Queue is an act of joining a line to be served and it is part of our everyday human involvement. The objectives of the study focused on using a mathematical model to determine the waiting time of two selected banks as...Queue is an act of joining a line to be served and it is part of our everyday human involvement. The objectives of the study focused on using a mathematical model to determine the waiting time of two selected banks as well as compare the average waiting time between the banks. The study uncovered the extent of usage of queuing models in achieving customer satisfaction as well as permitting to make better decisions relating to potential waiting times for customers. The study adopted a case study and observational research with the source of data being primary. Purposive sampling technique was used to select the two banks under study with the target population comprising of all the customers who intended to transact businesses with the banks within the period of 11 am to 12 pm. The sample sizes for the first, second and third day of the first bank are twenty-eight (28), seventeen (17) and twenty (20) respectively with three servers on each day whereas that for the first, second and third day of the second bank is twenty (20), nine (9) and seventeen (17) with two servers on each day. A multiple server (M/M/s) Model was adopted, and Tora Software was the statistical tool used for the analysis. Findings of the study revealed that the second bank had a higher utilization factor than the first bank. Also, the number of customers in the banking hall of the second bank was higher than that of the first bank during the entire period of observation. Finally, it takes customers of the first bank lesser minutes to complete their transaction than the second bank. In conclusion, the three days observations revealed different banking situations faced by customers in both banks which had effect on waiting time of customer service. The waiting time of customer service has effect on the number of customers in the queue and system, the probability associated with the emptiness of the system and the utilization factor. Based on the results, the study recommended, <i><span>inter</span></i> <i><span>alia</span></i><span>, </span><span>that the management of the second bank should adopt a three-server (M/M/3)</span><span> model.展开更多
The focus of this paper is to build the damage identify system, which performs “system identification” to detect the positions and extens of structural damages. The identification of structural damage can be charact...The focus of this paper is to build the damage identify system, which performs “system identification” to detect the positions and extens of structural damages. The identification of structural damage can be characterized as a nonlinear process which linear prediction models such as linear regression are not suitable. However, neural network techniques may provide an effective tool for system identification. The method of damage identification using the radial basis function neural network (RBFNN) is presented in this paper. Using this method, a simple reinforced concrete structure has been tested both in the absence and presence of noise. The results show that the RBFNN identification technology can be used with related success for the solution of dynamic damage identification problems, even in the presence of a noisy identify data. Furthermore, a remote identification system based on that is set up with Java Technologies. Key words RBFNN - inteligent identification - structural damage - Brower/Server (B/S) model CLC number TP 183 Foundation item: Supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province in China (2001ABB0778), The Science and Technology Foundation for Wuhan Young Scholar (20015005039)Biography: RAO Wen-bi (1967-), female, Ph. D, associate professor, research direction: artificial intelligence展开更多
n the SUN work station network environment, based on Client/ Server model, wedesigned and implemented the dEDBMS system a distributed Engineering DataBase Manage-ment System. This paper presents its system architectu...n the SUN work station network environment, based on Client/ Server model, wedesigned and implemented the dEDBMS system a distributed Engineering DataBase Manage-ment System. This paper presents its system architecture first, then discusses its three parts:theclient software EDBMS / 2, the server software EDB server, the interfaee software EDBclient, and introduces some implementation details.展开更多
文摘Queue is an act of joining a line to be served and it is part of our everyday human involvement. The objectives of the study focused on using a mathematical model to determine the waiting time of two selected banks as well as compare the average waiting time between the banks. The study uncovered the extent of usage of queuing models in achieving customer satisfaction as well as permitting to make better decisions relating to potential waiting times for customers. The study adopted a case study and observational research with the source of data being primary. Purposive sampling technique was used to select the two banks under study with the target population comprising of all the customers who intended to transact businesses with the banks within the period of 11 am to 12 pm. The sample sizes for the first, second and third day of the first bank are twenty-eight (28), seventeen (17) and twenty (20) respectively with three servers on each day whereas that for the first, second and third day of the second bank is twenty (20), nine (9) and seventeen (17) with two servers on each day. A multiple server (M/M/s) Model was adopted, and Tora Software was the statistical tool used for the analysis. Findings of the study revealed that the second bank had a higher utilization factor than the first bank. Also, the number of customers in the banking hall of the second bank was higher than that of the first bank during the entire period of observation. Finally, it takes customers of the first bank lesser minutes to complete their transaction than the second bank. In conclusion, the three days observations revealed different banking situations faced by customers in both banks which had effect on waiting time of customer service. The waiting time of customer service has effect on the number of customers in the queue and system, the probability associated with the emptiness of the system and the utilization factor. Based on the results, the study recommended, <i><span>inter</span></i> <i><span>alia</span></i><span>, </span><span>that the management of the second bank should adopt a three-server (M/M/3)</span><span> model.
文摘The focus of this paper is to build the damage identify system, which performs “system identification” to detect the positions and extens of structural damages. The identification of structural damage can be characterized as a nonlinear process which linear prediction models such as linear regression are not suitable. However, neural network techniques may provide an effective tool for system identification. The method of damage identification using the radial basis function neural network (RBFNN) is presented in this paper. Using this method, a simple reinforced concrete structure has been tested both in the absence and presence of noise. The results show that the RBFNN identification technology can be used with related success for the solution of dynamic damage identification problems, even in the presence of a noisy identify data. Furthermore, a remote identification system based on that is set up with Java Technologies. Key words RBFNN - inteligent identification - structural damage - Brower/Server (B/S) model CLC number TP 183 Foundation item: Supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province in China (2001ABB0778), The Science and Technology Foundation for Wuhan Young Scholar (20015005039)Biography: RAO Wen-bi (1967-), female, Ph. D, associate professor, research direction: artificial intelligence
文摘n the SUN work station network environment, based on Client/ Server model, wedesigned and implemented the dEDBMS system a distributed Engineering DataBase Manage-ment System. This paper presents its system architecture first, then discusses its three parts:theclient software EDBMS / 2, the server software EDB server, the interfaee software EDBclient, and introduces some implementation details.
