Winter feeding costs represent between 50 and 60 cents of every dollar spent on keeping a cow a year. Thus, any attempt to control or reduce costs of operating a cow herd must focus on controlling or reducing feed costs. However, attempts at controlling or reducing costs are highly dependent on the forage system that the cow-calf operation uses. Forage systems vary depending on a variety of fac...

Integrated network technologies, such as ATM, support multimedia applications with vastly diierent bandwidth needs, connection request rates, and holding patterns. Due to their high level of exibility and communication rates approaching several gigabits per second, the classical network planning techniques, which rely heavily on statistical analysis, are less relevant to this new generation of ...

Current web service technologies lack semantic descriptions of functionality and requirements; semantic markup of web services would allow interoperability and dynamic discovery of services. The Web Service Modelling Ontology (WSMO) provides a framework for semantically describing web services, ontologies, goals and mediators. WSMX is an execution environment for WSMO allowing discovery, mediat...

Spatial interpolation allows creation of continuous raster surfaces from a subsample of point-based measurements. Most interpolation approaches use Euclidean distance measurements between data points to generate predictions of values at unknown locations. However, there are many spatially distributed data sets that are not properly represented by Euclidean distances and require distance measure...

Carriers conveying long-distance traffic face different routing options with regard to service quality and cost. Thus, Least Cost Routing (LCR) solutions supporting optimal decisions become a very important issue in the inter-carrier operations. In this paper, we present this problem in the context of the long-distance traffic partner-carrier choice. The mathematical optimization problem is for...