Wind energy prediction has an important part to play in a smart energy grid for load balancing and capacity planning. In this paper we explore, if wind measurements based on the existing infrastructure of windmills in neighbored wind parks can be learned with a soft computing approach for wind energy prediction in the ten-minute to six-hour range. For this sake we employ Support Vector Regressi...

Wireless technology usage is rapidly expanding and WiMAX technology is more widely used. The new WiMAX standard adopts relay stations (RS) for better QoS. Published researches on multi-hop relay networks concentrate on quality of service, stations resources distribution and management, as well as creating network topology for better service quality [1-4]. However no specific study conducted to ...

Real time delivery of multimedia objects based on preorchestrated scenarios, seems to have several difficulties due to presentation deadlines that should be satisfied, and network’s unpredictable behavior which may lead to synchronization anomalies among related media streams. Beyond these, a structural model that represents such scenarios is required. In this paper, we present a general framew...

In this paper we investigate the inclusion of pricedependent loads into the traditional Optimal Power Flow algorithm. The development of the model will be based on the solution of the OPF using an objective function for maximization of social welfare. The paper will show that a traditional OPF algorithm that minimizes supplier costs can be modified to solve the social welfare maximization probl...

Risk maps for the geographical distribution of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) are needed for the direction of HIV prevention interventions. Our study, based on county-level data on the numbers of HIV/AIDS patients in the Yunnan province, People's Republic of China, applied trend surface analysis and spatial autocorrelation analysis to demon...

We investigate the problem of mapping dynamically generated tasks onto the processors of an MIMD-system. Our main concern is to construct an algorithm which can be integrated in distributed runtime systems like PVM or MPI. Existing methods are often not adjustable to different architectureand application-demands. Evenif they are, the adjustment has to be done manually via time-consuming experim...

Ecommerce is an area where an Autonomic computing system could be very effectively deployed. The growth of ecommerce has created demand for services with financial incentives for service providers. Revenues accrue if the admitted requests are processed within the specified deadline and costs are incurred otherwise. In case of heavy load, it will not be possible to process all requests within th...

Following Hale & Reiss’ paper on the Subset Principle (SP) in phonology, we draw attention here to some unsolved problems in the application of SP to syntax acquisition. While noting connections to formal results in computational linguistics, our focus is on how SP could be implemented in a way that is both linguistically well-grounded and psychologically feasible. We concentrate on incremental...

The frequent change of network topology in mobile ad-hoc network leads to the stability and reliability problems of routing. Many routing schemes such as multi-path routing and backup path routing are proposed to increase the link reliability. Multi-path routing protocols usually concentrate on load balancing or disjoint routing. However, the problem of packet loss caused by re-routing from the...

Inhibition of nitrification at combined municipal and/or industrial treatment plants can cause serve problems in regard to the future low effluent standards for ammonia nitrogen. As inhibition problems often occur only for limited periods anq are caUsed by different substances it is very difficult· to find the sources of these substances within the sewer system. Using a two step strategy based ...