Year-round reliable rural roads are a critical component of social and economic development, particularly in developing countries. Currently, road planning and the prioritization of investment decisions are based upon cost-benefit analysis (CBA) which is highly dependent on technical and economic analysis, but largely excludes social considerations. In rural areas, this frequently omits the mos...

Duty cycling is an efficient mechanism to conserve energy in wireless sensor networks. Several existing duty cycling techniques have been proposed to conserve energy, but they are not able to handle the contention under dynamic traffic loads. In this paper we propose a protocol called Sender-Assisted-Receiver-Initiated MAC (SA-RI-MAC) which solves this problem without sacrificing the energy eff...

The prioritization of interaction test suites has received more attention in the field of combinatorial interaction testing, especially when testing resources are limited to allow the part of combinatorial test cases to be executed. Many strategies have been proposed to prioritize interaction test suites according to different evaluation measures. However, most of these strategies may face a ch...

Drosophila melanogaster (fruit fly) has been a popular model organism in animal genetics due to the high accessibility of reverse-genetics tools. In addition, the close relationship between the Drosophila and human genomes rationalizes the use of Drosophila as an invertebrate model for human neurobiology and disease research. A platform technology for predicting candidate genes or functions wou...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to develop criteria for the prioritization of topics for health technology assessment (HTA) in the healthcare system of Kazakhstan. METHODS Initial proposals for criteria were suggested through consultation with Ministry of Health (MoH) policy areas. These were refined through a workshop attended by HTA department staff, persons from medical universities a...

Context: During requirements engineering, prioritization is performed to grade or rank requirements in their order of importance and subsequent implementation releases. It is a major step taken in making crucial decisions so as to increase the economic value of a system. Objective: The purpose of this study is to identify and analyze existing prioritization techniques in the context of the form...

The Biograph project is a biomedical knowledge discovery project combining graph data mining with structured biomedical information and with text mining on medline abstracts. It is a cooperation between the molecular genetics, data mining, and computational linguistics research groups of the University of Antwerp. In this talk, I will outline the general architecture of the system, which is cur...

Software Testing is continuous process of development and maintenance in life of software. In maintenance phase, regression testing gets exercisedwith additional resources/time for performance. The prioritization of test cases helps to reduce the cost-time of regression testing. Hence, completing Regression Testing effectively and on schedule is challenge for software tester. In this research p...

Finding the most promising genes among large lists of candidate genes has been defined as the gene prioritization problem. It is a recurrent problem in genetics in which genetic conditions are reported to be associated with chromosomal regions. In the last decade, several different computational approaches have been developed to tackle this challenging task. In this study, we review 19 computat...