Mobile cloud computing, which integrates the cloud computing techniques into the mobile environment, is regarded as one of the enabler technologies for 5G mobile wireless networks. There are many sporadic spare resources distributed within various devices in the networks, which can be used to support mobile cloud applications. However, these devices, with only a few spare resources, cannot supp...

OBJECTIVE Physician shift schedules are regularly created manually, using paper or a shared online spreadsheet. Mistakes are not unusual, leading to last minute scrambles to cover a shift. We developed a web-based shift scheduling system and a mobile application tool to facilitate both the monthly scheduling and shift exchanges between physicians. The primary objective was to compare physician ...

Even though different aspects of adaptivity play a major role in today’s software, the term “Adaptive Applications” is not well defined in literature, and is usually confused with other terms referring to other sorts of applications. In this paper we try to de-fuzzify the term and capture common properties of these applications into an informal definition. Then come up with a formal definition ...

Computational dynamic programming, while of some use for situations typically encountered in industrial and systems engineering, has proved to be of much greater significance in many areas of computer science. We review some of these applications here.

in data envelopment analysis, the relative efficiency of a decision making unit (dmu) is defined as the ratio of the sum of its weighted outputs to the sum of its weighted inputs allowing the dmus to freely allocate weights to their inputs/outputs. however, this measure may not reflect a the true efficiency of a dmu because some of its inputs/outputs may not contribute reasonably in computing t...

cyclodextrins (cds) are a family of cyclic oligosaccharides which are composed of α (1,4) -linked glucopyranose subunits. thebest-characterized forms are α, β and γ cd which are consisted of six, seven and eight d-glucose units, respectively. cyclodextrins are produced from starch by enzymatic degradation. these macrocyclic carbohydrates with polar internal cavities can form complexes with and ...

Nowadays, there is a huge volume of data about terrains available and generally, these data do not fit in the internal memory. So, many GIS applications require efficient algorithms to manipulate the data externally. One of these applications is the viewshed computation that consists in obtain the visible points from a given point p. In this paper, we present an efficient algorithm to compute t...