Nowadays, the allocation of aircraft to controllers is easily conducted. All aircraft entering a specific sector are automatically allocated to the responsible controller team. With increasing air traffic, it has become evident that this longstanding...
The expansion of telecommunication technologies touches almost all aspects life that we are living nowadays. Indeed, such technologies have emerged as a fourth essential utility alongside the traditional utilities of electricity, water, and gas. In t...
The traditional method of allocating passenger seats based on compartments does not effectively manage an aircraft’s center of gravity (CG), resulting in a notable divergence from the desired target CG (TCG). In this work, the Boeing B737-800 a...
Minimizing the energy consumption is a dominant problem in data center design and operation. To cope with this issue, the common approach is to optimize the data center layout and the workload distribution among servers. Previous works have mainly ad...
In recent years, cloud computing and edge computing have flourished, establishing data centers as pivotal hubs for information exchange. However, the security for the interconnection of these data centers faces increasingly severe challenges. Traditi...
Fully actuated multirotor UAVs (FA-mUAVs) have attracted attention for aerial physical interaction because they generate translational forces without tilting the vehicle, thereby supporting interaction precision and payload-transportation stability....
Improving the energy efficiency of data center has become a research focus in recent years. Previous works commonly adopted the inlet temperature constraint to optimize the thermal environment in the data center. However, the inlet temperature-aware...
Nowadays, energy consumption has become an important issue in data center networks. The most promising energy-saving schemes are those that shut down unnecessary network devices and links while meeting the demand of traffic loads. Existing research m...
This study explores a foundational logistics center location and allocation problem in a three-stage logistics network that consists of suppliers, logistics centers, and customers. In this study, the environmental sustainability of the logistics netw...
Cloud Computing has emerged as a powerful and promising way for running high performance computing (HPC) jobs. Most HPC jobs are designed under multi-processes paradigm and involve frequent communication and synchronization among parallel processes....
6 March 2019
The Syrian crisis began on 15 March 2011. It is one of the bloodiest and complicated conflicts in the world today. Although almost eight years have passed over this tragedy, civilians continue to suffer from conflicts and destructions in the area. As...
Trauma is considered a “modern civilized sickness”, and its occurrence substantially affects all of society, as well as individuals. The implementation of trauma emergency systems in cities with young, prosperous, and highly mobile populations is nec...
As the structural complexity of machined components increases and the pace of product updates accelerates, the demands for machining precision in CNC machine tools are becoming increasingly rigorous. Consequently, the continuous enhancement of machin...
Cloud Data Centers (CDCs) are the foundation of the digital economy, enabling data storage, processing, and connectivity for different academia/industry/commerce activities and digital services worldwide. As a result, their consistent power supply an...
As an efficient management pattern to improve logistics efficiency through intensive management of construction materials, construction logistics centers (CLCs) have received active attention from academics and practitioners. However, the CLC locatio...
In this study, we apply a robust optimization approach to a p-center facility location problem under uncertainty. Based on a symmetric interval and a multiple allocation strategy, we use three types of uncertainty sets to formulate the robust problem...
Recently, more and more smart homes have become one of important parts of home infrastructure. However, most of the smart home applications are not interconnected and remain isolated. They use the cloud center as the control platform, which increases...
In complex environments, Operators need to manage continuous, real-time information flows while handling unexpected situations within a limited timeframe. This can lead to high cognitive load, stress, fatigue, etc. To prevent such situations, Artific...
Function interpolation and approximation are classical problems of vital importance in many science/engineering areas and communities. In this paper, we propose a powerful methodology for the optimal placement of centers, when approximating or interp...
Servers in a data center are underutilized due to over-provisioning, which contributes heavily toward the high-power consumption of the data centers. Recent research in optimizing the energy consumption of High Performance Computing (HPC) data center...
With the accelerating digital transformation of modern society, numerous data center (DC) agents are connected to the distribution power networks (DPNs) via microgrid and engaging in fierce market competition. To address the asymmetric operational ri...
Aiming at the problems of low resource utilization and high distribution cost of urban logistics enterprises, this paper introduces the threshold setting of large parcels, comprehensively considers the processing links of large parcels and standard p...
19 July 2022
The correct distribution of service facilities can help keep fixed and overhead costs low while increasing accessibility. When an appropriate location is chosen, public-sector facilities, such as COVID-19 centers, can save lives faster and provide hi...
The elastic optical network (EON) adopting virtual network function (VNF) is a new type of network, in which the routing, spectrum, and data center allocation are key and challenging problems, and solving these three problems simultaneously can not o...
Nowadays, many organizations and individual users are employing cloud services extensively due to their efficiency, reliability and low cost. A key aspect for cloud data centers is to achieve management methods to reduce energy consumption, increasin...
