in this study, the relative performance of mazandaran wood and paper company as a major supplier of paper products in iran was measured. network data envelopment analysis (dea) models with parallel structure were used to evaluate and measure its performance. gams software version 23.4 was used for data analysis. results indicated that this company in all studied years had good performances base...

in this paper, we study different methods of solving joint redundancy-availability optimization for series-parallel systems with multi-state components. we analyzed various effective factors on system availability in order to determine the optimum number and version of components in each sub-system and consider the effects of improving failure rates of each component in each sub-system and impr...

for many years, researchers have studied high accuracy methods for recognizing the handwriting and achieved many significant improvements. however, an issue that has rarely been studied is the speed of these methods. considering the computer hardware limitations, it is necessary for these methods to run in high speed. one of the methods to increase the processing speed is to use the computer pa...

ParLeda is a software library that provides the basic primitives needed for parallel implementation of computational geometry applications. It can also be used in implementing a parallel application that uses geometric data structures. The parallel model that we use is based on a new heterogeneous parallel model named HBSP, which is based on BSP and is introduced here. ParLeda uses two main lib...

the paper presents the results of an investigation on the acoustic performance of vertical profile parallel barriers with quadratic residue diffuser tops and faces. a 2d boundary element method (bem) was used to predict the barrier insertion loss. the results of rigid and with absorptive coverage were also calculated for comparisons. using qrd on the top surface and faces of all vertical profil...

as the e-commerce sites are being more secure and reliable in recent years and the number of transactions is rising rapidly, parallelism can help us to reduce response time and increase throughput for e-commerce transactions. this paper will investigate parallelism in on-line transaction processing. it aims to specify those aspects of e-commerce transactions that would profit from parallel proc...