Cloud computing provides a robust infrastructure that can facilitate computing power as a utility service. All the virtualized services are made available to end users in a pay-as-you-go basis. Serving user requests using distributed network of Virtualized Data Centers is a challenging task as response time increases significantly without a proper load balancing strategy. As the parameters invo...

This paper offers a fuzzy balance management scheme between exploration and exploitation, which can be implemented in any critic-only fuzzy reinforcement learning method. The paper, however, focuses on a newly developed continuous reinforcement learning method, called fuzzy Sarsa learning (FSL) due to its advantages. Establishing balance greatly depends on the accuracy of action value function ...

Energy-aware routing protocols can be classified into two categories, energy savers and energy balancers. Energy saver protocols are used to minimize the overall energy consumed by a wireless sensor network (WSN), while energy balancer protocols efficiently distribute the consumption of energy throughout the network. Energy saver protocols are not necessarily good at balancing energy consumptio...

This paper proposes a half-bridge voltage balancer with a new controller for bipolar DC distribution systems. The proposed control scheme consists of two cascaded Proportional Integral (PI) controls rather than one PI control for balancing the pole voltage. In order to confirm the excellence of voltage balancing performance, a typical bipolar DC distribution system including a half-bridge volta...

Multiply inverted balancer chromosomes that suppress exchange with their homologs are an essential part of the Drosophila melanogaster genetic toolkit. Despite their widespread use, the organization of balancer chromosomes has not been characterized at the molecular level, and the degree of sequence variation among copies of balancer chromosomes is unknown. To map inversion breakpoints and stud...

Server Farms have gained popularity for providing scalable and reliable computing / Web services. A load balancer plays a key role in this architecture, serving as a “traffic cop” to direct the requests to suitable servers. Selecting and using the proper load balancer to match the characteristics of the servers will have a significant performance impact. This paper examines some commonly used l...

The balancers of Drosophila melanogaster are widely used in genetic research. By analyzing the phenotype of offspring from hybridization of chapped wing (L) mating with OR, 982p and e, respectively, we mapped the chapped wing mutation on chromosome 3 for the first time and demonstrated the chapped wing mutation as a new balancer of D. melanogaster with dominant wing nicking phenotype. Finally, ...

In information systems, it is critical to reduce the total electrical power consumption of computers and networks in order to realize the digital ecosystems and the green IT technologies. The extended power consumption laxity-based (EPCLB) algorithm is proposed to select a server in a set of servers so as to not only satisfy deadline constraint but also reduce the total power consumption of ser...

Balancer chromosomes are important tools for a variety of genetic manipulations in lower model organisms, owing to their ability to suppress recombination. In mouse, however, such effort has not been accomplished, mostly due to the size of the chromosomes and the complexity of multiple step chromosomal engineering. We developed an effective and versatile cassette-shuttling selection (CASS) stra...