Mission-critical distributed applications, such as Internet advertising platforms, increasingly utilize distributed publish/subscribe systems as a messaging substrate for information dissemination. These applications require low latency performance from the substrate, as the timely delivery of messages can have a direct impact on revenue. The cost of managing and operating distributed publish/s...

In designing a supply chain, firms are often faced with the competing demands of improved customer service and reduced cost. We develop a model that incorporates fixed distribution center location costs, working and safety stock inventory costs at the distribution centers, fixed and variable transport costs from a plant to the distribution centers and delivery costs to customers. Service is mea...

Advanced sequencing techniques make large genome data available at an unprecedented speed and reduced cost. Genome data sharing has the potential to facilitate significant medical breakthroughs. However, privacy concerns have impeded efficient genome data sharing. In this paper, we present a novel approach for disseminating genomic data while satisfying differential privacy. The proposed algori...

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud providers offer a number of different tariff structures. The user has to balance the flexibility of the often quoted pay-by-the-hour, fixed price (“on demand”) model against the lower-cost-per-hour rate of a “reserved contract”. These tariff structures offer a significantly reduced cost per server hour (up to 50%), in exchange for an up-front payment by ...

No part of this Journal may be reproduced in any form, by print, photoprint, mi-croolm or any other means without written permission from Faculty of Technical : Abstract We devise a new simplex pivot rule which has interesting theoretical properties. Beginning with a basic feasible solution, and any nonbasic variable having a negative reduced cost, the pivot rule produces a sequence of pivots s...

Article History: Received 5, May, 2015 Received in revised form 12, May, 2015 Accepted 6, June, 2015 Published online 28, June, 2015 VoIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) is an advanced technology that has a great potential to develop new telecommunication with much lower cost and better QoS. VoIP, a new technology has been increasingly popular in recent times due to its affordability and reduced...

As the number of different video compression standards increase, there is a growing need for conversion between video formats coded in different standards. H.264/AVC is a newly emerging video coding standard which achieves better video quality at reduced bit rate than other standards. The standalone media players that are available in the market do not support H.264 video playback. In this pape...

Article history: Received 10 May 2010 Received in revised form 6 July 2011 Accepted 13 August 2011 Available online 15 September 2011 Due to the rapidpaceof change in technologyand its impactonsociety, there is an increasingdemand for use of Technology Forecasting methods to improve policy planning and implementation. One such area is the field of Health Care and the impact of Health Informatio...

Since the advent of the Si-based integrated circuit, ever-increasing function has been available at reduced cost and with reduced consumption of power. This “semiconductor revolution” has been possible because semiconductor devices have the unique feature that as they become smaller they also become faster, consume less power, become cheaper per circuit, and enable more function per unit area o...

Testing has a vital support role in the software engineering process, but developing tests often takes significant resources. A formal specification is a repository of knowledge about a system, and a recent method uses such specifications to automatically generate complete test suites via mutation analysis. We define an extensive set of mutation operators for use with this method. We report the...