Motion control has been a fruitful ground for applying Variable Structure Systems (VSS) theory. This paper provides an assessment of the state of the art of the relevant theoretical results for sliding mode control. T...
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In previous results, most existing Byzantine agreement (BA) protocols are designed for pure wired or pure wireless networks. In practice, most current networks are combined wired and wireless environments. In this pap...
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In previous results, most existing Byzantine agreement (BA) protocols are designed for pure wired or pure wireless networks. In practice, most current networks are combined wired and wireless environments. In this paper, we extend the BA problem over combined wired/wireless network, consisting of both powerful computing processor and low-power mobile processor. Furthermore, the communication overhead of the BA protocol is inherently large because the BA protocol requires numerous rounds to exchange messages. Secure group communications over a combined wired/wireless network is very important. The protocols proposed in this paper use the hierarchical model concept to reduce the communication overhead and provide secure group communications well suited for combined wired/wireless networks
This paper presents conditions for stability of interconnected nonlinear systems consisting of integral input-to-state stable subsystems. Both the necessity and the sufficiency are investigated using a Lyapunov formul...
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(纸本)1424401704;9781424401703
This paper presents conditions for stability of interconnected nonlinear systems consisting of integral input-to-state stable subsystems. Both the necessity and the sufficiency are investigated using a Lyapunov formulation. The ultimate result is a necessary and sufficient condition for integral input-to-state stability (iISS) of the interconnection, which is believed to be the first of its kind. This paper derives two sufficient conditions. One is the iISS-ISS small-gain condition which has been proposed earlier by one of the authors. Its sufficiency is strengthened to cover situations more general than the earlier result. The other condition is a universal representation of the nonlinear small-gain condition which has been a popular tool for dealing with input-to-state stable (ISS) subsystems. This paper proves that, for establishing iISS property of the interconnection, the universal representation can deal with iISS subsystems as much as the iISS-ISS small-gain condition if supply rate functions are smooth everywhere and analytic at zero. Furthermore, two necessary conditions this paper derives demonstrate that the nonlinear small-gain condition in the universal form is also necessary for the iISS property
To create an understanding of enterprises and the ways they do business, a starting point could be to identify the main actors and the values transferred between them. Business models are created in order to make clea...
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To create an understanding of enterprises and the ways they do business, a starting point could be to identify the main actors and the values transferred between them. Business models are created in order to make clear who the business actors are in a business case and to make their relations explicit. The relations are formulated in terms of values exchanged between the actors. The purpose of the work reported in this paper is to create a better understanding of business models by identifying basic notions used in such models. It does so by constructing a common ontology based on three established business model ontologies: e3-value, REA, and BMO. By means of a careful analysis of these ontologies a conceptual schema is created that defines the common concepts. An example is worked out that explains how the common ontology should be understood.
The evaluation framework for e-Government services proposed in this paper is designed to be a comprehensive guidance. The framework, which is intentionally used to ensure that government services meet the settled obje...
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While the traditional data shipping systems use physical information to organize data, a newer data caching technique maintains both associated answers (data items) of previous queries and their meaning (purpose). Thi...
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While the traditional data shipping systems use physical information to organize data, a newer data caching technique maintains both associated answers (data items) of previous queries and their meaning (purpose). This form of information description is called semantic description, and it makes it possible to reason about and derive knowledge from the given description. In a distributed heterogeneous environment, such as the mobile environment, the semantic data caching paradigm is an important technique for improving the performance of wireless data dissemination systems. Data caching performance depends heavily on the replacement policy being used for the cache management. However, future location ambiguity, limited client resources and frequent client disconnections make cache management a challenge. This paper proposes a future location-aware cache replacement policy to manage a semantic cache. The proposed replacement policy uses the validity of the data fetched from the server and the neighboring locations to decide which of the cache entries is less likely to be needed in the future, and therefore, a good candidate to be evicted when cache space is needed. The replacement policy's preference for cached items to be evicted is modelled as a general function that declines with distance between the cell the candidate for replacement's cached item is bounded to and the query's bound cell. For better efficiency the overall replacement granularity is dynamically achieved along three levels: ring, cell and data item. Simulation study of the proposed approach shows that it outperforms both the least recently used (LRU) and furthest away replacement (FAR) schemes, where only temporal locality is considered. Moreover, the proposed scheme is easier to implement than the industry standard policies
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