As the Android platform is widely used for embedded systems including smart mobile devices, the needs for systematic performance analysis have significantly increased. System performance is usually measured by benchmarks and profiler software. We studied on the performance of Android platform using a benchmark application and public profile software. For more detail and integrated performance a...

We introduce a new methodology for benchmarking the performance per watt of semantic web reasoners and rule engines on smartphones to provide developers with information critical for deploying semantic web tools on power-constrained devices. We validate our methodology by applying it to three well-known reasoners and rule engines answering queries on two ontologies with expressivities in RDFS a...

Optimization can be defined as finding the best solution for a problem. This process can be achieved by setting the initial parameters based on available information. Various optimization algorithms have been proposed for solving such problems. One cannot expect all optimization algorithms available to produce suitable and effective solutions for all optimization problems. Therefore, it is nece...

In this paper we describe Omniware, a system for producing and executing mobile code. Mobile code will be used in next generation Web applications to specify dynamic behavior in Web pages, implement new Web protocols and data formats, and dynamically distribute computation between servers and browsers. Like all mobile code systems, Omniware provides portability and safety. The same compiled Omn...

The number of mobile devices (e.g., smartphones, tablets, wearable devices) is rapidly growing. In line with this trend, a massive amount of mobile videos with metadata (e.g., geospatial properties), which are captured using the sensors available on these devices, are being collected. Clearly, a computing infrastructure is needed to store and manage this ever-growing large-scale video dataset w...

This paper describes the application of behaviour-based control for a mobile manipulation task. It presents a preliminary result in the research into a ‘task-robust’ controller for a service robot, needed when a robot is used in a human-centred environment. The chosen benchmark task is the co-operative carrying of a long object by a mobile manipulator and a human. The human will guide the task,...

This paper describes Omniware, a system for producing and executing mobile code. Next generation Web applications will use mobile code to specify dynamic behavior in Web pages, implement new Web protocols and data formats, and dynamically distribute computation between servers and browsers. Like all mobile code systems, Omniware provides portability and safety. The same compiled Omniware module...

A common issue in bioinformatics is that computational methods often generate a large number of predictions sorted according to certain confidence scores. A key problem is then determining how many predictions must be selected to include most of the true predictions while maintaining reasonably high precision. In nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR)-based protein structure determination, for instan...

Zataria multiflora Boiss is used in traditional folk remedies as antiseptic, analgesic, carminative, anthelmintic medication. The main components of Z. multiflora are phenolic compounds such as thymol and carvacrol. The aim of this study was developed a simple and rapid method for determination of the thymol in different extracts of Z. multiflora by HPLC method. The dried aerial parts of Z. mul...