42 articles in this issue
Gabriel Ciobanu
Essentially writing is form of thinking on paper, and a way of learning. According to Winston Churchill, writing a book is an adventure. "To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement; then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then a tyr... see more
Dongsong Ban,Wei Yang,Jie Jiang,Jun Wen,Wenhua Dou
Barrier coverage is an appropriate coverage model for intrusion detection by constructing sensor barriers in wireless sensor networks. In this paper, we focus on the problem how to relocate mobile sensors to construct k sensor barriers with minimum energy... see more
Adrian Brasoveanu,Adriana Manolescu,Marian Nicu Spînu
Watching the evolution of the Semantic Web (SW) from its inception to these days we can easily observe that the main task the developers face while building it is to encode the human knowledge into ontologies and the human reasoning into dedicated reasoni... see more
Simona Caraiman,Vasile Manta
Simulation of quantum computers using classical computers is a computationally hard problem, requiring a huge amount of operations and storage. Parallelization can alleviate this problem, allowing the simulation of more qubits at the same time or the same... see more
Carmen Chirita
In this paper we study the tense ?-valued Moisil propositional calculus, a logical system obtained from the ?-valued Moisil propositional logic by adding two tense operators. The main result is a completeness theorem for tense ?-valued Moisil propositiona... see more
Zoran Constantinescu,Cristian Marinoiu,Monica Vladoiu
This paper investigates the modeling of the personal driving style of various vehicle drivers based on several driving parameters. The purpose of such an endeavor is to classify the drivers according to their risk-proneness within the larger context of in... see more
Felisa M. Cordova,Guillermo Leyton
This paper presents the design of a fuzzy control heuristic that can be applied for modeling nonlinear dynamic systems using a fuzzy knowledge representation. Nonlinear dynamic systems have been modeled traditionally on the basis of connections between th... see more
Claudio Cubillos,Makarena Donoso,Nibaldo Rodríguez,Franco Guidi-Polanco,Daniel Cabrera-Paniagua
This work tackles the problem of providing a mechanism and infrastructure for allowing a given Multiagent System (MAS) to become open, allowing the incorporation of newly incoming agents to participate within the existing society. For this, a conceptual a... see more
Mirela Danubianu,Stefan Gheorghe Pentiuc,Ovidiu Andrei Schipor,Iolanda Tobolcea
One of the key challenges of the Sustainable Development Strategy adopted by the European Council in 2006 is related to public health whose general objective envisages a good level of public health. One of the specific targets includes better treatments o... see more
Dan Dumitru Dumitrescu,Rodica Ioana Lung,Tudor Dan Mihoc
A new generative relation for Nash equilibrium is proposed. Different types of equilibria are considered in order to incorporate players different rationality types for finite non cooperative generalized games with perfect information. Proposed equilibria... see more
Ömer Egecioglu,B. Siddik Yarman
We propose a stable factorization procedure to generate a strictly Hurwitz polynomial from a given strictly positive even polynomial. This problem typically arises in applications involving real frequency techniques. The proposed method does not require a... see more
Ralf Fabian,Misu-Jan Manolescu,Loredana Galea,Gabriela Bologa
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have created best conditions for grows of knowledge societies. An emerging global information society serves to building global knowledge societies as source for further development. Conventional paradigms ... see more
Cristian Grava,Alexandru Gacsádi,Ioan Buciu
In this paper we present an original implementation of a homogeneous algorithm for motion estimation and compensation in image sequences, by using Cellular Neural Networks (CNN). The CNN has been proven their efficiency in real-time image processing, beca... see more
Wu Guofu,Dou Qiang,Wu Jiqing,Ban Dongsong,Wenhua Dou
Peer-to-Peer streaming is an effectual and promising way to distribute media content. In a mesh-based system, pull method is the conventional scheduling way. But pull method often suffers from long transmission delay. In this paper, we present a novel sub... see more
