This paper reports on the experiences with the development of services on a TINA-based service deployment platform. Within the MESH (Multimedia services on the Electronic Super Highway) project, such a platform is developed based on the TINA Service Architecture 5.0. Various services have been developed on top of this platform using a distributed software component framework that integrates the...

Typical characteristics of remote sensing applications are concurrent tasks, such as those found in disaster rapid response. The existing composition approach to geographical information processing service chain, searches for an optimisation solution and is what can be deemed a "selfish" way. This way leads to problems of conflict amongst concurrent tasks and decreases the performance of all se...

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As the use of WLANs based on IEEE 802.11 increase, the need for QoS becomes more obvious. The upcoming IEEE 802.11e aims at providing QoS, but its contention-based medium access mechanism, enhanced distributed channel access (EDCA), provides only service differentiation. In order to provide QoS guarantees, we have proposed an extension called EDCA with resource reservation (EDCA/RR), which enha...

With the rapid development of cloud computing, more and more cloud services are provided to users. Faced with multiple cloud services, how to scientifically predict and assess the performance of cloud service is an imperative task. To cope with the challenge, an prediction scheme via JOGM(1,1) model is proposed based on grey system theory, in which the performance of cloud service is quantified...

In this paper, the application of Rapid Prototyping in fabricating non-assembly robotic systems is presented. Using the Stereolithography Apparatus SLA 190 of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering of Rutgers University, and the Selective Laser Sintering Sinterstation 2000 of DTM Corporation of Austin, TX, prototypes of mechanical joints were fabricated experimentally. The desig...

Financial support was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) East Asian Pacific Summer Institute program IIA-1415092, NSF grant DEB-1115895 and DEB-1336290, National Speleological Society Rapid Response Fund, US Fish and Wildlife Service, National Science and Technology Foundation grant no. 2013FY113600, The Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation, and the crowd-funding platform of Ex...

From the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC (D.A.J.); and the Department of Intensive Care, Austin Hospital, Heidelberg, VIC (D.A.J., R.B.) — both in Australia; and the Departments of Critical Care Medicine and Internal Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh (...