Scientific workflows have received considerable attention in Grid computing. This paper is concerned with the issue of scheduling scientific workflows and, by considering a commonly used astronomy workflow, Montage, investigates the impact of different strategies to schedule the workflow graph. Our experiments suggest that the rather regular and symmetric nature of the Montage graph allows rath...

We present a fully automated adaptive optics (AO) retinal image montaging algorithm using classic scale invariant feature transform with random sample consensus for outlier removal. Our approach is capable of using information from multiple AO modalities (confocal, split detection, and dark field) and can accurately detect discontinuities in the montage. The algorithm output is compared to manu...

Today, planning and control of logistic processes on automobile terminals are generally executed by centralised logistics systems, which in many cases cannot cope with the high requirements for flexible order processing due to increasing dynamics and complexity. The main business processes on automobile terminals – notification of vehicles by automobile manufacturer, transport to automobile ter...

China’s automobile industry has made great progress and contributed a lot to national economic development, but the problems such as dispersion, small, disorderly, worse" in the industry is still very serious. Starting from the SCP paradigm theory in China’s automobile industry, the article analyses the problems including the market structure, market conduct and market performance in China’s au...

walking being the oldest form of urban transport, and until the advent of major transformationsin transport technology in the nineteenth century, most cities were structured in ways that supported walkability.today, there is a change in transportation which emphasizes, the traditional pedestrian paths which are increasinglybecoming non-regulated spaces when compared to the urban spaces for auto...

Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) is a non-invasive neuromodulation technique to treat brain disorders by using constant, low stimulate targeted cortex regions. Compared the conventional tDCS that uses two large pad electrodes, multiple electrode has recently received more attention. It able achieve better performance in terms of intensity and focality. In this paper, we first esta...

Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), acquired simultaneously with electroencephalography (EEG), allows the investigation of hemodynamic brain responses to epileptic activity. Because the presumed epileptogenic focus is patient-specific, an appropriate source/detector (SD) montage has to be reconfigured for each patient. The combination of EEG and fNIRS, however, entails several constr...