The pervasiveness of complex communication services and the need for end-users to play a greater role in modeling communication services have resulted in the development of the Communication Modeling Language (CML). CML is a domain-specific modeling language that can be used to declaratively specify user-centric communication services. CML models are automatically realized using the Communicati...

One of the most important performance measures in the analysis of data networks is the average delay required to deliver a packet from origin to destination. The packet delay will aaect the choice and performance of several network algorithms such as routing and ow control. Queueing theory is the primary methodological framework for analyzing network delay. It provides a basis for adequate dela...

A comprehensive review of the propagation prediction models for terrestrial wireless communication systems is presented in this paper. The classic empirical models are briefly described and the focus is placed on the application of ray-tracing techniques to the development of deterministic propagation models. Schemes to increase the computational efficiency and accuracy are discussed. Tradition...

We propose to use a comprehensive path model of vocal emotion communication, encompassing encoding, transmission, and decoding processes, to empirically model data sets on emotion expression and recognition. The utility of the approach is demonstrated for two data sets from two different cultures and languages, based on corpora of vocal emotion enactment by professional actors and emotion infer...

This thesis concerns mathematical models of wireless communication networks, in particular ad-hoc networks and 802.11 WLANs. In ad-hoc mode each of these devices may function as a sender, a relay or a receiver. Each device may only communicate with other devices within its transmission range. We use graph models for the relationship between any two devices: a node stands for a device, and an ed...

Autism is a complex neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by 1) aberrant reciprocal social interactions, 2) deficits in social communication, and 3) repetitive, stereotyped patterns of behaviors, along with narrow restricted interests. Designing mouse behavioral assays with face validity to the three core symptoms of autism in humans is a daunting challenge for behavioral neuroscientists. M...

Our overall goal is to support model-based approaches to verification and validation of communication protocols by techniques that automatically generate models of communication protocol entities from observations of their external behavior, using techniques based on regular inference (aka automata learning). In this paper, we address the problem that existing regular inference techniques produ...

An agent message is an attempted action upon the information state of the receiver that, if successful, would cause the receiver to move to a new information state. A model of normative communication can define when messages are not merely unsuccessful but instead are illegal or impossible actions upon the receiver’s internal state. The model uses the preconditions of the other core message typ...

states or predispositions. Any particular behavioral episode can be characterized in a variety of ways at different levels of abstraction: "A Models of Interpersonal Communication page 32 punches B," or "A hurts B," or "A dislikes B." The most abstract way to characterize a behavior would be as evidence of a predisposition: "A is aggressive." Maass et al. found that negatively valent behaviors ...