Resource allocation to different functions is central in life-history theory. Plasticity of functional traits allows clonal plants to regulate their resource allocation to meet changing environments. In this study, biomass allocation traits of clonal plants were categorized into absolute biomass for vegetative growth vs. for reproduction, and their relative ratios based on a data set including ...

Using intelligent techniques to perform radio resource management is an effective method. This paper proposes neural fuzzy control for radio resource management in hierarchical cellular systems supporting multimedia services. A neural fuzzy resource manager (NFRM) is designed, which mainly contains a neural fuzzy channel allocation processor (NFCAP), and NFCAP is in a two-layer architecture: a ...

Abstract For providing distributed multimedia applications with end–to–end QoS (Quality of Service) guarantees, resource–reservation based control mechanisms should be employed in both of networks and end–systems. Resource reservation within the network can be achieved by virtue of bandwidth allocation mechanisms of Internet RSVP or ATM, and the CPU resource on the end system can be reserved by...

Apparent amino acid availability coefficients of several typical and novel feed ingredients were determined in rainbow trout using extruded diets and the faecal stripping technique. The ingredients were tested included five fish meals, three terrestrial animal by-products, five plant protein concentrates, four plant meals, and seven low-protein plant ingredients. Amino acid availability from th...

In decentralized computing environments, systems are built mainly from components that are developed and maintained independently by different third-party providers. The executions and evolutions of components located on distributed sites are beyond the control of the system developers, and the availabilities of those components are, to some extent, unpredictable because of their own tendencies...

In this work, we consider the execution of applications on desktop grids. Such parallel systems use idle computing resources of desktops distributed over the Internet for running massively parallel computations. The applications are composed of workflows of independent non-preemptive sequential jobs that are submitted by successive batches. Then, the corresponding jobs are executed on the distr...

Resource constrained project scheduling (RCPSP) is one of the most crucial problems in project problem. The aim of RCPSP, which is NP-hard, is to minimize the project duration. Sometimes the activity durations are not known in advance and are random variables. These problems are called stochastic resource constrained project scheduling problems or stochastic RCPSP. Various algorithms such as ge...