The Alternate Reality Game genre inspires a mode of play in which the participants choose to act as if the game world was real. Jane McGonigal has argued that one of the most attractive features of an ARG is the ‘Pinnochio’ effect: at the same time that the players deeply long to believe in them, it is in reality impossible to believe in them for real. In this article, we study “Sanningen om Ma...

The advent of the Internet has been instrumental in producing new Game Based Learning (GBL) tools where education and games converge. Alternate Reality Games (ARGs) are one such GBL tool. Interactive narrative games that use the Internet as a central communications platform, ARGs challenge players to collaboratively collate a fragmented story. When used for educational purposes, Serious ARGs pr...

This work proposes three phase five level Bridge module type Diode Clamped Multilevel Inverter (DCMLI) using various modulating techniques for induction motor load. These Pulse Width Modulating (PWM) techniques include Carrier Overlapping (CO) strategy, Variable Frequency (VF) strategy, Phase Shift (PS) strategy and Sub-Harmonic Pulse Width Modulation (SHPWM) i.e. Phase Disposition (PD) strateg...

Mobile Ad hoc Networks are characterized by multi-hop wireless links, without any infrastructure and frequent node mobility. A class of ant colony based routing protocols has recently gained attention because of their adaptability to the network changes. AntHocNet is ant colony based hybrid algorithm, which combines reactive path setup with proactive path probing, maintenance and improvement. M...

Abstract The performance/weight ratio of fiber reinforced polymer matrix composites makes them the material choice for structural applications in many fields such as aerospace, aeronautics, automotive and civil engineering...etc. In composites, fibers used reinforcement are mainly synthetic carbon and/or glass fibers. To ensure low cost using fiber-reinforced materials motor vehicles, it is pro...

Shunt capacitive compensation is one of the techniques used to improve the voltage profile of the system and reduce active power loss. In this paper Index Vector method is implemented for optimal capacitor placement on three phase unbalanced radial distribution system. Mutual inductance between the phases is taken into consideration for obtaining load flow solution of unbalanced distribution sy...

in this paper, finding dynamic load carrying capacity (dlcc) of flexible link manipulators in point to-point motion was formulated as an optimal control problem. the finite element method was employed for modelling and deriving the dynamic equations of the system. the study employed indirect solution of optimal control for system motion planning. due to offline nature of the method, many diffic...

Intra-domain Traffic Engineering (TE) aims to route around failures and congestion, and balance load in an ISP’s network. Current TE relies on offline methods which use long term average traffic demands. It cannot react to traffic changes caused by BGP reroutes, diurnal traffic variations, attacks, or flash crowds. Further, current TE deals with network failures by pre-computing alternate routi...