In this paper we inspect remote health care, and especially alert call concept and usability design for Chinese Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) patients. Generally, remote health care can facilitate cost efficient and improved treatment and follow-up of various illnesses. For service providers it can offer expanded service palette, enable easier access of medical information and su...

In this paper we consider a production facility producing a uniform product that ships a number of di!erent package sizes to a (number of) stockpoint(s). The packaging capacity owned by the facility is "nite and the actually used capacity must be reserved sometime before actual use. Furthermore, the packaging capacity must be allocated among the di!erent package sizes, such that a target "ll ra...

We describe a pilot project in semiautomatically refactoring a biomedical corpus. The total time expended was just over three person-weeks, suggesting that this is a cost-efficient process. The refactored corpus is available for download at http://bionlp.sourceforge.net.

This talk describes a proposal to set up a series of international institutions in different parts of the world to serve as nodes in a network that links astronomers from the developing nations worldwide. This network, along with its nodes is visualized as an economic way of upgrading the facilities for teaching, research and development of astronomy in the Third World countries. By way of illu...

Ever growing demand for efficient and high quality teleand data-communication power systems have driven the replacement of centralized power supplies with distributed architectures. Recently, a new Intermediate Bus design has gained popularity by providing lower cost, superior power quality, and higher efficiency while taking advantage of the newest advances in power components. This topic prov...

The performance of centralized and distributed deployments of massive MIMO in an office building is analyzed both with and without cooperation. It is shown that using twice as many base station antennas as data streams provides most of the massive MIMO benefits. A simple transmission scheme achieves user fairness and operates close to a capacity upper bound. An example scheduling algorithm impr...

In this paper, we explore the issue of coordination in a manufacturer-retailer supply chain where the manufacturer is socially responsible and invests in CSR activities. On the other hand, the retailer invests in promotional efforts and uses a periodic review order-up-to policy for replenishing items. First, the decentralized decision-making structure is modeled to calculate the minimum accepta...

Caching can significantly improve the efficiency of information access in networks by reducing the access latency and bandwidth/energy usage. However, caching in too many nodes can take up too much memory, incur extensive caching-related traffic, and hence, may even result in performance degradation. In this article, we address the problem of caching data items in networks with the objective of...

This paper reports findings from an experiment that implements the Lagos-Wright (2005) model of monetary exchange. We find that subjects generally avoid the autarkic equilibrium of that model and make trading decisions consistent with the model’s monetary equilibrium. Aliprantis, Camera and Puzzello (ACP, 2007) show that providing periodic access to centralized markets as in the Lagos and Wrigh...