An Adaptive Hybrid Optimization Strategy for Resource Allocation in Network Function Virtualization

With the rapid development of Network Function Virtualization(NFV),the problem of low resource utilizationin traditional data centers is gradually being addressed.However,existing research does not optimize both localand global allocation of resources in data centers.Hence,we propose an adaptive hybrid optimization strategy thatcombines dynamic programming and neural networks to improve resource utilization and service quality in datacenters.Our approach encompasses a service function chain simulation generator,a parallel architecture servicesystem,a dynamic programming strategy formaximizing the utilization of local server resources,a neural networkfor predicting the global utilization rate of resources and a global resource optimization strategy for bottleneck andredundant resources.With the implementation of our local and global resource allocation strategies,the systemperformance is significantly optimized through simulation.

Joint Allocation of Computing and Connectivity Resources in Survivable Inter-Datacenter Elastic Optical Networks

Inter-datacenter elastic optical networks(EON)need to provide the service for the requests of cloud computing that require not only connectivity and computing resources but also network survivability.In this paper,to realize joint allocation of computing and connectivity resources in survivable inter-datacenter EONs,a survivable routing,modulation level,spectrum,and computing resource allocation algorithm(SRMLSCRA)algorithm and three datacenter selection strategies,i.e.Computing Resource First(CRF),Shortest Path First(SPF)and Random Destination(RD),are proposed for different scenarios.Unicast and manycast are applied to the communication of computing requests,and the routing strategies are calculated respectively.Simulation results show that SRMLCRA-CRF can serve the largest amount of protected computing tasks,and the requested calculation blocking probability is reduced by 29.2%,28.3%and 30.5%compared with SRMLSCRA-SPF,SRMLSCRA-RD and the benchmark EPS-RMSA algorithms respectively.Therefore,it is more applicable to the networks with huge calculations.Besides,SRMLSCRA-SPF consumes the least spectrum,thereby exhibiting its suitability for scenarios where the amount of calculation is small and communication resources are scarce.The results demonstrate that the proposed methods realize the joint allocation of computing and connectivity resources,and could provide efficient protection for services under single-link failure and occupy less spectrum.

Service Function Chain Migration in LEO Satellite Networks

With the advancements of software defined network(SDN)and network function virtualization(NFV),service function chain(SFC)placement becomes a crucial enabler for flexible resource scheduling in low earth orbit(LEO)satellite networks.While due to the scarcity of bandwidth resources and dynamic topology of LEO satellites,the static SFC placement schemes may cause performance degradation,resource waste and even service failure.In this paper,we consider migration and establish an online migration model,especially considering the dynamic topology.Given the scarcity of bandwidth resources,the model aims to maximize the total number of accepted SFCs while incurring as little bandwidth cost of SFC transmission and migration as possible.Due to its NP-hardness,we propose a heuristic minimized dynamic SFC migration(MDSM)algorithm that only triggers the migration procedure when new SFCs are rejected.Simulation results demonstrate that MDSM achieves a performance close to the upper bound with lower complexity.

Modeling and analyzing supply-demand relationships of water resources in Xinjiang from a perspective of ecosystem services

Water shortage is one bottleneck that limits economic and social developments in arid and semi-arid areas.As the impacts of climate change and human disturbance intensify across time,uncertainties in both water resource supplies and demands increase in arid and semi-arid areas.Taking a typical arid region in China,Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region,as an example,water yield depth(WYD)and water utilization depth(WUD)from 2002 to 2018 were simulated using the Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Tradeoffs(InVEST)model and socioeconomic data.The supply-demand relationships of water resources were analyzed using the ecosystem service indices including water supply-demand difference(WSDD)and water supply rate(WSR).The internal factors in changes of WYD and WUD were explored using the controlled variable method.The results show that the supplydemand relationships of water resources in Xinjiang were in a slight deficit,but the deficit was alleviated due to increased precipitation and decreased WUD of irrigation.WYD generally experienced an increasing trend,and significant increase mainly occurred in the oasis areas surrounding both the Junggar Basin and Tarim Basin.WUD had a downward trend with a decline of 20.70%,especially in oasis areas.Water resources in most areas of Xinjiang were fully utilized and the utilization efficiency of water resources increased.The water yield module in the InVEST model was calibrated and validated using gauging station data in Xinjiang,and the result shows that the use of satellite-based water storage data helped to decrease the bias error of the InVEST model by 0.69×10^(8)m^(3).This study analyzed water resource supplies and demands from a perspective of ecosystem services,which expanded the scope of the application of ecosystem services and increased the research perspective of water resource evaluation.The results could provide guidance for water resource management such as spatial allocation and structural optimization of water resources in arid and semi-arid areas.

