Realizing an optimal task scheduling by taking into account the business importance of jobs has become a matter of interest in pay and use model of Cloud computing. Introduction of an appropriate model for an efficient task scheduling technique could derive benefit to the service providers as well as clients. In this paper, we have addressed two major challenges which has implications on the pe...

This paper deals with the real time implementation of a web integrated scheduling support system for a multiproduct manufacturing industry. The industry manufactures a wide variety of products ranging from steam turbines, gas turbines to compressors. The product assembly is quite complex, in particular a typical bill of material (BOM) has more than 50 levels. It is obvious that scheduling of th...

DisFC is an ABT-like algorithm that, instead of sending the value taken by the high priority agent, it sends the domain of the low priority agent that is compatible with that value. With this strategy, plus the use of sequence numbers, some privacy level is achieved. In particular, each agent knows its value in the solution, but ignores the values of the others. However, the idea of sending the...

BACKGROUND Decisions regarding the allocation of available resources are a source of growing dissatisfaction for healthcare decision-makers. This dissatisfaction has led to increased interest in research on evidence-based resource allocation processes. An emerging area of interest has been the empirical analysis of the characteristics of existing and desired priority setting processes from the ...

Although IPC has become really fast it is still too slow on certain processors. Two examples motivating even faster IPC, critical sections in real-time applications and multi-threaded servers, are briefly discussed below. Critical sections in real-time applications suffer from the wellknown priority-inversion problem [7]. Multiple solutions have been proposed, e.g. priority inheritance (which i...

Optical Burst Switching (OBS) networks provide good features to support IP-overphotonics for the next generation Internet. In this paper, we propose a Virtual Channel Reservation (VCR) scheme for service differentiation in OBS networks. It provides scalable differentiated service to each priority class without implementing buffers or extra offset time. In particular, this scheme can achieve two...

In wireless body area networks (WBANs), various sensors and actuators are placed on/inside the human body and connected wirelessly. WBANs have specific requirements for healthcare and medical applications, hence, standard protocols like the IEEE 802.15.4 cannot fulfill all the requirements. Consequently, many medium access control (MAC) protocols, mostly derived from the IEEE 802.15.4 superfram...

This study examined the impact of Clear Pronunciation 2 software on teaching English suprasegmental features, focusing on stress, rhythm and intonation. In particular, the software covers five topics in relation to suprasegmental features including consonant cluster, word stress, connected speech, sentence stress and intonation. Seven Iranian EFL learners participated in this study. The study l...