Customers who need quick resolutions for their temporary problems are increasingly seeking help in largescale, Web-based service marketplaces. Due to the temporary nature of the relations between customers and service providers (agents) in these marketplaces, customers may not have an opportunity to assess the ability of an agent before their service completion. On the other hand, the moderatin...

In this paper, we focus on the networking-theoretic multicast capacity bounds for both random extended networks (REN) and random dense networks (RDN) under Gaussian Channel model, when all wireless nodes have the same constant transmission power P . During the transmission, the power decays along path with attenuation exponent α > 2. In REN and RDN, n nodes are randomly distributed in the squar...

In shallow foundations, the third bearing capacity factor, N, has been found to show a decreasing tendency with increasing the foundation size. It is supported by experimental observations and related mainly to stress level dependent nature of the soil. On the other hand, the bearing capacity is often obtained theoretically without consideration of the foundation vertical displacements. In thi...

Current home networks are not well designed to support quality of service (QoS). Successfully employing current QoS solutions in heterogeneous environments, such as home networks, requires compatibility between the many possible solutions for the different network technologies. Often the solutions need support from all devices throughout the network. Additionally, it is often difficult to confi...

n source and destination pairs randomly located in an area want to communicate with each other. Signals transmitted from one user to another at distance r apart is subject to a power attenuation of r as well as a random phase. We identify exactly the scaling laws of the information theoretic capacity of the network. In the case of dense networks, where the area is fixed and the density of nodes...

A firm tends to associate capacity planning with economic scale size and demand fulfillment for profit maximization. However, it is troublesome capacity dilemmas to achieve both of them simultaneously in stochastic environment. We propose a multi-objective stochastic programming with data envelopment analysis (DEA) constraints to find a compromise efficient benchmark.

Although plant photosynthetic capacity as determined by the maximum carboxylation rate (i.e., Vc,max25) and the maximum electron transport rate (i.e., Jmax25) at a reference temperature (generally 25 C) is known to vary considerably in space and time in response to environmental conditions, it is typically parameterized in Earth system models (ESMs) with tabulated values associated with plant f...

Photosynthetic capacity, determined by light harvesting and carboxylation reactions, is a key plant trait that determines the rate of photosynthesis; however, in Earth System Models (ESMs) at a reference temperature, it is either a fixed value for a given plant functional type or derived from a linear function of leaf nitrogen content. In this study, we conducted a comprehensive analysis that c...

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Task Force was created to review and identify standards for CO2 storage capacity estimation. Force has previously issued a Phase I report (in August 2005) which served to document the nature of the problem such as the relationship between assessment scale and the level of detail and resolution of the storage capacity. This report of the Task Force's Phase II activities summarizes the Phase I fi...