For marine platforms, assessing the structural resilience in a corroded condition is vital for both design and maintenance practices. With the development of computational and experimental methods for structural analysis, the accuracy of the structural response prediction relies on a better understanding of the material degradation process. However, a realistic estimate of corrosion is inherent...

We address the QoS (Quality of Services) bandwidth reservation and service work scheduling mechanism of how to fairly provide advance quality of service in polling based TDM networks like Ethernet PON (Passive Optical Networks). Unlike existing differentiated QoS supporting schemes, such as SP (Strict Priority) based DBA(Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation) or static work scheduling with min-max theor...

Improving performance of electrical distribution companies, as the natural monopoly entities in electric industry, has always been one of the main concerns of the regulators. In this paper, a new incentive regulatory scheme is proposed to improve the performances of electrical distribution companies. The proposed scheme utilizes several efficiency assessments and a 3-dimentional reward-penalty ...

China has been moving out from its country into other countries in the world, including Malaysia, with some positive and negative news. We are to examine the impact of China’s investment on our employment, price level and productivity as well as sectoral stock market performances: consumer products and services; construction and industrial sectors. The causality analyses on quarterly data from ...

IEEE 802.16 standard supports five different service classes in order to support different needs of the mobile users with different QoS criteria. But, this standard doesn’t specify admission control and scheduling mechanisms and so far many solutions are proposed in the science world. In this paper we propose priority based uplink scheduling scheme for IEEE 802.16 standard that improves the QoS...

The field of service innovation strategy has been criticized for its lack of a solid theoretical foundation. To address this issue, we investigate a configuration approach with the prevailing universalistic or contingency perspectives in exploring the effects of service innovation strategies on firm performance. Based on a service-oriented view, we begin by identifying three service innovation ...

Wireless and mobile communications, as well as the Internet have already got worldwide deployment and are still developing at a rapid pace. Services provided by wireless communications have extended from the simple voice service to multimedia services. It is envisaged that in the next generation wireless networks, heterogeneous wireless access technologies will coexist forming integrated networ...

Algorithms and online software for automated and adaptive detection of network/service anomalies have been developed and field-tested for transactionoriented wide area networks (WANs). These transaction networks are integral parts of electronic commerce infrastructures. Our adaptive network/service anomaly detection algorithms are demonstrated in a commercially important production WAN, current...