The Illain purpose of this paper is to provide a brief survey of what has CODle to be known as "prophet inequalities" or ~~prophet problerns" in the t heory of optirnal stopping. rrhis survpy includes surnrnaries of the basic results, subs e­ quent extensioIls and variations of these results, Blain proof tools an d techniques (with concrete exarllples), a,ad a list of open problenls. Although t...

Modern plant use and garbage disposal practices in an Iranian village were observed in order to provide a framework for the interpretation of plant remains from ancient Malyan, a third millennium B.C. urban center in southern Iran. The ethnoarchaeological model suggested that many carbonized seeds originate in dung cake fuel. By applying this proposition to the archaeobotanical material from Ma...

This paper describes the current state of Prophet — a system that provides run-time scheduling support for parallel applications in heterogeneous workstation networks. Prior work on Prophet [10][12] demonstrated that scheduling SPMD applications could be effectively automated with excellent performance. Enhancements have been made to Prophet to broaden its use to other application types includi...

In this research, an ancient Iranian ceramic technology, which was published previously for the first time, has been used to produce various colored ceramic glazes.  The color of such ancient glazes was always blue and the suitable body for that is unique due to high quartz content. There is no report of other color productions in productive workshop and scientific publications. The basic purp...

PRoPHET (probability routing protocol using history of encounters and transitivity) reduces the invalid copy of message, so that effectively reduce the network overhead and the traffic load in the network. However, the calculation of probability in Prophet does not consider the network conditions. In this paper, we improve the performance of PRoPHET protocol by taking into account connection st...