To ensure the operability and reliability of large scale Enterprise Resource Planning Systems (ERP) and enterprise services, a peak-load oriented hardware sizing is often used, which results in low average utilization. The evaluation of historical load data revealed that many applications show cyclical resource consumption. The identification of load patterns can be used for static as well as d...

We consider a flexible manufacturing system processing a variety of different part types. Parts of all types are first processed in a cell, they then continue to separate downstream stations. The total number of buffer spaces for these stations is limited. We determine the optimal buffer allocation and the corresponding optimal scheduling rule such that expected profit is maximized. The resulti...

Cloud computing refers to Internet based development and utilization of computer technology, and hence, cloud computing can be described as a model of Internet-based computing. Actually, it is a style of computing, in which dynamically scalable (and mostly virtualized) resources are provided as a service over the Internet. The concepts behind cloud computing incorporate Software-as-a-Service (S...

Water is becoming a scarce resource in many parts of the world, leading to increased competition amongst water users. Optimized allocation increasingly important balance growing demand for and limited supply accessible clean water. The literature on schemes decision support systems, developed application specific management areas or watersheds, was critically reviewed. Although rich studies bro...

Emergency resource is important for people evacuation and property rescue when accident occurs. The relief efforts could be promoted by a reasonable emergency resource allocation schedule in advance. As the marine environment is complicated and changeful, the place, type, severity of maritime accident is uncertain and stochastic, bringing about dynamic demand of emergency resource. Considering ...

A key issue in video transcoding for transmission in an error-prone environment is to balance the rate used for the video source with bits allocated for error resilience such that the end-toend distortion is minimized under the given rate constraint and channel condition. The approach presented in this paper differs from previous works by accounting for the inter-frame dependence in both video ...

Effective tradingwith given pattern-based multi-predictors of stock price needs an intelligent asset allocation strategy. In this paper, we study a method of dynamic asset allocation, called the meta policy, which decides how much the proportion of asset should be allocated to each recommendation for trade. The meta policy makes a decision considering both the recommending information of multi-...

Agricultural nonpoint source pollution remains a persistent environmental problem, despite the large amount of money that has been spent on its abatement. At local scales, agricultural best management practices (BMPs) have been shown to be effective at reducing nutrient and sediment inputs to surface waters. However, these effects have rarely been found to act in concert to produce measurable, ...

Human uses of freshwater resources are increasing rapidly as the world population rises. As this happens, less water is left to support aquatic and associated ecosystems. To minimize future human water shortages and undesirable environmental impacts, more equitable sharing of water resources between society and nature is required. This will require physical quantities and social values to be pl...

Wireless communication systems are tending towards progressive data transfer over a long range of transmission. With the raise in required quality of services, the allocation of the available resource is to be maintained efficiently. A load matrix approach for multi cellular architecture is proposed, which allocate the communication power based on channel estimated SINR. The allocation of power...