This paper presents an adaptive weighted sum (AWS) method for multiobjective optimization problems. The method extends the previously developed biobjective AWS method to problems with more than two objective functions. In the first phase, the usual weighted sum method is performed to approximate the Pareto surface quickly, and a mesh of Pareto front patches is identified. Each Pareto front patc...

This paper describes a unified framework for the static and dynamic saliency detection by whitening both the chromatic characteristics and the spatio-temporal frequencies. This approach is grounded in the statistical adaptation to the input data, resembling the human visual system’s early codification. Our approach, AWS-D, outperforms state-ofthe-art models in the ability to predict human eye f...

Cloud providers typically charge for their services. There are diverse pricing models which often follow a pay-per-use paradigm. The consumers’ payments are expected to cover all cost which incurs to the provider for processing, storage, bandwidth, data centre operation and engineering efforts, among others. In contrast, the consumer management interfaces are free of charge as they are expected...

Cloud computing offers the opportunity to improve efficiency with cloud providers offering consumers the ability to automatically scale their applications to meet exact demands. However, “auto-scaling” is usually provided to consumers in the form of metric threshold rules which are not capable of determining whether a scaling alert is issued due to an actual change in the demand of the applicat...

The apparent wall slip (AWS) effect, accompanying the flow of colloidal dispersions in confined geometries, can be an important factor for the applications of nanofluids in heat transfer and microfluidics. In this study, a series of dilute TiO2 aqueous dispersions were prepared and tested for the possible presence of the AWS effect by means of a novel viscometric technique. The nanofluids, prep...

AIMS Thiamine (Th) deficiency is a major problem in alcoholics. In this study, the relationship of alcohol withdrawal syndrome (AWS) to Th and its esters, as well as the diagnostic power of Th and its esters were investigated. PATIENTS AND METHODS Th and its esters were assessed in a series of chronic alcoholics (and in controls) using an improved method. RESULTS No association was found be...

In this work, we investigate tools that enable dollar cost optimization of scientific simulations using commercial clouds. We present a framework, called CLOUDTRACKER, that transparently records information from a simulation that is executed in a commercial cloud so that it may be “replayed” exactly to reproduce its results. Using the automated CLOUDTRACKER provenance and replay facilities, sci...