15 articles in this issue
Victor Balanica,Ioan Dumitrache,Luigi Preziosi
The degree of spiculation of the tumor edge is a particularly relevant indicator of malignancy in the analysis of breast tumoral masses. This paper introduces four new methods for extracting the spiculation feature of a detected breast lesion on mammograp... see more
Smaranda Cosma,Madalina Valeanu,Dan Cosma,Dana Vasilescu,Grigor Moldovan
Databases represent a highly developed form of data organisation. The efficient use of databases by their beneficiaries is a permanent and stringent concern. The first part of the article presents a short development of the way data are organise... see more
Mihaela Craciun,Dominic Bucerzan,Crina Ratiu,Adriana Manolescu
In the current conditions, the global economy is in a crisis situation. In terms of crisis management this article supports the Romanian companies. This article analyses some classical bankruptcy prediction models used in Decision Support System... see more
Claudio Cubillos,René Díaz,Enrique Urra,Daniel Cabrera-Paniagua,Guillermo Cabrera,Gastón Lefranc
This work presents the development of MABAP, a decision support system based on the agent technology that helps in solving the problem of berth allocation for ships within a port. The Berth Allocation Problem (BAP) regards the logistics inv... see more
Dragos Claudia-Adina,Precup Radu-Emil,Tomescu Marius,Preitl Stefan,Petriu Emil M.,Radac M.-Bogdan
This paper proposes an approach to fuzzy modeling of a nonlinear servo system application represented by an electromagnetic actuated clutch system. The nonlinear model of the process is simplified and linearized around several operating points of the inpu... see more
Paul Aurelian Gagniuc,Constantin Ionescu-Tîrgoviste,Clara Hortensia Radulescu
Using conventional statistics, we have developed a new method for cell culture analysis through outlier detection techniques. Statistical methods enable researchers in microbiology to identify experimental parameters that are critical for colony... see more
Mihail Gaianu,Gabriela Cristescu,Darian M. Onchis
This paper presents a novel 3D face recognition method developed by means of erosion of a contractible topological space. The procedure was is involved in the quantification of facial palsy using pre-marked points. The recognition is done in two... see more
Carlos Lozano-Garzon,Nicolas Ortiz-Gonzalez,Yezid Donoso
Progress in the telecommunications sector has opened new scenarios where users want to access any application or service from any device anywhere at any time, connected to any network. In this environment, the Heterogenerous Wireless Networks (H... see more
Wojciech Mazurczyk,Maciej Karas,Krzysztof Szczypiorski
This paper introduces SkyDe (Skype Hide), a new steganographic method that utilizes Skype encrypted packets with silence to provide the means for clandestinecommunication. It is possible to reuse packets that do not carry voice signals for stega... see more
Jorge E. Mendoza,Miguel López,Sebastián Fingerhuth,Felipe Carvajal,Gonzalo Zuñga
In this work four methods for estimating annual technical power losses in distribution networks due to the distributed generation (DG) connection are studied. The methods are obtained of professional sources, and are evaluated in a test system.&... see more
Weifeng Sun,Peng Zhang,Zhenquan Qin,Yuanfang Chen,Da Teng
A tight coupling cooperation scheme for WiFi/WiMAX networks with QoS provisioninghas been proposed in this paper. A new WFW (WiMAX for WiFi) module which enablesWiMAX ful ll the procedure of bandwidth request-con rm-grant for WiFi was describedwith a modi... see more
Horia-Nicolai L. Teodorescu
We provide several properties of the input-output (characteristic) function of the SISO / MISO Sugeno fuzzy systems with c.o.g. defuzzification. The properties analyzed are related to continuity under various conditions for the input membership functions,... see more
Milan Tuba,Raka Jovanovic
A new, improved ant colony optimization (ACO) algorithm with novel pheromone correction strategy is introduced. It is implemented and tested on the traveling salesman problem (TSP). Algorithm modification is based on undesirability of some elements of the... see more
Hamideh Zare,Fazlollah Adibnia,Vali Derhami
The traditional congestion control mechanism TCP, performs very poorly in MANETs Because there are a number of new challenges such as wireless link error, medium contention and frequent route failures in this kind of networks. In this paper, we propose a ... see more