Second, the DoD budget declined significantly. DoD’s mission critical systems became dependent on commercial products using advanced technologies that lacked the reliability requirements of mission critical systems. In addition, DoD stretched the life cycles of many weapon systems, surveillance systems and CI systems. For example, the twenty year old F16 design had been due for retirement aroun...

The aim of this paper is to describe the design and implementation of an agent platform called CAPNET (Component Agent Platform based on .NET) that is fully compliant with the specifications of the Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents (FIPA) and implemented as 100% managed code in the .NET framework. The tools for the platform configuration and administration are presented and a case stud...

Semi‐automated methods for mapping wetlands using Landsat ETM+ and SRTM data Md. A. Islam a , P. S. Thenkabail a , R. W. Kulawardhana a , R. Alankara a , S. Gunasinghe a , C. Edussriya b & A. Gunawardana b a International Water Management Institute , P.O. Box 2075, Colombo, Sri Lanka b Central Environmental Authority , No. 104, Denzil Kobbekaduwa, Mawatha, Battaramulla, Sri Lanka Published onli...

Recently, the concern about energy efficiency in wireless communications has been growing rapidly. Manufacturers and researchers have developed innovative solutions, highlighting the benefits in reducing operational expenditures (OPEX) and carbon footprint. Professional Mobile Radio (PMR) systems, like Terrestrial Trunked Radio (TETRA), have been designed to provide voice and data services to p...

The legal environment of the Internet has often been compared with the Wild West in the days of the American frontier. This analogy is used to convey the wide open and freewheeling atmosphere that pervades this area of the law. The Internet, like many other technological phenomena, is developing along several parallel directions. The main line is the technology direction—those facets of network...

[Chang, 2010] argues that slow intelligence is the property shared by surprisingly large number of intelligent systems, and presents examples in scenarios of multimedia data query and mission control in crisis management systems. This paper strengthens this argument by showing that human infant’s object tracing can be understood as a slow intelligence and be simulated in this framework. We firs...

Not only has the number of launched spacecraft per year exploded recently, but spacecraft are also getting progressively more complex as instruments become more capable and flyby missions give way to remote orbiters, then to rovers and other in situ explorers. To address the software issues in this expanding mission set, JPL started the Mission Data System (MDS) project – an effort to make engi...

Some aspects regarding the use of radioactivity standards and measurements in various applications are emphasized. The definitions of the specific notions, as they are used in the field of metrology, a short history of the development of radioactivity standards and of the first traceability assurance achievements are presented. The main radioactivity measurement fields, requiring standards are ...

There is growing interest in using a structure of claims, arguments, and evidence to explain why all critical software hazards have been eliminated or adequately mitigated in mission-critical and safety-critical systems. Such a structure has been called a dependability case, an assurance case, or a (goal-structured) safety case. Dependability cases are sometimes viewed as adding no extra value,...