The Construction of Human Resource Management Cloud Service Platform

Human resource management service faced the challenges of promoting efficiency, costs saving, quick responding and so on. In order to face these challenges, this paper puts forward a “6 + 1” structure of human resource management service combined with some characteristics of cloud computing, elaborates the service mode of the cloud service platform based on this structure, the characteristics and challenges of the platform, and hopes to provide a new service perspective to human resource management.

MANAGING HUMAN RESOURCES FOR RETAIL SERVICE QUALITY

This study examines the management of service qua lity in fashion retail operation. The human resources processes leading to external service quality are consolidated into a quality management framework. With reference to the framework, the factors, their importance and relationships within each process are established by the responses of practicing salespersons. A clear picture of the underlying management mechanisms leading to strong sales forces and service quality are produced. Retail management is required to better establish and manage the human resource.

Optimal Resource Allocation and Quality of Service Prediction in Cloud

In the present scenario,cloud computing service provides on-request access to a collection of resources available in remote system that can be shared by numerous clients.Resources are in self-administration;consequently,clients can adjust their usage according to their requirements.Resource usage is estimated and clients can pay according to their utilization.In literature,the existing method describes the usage of various hardware assets.Quality of Service(QoS)needs to be considered for ascertaining the schedule and the access of resources.Adhering with the security arrangement,any additional code is forbidden to ensure the usage of resources complying with QoS.Thus,all monitoring must be done from the hypervisor.To overcome the issues,Robust Resource Allocation and Utilization(RRAU)approach is developed for optimizing the management of its cloud resources.The work hosts a numerous virtual assets which could be expected under the circumstances and it enforces a controlled degree of QoS.The asset assignment calculation is heuristic,which is based on experimental evaluations,RRAU approach with J48 prediction model reduces Job Completion Time(JCT)by 4.75 s,Make Span(MS)6.25,and Monetary Cost(MC)4.25 for 15,25,35 and 45 resources are compared to the conventional methodologies in cloud environment.

Resource Reorganization and Service Sector Growth in Highly Interconnected Society

This paper demonstrates how modern technologies, especially the Internet, are transforming the nature of the service sector, leading to extensive resource reorganizations and integrations, and fundamentally challenging traditional theories on service-based economy, e.g., the assumption that the service sector is inefficient no longer holds true, it is difficult for the neoclassical price theory to explain service price formation and people's consumption rationality has changed. Meanwhile, economic issues associated with the Internet, such as Internet economics, platform economics and information product pricing, also need to be investigated. Theoretical research and innovations also need to be carried out to investigate questions like how to protect privacy without preventing the use of data, as well as the complexities of "cultural and psychological consumption."

Efficient Resource Allocation Scheme to Maximise Number of Users with Quality of Service Demands in Small Cells

Small cells have been regarded as an appealing technique to boost resource reuse ratio. On the other hand, their large-scale and self-organised tendency would complicate the interference environment of mobile networks. Meanwhile, traffic class is booming in recent years, which leads to higher demand for net- work designers on Quality of Service （QoS） provision, and therefore users＇ diverse re- quirements may not be guaranteed in sucff＇an interference limited scenario. To maximise the number of users with QoS demands as well as resource reuse ratio, we formulate the resource allocation problem into a multi-objective l0 norm form. It is shown to be NP hard, and an iterative method is employed to approach the optimal solution. Because of its limit of being not adaptive to large-scale networks, we also design a heuristic method based on chordal graph, which, however, could result in per- formance loss when the size of networks is small. Finally, by combining these two meth- ods, we devise a hybrid algorithm such that the allocation performs both efficiently and effectively. Simulation results illustrate the performance of our proposed methods in terms of outage probability and resource reuse ratio.

