Cloud computing is a recent and modern technique of computing in which dynamically scalable and other virtualized resources are provided as a service over the Internet. The energy consumption and make span associated with the resources allocated should be taken into account. This paper proposes an improved optimization algorithm based on time cost and energy consumption models in cloud computin...

O2O (Online to Offline) business model, a kind of new business model between online and offline channel, is put forward by some innovative enterprises. Supply chain decision under O2O business model completely changes price competition in traditional dualchannel supply chains. Operation strategies in O2O supply chains such as price discrimination and service free-riding have become important is...

This work investigates the ideal distribution of sensors in networked arrays. MATLAB models these arrays and simulates the results these networks obtain using active and passive sonar. These results determine the ideal sensor placement for optimal parameter detection and estimation of targets. This work's first part focuses on active sonar networks with a fixed number of sensors in a differing ...

There is a general need for spacecraft systems to make use of advances in analog to digital (ADC) and digital to analog (DAC) technologies. In particular, imaging systems such as star trackers and remote sensing instruments require 14,16, or more bits ADCs that have low power consumption, fast conversion rates (>1 MSPS) and good radiation tolerances. Because ADC and DAC have both analog and dig...

Concurrent schedules may be viewed as consisting of two pairs of stay and switch schedules, each pair associated with one of the alternatives. A stay schedule arranges reinforcers for staying and responding at one alternative, whereas the associated switch schedule arranges reinforcers for switching to the other alternative. In standard concurrent schedules, the stay schedule at each alternativ...

CyberCars are road vehicles with fully automated driving capabilities. A fleet of such vehicles forms a Cybernetic Transportation System, for passengers or goods, on a network of roads with on-demand and door-to-door capability. This paper presents a framework for the overall evaluation of the performance of different technologies under development during the project. The evaluation plan descri...

The theoretical analysis on quality-of-service (QoS) performances is required to provide the guides for the developments of the next-generation wireless networks. As a good analysis tool, the probabilistic network calculus with moment generating functions (MGFs) recently can be used for delay and backlog performance measures in wireless networks. Different from the existed studies which mostly ...

Recommendation plays a key role in e-commerce and in the entertainment industry. We propose to consider successive recommendations to users under the form of graphs of recommendations. We give models for this representation. Motivated by the growing interest for algorithmic transparency, we then propose a first application for those graphs, that is the potential detection of introduced recommen...

drought is random and nonlinear phenomenon and using linear stochastic models, nonlinear artificial neural network and hybrid models is advantaged for drought forecasting. this paper presents the performances of autoregressive integrated moving average (arima), direct multi-step neural network (dmsnn), recursive multi-step neural network (rmsnn), hybrid stochastic neural network of directive ap...

In this paper, we propose a server structure proposal and automatic performance verification technology which proposes and verifies an appropriate server structure on Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud with baremetal servers, container based virtual servers and virtual machines. Recently, cloud services have been progressed and providers provide not only virtual machines but also baremeta...