Condor is a “specialized workload management system for compute-intensive jobs.” Compilation of 3 areas of research Analysis of workstation usage patterns Who are using these workstations? How often are they free? Remote capacity allocation algorithms How do we allocate jobs? Who gets pushed to the top of the queue? Development of remote execution facilities What is the best way to run a job on...

analysis of the illustrations of dissections in miniatures, sculptures, medallions, titlepages of books, typographical ornaments, portraits of dissectors, anatomical theatres and caricatures on this theme, provides a comprehensive survey of a subject which until now could only be reached through painstaking research. The illustrations show clearly the passing of basic artistic ideas from one co...

Neural network architectures are proposed to model and control the Spark-Ignition (SI) engine idle speed. Static and dynamic multi-layer neural networks are used to develop plant models and plant inverse function models. A neural network is trained to learn the system’s input-output relationship. Another is trained to model the inverse relationship of the plant and is included in the controller...

We propose a collective approach for harnessing the idle resources (cpu, storage, and bandwidth) of nodes (e.g., home desktops) distributed across the Internet. Instead of a purely peer-to-peer (P2P) approach, we organize participating nodes to act collectively using collective managers (CMs). Participating nodes provide idle resources to CMs, which unify these resources to run meaningful distr...

this paper analyzes an m/m/2 queueing system with two heterogeneous servers. both servers goes on vacation when there is no customers waiting for service after this server 1 is always available but the other goes on vacation whenever server 2 is idle. the vacationing server however, returns to serve at a low rate as an arrival finds the other server busy. the system is analyzed in the steady st...

The Internet is comprised of a lot of interconnected networks communicating reachability information using BGP. Due to the design based on trust between networks, IP prefix hijacking can occurs, which is caused by wrong routing information. This results in a serious security threat in the Internet routing system. In this paper, we present an effective and practical approach for detecting IP pre...

The purpose of this research is to examine the use of popular political language and its consequence on the poor, especially the undeserving poor. The study examines how, such ‘anti-pauper language’ affected social outcomes for the poor, and how certain authoritarian groups used language to remove the ‘taint’ of pauperism from the town of Huddersfield between 1834 and 1874. Over the past forty ...

A recent interesting paper ~Cooper, Niu, and Srinivasan @2# ! shows how for some cyclic production systems reducing setup times can surprisingly increase work in process+ There the authors show how in these situations the introduction of forced idle time can be used to optimize system performance+ Here we show that introducing forced idle time at different points during the production cycle can...

The authors present training and feedforward computation for a single layer of a VMM+WTA classifier. The experimental demonstration of the one-layer universal approximator encourages the use of one-layer networks for embedded low-power classification. The results enabling correct classification of each novel acoustic signal (generator, idle car, and idle truck). The classification structure req...