Em* is a software environment for developing and deploying Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) applications on Linux-class hardware platforms (called “Microservers”). Em* consists of libraries that implement message-passing IPC primitives, tools that support simulation, emulation, and visualization of live systems, both real and simulated, and services that support for networking, sensing, and time s...

PE investment is comparatively mature in developed countries. Along with the growing of PE investment in China in recent years, hi-tech enterprises of high growth potential are favored by PE investor. However, hi-tech enterprises in China are short of sufficient skills of strategy for bringing in foreign capital and objective qualifications in introducing PE investment. Therefore, this article ...

Stakeholders satisfaction, as well an effective involvement, is of utmost importance for any mega project, when it comes to the public concerning projects this role becomes more essential. In case developing countries where political, economic and administrative settings are challenging, managing all key stakeholders satisfaction prosperous extremely intricated, no matter even about sustainable...

This study presents the first report of Artificial Improvisation, or improvisational theatre performed live, on-stage, alongside an artificial intelligence-based improvisational performer. The Artificial Improvisor is a form of artificial conversational agent, or chatbot, focused on open domain dialogue and collaborative narrative generation. Using stateof-the-art machine learning techniques sp...

As the use of both agile and traditional methods continues to grow, the need for guidelines on how the two approaches may be used together will increase. This paper identifies the growth of both agile and formal approaches to project management then examines the origins and key elements of the two methods. The characteristics of software projects that lead to challenges in applying traditional ...

It is well known that the predilective sites of extrinsic tumors (meningiomas, chordomas, etc) are at the skull base and along the calvarium. Although intrinsic tumors or glial tumors have also been seen to have anatomic and functional predilective sites within the central nervous system, these have not been well documented. We conducted this study to investigate if supratentorial astrocytic tu...

Individual cellular automata rules are attractive models for a range of biological and physical self-assembling systems. While coexpression and coevolution are common in such systems, ensembles of cellular automata rules remain poorly understood. Here we report the first known analysis of the equally weighted ensemble of all elementary cellular automata (ECA) rules. Ensemble dynamics reveal per...

Light fields —4D representations of a scene coding luminance as a function of both position and angle— are becoming increasingly easy to capture. A number of handheld light field cameras, such as those by Lytro, Raytrix, or Pelican Imaging, have already entered the consumer market and are bringing light field photography to the wide public. This gives rise to a new need: Interfaces and tools fo...

Individual cellular automata rules are attractive models for a range of biological and physical self-assembling systems. While coexpression and coevolution are common in such systems, ensembles of cellular automata rules remain poorly understood. Here we report the first known analysis of the equally weighted ensemble of all elementary cellular automata (ECA) rules. Ensemble dynamics reveal per...