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Re-Operationalizing ‘Open-Country': Introducing a Place-Level Geography for the Study of Rural Crime
Porter, Jeremy; Capellan, Joel; Howell, Frank - In: International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research (IJAGR) 8 (2017) 2, pp. 20-32
The proper operationalization of urban and rural is extremely important to our understanding of the impacts of specific ecological context on human behavior. However, even with the ever-improving definitional advancements, our understanding of these community-level concepts, in regards to a...
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The Cultural Roots of Risk: How Mobilities and Risk Work in Underdeveloped Countries
Korstanje, Maximiliano Emanuel - In: International Journal of Risk and Contingency … 6 (2017) 1, pp. 1-13
This paper discusses the story of Mary and Roger an elderly couple who opted to buy a car, but later were pressed to sell it because they were unable to absorb the costs of insurance. The world of risks does not work in the same lines in North than South. This pieces invites the discussion to...
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A New Approach of Dynamic Load Balancing Scheduling Algorithm for Homogeneous Multiprocessor System
Alam, Mahfooz; Varshney, Ankur Kumar - In: International Journal of Applied Evolutionary … 7 (2016) 2, pp. 61-75
Load balancing of parallel tasks in homogeneous as well as heterogeneous systems are major trouble for researches of both industry and academia. Load balancing were broadly classified into two categories namely static load balancing and dynamic load balancing. Nowadays, numerous of researches...
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Combined Heat and Power Dispatch using Hybrid Genetic Algorithm and Biogeography-based Optimization
Roy, Provas Kumar; Ghosh, Madhumita - In: International Journal of Energy Optimization and … 6 (2017) 1, pp. 49-65
theory of biogeography and is inspired by the two concepts, namely migration of species between “islands” via flotsam, wind …
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Solving OPF Problems using Biogeography Based and Grey Wolf Optimization Techniques
Das, Puja; Banerjee, Subrata; Roy, Provas Kumar; … - In: International Journal of Energy Optimization and … 6 (2017) 3, pp. 55-77
This paper presents biogeography-based optimization (BBO) and grey wolf Optimization(GWO) for solving the multi-constrained optimal power flow (OPF) problems in the power system. In this paper, the proposed algorithms have been tested in 9-bus system under various conditions along with IEEE 30...
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Towards A Virtual Machine Migration Algorithm Based On Multi-Objective Optimization
Chen, Xiang; Tang, Jun-rong; Zhang, Yong - In: International Journal of Mobile Computing and … 8 (2017) 3, pp. 79-89
-configuration caused by system computation resource status changing and load fluctuation. Based on migration objectives as QoS (Quality of … Service), resource competition and energy consumption, the VM migration time, migration objective node selection and VM … migration destination host selection. Experiment results show that the multi-objective optimization management method with …
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The Systems Forum: What Value Have Systems Ideas in Making Sense of The Complexity of Issues Like Migration?
Stowell, Frank; Roderick, Ian - In: International Journal of Systems and Society (IJSS) 3 (2016) 2, pp. 50-73
session was ‘migration'. …
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