Future personal living environments feature an increasing number of convenience-, health- and security-related applications provided by distributed services, which do not only support users but require tasks such as i...
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Future personal living environments feature an increasing number of convenience-, health- and security-related applications provided by distributed services, which do not only support users but require tasks such as installation, configuration and continuous administration. These tasks are becoming tiresome, complex and error-prone. One way to escape this situation is to enable service platforms to configure and manage themselves. The approach presented here extends services with semantic descriptions to enable platform-independent autonomous service level management using model driven architecture and autonomic computing concepts. It has been implemented as a OSGi-based semantic autonomic manager, whose concept, prototypical implementation and evaluation are presented.
In this paper we outline instructional, legal, and software requirements as well as a prototypical software implementation for a multimedia help system in a rehabilitation scenario. The help system will be used by pat...
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In order to extend the operational span of wireless sensor networks, we propose to trade energy consumption for average response time by extending the deactivation periods of sensors with a particularly high energy co...
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(纸本)9781479928446
In order to extend the operational span of wireless sensor networks, we propose to trade energy consumption for average response time by extending the deactivation periods of sensors with a particularly high energy consumption. To compensate for the temporal inavailability of these sensors, alternative, low-power hybrid sensors generate estimates on the probabilities of the occurrence of interesting events, waking up the corresponding main sensor when detection probability justifies it. We demonstrate the principle on a case study of gas detection and analyze its efficiency formally using probabilistic model checking, which is able to compute probabilistic quantified properties pertaining to energy consumption, lifetime expectancy, and response time. The preliminary results confirm significant savings in energy consumption while retaining an acceptable average response time.
Nonparametric density estimation is a fundamental problem of statistics and data mining. Even though kernel density estimation is the most widely used method, its performance highly depends on the choice of the kernel...
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Use cases are a widely accepted way to define application functionality. They can therefore form a solid basis for testing the correct functionality and quality of service of a developed application. In this paper, we...
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Use cases are a widely accepted way to define application functionality. They can therefore form a solid basis for testing the correct functionality and quality of service of a developed application. In this paper, we describe a method for semi-automated generation of test scenarios for simulation testing of software components and component-based applications. It derives the scenarios from the use cases written in natural language, enriched with annotations that allow us to connect the specification with the source code of the application. This helps us to generate a sequence of method invocations within the tested application that forms a testing scenario. The achieved benefit is that the utilization of use cases not only helps to keep tests directly related to the original requirements of the application, it also makes it possible to easily generate new test cases when the requirements on the application change.
Motivated by the fact that bounded variation (often discontinuous) functions frequently appear when studying integral equations that describe physical phenomena, we focus on the existence of bounded variation solution...
Motivated by the fact that bounded variation (often discontinuous) functions frequently appear when studying integral equations that describe physical phenomena, we focus on the existence of bounded variation solutions for Urysohn integral measure driven equations. Due to numerous applications of Urysohn integral equations in various domains, problems of this kind have been extensively studied in literature, under more restrictive assumptions. Our approach concerns the framework of Kurzweil-Stieltjes integration, which allows the occurrence of high oscillatory features on the right hand side of the equation. A discussion about interesting consequences of our main result (given by particular cases of the measure driving the equation) is presented. Finally, we show the generality of our results by investigating two examples of impulsive type problems (from both theoretical and numerical perspective) and giving an application in electronics industry concerning polarization properties of ferroelectric materials.
In this paper we analyze the use of Reinforcement Learning (RL) in control optimization within dynamic multi-agent systems. RL is an effective algorithm for single agent optimization but performs less well in dynamic ...
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(纸本)9781479938599
In this paper we analyze the use of Reinforcement Learning (RL) in control optimization within dynamic multi-agent systems. RL is an effective algorithm for single agent optimization but performs less well in dynamic multi-agent environments. We investigate this principle based upon three of the most common RL algorithms. We also introduce a novel RL algorithm that excels in both single agent optimization and adaptation within multi-agent environments. This algorithm takes into account not only its own current state but also the current states of each of its significant neighbor agents so as to significantly increase performance within multi-agent systems. It employs a model driven approach to facilitate effective adaptation as well as policy-based methods to enable efficient action selection.
Demand-side energy management improves robustness and efficiency in Smart Grids. Load-adjustment and load-shifting are performed to match demand to available supply. These operations come at a discomfort cost for cons...
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(纸本)9781479924509
Demand-side energy management improves robustness and efficiency in Smart Grids. Load-adjustment and load-shifting are performed to match demand to available supply. These operations come at a discomfort cost for consumers as their lifestyle is influenced when they adjust or shift in time their demand. Performance of demand-side energy management mainly concerns how robustness is maximized or discomfort is minimized. However, measuring and controlling the distribution of discomfort as perceived between different consumers provides an enriched notion of fairness in demand-side energy management that is missing in current approaches. This paper defines unfairness in demand-side energy management and shows how unfairness is measurable and controllable by software agents that plan energy demand in a decentralized fashion. Experimental evaluation using real demand and survey data from two operational Smart Grid projects confirms these findings.
Partitioned coupling approaches are an important tool in order to achieve a decent time-to-solution for multi-physics problems with more than two physical fields or changing combinations of fields. We study different ...
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(纸本)9783885796268
Partitioned coupling approaches are an important tool in order to achieve a decent time-to-solution for multi-physics problems with more than two physical fields or changing combinations of fields. We study different approaches to deduce coupling schemes for partitioned multi-physics scenarios, by means of a simple, but yet challenging fluid-structure-fluid model problem. To our knowledge, this is the first time that a fully implicit black-box coupling scheme for partitioned multi-physics scenarios is described. This allows the simulation of a new range of applications in a partitioned way.
Mobile and cloud computing are converging as the prominent technologies that are leading the change to the post personal computing (PC) era. Computational offloading and data binding are the core techniques that foste...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781479944248
Mobile and cloud computing are converging as the prominent technologies that are leading the change to the post personal computing (PC) era. Computational offloading and data binding are the core techniques that foster to elastically augment the capabilities of low-power devices, such as smartphones. Mobile applications may be bonded to cloud resources by following a task delegation or code offloading criteria. In a delegation model, a handset can utilize the cloud in a service-oriented manner to delegate asynchronously a resource-intensive mobile task by direct invocation of the service. In contrast, in an offloading model, a mobile application is partitioned and analyzed so that the most computational expensive operations at code level can be identified and offloaded to a remote cloud-based surrogate. We compared in this paper, the mobile cloud computing models for offloading and delegation. We utilized our own frameworks for computational offloading and data binding in the analysis. While in principle, offloading and delegation are viable methods to augment the capabilities of the mobile devices with cloud power, they enrich the mobile applications from different perspectives at diverse computational scales.
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