Prediction-Based Resource Assignment Scheme to Maximize the Net Profit of Cloud Service Providers

In a cloud computing environment, users using the pay-as-you-go billing model can relinquish their services at any point in time and pay accordingly. From the perspective of the Cloud Service Providers (CSPs), this is not beneficial as they may lose the opportunity to earn from the relinquished resources. Therefore, this paper tackles the resource assignment problem while considering users relinquishment and its impact on the net profit of CSPs. As a solution, we first compare different ways to predict user behavior (i.e. how likely a user will leave the system before its scheduled end time) and deduce a better prediction technique based on linear regression. Then, based on the RACE (Relinquishment-Aware Cloud Economics) model proposed in [1], we develop a relinquishment-aware resource optimization model to estimate the amount of resources to assign on the basis of predicted user behavior. Simulations performed with CloudSim show that cloud service providers can gain more by estimating the amount of resources using better prediction techniques rather than blindly assigning resources to users. They also show that the proposed prediction-based resource assignment scheme typically generates more profit for a lower or similar utilization.

Urban Water Supply Industry Marketization of China in View of Public Water Service and Water Resource Management

Started with the discussions on the value orientation of urban water supply industry marketization,the article points out that the current urban water supply industry marketization reform is inconsistent with the goal of public water service equalization to some extent.The article also analyzes the problems emerged in urban water supply industry marketization reform and various rea-sons in view of efficiency and fairness.An efficiency and fairness oriented management model is built in this article to illustrate how the government should conciliate interests of various communities involved in the process of marketization reform of the urban water supply industry so as to actualize the coordination of efficiency and fairness.At the end,an assumption on urban water price is put forward to help achieve the public water service equalization.

Context-aware computing-based reducing cost of service method in resource discovery and interaction

Reducing cost of service is an important goal for resource discovery and interaction technologies. The shortcomings of transhipment-method and hibernation-method are to increase holistic cost of service and to slower resource discovery respectively. To overcome these shortcomings, a context-aware computing-based method is developed. This method, firstly, analyzes the courses of devices using resource discovery and interaction technologies to identify some types of context related to reducing cost of service, then, chooses effective methods such as stopping broadcast and hibernation to reduce cost of service according to information supplied by the context but not the transhipment-method’s simple hibernations. The results of experiments indicate that under the worst condition this method overcomes the shortcomings of transhipment-method, makes the “poor” devices hibernate longer than hibernation-method to reduce cost of service more effectively, and discovers resources faster than hibernation-method; under the best condition it is far better than hibernation-method in all aspects.

Evaluation on Cultivated Land Resource Ecological Service Value in Wuhan Metropolitan Area

The land ecosystem service function value contains the gas regulating function value, air purification function value, water conservation value, land conser-vation value, soil nutrient conservation value and maintain biodiversity value. Based on the method of market value and the data of Hubei Statistical yearbook, cultivat-ed land resources of ecosystem service function value is 730 038.69Mil ion in 2007-2009, and 714 774.99 Mil ion in 2010-2012 in Wuhan Metropolitan Area. After three years of development, Wuhan Metropolitan Area of ecological value of cultivated land has increased by about 3.97%. From the point of each composition, the im-portance of gas regulating function of cultivated land resources and water conserva-tion function is the forefront. From the point of spatial distribution, the highest of annual average value of the cultivated land ecological was Huanggang （1.725 bil ion yuan）, the lowest was Ezhou （217.868 6 mil ion yuan） in 2010-2012. From the point of space changes, the land ecological value increased only in Qianjiang city, while farmland ecological value in other cities was fal ing The conclusion is of direc-tive significance to the regional land protection policy and the farmland reasonable distribution, for Wuhan Metropolitan Area and other areas.

