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APPLE: A Novel P2P Based e-Learning Environment
With the rapid development of information technology, dramatic changes have been taken place in the fundamental ways that people acquire and disseminate knowledge. Various e-Learning systems have been designed to help people take full advantage of the benefit brought by the technology. The newly emerged Peer to Peer (P2P) and grid computing will serve as the key driven forces to bring revolutionary impact on the future society. This paper evaluates the potential contribution of the P2P and grid technology into the e-Learning system and introduces a novel P2P based e-Learning environment, called APPLE. With the help of Gnutella-like P2P network, APPLE provides live broadcasting services to share services of education resources. We build a virtual classroom service based on WSRF.NET, which exposes the service as a grid service that could be accessed by all the users among the grid.
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A Data Storage Mechanism for P2P VoD Based on Multi-channel Overlay
It is a big challenge to provide Video-on-Demand streaming services over Internet in a scalable way. Currently, many researchers use a single channel overlay to implement the scalability of on-demand streaming services. However, in a real application environment, various channels in a P2P VOD system have different popularities, which probably cause the imbalance of data storage-capability of the whole system. It results in a problem that a mass of unpopular channels' caching capability can not be used to satisfy the data requirements of the whole system. In order to solve the problem, this paper proposes a new data-storage mechanism, which constructs a multi-channel overlay to optimize the whole system's caching-capability and greatly improves unpopular channel's caching efficiency. The experimental results show that this mechanism can achieve significant effects.
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Adaptive Multi-Channel MAC Protocol for Dense VANET with Directional Antennas
Directional antennas can increase the spatial reuse of the wireless channels and reach a higher antenna gain. This paper presents the design, implementation and simulation results of a multi-channel medium access control protocols for high density vehicular ad hoc networks using directional antennas with local beam tables. Simulation shows that our protocol has a higher throughput than the existing multi-channel protocols.
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Management as a Service for IT Service Management
With the advent of the distributed computing model, IT service management has to face ranging from simple point products to entire enterprise frameworks to address the various multi-device systems management challenges. The existing technology offerings rarely solve the entire problem because they are expensive to purchase, difficult to implement, and do not incorporate the full range of features and functions to meet the systems management requirements today's organizations face. Now, with low-cost information appliances creeping their way into the data center, the only way to truly address today's heterogeneous IT challenge is to enable systems management capabilities at the service level. IT professionals should be able to simply take management service and accumulated knowledge to improve management performance. A new approach to IT service management is emerging that enables this level of integration. Management as a service (MaaS) enable IT service management to build network management appliances, services and knowledge repository that are extremely flexible and capable of evolving as customer needs evolve. MaaS implementations unify different systems management features and products into a common management environment that spans all system management types. MaaS-based management service offer greater flexibility and more cost-effective implementation than any enterprise framework can achieve. MaaS helps to make full use of the benefits offered by enterprise's converged network by identifying and resolving problems more quickly, more accurately, less expensively, and with more visibility than silos might be able to achieve on enterprise own.
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Set-Theoretical Basis for Real Numbers
twenty axioms used by Tarski which are sufficient for the arithmetic of real numbers and are to the effect that real numbers form a complete ordered field.2 Indeed, we cannot prove in L all Tarski's twenty axioms in their full generality. One of them, stating in effect that every bounded class of real numbers possesses a least upper bound, can only be proved as a metatheorem which states that every bounded nameable class of real numbers possesses a least upper bound. However, all the other nineteen axioms can be proved in L without any modification. This result may be of some interest because the axioms of L are considerably weaker than those commonly employed for the same purpose. In L variables need to take as values only classes each of whose members has no more than two members. In other words, only classes each with no more than two members are to be elements. On the other hand, it is usual to assume for the purpose of natural arithmetic that all finite classes are elements, and, for the purpose of real arithmetic, that all enumerable classes are elements. 2. The system L. In developing L, elementary logic (viz., the theory of truth functions and quantifiers) is assumed from the beginning. The single additional primitive is the two place predicate e with which we can generate formulas of L from variables and logical operators in the usual manner. The usual definitions (e.g., D9-D35 of [21) of the theory of classes and relations are assumed. In particular, let tx denote the unit class of x, x u y denote the sum class of x and y, and V denote the class of all elements. The axioms of L are given by the following three statements: Mi. tx U by f V. M2. x = y D . x e z D y e z. M3. If q is any formula of L in which y is not free, then . (3y)(x)(x e yW
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Automatic model-based service hosting environment migration
The proper operation of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) depends on underlying system services of operating systems, so efficient and effective migration of Service Hosting Environment is critical to cope with intrinsic-changed nature of SOA. However, due to the large amount of configuration items, complicated mapping and complex dependency relationship among system services, migrating into a new Service Hosting Environment satisfying the operation requirement of SOA becomes an error-prone and time-consuming task. The SCM project in IBM develops a novel approach to migrate Service Hosting Environment shaped in Unix-like systems. Firstly, this approach builds a set of configuration models to describe various system services. Then based on models, it presents knowledge based mapping to translate system service configurations between Service Hosting Environments. Finally, it designs a dependency hierarchy deducting algorithm to compute the dependency relationship among system services for migration traceability and error determination. A SCM prototype has performed well on largely reducing time, labor and errors in real migration cases.
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Application of Support Vector Machine to Mobile Communications in Telephone Traffic Load of Monthly Busy Hour Prediction
Telephone traffic of busy hour is one of indicators of load capacity of telecommunication network, which has a significant meaning to dilate and modify the network. A good performance of predicting the monthly busy hour traffic load is cared about by the mobile operators. As a promising learning theory,support vector machine (SVM) has been studied and applied in a wide area, such as financial markets and weather forecast. In this paper, we use SVM to forecast monthly busy hour traffic load of two regions in Xinjiang. A good result has been achieved via an improved grid search method for the search of hyper-parameter of SVM.
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Research and Implementation of Knowledge-Enhanced Information Services
Information isolation has been identified as a big challenge in IT Service Management (ITSM). Existing ITSM practices mostly rely on configuration information and are geared towards individual applications and processes. However, information available in complicated IT infrastructure goes beyond data from the configuration management domain. How to efficiently extract and integrate the hidden knowledge from a wide variety of information sources is a major pain point for ITSM. In this paper, a threading strategy (TS) with KPI mark and knowledge-enhanced information services is proposed to improve ITSM quality. The essential contribution of this work is to organize the highly complex IT service information with KPI mark and to build a knowledge repository for accumulateing and reusing experts' knowledge. In addition, a prototype called BIANCHIN is implemented to explore this knowledge-enhanced information services framework. Finally, a real business application of Cisco VoIP system is used as a case study for evaluating the effectiveness and efficiency of the knowledge-enhanced information services framework.