IONS AND METHODOLOGY Computer architecture’s heavy emphasis on simulation effectively discourages the research community from exploring other useful and possibly more informative modeling techniques. The few published papers using and proposing analytic models have not stimulated significant follow-up efforts. Stories abound of such papers receiving knee-jerk negative rejections from program co...

An interconnection network is usually modeled as a graph, in which vertices and edges correspond to processor and communication links, respectively. Connectivity is an important measurement for the fault tolerant in interconnection network. Two vertices is maximally local-connected if the maximum number of internally vertex-disjoint paths between them equals the minimum degree of these two vert...

No doubt that there is a great demand on digital era. Reaching millions of customers using internet encourages all companies regardless of their types to build their own websites and market their products, services and information through internet. In this paper, an enhanced framework is developed which can be used from different types of informative companies to build a successful website. The...

It is increasingly recognized that good reliability practice requires giving attention to the specification of joint distributions for failure times. If the marginal distributions are known then the problem of selecting a marginal distribution is equivalent to that of selecting a copula. In the competing risk situation, identification of the copula alone is important, for together with competin...

Fractal scale-free networks are empirically known to exhibit disassortative degree mixing. It is, however, not obvious whether a negative degree correlation between nearest neighbor nodes makes a scale-free network fractal. Here we examine the possibility that disassortativity in complex networks is the origin of fractality. To this end, maximally disassortative (MD) networks are prepared by re...

The paper addresses the problem of recovering a pseudoconvex function from the normal cones to its level sets that we call the convex level sets integration problem. An important application is the revealed preference problem. Our main result can be described as integrating a maximally cyclically pseudoconvex multivalued map that sends vectors or “bundles” of a Euclidean space to convex sets in...

A partial sequence of the mtDNA ND5 gene region was used for population study in Persian sturgeon (west and east areas of southern Caspian Sea). The result showed that although this approach was informative for phylogenetic study in sturgeon, it was less informative for population study in Persian sturgeon. 

the genetic diversity among 56 almond (prunus dulcis) genotypes was analysed using 35 microsatellite markers and 14 morphological traits. analysis of morphological traits revealed a wide range of variation among the studied genotypes. out of 35 simple sequence repeats (ssrs) markers, 25 were polymorphic, producing 215 alleles that varied from 2 to 16 with an average of 8.76 alleles per locus. r...

Informative art is computer augmented, or amplified, works of art that not only are aesthetical objects but also information displays, in as much as they dynamically reflect information about their environment. Informative art can be seen as a kind of slow technology, i.e. a technology that promotes moments of concentration and reflection. Our aim is to present the design space of informative a...