In this paper, a novel methodology is proposed to solve a cooperative multi-depot vehicle routing problem. We establish a mathematical model for multi-owner VRP in which each owner (i.e. player) manages single or multiple depots. The basic idea consists of offering an option that owners cooperatively manage the VRP to save their costs. We present cooperative game theory techniques for cost savi...

Reducing energy consumption of mobile communication networks has gained significant attentions since it takes a major part of the total energy consumption of information and communication technology (ICT). In this paper, we consider 5G networks with heterogeneous macro cells and small cells, where data and control planes are separated. We consider two types of data traffic, i.e., low rate data ...

Intelligent Resource Director (IRD), a feature of the IBM eServer zSeries processors and the z/OS operating system, manages multiple heterogeneous workloads with various business priorities toward achieving their goals. It establishes a more synergistic relationship with the Workload Manager (WLM) component of z/OS and the zSeries hardware, and augments the adjustments that WLM makes to local s...

Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) has developed TraitBank (http://eol.org/traitbank), a new repository for organism attribute (trait) data. TraitBank aggregates, manages and serves attribute data for organisms across the tree of life, including life history characteristics, habitats, distributions, ecological relationships and other data types. We describe how TraitBank ingests and manages these data ...

Product software release, delivery, and deployment are complex tasks for software vendors, system managers, and end-users of a software system. This position paper proposes a framework that manages software knowledge during the lifecycle of a software product, with special focus on the release, delivery, and deployment processes of software components. The first pillar of the framework manages ...

There is need for an integrated information system that manages the data and computational-logic used by an experimental physics facility (EPF) during its design, construction, commissioning, and operation. Such a system can be used to manage design lattices, model them, run what-if scenarios, tune the beams, troubleshoot, manage calibration data, maintenance records, alignment information and ...

For flexible mapping of various task-level pipelines on a multi-core processor, the authors proposed the memory-centric network-on-chip (NoC). The memory-centric NoC manages producer–consumer data transactions between the tasks in the case of task-level pipelines are distributed over multiple processing cores. Since the memory-centric NoC manages the data transactions, it relieves burden of the...

Abstract—This paper proposes an efficient access control method for JPEG 2000 coded images with multiple dimensions of hierarchical scalability. An access control method is required to 1) be resilient to collusion attack and 2) manages less number keys from the perspective of the key management cost. The proposed method is resilient to collusion attack and manages only one key. Moreover, the pr...

This paper addresses the problem of probabilistic reasoning as it applies to Truth Maintenance Systems. A Belief Maintenance System hal! been constructed which manages a current set of probabilistic beliefs in much the same way that a TMS manages a set of true/false beliefs. Such a system may be thought of as a generalization of a. Truth Maintenance System. It enables one to reason using normal...