Cornelia Gyorodi,Robert Gyorodi,George Pecherle,George Mihai Cornea
In this article we will try to explain how we can create a search engine using the powerful MySQL full-text search. The ever increasing demands of the web requires cheap and elaborate search options. One of the most important issues for a search engine is... see more
Dan-Alexandru Iordache,Paul Sterian,Andreea Rodica Sterian,Florin Pop
The study of some typical complex computer simulations, presenting one or more Complexity features, as the: a) symmetry breaking, b) nonlinear properties, c) dissipative processes, d) high-logical depth, e) selforganizing processes, etc allows to point ou... see more
Mircea Ivanescu,Dorian Cojocaru,Nicu Bizdoaca,Mihaela Florescu,Sorin Dumitru,Nirvana Popescu,Decebal Popescu
The control problem of a class of hyper-redundant arms with continuum elements, with boundary measuring and control is discussed. First, the dynamic model of the continuum arm is presented. The measuring systems are based on the film sensors that are plac... see more
Alina E. Lascu,Sorin C. Negulescu,Casian Butaci,Vasile Cret
Computer-Aided Semiosis (CAS) is a concept coined by a team of researchers a couple of years ago. Since it is a promising domain due to the fact that responds to actual trans-cultural communication needed in the broad-band society - where often the messag... see more
Codrut-Lucian Lazar,Ioan Lazar,Bazil Pârv,Simona Motogna,István-Gergely Czibula
In this paper we present a tool chain that aids in the construction of executable UML models according to the new Foundational UML (fUML) standard. These executable models can be constructed and tested in the modeling phase, and code can be generated from... see more
Danica Lecic-Cvetkovic,Nikola Atanasov,Sladan Babarogic
In the competitive environment, many manufacturers are increasingly focusing on designing the systems that help them to manage variable demand and supply situations. Dynamic allocation of demands is very important in case of customer order allocations. Or... see more
Daniel Mara
In the information society metacognitive competencies are essential. Based on some activities from the Enrichment Instrumental Program elaborated by professor Reuven Feuerstein we have designed a program for developing the students capacities of selfcontr... see more
Ginno Millán,Héctor Kaschel,Gastón Lefranc
Traffic streams, sources as well as aggregated traffic flows, often exhibit long-range-dependent (LRD) properties. This paper presents the theoretical foundations to justify that the behavior of traffic in a high-speed computer network can be modeled from... see more
Maria Moise,Marilena Zingale,Alexandru Ioan Condea
Nowadays, big cities are facing traffic jams, generated by the great number of automobiles in regard to the limited infrastructure capacity. Drivers are being presented with these problems: increased time spent between areas of interest, a higher risk of ... see more
Ioana Moisil,Alina Pitic,Simona Dzitac,Laurentiu Popper
Long-term energy saving and reduction of environmental consequences of energy consuming are among the most challenging objectives of our time. People are prone to routine and habit. To change these habits is almost a Sisif’s work. In spite of continuous e... see more
Elías Niño,Carlos Ardila,Alfredo Perez,Yezid Donoso
This paper proposes a genetic algorithm for multiobjective scheduling optimization based in the object oriented design with constrains on delivery times, process precedence and resource availability. Initially, the programming algorithm (PA) was designed ... see more
Marius Olteanu,Nicolae Paraschiv,Otilia Cangea
The distillation process is one of the most important processes in industry, especially petroleum refining. Designing a distillation column assesses numerous challenges to the engineer, being a complex process that is approached in various studies. An imp... see more
Mihaela Oprea,Vasile Buruiana,Alexandra Matei
The development of efficient flood alerting systems became more demanding in the last years. In this paper it is presented the first version of a prototype intelligent system for flood forecasting and real-time alerting. The system is implemented by using... see more
Bogdan Patrut,Cosmin Tomozei
