total distance for a given set of shortest path queries on a graph. This problem has important applications in logistics, urban planning, and network planning. We show the NP-hardness of the problem, as well as present efficient algor...

INTRODUCTION Medical imaging provides information for diagnosis and staging, evaluation of treatment response, and also plays pivotal role in advanced radiotherapy treatment planning. In the era of the innovative conventional and functional imaging techniques, the main goal of radiation therapy, which is to maximize the dose to the target while minimizing the dose to adjacent healthy organs, ca...

ysgerminoma is one of the two most common types of ovarian germ cell tumors. Providing accurate pathologic diagnosis and treatment planning, the prognosis is good even in advanced stages. Pathologic diagnosis is generally straightforward. In microscopic examination, the usual known growth patterns in tumor cells are solid, trabecular, insular and rarely pseudoglandular. In this paper, we ...