An architecture enhancing the Intelligent Network to a Distributed IN is described. To this end, Distributed Processing Environment and Mobile Agent technologies have been employed. The added value, in the context of flexibility and manageability of the exertion of the aforementioned technologies, as well as the extent to which they can be utilized are discussed. The configuration architecture ...

BACKGROUND The concept of the sense coherence (SOC) - global orientation life, created by Aaron Antonovsky is increasingly popular. This study within field health psychology examines situation patients awaiting surgery in Poland and Ireland. OBJECTIVES To investigate relationship between strength SOC its components (comprehensibility, manageability meaningfulness) level satisfaction with life (...

Mostly Pointless Lamp Switching (MPLampS) is an architecture for carrying electricity over IP (with an MPLS control plane). According to our marketing department, MPLampS has the potential to dramatically lower the price, ease the distribution and usage, and improve the manageability of delivering electricity. This document is motivated by such work as SONET/SDH over IP/MPLS (with apologies to ...

Cloud architectures are moving away from a traditional data center design with SAN and NAS attached storage to a more flexible solution based on virtual machines with NAS attached storage. While VM storage based on NAS is ideal to meet the high scale, low cost, and manageability requirements of the cloud, it significantly alters the I/O profile for which NAS storage is designed. In this paper, ...

An alternative version of the theory of multiplicative unitaries is presented. Instead of the original regularity condition of Baaj and Skandalis we formulate another condition selecting manageable multiplicative unitaries. The manageability is the property of multiplicative unitaries coming from the quantum group theory. For manageable multiplicative unitaries we reproduce all the essential re...

In this note we discuss the feasibility of a peer-to-peer based infrastructure for large-scale web search that could provide an alternative to current centralized engines such as Google. We first outline the structure and performance bottlenecks of current search engines, and then discuss how to construct a peer-to-peer based engine. Our contention is that for the time being, a peer-to-peer sol...

The Internet uses hierarchical networking, for scalability and manageability reasons. However the main ad hoc routing solutions (OLSR [1], AODV [6], DSR [8], TBRPF [7]) only provide flat networking, and generally suffer important scalability issues. This paper therefore introduces a simple mechanism providing dynamic clustering with OLSR, one of the MANET routing solutions, chosen for its easy ...

Anatomical and morphological characteristics of sheep’s mammary gland, their relationship with milk production, milking-ability of the machines and manageability, have become a center of attention among farmers and scientists. Functional traits have become important for efficient breeding schemes in the dairy goat and sheep industries, mainly in Mediterranean countries, due to increased costs o...

In Service-Oriented Architectures services can be deployed and removed at runtime and can be arranged to business processes. Service-based applications and business processes can be reconfigured and optimized by replacing the participating services. In large environments, service processes should employ self-properties to improve manageability and flexibility. We demonstrate an approach, realiz...

The requirements engineering (RE) process is a decision-rich complex problem solving activity. This paper examines the elements of organization-oriented macro decisions as well as process-oriented micro decisions in the RE process and illustrates how to integrate classical decision-making models with RE process models. This integration helps in formulating a common vocabulary and model to impro...