Dynamic Partial Reconfigurable (DPR) FPGAs enable software such as threads and agents to be executed directly in hardware. However, they were utilized as hardware extensions of software to execute individual threads or threads encapsulated in an agent. Thus, it was necessary for these systems to be administered by a CPU and did not take full advantage of the concurrency features that FPGAs prov...

We present a multi-agent system designed to detect malicious traffic in high-speed networks. In order to match the performance requirements related to the traffic volume, the network traffic data is acquired by hardware accelerated probes in NetFlow format and preprocessed before processing by the detection agent. The proposed detection algorithm is based on extension of trust modeling techniqu...

preventive maintenance scheduling of generating units is addressed as a long-term scheduling in power system studies aiming to increase the reliability incorporating cost reduction. it consists of knowing which generating units should be shut down for regular safety inspection. in this paper, a new formulation of preventive maintenance scheduling associated with cost reduction index (cri) is pr...

In this paper, a new agent model “specially” designed for the recent Android Google SDK is presented, where the Android mobile phone can be considered agent software. This agent model has an approach more practical than theoretical because it uses abstractions which allow to implement it on various systems. The appearance of Android as an open system based on Linux has created new expectations ...

According to the demand for condition-based maintenance online decision making among a mission oriented fleet, an intelligent maintenance decision making method based on Multi-agent and heuristic rules is proposed. The process of condition-based maintenance within an aircraft fleet (each containing one or more Line Replaceable Modules) based on multiple maintenance thresholds is analyzed. Then ...

The aim of the work reported in this thesis is to investigate how to establish a standard platform for remote maintenance of controller software, which provides remote monitoring, remote fault identification and remote performance recovery services for geographically distributed controller software over the Internet. A Linear Quadratic Gaussian (LQG) controller is used as the benchmark for the ...

In an environment such as underwater channel where placing test equipments are difficult to handle, it is much practical to have hardware simulators to examine suitably designed transceivers (transmitter/receiver). The simulators of this kind will then allow researchers to observe their intentions and carry out repetitive tests to find suitable digital coding/decoding algorithms. In this p...

Over the last decade, many large organizations have been shifting from developing their own information system (IS) to licensing and installing large software packages known as enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. These organizations now face the challenge of maintaining these costly systems and many are about to make their first upgrade decisions. The study reported herein aims to addre...

Knowledge management (KM) has become an important topic as organizations wish to take advantage of the information that they produce and that can be brought to bear on present decisions. This paper described a system to manage the information and knowledge generated during the software maintenance process (SMP). Knowledge Management System (KMS) is utilizing to help employees build a shared vis...