Hierarchical topic taxonomies have proliferated on the World Wide Web [5, 18], and exploiting the output space decompositions they induce in automated classification systems is an...
— With the expansion of cloud-based services, the question as to how to control usage of such large distributed systems has become increasingly important. Load balancing (LB), an...
— Within-subject analysis in event-related functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) first relies on (i) a detection step to localize which parts of the brain are activated b...
Part feeders, which singulate and orient parts prior to packing and insertion, are critical components of an assembly line. Existing feeders utilize o -plane vibrations of a rigid...
This article discusses implementation issues for the LBATCH and ABATCH batch means procedures of Fishman and Yarberry (1997). Theses procedures dynamically increase the batch size...
Christos Alexopoulos, George S. Fishman, Andrew F....