Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) offer inherent packet redundancy since each point within the network area is covered by more than one sensor node. This phenomenon, which is known as sensors co-coverage, is used in this paper to detect unauthenticated events. Unauthenticated event broadcasting in a WSN imposes network congestion, worsens the packet loss rate, and increases the network energy con...

template matching is a widely used technique in many of image processing and machine vision applications. in this paper we propose a new as well as a fast and reliable template matching algorithm which is invariant to rotation, scale, translation and brightness (rstb) changes. for this purpose, we adopt the idea of ring projection transform (rpt) of image. in the proposed algorithm, two novel s...

Interest in the presence and nature of trend arises frequently in science, public health, technology, and many other areas. In this ar- ticle we discuss the notion of trend in the context of recurrent event processes. We discuss different frameworks within which one can inves- tigate trend and consider various ways in which trends may be manifest. Tests for trend are discussed in detail and t...

the purpose of this study is to examine different scenarios for implementing operations in the pre-construction phase of a project, based on several competing criteria with different importance levels in order to achieve a more efficient execution plan. this paper presents a new framework that integrates discrete event simulation (des) and data envelopment analysis (dea) to rank different scena...

in previous studies we first concentrated on utilizing crisp simulationto produce discrete event fuzzy systems simulations. then we extendedthis research to the simulation of continuous fuzzy systems models. in this paperwe continue our study of continuous fuzzy systems using crisp continuoussimulation. consider a crisp continuous system whose evolution depends ondifferential equations. such a ...

The American scientist Carl Sagan once said: “You have to know the past understand present.” We argue that having a meaningful dialogue on future of simulation requires baseline understanding previous discussions its future. For this paper, we conduct review discrete event (DES) literature focuses better path DES has been following, both in terms who is using and what directions they think shou...