Modern data-driven applications pose stringent requirements of high bandwidth, ultra-low-latency, low-powered, and scalable interconnections among switches routers in data-centers. To address these demands, electronic switching is not a viable choice due to bandwidth computing bottlenecks. Thus, researchers explored effective optical switch design principles for next-generation In switches, dat...

In a recent paper in this journal, Wojcik (2000) argues that the nested logit model “is likely to be superior” to alternative random coefficients logit specifications, like those we and many others have used in recent work (e.g. Berry, Levinsohn, and Pakes (1995), henceforth BLP). Her conclusion is based on a within sample “prediction” exercise. We would like to raise several issues about her c...

This paper presents a revised comparison of Bayesian logic programs (BLPs) and stochastic logic programs (SLPs) based on a previous work. We first explore their semantical differences in terms of probabilistic logic learning settings and first-order probabilistic logics. We then revise BLP-SLP translations to resolve a potential ‘contradictory refutation’ problem. We finally work on the compari...

CRISPR-Cas systems are bacterial defenses against foreign nucleic acids derived from bacteriophages, plasmids or other sources. These systems are targeted in an RNA-dependent, sequence-specific manner, and are also adaptive, providing protection against previously encountered foreign elements. In addition to their canonical function in defense against foreign nucleic acid, their roles in variou...

Cognitive radios emerged as a solution to spectrum scarcity problem. The integration of cognitive radios and Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) enables a new paradigm of communication in which, sensor nodes can avoid heavily crowded transmission bands by tuning their transmission parameters to less crowded bands. In this paper we consider the problem of Spectrum Assignment (SA) for Cognitive Radio ...

Iron ore and coal are substantial contributors to Australia’s export economy. Both are blended products that are made-to-order according to customers’ desired product qualities. Mining companies have a great interest in meeting these target qualities since deviations generally result in contractually agreed penalties. This paper studies a variation of the generalized pooling problem (GPP) arisi...

Participants in the land market are usually hampered to browse and analyze the land price information due to the lack of information sources and available analysis tools. A service-oriented GIS-based web system was developed to provide a practical solution, its essential data sources contain basic geographic elements and benchmark land price (BLP)-related information. Core models for land price...

In this paper, we propose a new ensemble clustering approach termed ensemble clustering using factor graph (ECFG). Compared to the existing approaches, our approach has three main advantages: (1) the cluster number is obtained automatically and need not to be specified in advance; (2) the reliability of each base clustering can be estimated in an unsupervised manner and exploited in the consens...

Optical Burst Switching (OBS) is widely believed to be the technology for the future core network in the Internet. Burst assembly time at the ingress node is known to affect the traffic characteristics and loss distribution in the core network. We propose an algorithm for adapting the burst assembly time based on the observed loss pattern in the network. The proposed Learning-based Burst Assemb...

The blp locus of a type 6A strain of Streptococcus pneumoniae encodes a two-peptide bacteriocin, pneumocin MN, which mediates intraspecies competition during mouse nasopharyngeal colonization. This locus is regulated by a quorum-sensing mechanism consisting of a dedicated two-component regulatory system and a peptide pheromone. Like most clinical isolates, this type 6A strain can be separated i...