This study proposes a nurse allocation policy to manage patient overflow during a pandemic influenza outbreak. The objective is to minimize the number of patients waiting in queue...
—Supply chain [2], [6] is an important component of business operations. Understanding its stochastic behaviors is the key to risk analysis and performance evaluation in supply c...
We introduce the Ranked Feature Fusion framework for information retrieval system design. Typical information retrieval formalisms such as the vector space model, the bestmatch mo...
Situational awareness (SA) applications monitor the real world and the entities therein to support tasks such as rapid decision-making, reasoning, and analysis. Raw input about un...
Dmitri V. Kalashnikov, Yiming Ma, Sharad Mehrotra,...
In this article, we investigate efficient transmission of Object-based MPEG-4 video over IP networks with QoS management capabilities. MPEG-4 Audio Visual Objects (AVOs) are class...