As technology evolves over time, a common problem is the migration of software applications from one technology base to another. This paper is a practical experience report based on IBM Net.Commerce to WebSphere Commerce Suite (WCS) migration. It identifies the problems and issues in the migration of applications using traditional database access (SQL) to applications using the Enterprise Java ...

background: in the field of education, a great deal of quality improvement is remained to be achieved. assessment of educational courses appears to be necessary jor quality improvement in all curriculums, therefore studies for assessment of educational outcomes and impacts are of high priority. in a dentistry faculty, the mouth and dental health acre among dentistry students can be considered a...

This study aims to develop a novel methodology to prioritize the construction of new railway infrastructures for privatization. The private sector can cooperate to solve the capacity problems of railway networks, by the construction of new infrastructure. The purpose of this study is to answer the basic question that whether the capacity problems of the railway networks can be solved simply by ...

often in modeling the engineering optimization design problems, the value of objective function(s) is not clearly defined in terms of design variables. instead it is obtained by some numerical analysis such as fe structural analysis, fluid mechanic analysis, and thermodynamic analysis, etc. yet, the numerical analyses are considerably time consuming to obtain the final value of objective functi...

Testing is a key software lifecycle activity to assure software quality. Although it is of recognized importance, the work on agent testing has been scarce and has been usually tied to a MAS design methodology. This article presents a methodology agnostic testing procedure along with the description of a testing toolkit for MAS, with a practical application to a real, in production MAS. We also...

environmental pollution by 2,4-dicholorphenol (2,4-dcp), commonly found in industrial wastewater has been a concern for humans over the past 50 years. garden radish peroxidase (grp) can eliminate this poisonous pollutant. the aim of this study was to apply an experimental response surface methodology (rsm) and central composite design (ccd) to optimize grp-based treatment in order to maximize t...

The methodology and technology associated with building information modeling (BIM) provide architects, engineers, historians concepts tools that support the development of heritage projects. However, this specific form BIM orientated towards buildings patrimonial value—known as historic (HBIM)—requires a distinct additional view, accounting for aspects which are normally not attended to on proj...

Abstract Sensitivity analysis is a commonly used technique in hydrological modeling for different purposes, including identifying the influential parameters and ranking them. This paper proposes simplified sensitivity approach by applying Taguchi design ANOVA to 2D hydrodynamic flood simulations, which are computationally intensive. offers an effective practical way rank influencing parameters,...

1 Abstract A novel and simple approach for deening end-to-end Quality of Service (QoS) in Video-on-Demand (VoD) services is presented. Using this approach we derive a schedulable region for a video server which guarantees end-to-end QoS, where a speciic QoS required in the video client translates into a QoS speciication for the video server. Our methodology is based on a generic model for VoD s...