The ability to locate bottleneck link along Internet paths is of great interest to end users as well as network operators. End users can use the information to estimate performance of a network path to a given destination. The knowledge of bottlenecks can provide network operators insight into the causes of congestion and ways of circumventing it. Flows that share a common bottleneck resource c...

In this paper, the bottleneck dominating set problem and one of its variants, the bottleneck independent dominating set problem, are considered. Let G(V, E, W) denote a graph with n-vertex-set V and m-edge-set E, where each vertex v is associated with a real cost W(v). Given any subset V′ of V, the bottleneck cost of V′ is defined as max{W(x)  x ∈ V′}. The major task involves identifying a dom...

Given an instance of the minimum cost flow problem, a version of the corresponding inverse problem, called the capacity inverse problem, is to modify the upper and lower bounds on arc flows as little as possible so that a given feasible flow becomes optimal to the modified minimum cost flow problem. The modifications can be measured by different distances. In this article, we consider the capac...

Because small dual-task costs with ideomotor-compatible tasks do not necessarily indicate the absence of a bottleneck, M.-C. Lien, R. S. McCann, E. Ruthruff, and R. W. Proctor (2005) considered additional sources of evidence regarding bottleneck bypass. This evidence argued against complete bottleneck bypass and, instead, supported an engage-bottleneck-later model in which early bottleneck subs...

The theory of constraints is an approach to production planning and control that emphasizes on the constraints to increase throughput by effectively managing constraint resources. One application in theory of constraints is product mix decision. Product mix influences the performance measures in multi-product manufacturing system. This paper presents an alternative approach by using of goal pro...

Co-clustering has emerged as an important approach for mining contingency data matrices. We present a novel approach to co-clustering based on the Information Bottleneck principle, called Information Bottleneck Co-clustering (IBCC), which supports both soft-partition and hardpartition co-clusterings, and leverages an annealing-style strategy to bypass local optima. Existing co-clustering method...

The first positive trend is the slowing of global population growth. There is a significant shift in global fertility that will enable us at least to think about moving to a world of near stable populations within a century, maybe sooner. Fertility in about 40 per cent of the world’s countries is now below the replacement rate. Another 40 per cent are experiencing continued downward movement of...