We present a reactive routing protocol for mobile ad hoc networks which uses the mechanisms of Swarm Intelligence to select next hops. Our protocol, Ad hoc Networking with Swarm Intelligence (ANSI), is a congestion-aware routing protocol, which, owing to the self-configuring mechanisms of Swarm Intelligence, is able to collect more information about the local network and make more effective rou...

The success that banks have had deploying remote deposit capture has been tremendous over the past few years. The ability to decrease manual handling of checks and increases deposit breadth has certainly been a positive in what otherwise has not been the greatest of times in the banking community. However, as with any success along comes scrutiny. Echoes from the halls of Congress of not enough...

Production of nursery crops in the US is accomplished in containerand field-growing conditions, with propagation and seedling-rearing carried out in greenhouses; 11% of the US national farm-product is represented by these crops. Container-grown crops represent 60% of the US market and represent a highly labor-intensive and thus costly segment of ornamental crop production. The USDA, NASA and th...

The active participation of demand-side flexible resources in the wholesale market price formation and load dispatch process is crucial to encouraging participation. This calls for a joint supply-demand coordination mechanism fully take advantage distribution systems, including distributed energy (DERs) responsive loads (RLs). paper aims at comparing evaluating centralized transactive distribut...

the increasing world demand for fish cannot be met by capture fisheries. aquaculture production is increasing and nowadays cage culture has an important role in meeting the world’s fish demand. the design of the physical structure of a cage is determined by the oceanographic conditions of the culture site. each design is site-specific and knowledge of the topography, wind force and direction, p...

Abstract Modern electrical power system design will increase renewable energy sources (RES) dominance. Rotating masses, the main source of inertia in systems, have been greatly decreased producing systems. Thus, load–frequency equilibrium is an important indicator these systems' performance and safety. This work introduces a fractional‐order (FO) operator‐based cascade control structure for isl...

bronchial responsiveness to bronchodilator medications is usually tested to establish reversibility of airflow obstruction. among the various tests to establish bronchodilator response, fev1, fef25-75% or fef50%, and fvc are the most widely used. in a cross-sectional study, we assessed spirometric responses after administration of bronchodilator in 187 workers with obstructive pattern in spirom...

in this paper, we investigated the necessity and effects of optimal control methods in the stability and performance of a micro-grid that operates in islanded mode. the micro-gird is consisted of a combine heat and power (chp), a capacitor bank (cb), photovoltaic panel (pv) as power generation sources. in addition, battery and the building electricity and thermal load are placed on the load sid...