Overhead transmission lines are influenced by different factors which are mostly electrical and mechanical. These factors can cause problems for lines, distortions in network and outage of line. In designing transmission lines mechanical properties are evaluated after selecting a suitable conductor and clearance with regard to electrical properties. In lines designing, an important mechanical p...

Déjà Vu is a case-based software design system whose success is based on two novel techniques: hierarchical case-based reasoning and adaptation-guided retrieval. Hierarchical case-based reasoning (HCBR) solves complex problems in a hierarchical fashion by reusing and combining the solutions of many separate cases and is fully supported by the normal CBR retrieve-and-adapt cycle. Adaptation-guid...

Centre Pivots and Lateral Moves in the Australian Cotton Industry Centre Pivots and Lateral Moves (CP&LMs) or overhead irrigation systems have been successfully installed in every cotton growing district in Australia. This industry now has the capacity to broaden the uptake of this irrigation technology, and benefit from its simplicity and improved water use efficiency while moving away from fa...

A preemptive gang scheduler is developed and evaluated. The gang scheduler, called SCoreD , is implemented on top of a UNIX operating system and runs on workstation and PC clusters connected by Myrinet, a giga-bit class, high-performance network. To have high-performance communication at the user-level and a multiuser environment simultaneously, we propose network preemption to save and restore...

In this paper a theoretical model is developed to compare different distributed platforms on their performance in computational problems. In order to compare different platforms in a heterogeneous environment on the same basis, the use of tasklists in XML is introduced. In this paper some initial results of the performance and overhead of JavaSpaces are presented. The resulting data set of the ...

This work investigates the fundamental constraints of anonymous communication (AC) protocols. We analyze the relationship between bandwidth overhead, latency overhead, and sender anonymity or recipient anonymity against the global passive (network-level) adversary. We confirm the trilemma that an AC protocol can only achieve two out of the following three properties: strong anonymity (i.e., ano...