[1] advocate the use of Dempster-Shafer (0-5) theory in evidence-gathering process. It is stated that they are unaware of any formal model which could allow inexact reasoning at whatever level of abstraction. [2] later shows how evidential reasoning can be conducted in the same hypolhesis space using a Bayesian model. The purpose of this note is to examine the difference of theses two schemes, ...

A novel distributed-resource abstraction environment is introduced. You can access any resource in a computer network as a memory mapped I/O device, as if it was attached to the local bus of your PC. This network technology gives us several bene ts. From the application development viewpoint, no network-related programming is required, and we don't need to modify the applications even if the ne...

The expected complexity of shared 5G/6G cloud and network infrastructures requires a functional management orchestration (MANO) architecture to automatically provision distinct vertical services. These are mapped as generic services (NSes) specifying their computing networking needs: Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) Links. We focus on hierarchical MANO implementation where Resource Layer orches...

The execution of clinical guidelines and protocols (CGPs) is a challenging task in high-frequency domains such as Intensive Care Units. On the one hand, sophisticated temporal data abstraction is required to match the low-level information from monitoring devices and electronic patient records with the high-level concepts in the CGPs. On the other hand, the frequency of the data delivered by mo...

Video transmission in wireless environments is a challenging task calling for high compression efficiency as well as a network friendly design. These have been major goals of the H.264/AVC standardization effort addressing “conversational” (i.e., video telephony) and “non-conversational” (i.e., storage, broadcast, or streaming) applications. The video compression performance of the H.264/AVC Vi...

∗ Work supported by the Bundesministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft, Forschung und Technologie (BMBF), the Land Berlin and the Office of Energy Research, Basic Energy Science of the US Department of Energy. Abstract Data Access will be the next generation data abstraction layer for EPICS [1]. Its implementation in C++ brought up a number of issues that are related to object oriented technology’...

Video transmission in wireless environments is a challenging task calling for high-compression efficiency as well as a network friendly design. Both have been major goals of the H.264/AVC standardization effort addressing “conversational” (i.e., video telephony) and “nonconversational” (i.e., storage, broadcast, or streaming) applications. The video compression performance of the H.264/AVC vide...

This paper presents the implementation of the ORFA client. ORFA aims at providing an efficient access to remote file systems through high-speed local networks such as MYRINET. The ORFA client is a lightweight shared library that may be pre-loaded to override standard file access routines to allow remote file access for any legacy application. In ORFA, virtual file descriptors have been designed...

ion network The set of interlinked data abstraction nodes that comprise a DAA. Sensor Event Abstraction Language (SEAL) The Sensor Event Abstraction Language (SEAL) is an XML grammar that defines the data abstractors, the abstractor’s message handling operations, and the directed graph connecting the abstractors (called a Data Abstraction Network (DAN)). Users do not need to manually program SE...