sensor parameters to more effectively solve a particular We present an active object recognition strategy which comvision task. One aspect of active vision is the use of an bines the use of an attention mechanism for focusing the search attention mechanism to decide where in the image to for a 3D object in a 2D image, with a viewpoint control strategy search for a particular object. Template ma...

Active Network Management (ANM) enables a microgrid to optimally dispatch the active/reactive power of its Renewable Distributed Generation (RDG) and Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) units in real time. Thus, a microgrid with high penetration of RDGs can handle their uncertainties and variabilities to achieve the stable operation using ANM. However, the actual power flow in the line connect...

In this paper, we demonstrate a technique called active probing used to study TCP implementations. Active probing treats a TCP implementation as a black box, and uses a set of procedures to probe the black box. By studying the way TCP responds to the probes, one can deduce several characteristics of the implementation. The technique is particularly useful if TCP source code is unavailable. To d...

In order to realize service deployment on high-performance active nodes, the problem of installing and configuring software components in complex, heterogeneous node environments must be addressed. The paper presents our approach to this problem, called Chameleon, which includes two main aspects. First, the service model we propose is based on service components with two interfaces–a data flow ...