In order to offer a better network survivability, it is crucial that a network manager can realize restorable traffic assignment in response to traffic dynamics and facility network reconfiguration. In this paper, I presented an optimal virtual path routing control for survivable ATM networks to minimize the expected amount of lost flow upon restoration from a network failure. The amount of los...

With modern software systems, an important requirement is the ability to be auto adaptive, i.e. being able to adjust itself to the changing environment. In line with this, a run time manager for dynamic feature integration of telecommunication systems, interaction detection and resolution is described in this paper with aspects being used to implement features. The manager manages the interacti...

This paper presents how and why to unify load sharing and fault tolerance facilities. A realization of a fault tolerant load sharing facility, GATOSTAR, is presented and discussed. It is based on the integration of two applications developed on top of Unix: GATOS and STAR. GATOS is a load sharing manager which automatically distributes parallel applications among heterogeneous hosts according t...

Quality-of-Service (QoS) support is an essential feature in recent and upcoming networking standards. Applications running on these networks can specify appropriate service classes for their connection flows so that the flows are treated accordingly. However, current internet applications (legacy applications) cannot benefit from this facility as they are designed using the best-effort scheme. ...

Because laboratories typically process large numbers of samples every day, information management is a critical task. With a growing work-load in the laboratory, the chances for errors of omission and data transcription increase, as does the amount of time devoted to paperwork. Moreover periodic review and analysis of the progress and quality of laboratory work becomes increasingly important. I...

This study investigates the impact of different organizational models for the management of non‐core processes in the facility management (FM) industry and seeks to suggest which is the best in terms of strategic and operative advantages and disadvantages. A literature analysis of the empirical evidence as to business process outsourcing and, in particular, as to the pra...

A discrete event simulation model was developed and used to estimate the storage area required for a proposed overseas textile manufacturing facility. It was found that the simulation was able to achieve this because of its ability to both store attribute values and to show queuing levels at an individual product level. It was also found that the process of undertaking the simulation project in...

We present a method for dynamically scheduling multi-priority patients to a diagnostic facility in a public health care setting. Rather than maximizing revenue for the diagnostic facility, the challenge facing the resource manager is to allocate available capacity to incoming demand so that waiting time targets are achieved in a cost-effective manner. We will model the scheduling process as a M...

BACKGROUND Prior research has shown increased risk of injury for female employees compared to male employees after controlling for job and tasks, but have not explored whether this increased risk might be moderated by manager gender. The gender of one's manager could in theory affect injury rates among male and female employees through their managers' response to an employee's psychosocial stre...

journal may be reproduced or used in any form or by any means without witten permission from the publisher, except for noncommercial, educational use including classroom teaching purposes. Product or company names used in this journal are for identification purposes only. Inclusion of the names of the products or companies does not indicate a claim of ownership by IGI Global of the trademark or...