ACCEPTED FOR AN ORAL PRESENTATION Park A, Lee G, Meenaghan N, Lee TH, Seagull FJ (2008) Patients benefit while surgeons suffer: an impending epidemic, Annual meeting of American College of Surgeons (ACS) Lee G, Lee TH, Dexter DJ, Godinez C, Meenaghan N, Park AE (2008) Joint kinetic data augments traditional biomechanical approach to assess the ergonomics of laparoscopic camera assistants, Annua...

The high cost of provisioning resources to meet peak application demands has led to the widespread adoption of pay-asyou-go cloud computing services to handle workload fluctuations. Some enterprises with existing IT infrastructure employ a hybrid cloud model where the enterprise uses its own private resources for the majority of its computing, but then “bursts” into the cloud when local resourc...

Enterprises with existing IT infrastructure are beginning to employ a hybrid cloud model where the enterprise uses its own private resources for the majority of its computing, but then “bursts” into the cloud when local resources are insufficient. However, current approaches to cloud bursting cannot be effectively automated because they heavily rely on system administrator knowledge to make dec...

T he four-color theorem [1, 2] is one of the most well-known results in graph theory. Originating from the question of coloring a world map, posed in the middle of the nineteenth century, it has since fascinated hundreds of researchers and motivated a lot of beautiful mathematics. It states that every planar graph (that is, a graph that can be drawn in the plane without crossings) can be proper...

www.philadelphiafed.org economists around the country.1 He continued to publish his survey every six months, gathering and reporting on the forecasts and tracking their evolution over time. His survey, which was the only collection of private-sector forecasts of macroeconomic variables in the country at the time, gained a national following. Economic researchers began using the survey extensive...

Seagull Optimization Algorithm (SOA) is a metaheuristic algorithm that mimics the migrating and hunting behaviour of seagulls. SOA able to solve continuous real-life problems, but not discrete problems. The eight different binary versions are proposed in this paper. uses four transfer functions, S-shaped V-shaped, which used map search space into space. Twenty-five benchmark functions validate ...