Abstract: With the development of network function virtualization technology, service flows are expected to be served by a chain of Virtual Network Functions (VNFs). Some works adopt queuing theory to ...

Understand composite indexes and their role in measuring market performance, along with the major types, such as the Nasdaq, ...

1. Relations and Functions Types of relations: reflexive, symmetric, transitive and equivalence relations. One to one and onto functions. 2. Inverse Trigonometric Functions Definition, range, domain, ...

String diagrams are ubiquitous in applied category theory. They originate as a graphical notation for representing terms in monoidal categories and since their origins, they have been used not just as ...

Periodontal disease was found to be the most prevalent disorder diagnosed in primary veterinary care in a recent study (1). Indeed, the incidence of such disease could reach 90% of all small animal ...

Whether electronic, analog or quantum, a computer is a programmable machine. Wilder Penfield held that the brain is literally a computer, because he was a dualist: the mind programs the brain. If this ...

We study minimization of a structured objective function, being the sum of a smooth function and a composition of a weakly convex function with a linear operator. Applications include image ...

Example: suppose we have a data structure representing an abstract address. An address is, alternatively, an email address or a postal address like in the previous example. We can try to extract a ...