Continuing research begun in 2], we investigate problems of reserving capacity in the arcs of a network, subject to the constraint that, on the failure of any one arc, there is enough reserved capacity on the remaining arcs to support a ow of value T from a source s to a destination t. We also impose upper bounds on the amount of capacity we may reserve on the arcs: this alters the nature of th...

Parking in crowded urban areas is a precious resource that impacts driver stress levels, daily productivity, and the environment. A reservation system that enables individuals to buy parking spots prior to leaving their home would significantly ease these concerns. However, designing an infrastructure for guaranteed parking requires extensive sensor deployment and manpower, which is expensive a...

The increasing popularity of the Internet, the flexibility of IP, and the wide deployment of IP technologies, as well as the growth of mobile communications have driven the development of IP-based solutions for wireless networking. The introduction of IP-based transport in Radio Access Networks (RANs) is one of these networking solutions. When compared to traditional IP networks, an IP-based RA...

In this paper, we design a resource management scheme to support stateful applications, which will be prevalent in sixth generation (6G) networks. Different from stateless applications require context data while executing computing tasks user terminals (UTs). Using multi-tier paradigm with servers deployed at the core network, gateways, and base stations aim optimize long-term reservation by jo...

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The basic objective of grid computing is to support resource sharing among individuals and institutions within a networked infrastructure. Managing various resources in highly dynamic grid environments is a complex and challenging problem. Some approaches apply algorithms for resource management to grid but fails to provide any generalized solutions. Most of the approaches are based on a simple...

In resource constrained embedded systems, memory reservation, which provides physically contiguous memory allocation to devices (e.g., video decoder and camera), decreases the memory efficiency of the system. The dedicated use of reserved memory by an owner device makes itself more under-utilized when the device is less frequently used. Previous approaches support on-demand reservation to relax...

This study explores user-generated content (UGC) of the hotel sector in city Florianópolis-SC, Brazil, to identify quality attributes services and determine polarity expressed feelings reviews each attribute. The analysis is based on latent topics reviews. UGC was collected using a crawler, resulting text corpus comprising 68,558 feelings, positive or negative, identified sentiment techniques L...

In this paper we consider a production facility producing a uniform product that ships a number of di!erent package sizes to a (number of) stockpoint(s). The packaging capacity owned by the facility is "nite and the actually used capacity must be reserved sometime before actual use. Furthermore, the packaging capacity must be allocated among the di!erent package sizes, such that a target "ll ra...

BACKGROUND BRAC, a large Bangladeshi NGO, recently has been using female volunteer community health workers (CHWs) in Dhaka urban slums to provide maternal and child health services. Due to erratic performance-based income and higher opportunity cost the urban CHWs lose motivation which contributes to high dropout and poor performance. This results challenges for the cost effectiveness and sust...