The aim of this work is to define and implement an end-to-end approach to quality of service (QoS), operating across multiple management domains and exploiting a combination of link layer technologies. The architecture for the Premium IP service is presented, which aims at offering the equivalent of an end-to-end virtual leased line service at the IP layer across multiple domains. Also, the res...

Wikipedia is a free-content Internet encyclopedia that can be edited by anyone who accesses it. As a result, Wikipedia contains both featured and non-featured articles. Featured articles are high-quality articles and nonfeatured articles are poor quality articles. Since there is an exponential growth of Wikipedia articles, the need to identify the featured Wikipedia articles has become indispen...

One of major technical problems that hinder the promotion of voice communication over Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Lines is the unacceptable voice traffic performance in the presence of coexisting data traffic from other applications. In this paper, we study the delay, caused by transmission of long non-real-time data packets over the bottleneck of low upstream bit-rate of Asymmetric Digital S...

It is now widely accepted within the industrial community that quality assurance is essential for future survival and competitiveness. However, most quality improvement activities have been performed off-line without being integrated into the shop floor control system (SFCS) that focuses on efficient production planning and scheduling. An integrated systematic framework for both enhancing produ...

electro-facies is a unit of the vertical sediments sequence on the wire-line logs that can be differentiated from the upper and lower units. for detection of the electro-facies interval in kangan and upper dalan formations in south pars gas field, wire-line log and core data analysis (wells a, b, c and d) were used. note, only core data analysis in well a were available. first, thin-sections st...

This paper presents a multi-objective Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm for worker assignment and mixed-model assembly line balancing problem when task times depend on the worker’s skill level. The objectives of this model are minimization of the number of stations (equivalent to the maximization of the weighted line efficiency), minimization of the weighted smoothness index and minim...

Availability and reliability of a manufacturing system are the most common indicators in the reliability engineering area to assess the quality and on-time deliveries of the products they produce. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the availability, reliability. failure metrics such as MTBF and MTTF, and also steady-state availability of a cooking oilproduction line using a Markov approach...