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This paper addresses the integration of agents with external resources and services in enterprise computing environments. We propose an approach for interfacing agents and existing message routing and mediation engines based on the endpoint concept from the enterprise integration patterns of Hohpe and Woolf.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Abstract Several tools have been designed for measuring end-to-end available bandwidth (AB) of a path by injecting probe traffic on the path and inferring AB based on the end-to-end delays observed. While the algorithmic aspects of designing probe streams and inferring AB have received considerable attention, most tool designs have ignored an importan...

This paper is concerned with the optimal design of axial probes, commonly used in Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) tube boiling steam generators. The goal to improve low-frequency Foucault-current imaging these deposits by designing a novel probe. approach uses combination an inverse problem solver global optimization find probe characteristics minimizing function merit defined using image process...

A nanowire-based nanosensor for detecting biologically and chemically charged molecules that is probe-free and highly sensitive is demonstrated. The device relies on the nonsymmetrical Schottky contact under reverse bias, and is much more sensitive than the device based on the symmetric ohmic contact. This approach serves as a guideline for designing more practical chemical and biochemical sens...

Reproducible and target-specific polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification relies on several interrelated factors of which primer design is central. Here, we describe new free bioinformatics software, the FastPCR which was developed, and continues to be updated, based on detailed experimental studies of PCR efficiency for the optimal design of primers and probe sequences and for repeat sear...

Avian influenza H9N2 subtype viruses have had a great impact on Iranian industrial poultry production economy since introduction in the country. To approach Rapid and precise identification of this viruses as control measures in poultry industry, a real time probe base assay was developed to directly detect a specific influenza virus of H9N2 subtype -instead of general detection of Influenza A ...

Compressive sensing microarrays (CSMs) are DNA-based sensors that operate using group testing and compressive sensing (CS) principles. In contrast to conventional DNA microarrays, in which each genetic sensor is designed to respond to a single target, in a CSM, each sensor responds to a set of targets. We study the problem of designing CSMs that simultaneously account for both the constraints f...