Given the reduced freshwater supplies across the world, seawater desalination is one of the appropriate methods available for producing freshwater. Selecting an optimal location is crucial in the installation of these plants owing to the environmental problems they cause. The present study was conducted to identify optimal locations for installing desalination Plants in the coastal areas of sou...

We consider the problem of estimating link quality in an ad-hoc wireless mesh. We argue that estimating links well requires combining information from the network, link, and physical layers. We propose narrow, protocolindependent interfaces for the layers, which in total provide four bits of information: 1 from the physical layer, 1 from the link layer, and 2 from the network layer. We present ...

The use of context information in networks of mobile devices is crucial to respond adequately to the user’s expectations. We therefore require that applications dynamically adapt their behaviour according to context changes. Current-day technology typically consists of a series of programming patterns to achieve dynamic behaviour adaptation. However, combining different contexts in such systems...

Based on 3-D elasticity approach, differential quadrature method (DQM) in axial direction is adopted along with Globalized Nelder–Mead (GNM) algorithm to optimize the stacking sequence of a laminated cylindrical shell. The anisotropic cylindrical shell has finite length with simply supported boundary conditions. The elasticity approach, combining the state space method and DQM is used to obtain...

Co-simulation is an emerging method for cyber-physical energy system (CPES) assessment and validation. Combining simulators of different domains into a joint experiment, co-simulation provides a holistic framework to consider the whole CPES at system level. In this paper, we present a systematic structuration of co-simulation based on a conceptual point of view. A co-simulation framework is the...

Airborne LiDAR point cloud of a forest contains three dimensional data, from which vertical stand structure (including information about under-story trees) can be derived. This paper presents a segmentation approach for multi-story stands that strips the point cloud to its canopy layers, identifies individual tree segments within each layer using a DSM-based tree identification method as a buil...

The design and implementation of an interactive music system is a difficult task. It necessitates the description of complex interplays between two design layers at least : the real time synchronous layer for audio processing, and at the symbolic event based layer for interaction handling. Tiled programming is a recent proposal that aims at combining with a single metaphor: tiled signals, the d...

as a medium between people and the city, urbanscape makes a mental connection between individuals and their surroundings. it is usually difficult to conceive this mental relationship and its corresponding processes with usual methods. this study seeks to address the mental aspects of urbanscape and highlight its role and importance by using an innovative method. in this study, map-based methods...

We develop an analytic performance model for client/server communications using Remote Procedure Call (RPC) with no security over the connectionless datagram protocol in the Open Software Foundation's Distributed Computing Environment (OSF/DCE). It combines features from NetMod, a network performance modeling tool, and the Method of Layers which is a software performance modeling tool. The purp...