Oneofthemajorchallengesforthecloudprovideristheefficientutilizationofthephysicalresources. Toachievethis,thispaperproposedaBalanceResourceUtilization(BRU)approachthatnotonly minimizestheresourceleakagebutalsoincreasestheresourceutilizationandoptimizethesystem performance.Theproposedapproachconsider tworesources i.e.,CPUandmemory,asdecisi...

This project involved designing, implementing, and testing of a locally adaptive perceptual masking threshold model for image compression. This model computes, based on the contents of the original images, the maximum amount of noise energy that can be injected at each transform coefficient that results in perceptually distortion-free still images or sequences of images. The adaptive perceptual...

Abstract T his paper is to convince the usage of the nonlinear unit root tests when dealing with a nonlinear model. To do so, the stationary test for variables in a model titles “Fiscal Reaction Function in Iran” has been applied according to both the ordinary and the Nonlinear Dickey-Fuller (NDF) tests. Results show that while variables under investigation are stationary ...

in the present study, air quality analyses for ozone (o3) were conducted in ahvaz, a city in the south of iran. the measurements were taken from 2009 through 2010 in two different locations to prepare average data in the city. relations between the air pollutant and some meteorological parameters were calculated statistically using the daily average data. the wind data (velocity, direction), re...

introduction: the development of an appropriate model for the quality control of an industrial wastewater treatment system can save the time as well as the cost. this study was performed to determine an appropriate model in order to predict the cod and tkn parameters by bod5 and nh4+ in the meybod industrial estate waste water treatment plant (wwtp). methods: this descriptive – analytical study...

the use of remote sensing techniques as a suitable solution to estimate the levels of species diversity is of high importance for the sustainable management of forests. in order to investigate the potential of using sensor data from landsat 7 etm+ to estimate species diversity in the zagros forests, digital data related to the august 7, 2002 from forests in the qalajeh kermanshah province were ...

the objectives of this study were to identify a suitable mathematical model for describing the growth curve of baluchi sheep based on monthly records of live weight from birth to yearling; and to evaluate the efficacies of nonlinear mixed effect model (nlmm) and the nonlinear fixed effect model (nlm) methodologies. growth models were fitted to a total of 16,650 weight–age data belonging to 2071...

A voting scheme constitutes an essential component of many fault tolerant systems. Two types of voters are commonly used in applications of real-valued systems: the inexact majority and the amalgamating voters. The inexact majority voter effectively isolates erroneous modules and is capable of reporting benign outputs when a significant disagreement is detected. However, an application specific...

Financial instruments traded in the market, very often, are subject to default risk. It is well known that the default risks of different instruments are dependent on each other. In this paper, we consider a portfolio selection problem where assets are exposed to dependent default risk. Two different models are proposed to model the default mechanism: the Threshold Model and the Independence Mo...