The main objective function of "initial tier placement" problem is the balanced decision of which tier the data is to be initially written in-order to reap the maximum performance benefits.
The 2009 consensus algorithm from the American Diabetes Association ADA /European Association for the Study of Diabetess (EASD) recommends lifestyle changes and metformin (MET) as the initial (tier one, well-validated) treatment at diagnosis of type 2 diabetes (1).
Initial tier placement and BID-hybrid Our solution, BID-Hybrid, lies in the "initial tier placement" class of problem in tiering.
Table 2 shows three initial tiers resulting from 4,484 original findings.
The results of these initial investigations shall often dictate the second tier of investigations.
Philadelphia and Seattle both play in the top tier of American soccer, Major League Soccer (MLS), and bypassed the initial stages of the tournament with entries into the third round of play.
A second tier of competition in Jamaica.
This is the second tier of NIH's lauded two-tier system.
A cloudlet represents the middle tier of the 3-tier hierarchy of mobile device - cloudlet - cloud.
