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A Microgrid is a subset of smart grid, a small-scale electrical system powered with renewable energy resources that can operate either in a connected or a disconnected mode to/from the main grid. Given that universities are very important electricity ...

Nowadays, we are converging more and more towards smart environments like smart cars, drones, unmanned airplanes, internet of things and connected homes... These new gadgets are in need to communicate and interact with each other for their proper ...

During the last decade, the smart digital environment has become one of the most scientific challenges that occupy scientists and researchers. This new environment consists basically of smart connected products including three main parts: the physical ...

A resource distribution helps to improve the scalability and fault-tolerance of many types of information systems, and can offer the responsiveness needed by smart environments. When more than one information source is available, a load balancer ...

Recent studies have shown that adjusting HVAC systems based on the number of people inside the room can save at least 38% of energy consumed for reheating. Besides, accurate estimate of room's occupants is useful in improving the safety and security of ...

IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) is a standardized Next Generation Network (NGN) architecture, used to provide users access to different services even in case of roaming. Although this architecture is deployed in cellular (mobile) networks, the latter ...

Designing a correct model for smart systems requires an accurate specification and verification prior to development. This paper proposes the use of BECAMEDA (Behavioral SpEcification and VerifiCAtion of RMAS based on E-MDRA) method, which helps the ...

Healthcare management is widely used by researchers around the world to strengthen the hospital logistics and improve the patients' service. Adopting smart technologies in healthcare environment helps us to improve the quality of care and minimize the ...

Breast tumor structure is extremely heterogeneous. This heterogeneity changes spatially during chemotherapy treatment. This was correlated with how the tumor reacts to Neoadjuvant chemotherapy (treatment presiding surgery). A significant number of ...

Behavior of the propagation medium in reaction with electromagnetic fields is described by its dielectric permittivity; this electric property is a function of the physical characteristics of the medium and those of the propagating wave. Among the ...

This paper presents a method two segment moving objects from video sequences by combining spatial and temporal information. The segmentation is performed in two steps : automatic seeds detection, and random walk segmentation. In the first step, seeds ...

Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) Generation is an important variable in waste management and used to support decision makers and planners to do short and medium term management strategies. The main objective of this paper is to assist decision makers in this ...

Swallow Swarm Optimization is a new metaheuristic of swarm intelligence based algorithm appeared by Neshat in 2013 in the continuous case. This optimization algorithm inspired by the intelligent behaviors of swallows. In This paper, we provide an ...

In this paper, we address a performance analysis of a dual-hop mixed communication system over both radio-frequency (RF) and free-space-optical (FSO) links with the presence of pointing error impairments. Our system model consists of two communication ...

The Learning is an indispensable phase in the cognition cycle of cognitive radio network. It corresponds between the executed actions and the estimated rewards. Based on this phase, the agent learns from past experiences to improve his actions in the ...

In this paper, radio spectrum management is discussed in a multi-hop distributed network architecture scenario, dedicated for Internet of Things (IoT) applications, that aims to transform everyday objects to smart objects. In this sense, important ...

Many embedded systems have been developed for terrestrial sensor localization, however, they are not applied directly to underwater sensor localization because of attenuation of GPS and RF signals underwater, making localization underwater particularly ...

Open source cloud computing solutions, such as CloudStack and Eucalyptus, have become increasingly popular in recent years. Despite this popularity, a better understanding of the factors influencing user adoption is still under active research. For ...

This paper proposes a new analytical approach which investigates the effect of distributed generation (DG) in power distribution system. This approach for DG placement and sizing in power distribution system mainly helps to minimize the power loss of ...

This work addresses the problem inherent in internal induction motor parameters variation during the operation, which significantly degrades the performance of a direct torque controlled (DTC-SVM), DTC-SVM scheme is the alternative to the classical DTC ...

The use of renewable energies has grown significantly in the world. Given the growing demand for electrical energy. In this paper we discuss the optimization of the production of a GPV by two different techniques MPPT.

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This paper concentrates on the off-line optimization of adaptive generalized predictive control (AGPC) tuning parameters using genetic algorithms (GAs). The Adaptive generalized predictive control algorithm is detailed and presented. A single input ...

Digital intelligence¹ relies, among other things, on the involvement of software agents in the interpretation and reasoning on the information. This requires the immersion of meaning in information storage systems. Software agents can qualitatively ...

This paper describes the concept, methodology And the results of the advanced step of an EU supported TEMPUS project EOLES (Electronics and Optics e-Learning for Embedded Systems). Our aims combining e-technologies & e-pedagogies to create online ...

Generally, the user preferences change over time which implies the need to adapt the recommendation technique used in order to recommend pertinent items. For this reason, in this paper we propose a meta-recommender that follows the change of user's ...

This paper proposes an optimization strategy for sharing and merging information of target's existence in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) cooperative search. That main is to minimize the search time subject to both sensing and communication limitations. ...

Recently, the multiplication of communication and sharing platforms such as social networks, personal blogs, forums, etc., has facilitated the expression of views and opinions about products, personalities, and public policy. However, gathering these ...

Smart cities are being developed in different parts of the world. Developments focus on how municipalities can make these cities efficient where citizen's life is convenient, safe, and productive. Challenges in smart cities can be categorized in, ...

This position paper highlights security and privacy issues in smart environments based on cyber-physical systems. It also summarizes some of our recent research activities and projects in this area.

During last years, images and videos have become widely used in many daily applications. Indeed, they can come from cameras, smartphones, social networks of from medical devices. Generally, these images and videos are used for illustrating people or ...