The aim of this paper is to make a brief presentation of the results obtained by the authors regarding agent technology application in distributed monitoring systems development. Consequently, we would like to present MAgeLan and ContTest as monitoring sy... see more
Adrian Peculea,Bogdan Iancu,Vasile Dadarlat,Iosif Ignat
This paper proposes a novel end-to-end QoS framework, called Self-Adaptive bandwidth Reconfiguration QoS framework (SAR). SAR provides end-to-end QoS guarantees on a per-flow basis through admission control and end-to-end bandwidth reservation. In order t... see more
Florin-Claudiu Pop,Marcel Cremene,Mircea Vaida,Michel Riveill,Jean-Yves Tigli,Stéphane Lavirotte
The widespread of Web services in the ubiquitous computing era and the impossibility to predict a priori all possible user needs generates the necessity for on-demand service composition. Natural language is one of the the easiest ways for a user to expre... see more
Dorin-Mircea Popovici,Ronan Querrec,Crenguta-Madalina Bodgan,Norina Popovici
Our contribution focuses on the behavioral aspects that are currently used in the modeling of the virtual inhabitants of a reconstructed Greek- Roman colony in the framework of the TOMIS project. The project aims at promoting culture by the mean of the re... see more
Aneel Rahim,Zeeshan Shafi Khan,Fahad Bin Muhaya,Muhammad Sher,Muhammad Khurram Khan
Relevance Technique broadcast the useful information and removes the redundant data. 802.11e protocol implementation has certain flaws and is not suitable for VANETs scenarios. Main issue in 802.11e protocol is internal sorting of packets, no priority mec... see more
Cristian Rotariu,Hariton Costin,Ioana Alexa,Gladiola Andruseac,Vasile Manta,Bogdan Mustata
The current common goal in medical information technology today is the design and implementation of telemedicine solutions, which provide to patients services that enhance their quality of life. Advances in wireless sensor network technology, the overall ... see more
Andrei Rusan,Cristian-Mihai Amarandei
Performance losses of cluster applications can arise from various sources in the communications network of computer clusters. Typically, CPU intensive applications generate a small amount of network traffic the overall influence of the network subsystem i... see more
Juan Sepulveda,Javier Gonzalez,Miguel Alfaro,Mauricio Camargo
Innovation doubtless represents a main strategic lever for the development of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in many industrial sectors and it comprises new techniques, new products and new processes, as well as new services which lead to better cust... see more
Rodica Stoian,Adrian Victor Raileanu,Lucian Andrei Perisoara
In wireless networks, routing based on packet forwarding does hardly yield optimum transmission performance in terms of network utilization and throughput. As an alternative to routing, network coding has been introduced in the recent years, where nodes a... see more
Mihai Talmaciu,Elena Nechita
During the last decades, different types of decompositions have been processed in the field of graph theory. In various problems, for example in the construction of recognition algorithms, frequently appears the so-called weakly decomposition of graphs.Po... see more
Iulian-Florin Toma
This paper details the results of our work in the field of multi-agent ontology-based environment simulation. We analyze the impact of introducing some techniques for the alignment / translation / mapping of agent ontologies, which allows for collaborativ... see more
Nicolae Tudor,Vasile Claudiu Kifor,Constantin Oprean
Using the QSPS (Quality System for the production software) for industrial projects and not only therefore, has led to accurate running of the production line from beginning of the SOP (Start of Production). This paper presents the application way of the ... see more
Florin Vancea,Codruta Vancea,Daniela Elena Popescu,Doina Zmaranda,Gianina Gabor
In today’s world communication is relying heavily on electronic means, both for voice and other native data. All these communication sessions leave behind journaling information by the very nature of the underlying services. This information is both sensi... see more
Ramón Vilanova,Víctor M. Alfaro
This paper presents how Robust PID control can improve the performance of congesion control on TCP/IP networks. The proposed approach is compared with other control methods, such as PI control or RED/AQM, showing the advantages of the proposed technique.