This paper presents methods for adding optional software components to a Distributed Real-Time Embedded (DRE) deployment optimization problem, and methods for attempting to enable deployment of the maximal number of optional software components. By building upon prior work that allows rapid deployment optimization, one can predict probability of success with high confidence, and utilize that in...

Following recent technological advances in diverse mobile devices, including smartphones, tablets and smartwatches, in-depth studies aimed at improving the quality of augmented reality (AR) are currently ongoing. Smartphones feature the essential elements of AR implementation, such as a camera, a processor and a display in a single device. As a result, additional hardware expansion for AR imple...

Service composition allows distributed application, such as multimedia application, to be composed from atomic service units and to adapt dynamically to users’ requirements and environment conditions in pervasive computing system. It augments the adaptation action space for the application of pervasive computing. According to the multidimensional QoS (Quality of Service) requirement of pervasiv...

Finkel, Eastwick, and Reis (2016; FER2016) argued the post-2011 methodological reform movement has focused narrowly on replicability, neglecting other essential goals of research. We agree multiple scientific goals are essential, but argue, however, a more fine-grained language, conceptualization, and approach to replication is needed to accomplish these goals. Replication is the general empiri...

The paper deals with defaultable markets, one of the main research areas of mathematical finance. It proposes a new approach to the theory of such markets using techniques from the calculus of optional stochastic processes on unusual probability spaces, which was not presented before. The paper is a foundation paper and contains a number of fundamental results on modeling of defaultable markets...

Abstract We consider an M/G/1 feedback queue with optional server vacations based on Bernoulli schedule and a single vacation policy. We assume that the server provides two types of service, type 1 with probability p1 and type 2 with probability p2 with the service times following general distribution and each arriving customer may choose either type of service. However after the completion of ...

We introduce an extension of the Pólya tree approach for constructing distributions on the space of probability measures. By using optional stopping and optional choice of splitting variables, the construction gives rise to random measures that are absolutely continuous with piecewise smooth densities on partitions that can adapt to fit the data. The resulting “optional Pólya tree” distribution...

Most current autonomous mobile service robots are either expensive commercial platforms or custom manufactured for research environments, limiting their availability. We present the design for a lowcost service robot based on the widely used TurtleBot 2 platform, with the goal of making service robots affordable and accessible to the research, educational, and hobbyist communities. Our design u...