Ant colony optimization (ACO) has proved its success as a meta-heuristic optimization in several network applications such as routing and load balancing. In this paper, a proposed ACO algorithm for load balancing in distributed systems will be presented. This algorithm is fully distributed in which information is dynamically updated at each ant movement. Multiple colonies paradigm will be adopt...

Bipolar resistance-switching materials allowing intermediate states of wide-varying resistance values hold the potential of drastically reduced power for non-volatile memory. To exploit this potential, we have introduced into a nanometallic resistance-random-access-memory (RRAM) device an asymmetric dynamic load, which can reliably lower switching power by orders of magnitude. The dynamic load ...

This paper presents a new half-plane Michell structure that transmits a uniformly distributed load of infinite horizontal extent to a series of equally-spaced pinned supports. A full kinematic description of the structure is obtained for the case when the maximum allowable tensile stress is greater than or equal to the allowable compressive stress. Although formal proof of optimality of the sol...

This paper combined artificial neural network and regression modeling methods to predict electrical load. We propose an approach for specific day, week and/or month load forecasting for electrical companies taking into account the historical load. Therefore, a modified technique, based on artificial neural network (ANN) combined with linear regression, is applied on the KSA electrical network d...

In this paper we address the problem of load balancing optimization of telecommunication networks based on multiple spanning tree routing. We focus on two objectives – minimization of the maximum link load and minimization of the network utilization imposing a worst case load value – and we propose two sets of mixed integer programming models defining the optimization problems (where one set is...

Case report We present the case of a 57 year-old male patient, diagnosed with HIV infection for 14 years, and polyexperienced to antiretroviral (ARV) therapy (history of over 15 past ARV regimens). Early on in the evolution of HIV infection, the patient developed arterial hypertension, cardiomyopathy, 80% bi-carotid atheromatosis, and neurocognitive impairment. The patient also developed dyslip...

In a recent study, we discovered that many single load/store operations in embedded applications can be parallelized and thus encoded simultaneously in a single-instruction multiple-data instruction, called the multiple load/store (MLS) instruction. In this work, we investigate the problem of utilizing MLS instructions to produce optimized machine code, and propose an effective approach to the ...

this paper studies the use of unscented kalman filters (ukf) to estimate nonlinear dynamics and, specifically, adaptive determination of scaling parameters in these filters. due to lack of analytic solution and use of numerical methods instead, the computational load of these filters increases drastically. in this paper, a new method is proposed based on interactive multiple models (imm) which ...

In an interconnected power system, as a power load demand varies randomly, both area frequency and tie-line power interchange also vary. The objectives of load frequency control (LFC) are to minimize the transient deviations in theses variables (area frequency and tie-line power interchange) and to ensure their steady state errors to be zeros. When dealing with the LFC problem of power systems,...

Link striping algorithms are often used to overcome transmission bottlenecks in computer networks. However, traditional striping algorithms suffer from two major disadvantages. They provide inadequate load sharing in the presence of variable length packets, and may result in non-FIFO delivery of data. We describe a new family of link striping algorithms that solve both problems. Our scheme appl...