Electronic Government Network (GovNet) e-Mail System, one of the services offered as part of the GovNet Project in Mozambique is expanding. A significant growth in the number of users of the GovNet e-Mail system is expected in the next few months due to the addition of 63 new sites /institutions as part of the GovNet-Extension Project. To address the expected demand on the GovNet IT resources t...

There have been various emerging trends in the deployment of telecom networks recently. Due to liberalization and technological advancements a common core network for voice and data based on MPLS has been implemented by Telecom service providers. By offering a variety of data and multimedia services, the revenue generating process can also be maximized. The economic and regulation trends also h...

This report describes how capacity planning models can be used to plan investments in biorefineries. For this, we have considered several processes belonging to a chemical supply chain that can be fed by a raw material, such as switchgrass, and used to produce valuable commodities. To build our model we have considered 58 possible processes to choose from, part of which are 12 chemicals chosen ...

Approa h y Qingsong Lu, Yan Huang, Shashi Shekhar Department of Computer S ien e, University of Minnesota 200 Union St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455 [lqingson; huangyan; shekhar℄ s.umn.edu February 10, 2003 Abstra t Eva uation planning is riti al for appli ations su h as disaster management and homeland defense preparation. EÆ ient tools are needed to produ e eva uation plans to eva uate population...

With the resurgence of mainframe activity in recent years, many individuals are suddenly thrust into the role of mainframe capacity planner for the first time. Basic techniques, and what to do and not to do, are critical in developing and maintaining a capacity plan.

In this paper we discuss a framework for capacity planning and lead time management in manufacturing companies, with an emphasis on the machine shop. First we show how queueing models can be used to find approximations of the mean and the variance of manufacturing shop lead times. These quantities often serve as a basis to set a fixed planned lead time in an MRP-controlled environment. A major ...

A major task of telecommunication network planners is deciding where spare capacity is needed, and how much, so that interrupted traffic may be rerouted in the event of a failure. Planning the spare capacity so as to minimize cost is an NP-hard problem, and for large networks, even the linear relaxation is too large to be solved with existing methods. The main contribution of this paper is a fa...

Emerging technology that allows the construction of high performance storage area networks (SANs) requires extending existing analytic frameworks that can accurately predict the performance of complex disk subsystems. This paper focuses specifically on two elements of emerging SAN technology: (1) the performance of Fibre Channel links and connecting hubs and switches, and (2) the performance of...

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