In decentralized computing environments, systems are built mainly from components that are developed and maintained independently by different third-party providers. The executions and evolutions of components located on distributed sites are beyond the control of the system developers, and the availabilities of those components are, to some extent, unpredictable because of their own tendencies...

As the autonomous decentralized system (ADS) philosophy is meeting increasing acceptance by the system engineering community, the type and number of highly autonomous subsystems will grow rapidly. Standardization of the methods and protocols by which autonomous subsystems interconnect or interact among themselves is an important issue with respect to further enhancing the economic advantages of...

Taking advantage of lower foreign tax rates using transfer pricing and taking advantage of lower production costs using offshoring are two strategies that global companies use to increase their profitability. Evidence suggests that firms employ these strategies independently. We study how global firms can jointly leverage tax and cost differences through coordinated transfer pricing and offshor...

Large international collaborations that use decentralized computing models are becoming a custom rather than an exception in High Energy Physics. A good computing model for such big collaborations has to deal with the distribution of the experiment-specific software

In this paper, we compare the two research fields of grid computing and autonomous decentralized systems (ADS). We point out that these two fields are closely related at the basic research level, and have a lot to offer each other. A grid computing system can be viewed as an autonomous decentralized system in many aspects, and as such, it needs inputs from the ADS research community. At the sam...

The objectives of load frequency control (LFC) are to minimize the transient deviations in these variables (area frequency and tie-line power interchange) and to ensure their steady state errors to be zeros. Since the tieline interfaces give rise to weakly coupled terms between areas, the large-scale power system can be decentralized into small subsystems through treating tie-line signals as di...

In existing systems of mobile routers, the frequency band is shared in uplinks from wireless terminals to mobile routers, and carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance (CSMA/CA) is generally used as the medium access control protocol. To use the frequency band effectively, adaptive control is one promising approach. In this paper, a decentralized access control protocol in which mo...

This paper describes the application of human visual models in (i) defining a visually uniform colour representation space and (ii) the formulation of visually weighted Kalman filtering for image restoration. The former being useful in colour image quantisation and compression. For (i), the uniformity of chromaticity differences at the ouptut of Frei ’s colour vision model [3] is tested and com...

Changes in the sensitivity of the rabbit ear artery to exogenous norepinephrine and potassium and to sympathetic nerve electrical stimulation were examined in vitro following decentralization which was performed by removing the unilateral preganglionic nerve proximal to the superior cervical ganglion. The contralateral side was left intact as a control. The postjunctional supersensitivity to ex...