To facilitate the evaluation of alternative mission planning models for teams of Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAVs), a multi-agent simulation system was designed and developed. The system, referred to as Ether, is designed to be more generally applicable to a wide variety of agent-oriented systems. The simulator design has the flexibility to support a wide variety of mission planning models, yet prov...

Based on the complex network theory, this paper comprehensively studies equipment and its interrelationship in tactical communication system constructs a networking model. analysis of structure organizational application system, provides an appropriate mathematical description net-electric attack strategy evaluation. A simulation test model was established, then, by changing such as number node...

In real-time systems, there exists a trade-off between schedulability and reliability. Most of the existing faulttolerant scheduling algorithms for real-time systems tend to favor schedulability over reliability. This may not be desirable when tasks have wide-varying utility values. This motivated the need for performance-oriented reliability measures, such as performance index, which inherentl...

Reliability is an increasingly pressing issue for High-Performance Computing systems, as failures are a threat to large-scale applications, which even single run may incur significant energy and billing costs. Currently, application developers need address reliability explicitly, by integrating application-specific checkpoint/restore mechanisms. However, the alone cannot exploit system knowledg...

The ongoing digital transformation raises the need to address evolution of legacy systems in response integration requirements. One challenge is integrating sensors and actuators (and their controllers), modeled as IoT elements, linking them data analytics, management, operations decision support functions or processes. Since technology follow proprietary architectures, into open service-orient...

We present a service-oriented personalization system, set in an educational framework, based on a semantic annotation of courses including prerequisites and learning objectives. The system supports users in planning personalized curricula and in verifying the compliance of curricula against a model describing the designer goals. We have developed a prototype of the planning and validation servi...

SUMMARY We present our protein-protein interaction (PPI) network visualization system RobinViz (reliability-oriented bioinformatic networks visualization). Clustering the PPI network based on gene ontology (GO) annotations or biclustered gene expression data, providing a clustered visualization model based on a central/peripheral duality, computing layouts with algorithms specialized for intera...