We are delighted to begin this issue of the AEJ with an address from well-known educator, Harvey R. Dean, Ed.D. He is the founder and CEO of Pitsco Inc., and a former teacher. He is an author, speaker, and leader in the field of technology education. His research on methods for improving student success has taken him into schools and classrooms across the country. The system he describes in his...

A latent fingerprint is an interesting issue because of it has attained from crime places and moreover contained a low quality image, less number of features and unwanted noises. It is necessity to extract the original image with exact boundary from the surface for further processing such as authentication, identification and matching. In this work, a new distance measure has been proposed for ...

s Editor John Boyle Mississippi State University The Journal of the Mississippi Academy of Sciences (ISSN 0076-9436) is published in January (annual meeting abstracts), April, July, and October, by the Mississippi Academy of Sciences. Members of the Academy receive the journal as part of their regular (nonstudent) membership. Information regarding subscriptions, availability of back issues, and...

Petri net extended with resource and message factors, RMWF-Net for short, is proposed to model collaborative emergency response processes with various collaboration patterns. Correctness of a RMWF-Net is formally defined and verified using reachability analysis. A running case of collaborative fire emergency response processes is given to validate the approach.

Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) has been proposed as a replacement to the current networking protocol, IPv4, used in the global Internet. IPv6 represents an entirely new protocol, incorporating improved routing capability, enhanced ability to support real-time audio and video traffic, better security and privacy, as well as a much larger address space. Technical challenges and operational re...

The theory of fuzzy measures and fuzzy integrals was introduced by S u g e n o [16] and intensively studied. Monographs [15] and [18] are dedicated to this topic. Recently, several classical inequalities were generalized to fuzzy integral. F l o r e sF r a n u l i č and R o m á n-F l o r e s [11] provided a Chebyshev type inequality for fuzzy integral of continuous and strictly monotone functio...

a Key Laboratory of Engineering Geomechanics, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 9825, Beijing 100029, China b Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China c Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China d State Key Laboratory of Environmental Geochemistry, Institute of Geoc...

LIN GAO, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences YU-KUN LAI, School of Computer Science & Informatics, Cardiff University JIE YANG, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences LING-XIAO ZHANG, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences LEIF KOBBELT, RWTH Aachen University SHIHONG XIA, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academ...

Based on observations with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, obtained at the Space Telescope Science Institute, which is operated by AURA, Inc., under NASA contract NAS 5-26555. The National Optical Astronomy Observatories are operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc. (AURA) under cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation.

Christopher Tebbe Faculty I – Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Hannover, Ricklinger Stadtweg 120, 30459 Hannover, Germany [email protected] Karl-Heinz Niemann Faculty I – Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Hannover, Ricklinger Stadtweg 120, 30459 Hannover, Germany karl...