The popularization increase of MMORPGs demands new technological approaches to supply users’ requirements with a lower cost of computational resources. Designing these architectures, from the network point of view, i...
The popularization increase of MMORPGs demands new technological approaches to supply users’ requirements with a lower cost of computational resources. Designing these architectures, from the network point of view, is relevant and impacts these games’ success. We analyze and identify the computational resources consumed by the architectures Rudy, Salz, and Willson, which are microservices architectures elaborated for MMORPGs. These architectures were analyzed and tested using automated clients on the architectures deployed in our private computational cloud to identify resource bottlenecks. We conclude the performance, from the point of view of response time, is related to better use of CPU, either by data storage microservices or by data processing microservices. In addition, the application of queuing systems or barriers to manage access or minimize the consumption of an internal service proved feasible, directly impacting the flow of data through the architecture.
We describe the methods of processing of perception based information in hybrid intelligent systems. Several innovative techniques like a multi-set based algebra of qualitative perception-based uncertainties and perce...
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We describe the methods of processing of perception based information in hybrid intelligent systems. Several innovative techniques like a multi-set based algebra of qualitative perception-based uncertainties and perception-based data mining form the technological framework of the approach. In the paper, we discuss the algebra of strict monotonic operations and inference procedures based on perception-based evaluations of uncertainty of facts and rules. They are characterized by multi-set-based representation of evaluations of uncertainty and by multi-valued inference of conclusions in expert system rules. The proposed method is implemented in the CAPNET expert system shell. We also discuss the method of evaluation of perception-based patterns in time series data bases. The approach is illustrated by examples of diagnostics of excessive water production in petroleum wells combining both methods
The analysis of human mobility behavior through computational techniques finds applications in various domains and provides valuable insights for urban planning, transportation services, and a deeper understanding of ...
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The analysis of human mobility behavior through computational techniques finds applications in various domains and provides valuable insights for urban planning, transportation services, and a deeper understanding of human interactions in Smart Cities and Smart Environments. In this scenario, this study presents a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) with the following main question: How are computational techniques being used to analyse human mobility behavior in Smart Cities and Smart Environments? A total of 5989 articles were initially found and filtered, resulting in 56 articles reviewed. As the main contributions, this study provides responses to 19 research questions. A list of the challenges and the computational techniques identified is provided. The algorithms, machine learning techniques and data-sources used by the reviewed studies are also presented and organized through taxonomies. A comprehensive discussion of the identified techniques is conducted, finishing with a compilation of challenges, open issues and research opportunities. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study that reviewed human mobility behavior covering a wide range of scenarios, including urban mobility, public transport, points and regions of interest, ridesharing, bike-sharing, traffic analysis, driving behavior, electric vehicle charging stations planning, mobility on demand, crowd analysis and others.
Granular materials are ubiquitous in nature and in our daily lives, and used in many industrial processes. Depending on the physical conditions that they are subjected, granular materials may present unusual behavior,...
Granular materials are ubiquitous in nature and in our daily lives, and used in many industrial processes. Depending on the physical conditions that they are subjected, granular materials may present unusual behavior, combining properties of solids, liquids or gases, and displaying interesting and diversified phenomena. In this work we numerically simulated a granular system in order to investigate the phenomena of size segregation in the Brazil Nut Effect. Our simulations indicate that the phenomenon of size segregation results from the combined effect of two different mechanisms: buoyancy and convection. Increasing the vibration amplitude, the behavior of the system becomes less periodic and more turbulent, with evidence of deterministic chaos in the dynamics of the large particle.
Stroke is an injury that affects the brain tissue, mainly caused by changes in the blood supply to a particular region of the brain. As consequence, some specific functions related to that affected region can be reduc...
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The advent of the digital television in Brazil has allowed users to access interactive channels. Once interactive channels are available, the users are able to find multimedia content such as movies and breaking news ...
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The advent of the digital television in Brazil has allowed users to access interactive channels. Once interactive channels are available, the users are able to find multimedia content such as movies and breaking news programs, to send and/or receive emails, to access interactive applications and also other contents. In this context, a high demand of requests from users is expected. Therefore, from the content provider's point of view, the determination of transmission parameters is needed in order to ensure the best quality of transmission to every user. The aforementioned identification problem is modelled as an optimization problem and a solution procedure based on metaheuristic techniques is proposed. Genetic Algorithm and Tabu Search metaheuristics are employed separately and coupled in a hybrid scheme to define the best transmission policy, optimizing the transmission parameters, such as audio and video transmission rates. Based on the experimental results, the hybrid algorithm has produced better solutions which meet the quality requirements.
One of the main objectives in multimodal optimization is to find multiple optima solutions in a search space. Hence, population-based metaheuristics are suitable for this class of problems but their loss of diversity ...
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One of the main objectives in multimodal optimization is to find multiple optima solutions in a search space. Hence, population-based metaheuristics are suitable for this class of problems but their loss of diversity while converging may become a problem when tracking multiple optima. In this paper, we propose the use of a cluster-based external archive maintenance strategy along with the jDE algorithm, namely NCjDE-HJ ar . The DBSCAN algorithm is employed to group candidate solutions in an external archive representing multiple peaks that will feed the Hooke-Jeeves local search algorithm. Also, the Michalewicz mutation strategy is applied to refine the solutions found by the jDE algorithm. The proposed approach is compared with five state-of-the-art algorithms in terms of peak ratio and the results obtained show that the proposed modifications favor the finding more multimodal peaks.
This year, the Agile Manifesto completes seventeen years and, throughout the world, companies and researchers seek to understand their adoption stage, as well as the benefits, barriers, and limitations of agile method...
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A contemporaneous data center (DC) hosts multiple competitive network data flows from different applications, sharing the intermediate switches capacities. In this context, congestion control and avoidance on Transmis...
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A contemporaneous data center (DC) hosts multiple competitive network data flows from different applications, sharing the intermediate switches capacities. In this context, congestion control and avoidance on Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) are critical tasks to ensure the quality of service for hosted applications. Specifically, Software Defined Networking (SDN) created an opportunity to avoid congestion once the centralized controller can gather ongoing and historical information from all network switches and flows. However, the data gathered is enormous, and fast-computing algorithms are crucial for decision-making. In this sense, this work proposes Reinforcement Learning- and SDN-aided Congestion Avoidance Tool (RSCAT), which uses data classification to determine if the network is congested and actor-critic reinforcement learning to find better TCP parameters. Our experimental analysis shows RSCAT could decrease the Flow Completion Time (FCT) of DCTCP and CUBIC variants in several cases without requiring any software update on DC end-points.
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