This paper presents the design philosophy used in the BEST/ 1 computer performance evaluator. Essentially, BEST/1 is a modeling tool which has been developed to address the "what if" questions that arise when evaluating computer . system performance. These questions are of importance in such areas as capacity planning, performance tuning, hardware vendor selection and new system design. From a ...

A meme media object, also known as a Webble, always come with a set of familiar generic behaviors together with another set of specialized ones for that particular Webble. But what if there is a need for a custom behavior or interface that was not originally intended when first created. With Webble technology, that does not need to be a problem. In this paper we will attempt to show how simple ...

Mapping apps are the greatest game-changer for encouraging people to explore the city. You take your phone out and you know immediately where to go. However, the app also assumes there are only a handful of directions to the destination. It has the power to make those handful of directions the definitive direction to that destination. A few years ago, my research started to focus on understandi...

JS McMillan Fisheries Ltd. (JSM) is a Vancouver-based commercial fishing, production and distribution company. As the operations of JSM evolved, the process of allocating a commercial salmon catch to a set of final products has become complex and time-consuming. We developed a linear programming based decision support tool to assist JSM management with this allocation decision. The decision sup...

ince the advent of computing, the world has experienced an information " big bang " : an explosion of data. The amount of information being created is increasing at an exponential rate. Since 2003, digital information has accounted for 90 percent of all information produced [1], vastly exceeding the amount of information on paper and on film. One of the greatest scientific and engineering chall...

In fact, the development of a fully operational GIS for forest management will likely incorporate each activity as two distinct stages in its development (see Crain and MacDonald 1983, Jordan and Erdle 1990). For example, spatial data input, editing, and simple maps characterize the inventory and monitoring stage. In the modeling stage, overlays, reclassifications and suitability analyses are i...

Tcl[1] is an interpreted high level language suitable for scripts, small scale systems, prototypes and embedding in larger applications. C++ is a powerful compiled language that provides support for object oriented programming and is suitable for building large complex systems. But what if you could move from C++ to Tcl and back again with the ease of an object reference and a dynamically bound...

Decision Guidance Systems provide supply managers with a powerful tool to handle complex sourcing issues. Supply organizations have several hundreds of items on one complex bid. Satisfying both user and multiple business unit objectives requires software that allows the sourcing team to rapidly analyze an unlimited number of alternatives. Doing so enables the firm to realize a higher percentage...