Energy efficiency is an important issue in wireless ad-hoc networks since the battery power of terminals is limited. The energy efficient MAC algorithm is based on reservation and scheduling for wireless ad-hoc networ...
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Energy efficiency is an important issue in wireless ad-hoc networks since the battery power of terminals is limited. The energy efficient MAC algorithm is based on reservation and scheduling for wireless ad-hoc networks. In this paper, we drive the optimal threshold energy level for the Pseudo Base Station (PBS) reselection in the energy efficient MAC through mathematical analysis.
Networks offering services of high availability and quality need to be carefully monitored. Their increasing size and complexity stresses the ability of currently used static centralized systems. Decentralized approac...
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Networks offering services of high availability and quality need to be carefully monitored. Their increasing size and complexity stresses the ability of currently used static centralized systems. Decentralized approaches are possible and a key issue is the placement of area monitoring stations for optimal operation. Previous research has resulted in computationally expensive algorithms that require a global centralized network view. In this paper we propose a much simpler distributed algorithm and show that it performs as well as existing near-optimal but expensive, centralized algorithms. In addition, we propose that area monitoring stations are mobile agents, cloning and optimally placing themselves by executing the proposed algorithm. As network conditions change, e.g. through faults or persisting congestion, agents can adapt and migrate to new locations. We quantify the benefits of our approach against both the centralized and centrally-computed static distributed approaches.
Computational intelligence techniques have been successfully used for solving control problems in packet-switching network architectures. The introduction of active networking adds a high degree of flexibility in cust...
Computational intelligence techniques have been successfully used for solving control problems in packet-switching network architectures. The introduction of active networking adds a high degree of flexibility in customizing the network infrastructure and introducing new functionality. Therefore, there is a clear need for investigating both the applicability of computational intelligence techniques in this new networking environment, as well as the provisions of active networking technology that computational intelligence techniques can exploit for improved operation. We report on the characteristics of these technologies, their synergy and on outline recent efforts in the design of a computational intelligence toolkit and its application to routing on a novel active networking environment.
In a world of electronic interconnectivity, concepts for process automation within an organisation need to be extended to support co-operation with customers and partners across organisational boundaries. Current work...
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(纸本)0769510809
In a world of electronic interconnectivity, concepts for process automation within an organisation need to be extended to support co-operation with customers and partners across organisational boundaries. Current workflow standards provide only limited support to enable this interconnectivity. We propose a model for tiering business processes into the private business processes of organisations and those shared business processes that interconnect them. Private business processes can expose interaction points, and shared processes can link to these points so that an overall business process may span two or more organisations. The interaction points can selectively expose information about the processes and process tasks of an organisation. This paper also shows how these ideas can be supported by a coordinating architecture and describes a prototype that implements the key ideas. The proposed architecture that supports inter-organisational business processes was initially validated in the Vega final demonstration that brought together six different companies in a virtual enterprise. The implementation built upon OMG's Workflow Management Facility Specification concept for inter-workflow management interfaces, incorporated existing workflow management systems, including SAP R/3, and also non-process-oriented systems. Available services were selected at run time according to their capabilities and their availability. Experience from the demonstration with all the involved components showed a dynamic linkage between existing business processes and reliable communication between the business partners.
Middleware is a class of software systems above the operating system which is becoming widely used for programming distributedsystems. Voting is a fundamental operation when distributedsystems involve replicated com...
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Middleware is a class of software systems above the operating system which is becoming widely used for programming distributedsystems. Voting is a fundamental operation when distributedsystems involve replicated components. However support for voting in middleware is very limited. The paper describes issues involved with supporting voting, and more general data fusion, in middleware. We describe the Voting Virtual Machine (VVM) architecture, which can be embedded in different middleware substrates such as .NET and CORBA. We also describe its companion Voting Definition Language (VDL), which allows for portable description of voting algorithms. The VVM and VDL, together with the external VVM voting manager provide for voting transparency and adaptive voting. Finally, we describe how the simple "byte-by-byte" value comparison schemes used in other voting middleware as well as in byzantine fault tolerant multicast systems do not work in the face of the heterogeneity inherent in distributedsystems.
The World Wide Web has created major a innovation in the way knowledge is transferred. Since 1998, we have offered a Web-based multimedia technology course for on-campus and off-campus graduates in our country. In thi...
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The World Wide Web has created major a innovation in the way knowledge is transferred. Since 1998, we have offered a Web-based multimedia technology course for on-campus and off-campus graduates in our country. In this paper, we describe the teaching and learning system we have developed, together with the model for teaching and learning, and we report the results of using it over the past three years.
We develop a new software layer called the Automatic Parallel Detection Layer (APDL) for the automatic transformation from sequential to parallel code. The main interest, in this research, is the parallelism at loop l...
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We develop a new software layer called the Automatic Parallel Detection Layer (APDL) for the automatic transformation from sequential to parallel code. The main interest, in this research, is the parallelism at loop level, because significant parallelism in programs almost invariably occurs in loops. The proposed APDL has five processes for code transformation: the sequential source code parser, data dependence analysis of this code, partitioning, scheduling both task and data, and generating parallel source code. Many cases have been studied to evaluate the performance of the developed layer. The performance is evaluated depending on the execution time of: the sequential code, the parallel programmer code, and the code output from APDL for the same case study. Performance results show that APDL greatly improves the execution time with respect to sequential execution time, and saves on the high cost of a parallel programmer.
Real-time 6D-trackers based on electromagnetic inductance sensing have previously employed 3-axis coaxial direct current coils for both transmission and reception. Here, with the objective of a low-cost, practical sys...
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(纸本)0769509517
Real-time 6D-trackers based on electromagnetic inductance sensing have previously employed 3-axis coaxial direct current coils for both transmission and reception. Here, with the objective of a low-cost, practical system, we discuss a position-calculating algorithm for an electromagnetic inductance real-time 6D-tracker that employs two 1-axis coils and one 3-axis coil and describe the construction of a prototype system. This system has the potential of realizing a real-time 6D-tracker that costs several hundred dollars. It is expected that the measurement range and accuracy will be improved by increasing the number of transmitting coils, and we think it useful making 3D virtual common space by network at low-cost. We show the experimental system of an electronic white board.
Pattern discovery in unaligned DNA sequences is a challenging problem in both computerscience and molecular biology. Several different methods and techniques have been proposed so far, but in most of the cases signal...
PID controllers have been widely used in many chemical processes. Because they have only three control parameters and their physical meanings can be easily grasped. However, it is difficult to tune those parameters pr...
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PID controllers have been widely used in many chemical processes. Because they have only three control parameters and their physical meanings can be easily grasped. However, it is difficult to tune those parameters practically, since the process dynamics often change due to operating conditions or various disturbances. For this problem, a design method of robust PID controllers has been already proposed by the authors in order to guarantee the stability of the control system. However, as that control method is conservative, the desirable setpoint response can not be always obtained. In this paper, a design scheme of a self-tuning pre-filter is proposed to supplement the robust PID controller based on the two-degree-of-freedom control scheme. According to the proposed scheme, the transient property for the setpoint response can be improved keeping the robust stability. Finally, the proposed scheme is experimentally evaluated on an air pressure control system.
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