In this paper analytical and simulation results for the decentralized detection of unknown signals are introduced. Parallel sensor network scheme is assumed. Additive White Gaussian Noise (AWGN) and Nakagami fading are assumed in both links, that is, from the source to the decentralized local sensors and from the sensors to the fusion center. Furthermore, diversity employing Square Law Combinin...

This paper proposes to integrate security parameters into the Service Level Specification (SLS) template proposed in the Tequila project to improve SLA-based management of QoS [8, 21]. Integrating those parameters in the QoS part of the Service Level Agreement (SLA) specification is essential in particular for secure multimedia services since the QoS is negotiated when the multimedia service is...

The trend of treating patients with combined drugs has grown in cancer clinical trials. Often, evaluating the synergism of multiple drugs is the primary motivation for such drug-combination studies. To enhance the patient response, a new cancer therapeutic agent is often investigated together with an existing standard of care (SOC) agent. At least a certain amount of dosage of the SOC is admini...

Path generation is an important factor that affects the quality and efficiency of most layered manufacturing processes such as SLS, SLA and FDM. This paper introduces an efficient path generation algorithm. The principle of the algorithm and the implementation are presented. A comparative study is used to analyze the effectiveness of this method. The results of comparison on both path length an...

We use the theory of vertex operator algebras and intertwining operators to obtain systems of q-difference equations satisfied by the graded dimensions of the principal subspaces of certain level k standard modules for ŝl(3). As a consequence we establish new formulas for the graded dimensions of the principal subspaces corresponding to the highest weights iΛ1 + (k − i)Λ2, where 1 ≤ i ≤ k and Λ...

This paper presents an approach to Web-Based learning environment authoring based in a high level description and in the use of reusable instructional components. These components have been previously categorised in a set of knowledge domains according to its instructional, didactic and pedagogical properties. Learning environment design is carried out using a description written in an SGML-der...

Novel automatized management systems for optical WDM networks promise to allow customers asking for a connection (i.e., a bandwidth service) to specify on-demand the terms of the Service Level Agreement (SLA) to be guaranteed by the Network Operator (NO). In this work, we exploit the knowledge, among the other Service Level Specifications (SLS), of the holding time and of the availability targe...

This paper proposes that each area of the cortex carries on its calculations with the active participation of a nucleus in the thalamus with which it is reciprocally and topographically connected. Each cortical area is responsible for maintaining and updating the organism's knowledge of a specific aspect of the world, ranging from low level raw data to high level abstract representations, and i...

Progress in network technologies and protocols is paving the road towards flexible optical transport networks, in which dynamic leasable circuits could be set up and released on a short-term basis according to customers’ requirements. Recently, new solutions for automatized network management promise to allow customers to specify the terms of the service level agreement (SLA) to be guaranteed (...