Efficient resource allocation is an important aspect in overall distributed system performance and especially in the provisioning of QoS guarantees. In order to achieve efficient resource allocation an accurate, efficient and timely resource description mechanism is required. This report presents the Resource Description Graph (RDG) as a means of encoding resource descriptions in a directed acy...

In joint missions, coalition members are often guided by the social characteristics (e.g policies/norms) of the nations or organisations they represent. Developing and resourcing plans in such collaborative context is a complex problem, and requires an understanding of the policy and resource availability constraints under which others operate. We present a novel combination of argumentation, m...

The problem we investigate deals with the optimal assignment of resources to the activities of a stochastic project network. We seek to minimize the expected cost of the project include sum of resource utilization costs and lateness costs. We assume that the work content required by the activities follows an exponential distribution. The decision variables of the model are the allocated resourc...

The resource constraint project scheduling problem (RCPSP) is an NP-hard benchmark problem in scheduling which takes into account the limitation of resources’ availabilities in real life production processes and subsumes open-shop, job-shop, and flow-shop scheduling as special cases. We here present an application of machine learning to adapt simple greedy strategies for the RCPSP. Iterative re...

With three-dimensional chip integration, the heat dissipation per unit area increases rapidly and may result in high on-chip temperatures. Real-time constraints cannot be guaranteed anymore as exceeding a certain threshold temperature can immediately reduce the systems reliability and performance. Dynamic thermal management methods are promising methods to prevent the system from overheating. H...

Citation: Büscher JV, Form AU and Riebesell U (2017) Interactive Effects of Ocean Acidification and Warming on Growth, Fitness and Survival of the Cold-Water Coral Lophelia pertusa under Different Food Availabilities. Front. Mar. Sci. 4:101. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2017.00101 Interactive Effects of Ocean Acidification and Warming on Growth, Fitness and Survival of the Cold-Water Coral Lophelia pertu...

In this paper, we investigate the connection availabilities for the new protection scheme Demand-wise Shared Protection (DSP) and describe an appropriate approach for their computation. The exemplary case study on two realistic network scenarios shows that in most cases the availabilities for DSP are comparable with that for 1+1 path protection and better than in case of shared path protection.

Maintenance planning program of offshore assets is a complex activity due to its impact on the operational and safety risks consequences, dependence personnel resource availabilities, site constraints requirements environmental factors, uncertainties related various vulnerabilities asset. This paper elaborates challenges maintenance frameworks have carried out review recent state-of-the-art lit...