There will be fundamental change in the Millennium, but not enacted in Washington, D.C. American health care is entering the "post-Managed Care" era in which payers, providers, plans, and patients reconstruct a new, more efficient, and, ultimately, more satisfying health care delivery system. The Millennium landscape of this evolving marketplace will be characterized by the following trends: (1...

Today’s data deluge enables organizations to collect massive data, and analyze it with an ever-increasing number of concurrent queries. Traditional data warehouses (DW) face a challenging problem in executing this task, due to their query-centric model: each query is optimized and executed independently. This model results in high contention for resources. Thus, modern DW depart from the queryc...

In this research, we have developed the data driven computational walking model to overcome the problem with traditional kinematics based model. Our model is adaptable and can adjust the parameter morphological similar to human. The human walk is a combination of different discrete sub-phases with their continuous dynamics. Any system which exhibits the discrete switching logic and continuous d...

Complex planning domains push the boundaries of the expressive power of planning domain modelling languages. Recent extensions to the standard planning languages have included expressions for temporal, metric and resource structures. Other work has also considered how process models can be incorporated into domain models. In this paper we consider the problem of expressing and validating models...

Legged and wheeled locomotion are two standard methods used by robots to perform navigation. Combining them create a hybrid legged-wheeled results in increased speed, agility, reconfigurability for the robot, allowing it traverse multitude of environments. The CENTAURO robot has these advantages, but they accompanied higher-dimensional search space formulating autonomous economical motion plans...

We consider the efficient computation of sequences of push actions that simultaneously orient two different polygons. Our motivation for studying this problem comes from the observation that appropriately oriented parts admit simple sensorless sorting. We study the sorting of two polygonal parts by first putting them in properly selected orientations. We give an O(n log n)-time algorithm to enu...

Push back design as a complex task, is one of the major steps in the open pit mines planning. Push backs can be generated by varying economic factors such as commodity price, mining cost, processing cost, etc. Another important issue in generating push backs is grade uncertainty, which can cause the problem be more complex. Conventional methods of push back design ignore grade uncertainty. To o...

Big data applications have fast arriving data that must be quickly ingested. At the same time, they have specific needs to preprocess and transform the data before it could be put to use. The current practice is to do these preparatory transformations once the data is already ingested, however this is expensive to run and cumbersome to manage. As a result, there is a need to push data preproces...

In this paper we investigate the current status of Fiberto-the-Home Passive Optical Networks. We start by reviewing the driving forces behind the push for broadband from the customer and service provider sides. PONs are currently preferred for new FTTH deployments for a variety of reasons; we review their standards, new technologies and deployment plans in the United States, Japan and Korea. We...