The determination of the "productive capacity" of the land is the main component of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations' (FAO) Agroecological Zones (AEZ) approach, and it is also an element in the sequence of land evaluation and land use planning as advocated by FAO for use in developing countries. The nature of the subject lends itself to little or no privatization, whi...

In capacity planning for a service operation, analytical models based on queueing theory allow the user to quickly estimate the capacity required and to easily experiment with different system designs or configurations, for a given set of input parameters. An input parameter of the model could be inaccurate or may not be known beyond a good guess. In order to determine if the analysis results (...

Long -term Abstract Due to high cost of capaciiy investmen!, many semiconductor manufacturing companies have exhibited the need to pursuit innovative capacicv plans and planning methods. In this paper. a case study of option-based capaciry planning is presented. Three issues ore addressed: estimation of prodnction cost parameters, valuation of capaciiy, and analysis design . I f is shown that t...

The goal of capacity planning is to ensure that the right computing resources are available in the right place in the computing environment and at the right time. Capacity planning efforts are costjustified in environments where significant revenue streams are generated by the use of software applications and where capital expenditures on computing and network resources used to operate software...

ÐThe goal of this paper is to provide a methodology for determining bandwidth requirements for various hardware components of a World Wide Web server. The paper assumes a traditional symmetric multiprocessor (SMP) architecture for the web-server, although the same analysis applies to an SMP node in a cluster. The paper derives formulae for bandwidth demands for memory, processor data bus, netwo...

The goal of the proposed capacity planning tool is to provide the best cost performance con guration for support of a known media service workload There are two essential components in our capacity planning tool i the capacity measurements of di erent h w and s w solutions using a specially designed set of media benchmarks and ii a media service workload pro ler called MediaProf which ex tracts...

Cloud computing is based on the notion of shared computational, storage, network, and application resources provided by a third party. This paper explores in detail the concept of cloud computing, its advantages and disadvantages and describes several existing cloud computing platforms. It then discusses the results of quantitative experiments carried out using PlanetLab, a cloud computing plat...

Core network capacity planning is the process of ensuring that sufficient bandwidth is provisioned such that the committed core network service-level agreements can be met. The best practices described in this paper collecting demand matrices, determining overprovisioning factors, and running simulations are the basis of the design principles for the Cisco MATE portfolio, especially (from a pla...

Capacity planning is concerned with the provisioning of systems in order to ensure that they meet the demand or performance requirements of users. Currently for PEPA models a modeller who wishes to solve a capacity planning problem has to either carry out a manual search for an optimal configuration or work outside the provided tool suite. We present a new extension to the Eclipse Plug-in for P...