The availability is often used to measure how well a system can provide the service continuously. The measures of availability for a single computer and for multiple computers are very different. In this paper, we discuss the objects set availability in the distributed environment especially in the case of P2P environment. The objects set availability is defined and formalized. In the P2P envir...

This chapter presents ALZ-MAS1, an Ambient Intelligence based multi-agent system aimed at enhancing the assistance and health care for Alzheimer patients. The system makes use of several context-aware technologies that allow it to automatically obtain information from users and the environment in an evenly distributed way, focusing on the characteristics of ubiquity, awareness, intelligence, mo...

— For large scale distributed storage systems, flash memories are an excellent choice because flash memories consume less power, take lesser floor space for a target throughput and provide faster access to data. In a traditional distributed filesystem, even distribution is required to ensure load-balancing, balanced space utilisation and failure tolerance. In the presence of flash memories, in ...

This paper introduces the concept of “optimally distributed computation” in feed-forward neural networks via regularisation of weight saliency. By constraining the relative importance of the parameters, computation can be distributed thinly and evenly throughout the network. We propose that this will have beneficial effects on fault tolerance performance and generalisation ability in augmented ...

This paper introduces the conceptof “optimally distributed computation” in feed-forward neural networks via regularisation of weight saliency. By constraining the relative importance of the parameters, computation can be distributed thinly and evenly throughout the network. We propose that this will have beneficial effects on fault tolerance performance and generalisation ability in augmented n...

in order to study the effect of flaming on seed viability of sinapis arvensis l., changes in microorganisms population and physicochemical characteristics of soil after canola (brassica napus l.) harvesting, an experiment was carried out based on randomized complete block design with four replications and eight treatments at karaj research center, iran, during 2005- 2006. after harvesting canol...

the purpose of this study was to have a general view of pancreas in one species of pigeon.some disorders affect avian pancreas.pancreatitis and pancreatic degeneration have been described in many infections and deficiencies. in pigeon, lymphoid infiltration and necrosis diffusion is a common finding. after anesthesia, tissue pieces were dissected from the lobes. samples were fixed in bouin, pro...

in addition to graft clarity, an acceptable refractive error is essential to consider a corneal transplant successful. the most common complication of penetrating keratoplasty (pk) is postkeratoplasty astigmatism which can result in decreased visual acuity, anisometropia, and mono-ocular diplopia. these complications can cause patient dissatisfaction, in spite of a successful transplant. intrao...

Most of the authors working on the species composition of fam. Paramphistomidae (genus Paramphistomum) consider 5 valid species distributed in Europe, namely Paramphistomum cervi (Zeder, 1790)1, P. ichikawai Fukui, 1922, P. microboihrium Fischoeder, 19012, P. daubrteyi Dinnik, 19623 and P. gotoi Fukui, 1922 (cf. Kamburov, 1977 ; Sey, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1982 ; Odening and Gräfner, 1979, Odening, ...