The stochastic inequality constrained optimization problems (SICOPs) consider the problems of optimizing an objective function involving stochastic inequality constraints. The SICOPs belong to a category of NP-hard problems in terms of computational...
In recent years, a large and growing body of literature has addressed the energy-efficient resource management problem in data centers. Due to the fact that cooling costs still remain the major portion of the total data center energy cost, thermal-aw...
Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) is Pakistan’s largest distance learning institute, providing education to 1.4 million students. This is a fairly large setup across a country where students are highly geographically distributed. Currently, the sys...
After an earthquake, it is required to establish temporary relief centers in order to help the victims. Selection of proper sites for these centers has a significant effect on the processes of urban disaster management. In this paper, the location an...
This paper introduces a model to aid decision-makers in answering many of the important questions regarding how best to operate a cancer center. This study aims to allocate the available cancer center capacity to different cancer types to minimize th...
Based on the concept of integrated communities, this study focuses on improving public service facilities and perfecting convenient service facilities within integrated communities. Taking the central area of Nanchang’s old city as the research...
When Internet of Things (IoT) big data analytics (BDA) require to transfer data streams among software defined network (SDN)-based distributed data centers, the data flow forwarding in the communication network is typically done by an SDN controller...
The COVID-19 pandemic had a huge global impact on healthcare systems that affected all medical services, including burn care facilities. This paper analyzes the effects of this medical crisis on pediatric burn injuries by comparing patient data from...
The computing devices in data centers of cloud and fog remain in continues running cycle to provide services. The long execution state of large number of computing devices consumes a significant amount of power, which emits an equivalent amount of he...
This prospective observational study evaluated the safety and feasibility of a low threshold testing process in a Triage and Test Center (TTC) during the early course of the coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) pandemic. In addition, we aimed to identif...
Artificial intelligence is accelerating data center electricity demand, but annual energy totals alone do not reveal when, where, or at whose cost new loads enter power systems. This review asks how uncertain projects should be translated into demand...
Duckweed/algal bloom-type black–odorous waters (DAWs) exhibit composite optical properties of vegetation and pollution, posing intractable remote sensing identification challenges in complex environments. Current methods suffer from three criti...
In the Hetao Irrigation District of China, land consolidation to expand cultivated areas has disrupted the regional water–salt balance, increasing soil salinization risks. This study investigates the spatial optimization of cultivated land and...
Algal proliferation in subtropical drinking water reservoirs has become increasingly severe, and developing a reliable prediction for algal abundance through high-frequency in situ data is essential for early risk warning and effective management. Th...
Front distribution centers are extensively employed in E-commerce distribution networks to shorten the delivery time, thereby stimulating customers’ purchase intentions and enhancing customer loyalty. When a customer places an order, the design...
With the increasing demand for medical checkups, problems such as overcrowding and confusion in the public spaces of physical examination centers are becoming prominent. This seriously affects the efficiency of medical checkups and the satisfaction o...
3 July 2021
Background: Lung transplantation is a specialized procedure used to treat chronic end-stage respiratory diseases. Due to the scarcity of lung donors, constructing fair and equitable lung transplant allocation methods is an issue that has been address...
A large number of real-world problems from various fields of human activity can be reduced to optimal partitioning-allocation problems with the purpose of minimizing the partitioning quality criterion. A typical representative of such problem is an i...
Cloud computing supports the fast expansion of data and computer centers; therefore, energy and load balancing are vital concerns. The growing popularity of cloud computing has raised power usage and network costs. Frequent calls for computational re...
The sugar beet is one of the most important crops for both social and economic reasons, even though the area under sugar beet cultivation in the Red River valley of North Dakota and Minnesota is comparatively smaller that of corn and other crop lands...
This study assesses roadside grass biomass harvesting and allocation to collection centers using spatially explicit methods for preliminary district-heating supply-chain planning. Road-network data combined with mowing data for county roads were used...
Background: During the COVID-19 pandemic, the centralization of patients allowed trauma and transplants referral centers to continue their routine activity, ensuring the best access to health care. This study aims to analyze how the centralization of...
Recently, a massive migration of enterprise applications to the cloud has been recorded in the IT world. One of the challenges of cloud computing is Quality-of-Service management, which includes the adoption of appropriate methods for allocating clou...
DBSCAN and DPC are typical density-based clustering algorithms. These two algorithms have their drawbacks, such as difficulty in clustering when there are significant differences in density between clusters. This study proposes a clustering algorithm...
The integration of the smart grid with the cloud computing environment promises to develop an improved energy-management system for utility and consumers. New applications and services are being developed which generate huge requests to be processed...
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