Platooning is expected to enhance the efficiency of operating autonomous vehicles. The positive impacts of platooning on travel time reliability, congestion, emissions, and energy consumption has been shown for homogeneous roadway segments. However, unveiling the full potential of platooning requires stable platoons throughout the transportation system (end-to-end platooning). Speed limit chang...

ABSTRACT This paper quanti es the auses of end-to-end Internet path failures and the e e ts of routing instability on end-to-end performan e. Studies have shown that end-to-end Internet failures (periods of prolonged pa ket loss) are widespread. These failures are typi ally attributed to either ongestion or routing dynami s. Unfortunately, the extent to whi h ongestion and routing dynami s ause...

Customer owned and managed optical networks bring new cost-saving benefits. Two types of such networks are becoming widely used: metro dark fiber networks and long-haul leased wavelength networks. Customers may invoke a special QoS mechanism where end-to-end lightpaths are dynamically established across multiple independently managed customer domains. The cost of bandwidth is substantially redu...

Building highly non-linear and non-parametric models is central to several state-of-the-art machine learning systems. Kernel methods form an important class of techniques that induce a reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS) for inferring non-linear models through the construction of similarity functions from data. These methods are particularly preferred in cases where the training data sizes ...

Estimation of the mode of a distribution over n from discrete samples is introduced and three methods for its solution are developed and evaluated. The first solution is based on Fréchet’s definition of central tendencies. We show that algorithms based on this approach have only limited success due to the non-differentiability of the Fréchet measures. The second solution is based on tracking ma...

This study proposes an approach, the unit circle (UC), to qualitative modelling of a planar robot. A robot is described as a collection of constraints holding among time-varying, interval-valued variables. The UC representation is presented, the continuous motion of the end-effector is evaluated by the change of directions of qualitative angle and qualitative length. Analytical formulas of qual...

The tameness and ending lamination conjectures together tell us that a hyperbolic 3-manifold with finitely generated fundamental group is determined by its topology and a finite number of “end invariants”. In this paper we describe how some of this theory generalises to a much broader class of metrics. To simplify the discussion, we focus on the particular case where the 3-manifold is homotopy ...

The Oxford English Dictionary defines “to bootstrap” as the following: To make use of existing resources or capabilities to raise (oneself) to a new situation or state; to modify or improve by making use of what is already present. The Picard theorem [17, p. 14, Theorem 1.17]: Theorem 1. Let M be a finite dimensional Hilbert space. Let F : M → M be locally Lipschitz. Let t0 ∈ R and let u0 ∈M . ...

In this paper we provide a common framework for different stratified $LM$-convergence spaces introduced recently. To this end, we slightly alter the definition of a stratified $LMN$-convergence tower space. We briefly discuss the categorical properties and show that the category of these spaces is a Cartesian closed and extensional topological category. We also study the relationship of our cat...