This paper introduces and assesses novel strategies to schedule firm semi-periodic real-time tasks. Jobs are released periodically have the same relative deadline. Job execution times obey an arbitrary probability distribution can take either bounded or unbounded values. We investigate several optimization criteria, most prominent being <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xml...

today, the real problem in iran is a supply and demand problem in all aspects of the economy. from skilled and semi- skilled manapower (ssm) perspective, supply and demand are repidly changing but in opposite directions (ellig, 1990). on the demand side, the emphasis is on a skilled and semi- skilled workforce, but on the supply side, entrylevel workers are high school graduates who are functio...

We study semi-stable ideal lattices coming from quadratic number fields. We prove that all ideal lattices of trace type from rings of integers of imaginary quadratic number fields are semi-stable. For real quadratic fields, we demonstrate infinite families of semi-stable and unstable ideal lattices, establishing explicit conditions on the canonical basis of an ideal that ensure stability; in pa...

We prove that the subdifferential of any semi-algebraic extended-real-valued function on Rn has n-dimensional graph. We discuss consequences for generic semi-algebraic optimization problems.

Background: Human rotavirus (HRV) is the causative agent of severe gastroenteritis in children and responsible for two million hospitalizations and more than a half-million deaths annually. Sequence characteristics of the gene segments encoding the VP7 and VP4 proteins are used for the genotype classification of rotavirus. A wide variety of molecular methods are available, mainly based on rever...

We analyse a huge and very precise trace of contact data collected during 6 months on the entire population of a rehabilitation hospital. We investigate the graph structure of the average daily contact network. Our main results are to unveil striking properties of this structure in the considered hospital, and to present a methodology that can be used for analysing any dynamic complex network w...