Creating an adaptive web site, which is a web site that automatically changes its contents and organization according to usage, is a challenge for web site designers. We introduce a novel algorithm for creating an adaptive web site based on combining web usage mining and adaptive web site generation. We outline the design of a system called WebAdaptor that implements our ideas. We elaborate on ...

This paper proposes methods to allocate transmission usage for pool and bilateral market models in deregulated power industry. This paper focuses on creating an appropriate artificial neural network (ANN) to allocate transmission usage for pool and bilateral trades separately in a simpler and faster manner. The modified IEEE 14-bus network is utilised as a test system to illustrate the effectiv...

The promotion of recreation and tourism has been both praised and criticized as a rural development strategy. This study uses regression analysis to assess the effect of recreation and tourism development on socioeconomic conditions in rural recreation counties. The findings imply that recreation and tourism development contributes to rural well-being, increasing local employment, wage levels, ...

Cloud computing is a technological advancement in the arena of computing and has taken the utility vision of computing a step further by providing computing resources such as network, storage, compute capacity and servers, as a service via an internet connection. These services are provided to the users in a pay per use manner subjected to the amount of usage of these resources by the cloud use...

Next-generation wireless networks will enable the usage of different network technologies fully transparent to the user. Applications will be able to dynamically adapt to the conditions and technical constraints of the network. This vision requires a dynamic allocation of scarce network resources to different users. This paper presents simulation results from a model of admission control and dy...

This paper presents virtual allocation, a scheme for flexible storage allocation. It separates storage allocation from the file system. It employs an allocate-on-write strategy, which lets applications fit into the actual usage of storage space without regard to the configured file system size. This improves flexibility by allowing storage space to be shared across different file systems. This ...