Solving a scheduling problem consists in finding an initial solution able to model all the complex constraints that relate the problem activities. Moreover, the solving process should be necessarily considered as propaedeutic for the next phase of any schedule’s life: its execution in the real world. The inherent unpredictability of real working environments poses serious difficulties to which ...

An infrastructure is emerging that enables the positioning of populations of on-line, mobile service users. In step with this, research in the management of moving objects has attracted substantial attention. In particular, quite a few proposals now exist for the indexing of moving objects, and more are underway. As a result, there is an increasing need for an independent benchmark for spatio-t...

The ascendance of networked information in our economy and daily lives has increased the awareness of the importance of dependability features. OLTP (On-Line Transaction Processing) systems constitute the kernel of the information systems used today to support the daily operations of most of the business. Although these systems comprise the best examples of complex business-critical systems, no...

This paper presents first a performance analysis of the recently developed Minimal Resource Allocating Network (MRAN) algorithm for on-line identification of nonlinear dynamic systems. Using nonlinear time invariant and time varying identification benchmark problems, MRAN’s performance is compared with the recently proposed On-line Structural Adaptive Hybrid Learning (ONSAHL) algorithm of Junge...

dynamic behavior of the wind-excited-benchmark-building using semi-active electromagnetic friction dampers (saemfds), with modulated homogeneous friction algorithm is presented. the performance of the benchmark building is studied under across wind loads by installing the saemfds with smooth boundary layer semi-active friction (sblsaf) algorithm. the governing equations of motion are solved by ...

This paper discusses the mediumto long-term perspectives for the Irish banking system. Consistent with the finance-growth literature, financial deepening had a limited impact on growth in Ireland before the crisis and cannot be expected to contribute significantly over the shortto medium-term. The paper documents that, compared to its benchmark, the Irish banking system is still very unbalanced...

The paper presents a novel approach for extracting structural features from segmented cursive handwriting. The proposed approach is based on the contour code and stroke direction. The contour code feature utilises the rate of change of slope along the contour profile in addition to other properties such as the ascender and descender count, start point and end point. The direction feature identi...

In this paper we propose a three–level computational equilibrium model that allows to analyze the impact of the regulatory environment on transmission line expansion (by the regulator) and investment in generation capacity (by private firms) in liberalized electricity markets. The basic model analyzes investment decisions of the transmission operator (TO) and private firms in expectation of an ...

This paper focuses on reducing power in instruction cache by eliminating the fetching of instructions that are not needed from a cache line. We propose a mechanism that predicts which instructions are going to be used out of a cache line before that line is fetched into the instruction buffer. The average instruction cache power savings obtained by using our fetch predictor is 22% for SPEC95 be...