The tradeoffs in employing multicasting technology for implementing large scale video on demand (VoD) over Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) system, in general, come to the scheduled multicasting streams and limited video or television program selections. The scheduling strategies presented in this paper will provide several advantages. First, we proposed a near Video on demand architecture c...

This paper presents the use of techniques for simulating product qualification as well as for product testing of electronic hardware to be used in the United States Marine Corp’s Advanced Amphibious Assault Vehicle. The goal of integrating “up-front” virtual life assessment into the development environment is to increase overall product reliability and decrease overall product cost by decreasin...

Recent years have witnessed considerable advances in designing and operating of energy grids, while the concepts related to the operation of Smart Grids, Vehicle-toGrid, responsive demand, among others, are gaining research interest worldwide. From an educational viewpoint, the use of a complementary laboratory approach is expected to contribute to the effective communication of these concepts ...

Cholinesterase Activity in Female Greenhouse Workers—Influence of Work Practices and Use of Oral Contraceptives: Jesper B NIELSEN, et al. Environmental Medicine, University of Southern Denmark—Objectives—Associations between serum butyryl cholinesterase activity in female greenhouse workers and information from a questionnaire on work, use of personal protective equipment, and lifestyle were ev...

according to the changing business, nowadays teams are cornerstones of successful organizations, in addition, with the developments and technological innovations in communication and information, virtual teams are playing more critical role in today's business. on this basis, determining factors which affect virtual team's performance are important to both scholars and practitioners. ...

In this paper we investigate various questions associated with routing and provisioning virtual private networks (VPNs) based on hose traffic models or constraints, i.e., using aggregate (hose) traffic characterizations in/out of VPN end-points. This appears to be a promising simple approach to dealing with traffic engineering for VPNs. We evaluate the possible efficiencies derived from spatial...

although there are many potential benefits associated with the use of virtual product development teams, exploiting these benefits requires an appropriate management. managing virtual product development team is a critical issue as many of these teams fail to accomplish their goals. review of previous literature shows that body of knowledge in managing virtual product development teams is fragm...