Electromyography (EMG) is widely used to evaluate muscle activity. EMG can indicate which muscles are active and the relationship between a level of activity and the worker's capacity. Properly employed, EMG assists in evaluating the relative risks of alternative working conditions. Articles reporting EMG results are often used by ergonomics practitioners as guidance in job design. As such, the...

A detailed understanding of the many facets of the Internet’s topological structure is critical for evaluating the performance of networking protocols, for assessing the effectiveness of proposed techniques to protect the network from nefarious intrusions and attacks, or for developing improved designs for resource provisioning. In this way Available bandwidth estimation is a vital component of...

Database systems have been vital for all forms of data processing for a long time. In recent years, the amount of processed data has been growing dramatically, even in small projects. Nevertheless, database management systems tend to be static in terms of size and performance, which makes scaling a difficult and expensive task. This is especially an acute problem in dynamic environments like gr...

The wide adoption of parallel processing hardware in mainstream computing as well as the raising interest for efficient parallel programming in the developer community increase the demand for parallel programming model support for common algorithmic patterns. In this paper we present an extension to the OpenMP task construct to add support for reductions in while-loops and general-recursive fun...

Comparison of static and dynamic control allocation techniques for nonlinear constrained optimal distribution of tire forces in a vehicle control system is presented. The total body forces and moments, obtained from a high level controller, are distributed among tire forces, which are constrained to nonlinear constraint of saturation, through two approaches. For the static control allocation te...

In both static and dynamic, independent private values setups, the efficient allocation is implementable if the distribution of agents’ values is known. Lack of knowledge about the distribution is inconsequential in the static case. But, if distribution of agents’ values is not known in a dynamic framework, and if the designer gradually learns about it by observing present values, endogenously ...

Heterogeneous multi-core processors are attracted by the media processing applications due to their capability of drawing strengths of different cores to improve the overall performance. However, the data transfer bottlenecks and limitations in the task allocation due to the accelerator-incompatible operations prevents us from gaining full potential of the heterogeneous multi-core processors. T...

 To use services transparently in a distributed environment, the Utility Grids develop a cyber-infrastructure. The parameters of the Quality of Service such as the allocation-cost and makespan have to be dealt with in order to schedule workflow application tasks in the Utility Grids. Optimization of both target parameters above is a challenge in a distributed environment and may conflict one an...

A Distributed Computing Systems (DCS) calls for proper partitioning of tasks into modules and allocating them to various nodes so as to enable parallel execution of their modules by individual different processors of the system. A number of algorithms have been proposed for allocation of tasks in a Distributed Computing System. Most of the models proposed in literature consider modules of a sin...

The performance gains of massively parallel systems can be significantly diminished by the inherent communication overhead. This overhead is caused by the required message passing resulting from the task allocation scheme. To minimize this overhead, a hybrid static-dynamic scheduling technique is presented. The static phase makes use of a priori information at compile-time to assign priorities ...