12 articles in this issue
Gheorghe Tecuci
With outstanding contributions in Electronics, Informatics, and Philosophy, and as Professor, Researcher, and Manager, Acad. Mihai Draganescu is the most important encyclopedic personality of contemporary Romania. Educated in the nascent Romanian school o... see more
Ionu? Anica-Popa,Gabriel Cucui
Nowadays Competitive Intelligence (CI) represents one of the most important pieces in strategic management of organizations in order to sustain and enhance competitive advantage over competitors. There are some studies that claim that a successful strateg... see more
Mohamed Moez Belhaouane,Riadh Mtar,Hela Belkhiria Ayadi,Naceur Benhadj Braiek
This paper deals with the global asymptotic stabilization of nonlinear polynomial systems within the framework of Linear Matrix Inequalities (LMIs). By employing the well-known Lyapunov stability direct method and the Kronecker product properties, we deve... see more
Ion Iancu
Using Generalized Modus Ponens reasoning, we examine the values of the inferred conclusion depending on the correspondence between the premise of the rule and the observed fact. The conclusion is obtained using Fodor’s implication in order to represent a ... see more
Carlos Muñoz Poblete,Francisco Vargas Parra,Jaime Bustos Gomez,Millaray Curilem Saldias,Sonia Salvo Garrido,Horacio Miranda Vargas
Interactions between genes and the proteins they synthesize shape genetic regulatory networks (GRN). Several models have been proposed to describe these interactions, been the most commonly used those based on ordinary differential equations (ODEs). Some ... see more
Emad Nabil,Amr Badr,Ibrahim Farag
The construction of artificial systems by drawing inspiration from natural systems is not a new idea. The Artificial Neural Network (ANN) and Genetic Algorithms (GAs) are good examples of successful applications of the biological metaphor to the solution ... see more
Nichamon Naksinehaboon,Mihaela P[un,Raja Nassar,Chokchai Box Leangsuksun,Stephen Scott
Finding the failure rate of a system is a crucial step in high performance computing systems analysis. To deal with this problem, a fault tolerant mechanism, called checkpoint/ restart technique, was introduced. However, there are additional costs to perf... see more
Dorin-Mircea Popovici,Jean-Pierre Gerval,Felix G. Hamza-Lup,Ronan Querrec,Mihai Polceanu,Norina Popovici,Remus Zagan
Virtual environments constitute the support platform for various teaching and learning activities. Instead of a local application for this purpose, this paper explores the effects of using distributed virtual reality environments in the educational proces... see more
Radu-Emil Precup,Marius-Lucian Tomescu,?tefan Preitl
A stability analysis method for nonlinear processes controlled by Takagi- Sugeno (T-S) fuzzy logic controllers (FLCs) is proposed. The stability analysis of these fuzzy logic control systems is done in terms of Lyapunov’s direct method. The stability theo... see more
Baolin Sun,Chao Gui,Qifei Zhang,Hua Chen
A mobile ad hoc network (MANET) consists of a set of mobile hosts that can communicate with each other without the assistance of base stations. Due to the dynamic nature of the network topology and restricted resources, quality of service (QoS) and multic... see more
Nozha Zribi,Lumini?a Du?a,A. El Kamel
A large part of scheduling literature assumes that machines are available all the time. In this paper, the MPM Job-shop scheduling problem, where the machine maintenance has to be performed within certain time intervals inducing machine unavailability, is... see more