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For the IEEE Network January/February 2015 issue, we include the following seven accepted open call articles. The first article, "A Learning-Based Resource Allocation Approach for P2P Streaming Systems" by Thibaud Rohmer et al., focuses on the problem of maximizing the P2P streaming system capacity by effectively alternating between different resource allocation strategies, which is guided...
Recently, OpenFlow and FlowVisor are the most promising architecture components of the software-defined networks (SDNs). The evolution of these components brought the revolution of utilizing network elements for the shared and virtual network infrastructure, however from the aspects of production networks, it still lacks of some key component. For example, policy-based services provisioning for user-defined...
In this paper we present techniques and protocols for protecting a network against multiple link failures. The existing link-based restoration with MPLS Fast Re-route (FRR) is fast, but can create congestion by overloading edges, which is undesirable since many applications are sensitive to congestion-related packet loss. The problem is exacerbated with multiple link failures, frequent enough to be...
Ideally, the aim of a retail store is single-trip in-store replenishment. In other words, a store worker should only need to make a single trip to fill the shelves after a product has been delivered to the store. This can be achieved if the size of the lot received is smaller than the shelf space minus the number of units left on the shelves at the time of shelf replenishment. In this paper, we introduce...
In agent based modeling many approaches are used for modeling agents' behavior. They range from relaxing the rationality assumption to considering participants' behavior in experiments. Important suggestions come from qualitative research in particularly from social sciences. We propose an approach to model artificial agents by applying Glaser and Strauss Grounded Theory. As an example, we ran an...
Based on shared responsibility on carbon emissions, this paper argues that consumer and enterprise should both be included in mechanism about carbon emissions. Based on Coase's analysis of externalities and his theory of property right, this paper gives environment property of low emission requirements to consumers, and entrusts the process of consumers' buying goods from enterprises as the principal-agent...
In order to meet the complicated requirements of jewelry enterprise resource management, the paper designed and implemented a distributed management information system. The system adopts a dynamic strategy to handle enterprise resources sharing both horizontally and vertically, including querying, adding, deleting and modifying jewelry information, gathering statistics information, scheduling production...
Based on the Cournot model in oligopoly market, the article discuss the relation between the status of property rights and the evolution of market structure by calculating the environmental resources input and goods output under the condition of profit maximization. Through comparing with the market structure in three property Status, non-delimitation, free-delimitation and paid-delimitation, we get...
The decentralization and squander of the science and technology resources is one of the greatest problems in the present development of science and technology. This paper aims at analyzing existing problems of the allocation of science and technology resources in Hubei and putting forward countermeasures from the aspects of the allocation of science and technology fund, human resource allocation,...
An issue of considerable importance, involves the problem of how to simultaneously allocate a fixed input resources and set targets among a set of competing entities in an equitable way. Based on data envelopment analysis (DEA), the current paper proposes a new method for simultaneously allocating fixed input resources and setting targets to all decision making units (DMUs), in such a way that all...
This paper presents a class of Petri nets that can well model ratio-enforced resource allocation systems (RASs). Such RASs are required to enforce certain ratio among their processes to meet a desired production plan. A ratio-enforced system of sequential systems with shared resources (RS4R) can model an RAS whose processes are described by state machines. Both a ratio-enforcing controller and liveness-enforcing...
In this paper a BISR architecture for embedded memories is presented. The proposed scheme utilises a multiple bank cache-like memory for repairs. Statistical analysis is used for minimisation of the total resources required to achieve a very high fault coverage. Simulation results show that the proposed BISR scheme is characterised by high efficiency and low area overhead, even for high defect densities...
Building on the extensive research in Virtual Reality (VR), we are proposing a new dynamic prototype for modelling and simulating carbon emissions in a virtual village called VIRVIL. VIRVIL is a simulated settlement for the assessment of the impact of low and zero carbon technologies and measures in the built environment. The prototype will focus on the impact on the community as a whole, as well...
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