in this paper, the competition between two supply chains and their elements is studied. each chain consisted of a manufacturer and a distributor and the two chains compete in a market with single type of customer sensitive to price and delivery time. therefore, this is a two-supply chain game and during the competition between two supply chains, elements of each supply chain (manufacturer and/o...

BACKGROUND Obtaining an accurate understanding of a child's cancer prognosis can help parents make informed decisions about treatment. Research has shown that parents tend to overestimate their child's cancer prognosis relative to physicians. Thus, we examined whether the content of physician communication, parent sources of medical information, and parent demographic factors affected the assoc...

Cloud Computing is a new application model for decentralized computing which can provide reliable, customized and maximum number of users with minimum resource. The development of cloud computing marks a great leap towards designing a unified, open and flexible educational information platform, sharing educational resources, and diminishing gaps in the use of educational information. This paper...

Cancer prognosis prediction is typically carried out without integrating scientific knowledge available on genomic pathways, the effect of drugs on cell dynamics, or modeling mutations in the population. Recent work addresses some of these problems by formulating an uncertainty class of Boolean regulatory models for abnormal gene regulation, assigning prognosis scores to each network based on i...

In decentralized computing environments, systems are built mainly from components that are developed and maintained independently by different third-party providers. The executions and evolutions of components located on distributed sites are beyond the control of the system developers, and the availabilities of those components are, to some extent, unpredictable because of their own tendencies...

As the autonomous decentralized system (ADS) philosophy is meeting increasing acceptance by the system engineering community, the type and number of highly autonomous subsystems will grow rapidly. Standardization of the methods and protocols by which autonomous subsystems interconnect or interact among themselves is an important issue with respect to further enhancing the economic advantages of...

Taking advantage of lower foreign tax rates using transfer pricing and taking advantage of lower production costs using offshoring are two strategies that global companies use to increase their profitability. Evidence suggests that firms employ these strategies independently. We study how global firms can jointly leverage tax and cost differences through coordinated transfer pricing and offshor...

Large international collaborations that use decentralized computing models are becoming a custom rather than an exception in High Energy Physics. A good computing model for such big collaborations has to deal with the distribution of the experiment-specific software

In this paper, we compare the two research fields of grid computing and autonomous decentralized systems (ADS). We point out that these two fields are closely related at the basic research level, and have a lot to offer each other. A grid computing system can be viewed as an autonomous decentralized system in many aspects, and as such, it needs inputs from the ADS research community. At the sam...

We investigate the performance of a randomized coordination mechanism for resource access in an autonomous decentralized system. Given n users and r resources, each user decides to access a resource with probability a, and each resource is selected with equal likelihood. The goal i s to select a so that mutually conjicting decisions, where multiple users try to access the same resource, are min...