This paper describes a novel approach based on “proportional imputation” when identical units produced in a batch have random but independent installation as well as failure time. The current problem is motivated from a real life industrial productiondelivery system when identical units are shipped after production to a third party warehouse and then sold at a future date for possible installat...

In this paper, we consider the uncapacitated facility location problem with service installation costs. Our main result is an LP rounding 1.808-approximation algorithm under the assumption that the installation cost depends only on the service which improves the previously approximation ratio 2.391 from [11].

This paper describes a Mixed Reality installation named Jellyfish Party, for enjoying playing with soap bubbles. A special feature of this installation is the use of a spirometer sensor to measure the amount and speed of expelled air used to blow virtual soap bubbles.

Beowulf systems are high performance computers constructed from commodity hardware connected by a private internal network and running an open source operating system infrastructure. This tutorial will cover design, installation, deployment and running Beowulf clusters. It will be focused on the Scyld Beowulf system, and will include specific examples and a complete cluster installation CD-ROM.

This project’s goal is to introduce an easy and versatile way to provide and use Grid resources without the need of any OS installation or middleware configuration. At the same time it provides an excellent training tool for newer Grid users and people that want to experiment, without enforcing installation. It has been tested thoroughly under different circumstances with firm success.

The D-Grid reference installation is a test platform for the German grid initiative. The main task is to create the grid prototype for software and hardware components needed in the D-Grid community. For each grid-related task field different alternative middleware is included. With respect to changing demands from the community, new versions of the reference installation are released every six...

Because the electrical installations are nowadays a lot of options and variants, it is necessary to evaluate these complex installation process from several perspectives and objectively. Due to the complexity of evaluation of electrical installation is design a methodology that uses multi-criteria analysis MCA.

It is the purpose of this study to develop an economical Robust design methodology for micro-scale secondary flow control in compact inlet diffusers. To illustrate the potential of economical Robust Design methodology, two different mission strategies were considered for the subject inlet, namely (1) Maximum Performance, and (2) Maximum HCF Life Expectancy. The Maximum Performance mission maxim...

An operating system is the main interface for human beings to interact with computer, use its resources and run their favorite applications or do their professional work. Lots of operating systems are available for a personal computer and end users have their own choice to select one or more out of these systems. Having numerous choices for an operating system selection, and having different ed...