In granular or fibrous materials, in which the dimensions of the internal
structure can be of the same order of magnitude as major flaws or holes, classical
elasticity theory does not consistently provide accurate models of the large stress
gradients that may develop. With the incorporation of additional rotational degrees...
As the number of mobile devices accessing large-scale WLANs such as campus
and metropolitan area networks increases, the need for load balancing among the
cells becomes crucial. In addition, the network must also support some minimum
handoff tolerance defined by an application.
A number of load balancing techniques have been...
Simulated Annealing and Threshold Accepting are two stochastic search algorithms that have been successfully used on a variety of complex and difficult problem sets. Due to their stochastic nature they are not guaranteed to produce the same result for each run. This means that these techniques actually produce a distribution...
