This paper addresses the problem of bandwidth allocation under the weighted maximum rate constrained link sharing policy and proves a key theory in the condition of allocation termination. We propose several algorithms with various worst-case and average-case time complexities, and evaluate their computation elapse times.  2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

This study examined how young children entering mental health system of care services who were involved with the child welfare system compared to children with no such involvement in (a) descriptive characteristics and (b) selected outcomes 6 months after entry into such services. The characteristics of the two groups were similar, although children involved in child welfare were exposed to mor...

OBJECTIVE The aim of the present study was to improve the health care of people repeatedly admitted to private hospitals. METHOD An open trial in which frequent utilizers were offered telephone case management over a 12 month period, was conducted. RESULTS An average of 24 phone calls were made to the 99 who remained in the programme for the 12 months. Psychological distress declined signif...

Positive train control (PTC) systems are distributed interoperable systems that control the movement of passenger and freight trains, providing significant safety enhancements over traditional methods of operating railroads. Due to their reliance on wireless communications, PTC systems are vulnerable to attacks that can compromise safety and potentially cause serious accidents. Designing PTC sy...

In this paper we introduce our departments organizational and technical infrastructure for knowledge-intensive and weak-structured processes: A framework for Knowledge Management in the case of projects in Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD). It is based on the experience factory approach and the method of case based reasoning. We introduce both approaches in the context of knowledge managem...

We present a framework for assessing knowledge management (KM) technology that has been validated by using more than twenty well-known tools. Based on a commercial case-based reasoning (CBR) tool, the technology descriptions have been made available in the KM-PEB experience base over the World Wide Web. KM researchers as well as KM tool developers and/or users can search for similar description...

This paper presents a Case-Based Reasoning application for individualized experience management. We describe how such intelligent technologies can be used for implementing applications in small and medium sized enterprises by introducing a realized application. The application is called dinerplus and organizes guests and menus for a hobby chef, restaurant or catering service. Further we discuss...

OBJECTIVES This case study aims to demonstrate the method's feasibility and capacity to improve quality of care. Several drawbacks attached to tracer condition and selected procedure audits oblige clinicians to rely on external evaluators. Interface flow process audit is an alternative method, which also favours integration of health care across institutions divide. METHODS An action research...

The Homer help desk support system, developed in the course of the Inreca-II project, is an example of applying Case-Based Reasoning to problems of a software-intensive organization. This paper discusses, in retrospect, Homer with respect to change management processes at DaimlerChrysler and various feedback and learning possibilites that the help desk support system provided for itself, the he...

Care at home for children with complex health needs is recommended in health policy and advocated by professionals and voluntary organisations. Measuring benefits for the child and family is difficult and burden is known to be high for the family, especially when support for home care is inadequate. Case examples are used in this article to demonstrate the clinical and cost effectiveness of hom...