Human Resources Management and Development in the Service Sector: The Case of Greece

As part of the reorganization of services provided by companies,undoubtedly a significant role is the efficient management of human capital.Ensuring adequate and qualified personnel together with the proper management of their knowledge are critical factors in competitiveness,productivity,and profitability.The main objective of the paper is to highlight the management and development of human capital of service sector and that this parameter is a key priority for improving the efficiency of financial services for the benefit of their clients.For this purpose,three bank branches of different banks will be investigated,where their strategic planning will be analyzed,the policies to be implemented will be highlighted,and their objectives to be achieved will be underlined.

Research on the Causes of Hindering the Performance of Campus Sports Resources in Public Sports Service

Aiming at the problems in reality, this paper makes a systematic analysis based on the investigation and research on the current situation of the sports resources in public sports service of Changzhou University, from the aspects of public sports service system, facilities planning and social sports industrialization. In order to connecting the school＇s physical education and public sports services as seamlessly as possible, it becomes a union for the coordination with each other, and provides the national fitness campaign with rapid and healthy conditions.

Variation Characteristics of Heat Resources in Liaoning Province, China in Recent 60 Years and Their Impact on Meteorological Services

To study the temporal and spatial changes of heat resources to serve agricultural production and economic development. The climate data from 1958 to 2017 were selected, and the temporal and spatial changes of heat resources in Liaoning, China were analyzed by using the method of climate diagnosis and analysis. The results show that: the southern coastal area of Liaoning has the most heat resources, the northwestern hilly area and the eastern mountainous area the least, and the central plain area in the middle distribution pattern;compared with 1958-1980, 1981-2017 ≥0°C, ≥10°C accumulated temperature, etc. The value line is advanced 100-160km northward. The accumulated temperature of ≥0°C and ≥10°C in Liaoning experienced abrupt changes in climate in 1993 and 1994, and the climate abrupt change in the southern coastal area was earlier than that in the inland. , the increase in the northwestern hilly area and the eastern mountainous area is less than that in the central plain area and the southern coastal area. The study on the impact on meteorological services found that the increase or decrease of heat resources has a significant impact on agro-meteorological services, which can prolong the growing season of crops, relatively reduce the damage of frost, improve comprehensive utilization of land, and increase crop yields;at the same time, with the increase of heat resources and the northward expansion of the isoline of accumulated temperature, the area affected by pests and diseases has expanded, which has aggravated the harm to agriculture economic burden.

Analysis of Service Tactics Based on Library Resources

The development of intelligent and personalized recommendation service has become the trend in the era with rapid development of digital library and the popularization of intelligent technology.However,the traditional personalized service cannot meet the needs of users and the demands of digital library’s development.Furthermore,the needs of users are becoming morecomplicated.How to accurately describe and fully understand the user's complex personalized requirements,and how to make the recommendation of resource services according to their needs have become a difficult problem.on the other hand,because the resources of digital libraries are huge,it’s the focus that how to effectively collect massive resources and support efficient retrieval and recommendations,as well as how to fully exploit the intrinsic semantic links of digital library resources.In this regard,this review aim to analyze the construction of library resources informatization in the era of big data and expounds the important significance of constructing digital libraries.This paper alsooptimizes the services of the wisdom libraries after analyzing informatization library resources from the aspects of image resources,service strategies of MOOC and reading changes.Finally,it studies the approaches of realizing the service strategies of library resources which can be used for reference.

Research on the Construction and Service of Intangible Cultural Heritage Resources Based on “Internet ＋”

This paper firstly introduces the construction status of Intangible Cultural Heritage Resources, and discusses the importance in combination with “Internet ＋”.Mainly analyzes the platform’s construction and Service of Intangible Cultural Heritage Resources. Finally discusses the main problems that to be paid attention to and solved.

Development of university Document Resources Construction for the background of information services

The arrival of the information age, especially development and popularization of digital and network, which fundamentally changes the development process of the library, the library＇ s status as Literature Resource Center has been hit. As the core work of the Library Document Resources Construction in concepts, content structure and evaluation etc. also undergone profound changes, a series of new problems have taken out, which we need to think and solve. In this passage, we discussed from the problem facing of Document Resources Construction work in the digital environment and how to deal with these challenges.