The American collectable comic book is an unconventional investment of growing importance and cultural significance. Here the price history of the comic book is analysed into three markets, that of the new, the collectors’ market, and the investors’. System dynamics is employed to...

In this paper, the authors propose a new hybrid strategy (using artificial neural networks and hidden Markov models) for skill automation. The strategy is based on the concept of using an “adaptive desired†that is introduced in the paper. The authors explain how using an adaptive...

This research explores the effects of implementing a lean production system in a government facility. The organization’s formal accounting practices delay recognition of production savings, but informally the facility promotes its lean efforts through attention-getting, off-the-books,...

This paper shows the utility of systems approach by extending the traditional innovation models and incorporating and integrating into them selective critical structural variables to map their interaction and explain the inherent dynamism. Conventionally, the approaches in explaining the...

In this paper, a pattern recognition module that makes use of 3-D images of objects is presented. The proposed module takes advantage of both the generalization capability of neural networks and the possibility of manipulating 3-D images to generate views at different poses of the object that is...

As the micro array databases increases in dimension and results in complexity, identifying the most informative genes is a challenging task. Such difficulty is often related to the huge number of genes with very few samples. Research in medical data mining addresses this problem by applying...

Radio spectrum is an encumbered and finite resource. Perception of radio spectrum scarcity has been linked, sometimes linearly, to the higher demand of mobile data services and the greater market penetration of mobile broadband devices. Cellular operators worldwide have been asking to allocate...

Real-time scheduling is the theoretical basis of real-time systems engineering. Earliest Deadline first (EDF) is an optimal scheduling algorithm for uniprocessor real-time systems. The paper deals with Reconfigurable Uniprocessor embedded Real-Time Systems classically implemented by different OS...

In this paper, a Fast Fuzzy processor (FP) is proposed. This processor, which is implemented using FPGA, has four inputs and one output with 8-bits width for each. The proposed processor is synthesized, functionally verified and implemented using Xilinx Integrated Software Environment (ISE) and...

Wireless Network Controlled Systems (WNCSs) are a new area of research which concerns the implementation of control strategy over wireless networks. Therefore, many potential applications of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) span a wide spectrum in various domains. The dependability of the WNCSs...