Wireless sensor network (WSN) technology has the potential to change the way we live, work, protect and do business, with applications in entertainment, travel, industry, telemedicine, disaster and emergency management. Data aggregation is key technique for power-efficient information acquisition in WSNs. However, data privacy during data aggregation is an important issue when the WSN is deploy...

In this paper, we will expound upon the concepts proffered in [5], where we proposed an information theoretic approach to intelligence in the computational sense. We will examine data and meme aggregation, and study the effect of limited resources on the resulting meme amplitudes.

In-network data aggregation is one of the most important issues for achieving energy-efficiency in wireless sensor networks since sensor nodes in the surrounding region of an event may generate redundant sensed data. The redundant sensed data should be aggregated before being delivered to the sink to reduce energy consumption. Which node should be selected as a Data Aggregation Node (DAN) for a...

Though the tremendous work has been done in the field of wireless sensor networks, due to the two challenging aspects (i.e. energy consumption and routing).This paper provides a survey of various techniques to address the challenges in wireless sensor networks. And comparatives study provides comparison between all existing techniques based on the parameters (i.e. energy and network lifetime). ...

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Some previous research on the contextual causes of individual political participation has argued that increasing community heterogeneity increases political participation; while other researchers have claimed the opposite: that increasing community homogeneity (decreasing heterogeneity) increases participation. These theories use the different mechanisms of conflict and improved social networks...