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Computers RSS FeedsIncreasing Service Availability in a Wireless Home Network Environment - Service-oriented architecture (SOA) paradigm is an inspiring and evolving concept in the context of IT and business services. Recently, various networked embedded systems are penetrating into our life; the unique characteristics of these systems pose many technological challenges. Specifically, the capabilities to interoperate across home appliances and personal digital devices are critical in a smart home environment. As a consequence, the SOA ...Feed Source: comjnl.oxfordjournals.org SH-CRBAC: Integrating Attribute and Status Constraints into the RBAC Model in Smart Home Systems -
The requirements for access control have been increased significantly in smart home systems. Many factors such as user ID, user location, service usage conditions and so on, regarded as authorization attributes, are important in making authorization decision in smart home systems. We investigate into the dynamic characteristics of the authorization in smart home systems and propose a new access-control model, SH-CRBAC, which aims to combine the ... Home Network Device Authentication: Device Authentication Framework and Device Certificate Profile -
As home devices have various functions and have improved computing power and networking ability, home device authentication has become increasingly important for improving the security of home network users. Moreover, device authentication supplies user convenience for the home network service user because it can replace the user authentication required for the used home network service. In addition, the safety of the home network can be strengt... Near-Optimal Tracking for Residents' Comfort in Context-Aware Heterogeneous Smart Environments -
An information-theoretic, optimal framework is developed for tracking the residents in a context-aware heterogeneous smart environment. The framework envisions that each individual sensor system operates fairly independently and does not require public knowledge of individual topologies. The resident-tracking problem is formulated in terms of a new concept of weighted entropy. The framework is truly universal and provides an optimal, online lear... GA-Based Keyword Selection for the Design of an Intelligent Web Document Search System -
The main steps for designing an automatic document classification system include feature extraction and classification. In this article a method to improve feature extraction is proposed. In this method, genetic algorithm was applied to determine the threshold values of four criteria for extracting the representative keywords for each class. The purpose of these four threshold values is to extract as few representative keywords as possible. This... An Improved RFID-Based Locating Algorithm by Eliminating Diversity of Active Tags for Indoor Environment -
The location awareness is a crucial foundation for perceptions of the surroundings in the smart environment. Radio frequency identification (RFID), as one of the most promising technologies, plays a more important role in the indoor location awareness. This paper surveys current RFID-based locating research and discusses the problem that is brought by the tag's diversity derived from different manufacturer types and different used-time of built-... Multi-Agent Group Programming Based On Co-evolution -
As an effective means of multi-agent problem solving, autonomous individual programming and interaction that are essential need, are limited in their ability to accommodate the interests of others, and therefore, may unnecessarily constrain the solving ability and negotiability of an agent, particularly in a distributed cooperative environments founded on private and uncertain information. In this paper, a multi-agent group programming model is ... Ambient Ecologies in Smart Homes -
An important characteristic of ubiquitous computing (UbiComp) environments is the integration of information, communication and sensing technologies into our everyday objects, giving rise to a new proactive computing model in homes. A smart home uses networked sensors, devices and appliances to build an intelligent environment in which many activities in the home are automated and where devices and services seamlessly cooperate to support domest... Optimizing Access Point Allocation Using Genetic Algorithmic Approach for Smart Home Environments -
In recent years, high-bandwidth and low-cost wireless technologies have emerged as a competitive element, enabling the smart home environment. On the other hand, with the increasing demands for various services, the current access point allocation schemes give rise to significant challenges for a stable connection service, bandwidth and load distribution. In this paper, we present an optimal access point allocation scheme based on genetic algori... Joint Routing and Rate Control Scheme for Multi-Stream High-Definition Video Transmission over Wireless Home Networks -
The support for multiple high-definition video streams in wireless home networks requires appropriate routing and rate control measures, ascertaining the reasonable links for transmitting each stream and the rate of the video to be delivered over the chosen links. In this paper, we invest the combination of the routing and rate control in a united convex optimization formulation and propose a distributed joint solution based on cross-layer desig... Design and Implementation of the DLNA Family Intercom System for Smart Homes -
In a traditional intercom system that only allows place-to-place communication in a house, it is necessary to dial the extension number of a specific family member, or dial each extension number individually via the intercom broadcasting, in order to reach the desired person. Additional master stations controlled the intercom system are required, and it is load to maintain the stations for general users. In order to solve these problems, we prop... An Efficient Lossless Compression Algorithm for Tiny Nodes of Monitoring Wireless Sensor Networks -
Energy is a primary constraint in the design and deployment of wireless sensor networks (WSNs), since sensor nodes are typically powered by batteries with a limited capacity. Energy efficiency is generally achieved by reducing radio communication, for instance, limiting transmission/reception of data. Data compression can be a valuable tool in this direction. The limited resources available in a sensor node demand, however, the development of sp... Effective and Efficient Event Dissemination for RFID Applications -
The adoption of radio frequency identification (RFID) tags and devices facilitates the observation and monitoring of event patterns, while highly temporal restrained RFID data further make events complicated. Although the existing Pub/Sub systems can help distributed applications monitor and disseminate interesting events, they are unable to express RFID-related events directly. Extending a system for new RFID requirements not only needs a lot o... B2B Services: Worksheet-Driven Development of Modeling Artifacts and Code -
In the development process of a B2B system, it is crucial that the business experts are able to express and evaluate agreements and commitments between the partners, and that the software engineers get all necessary information to bind the private process interfaces to the public ones. UN/CEFACT's modeling methodology (UMM) is a Unified Modeling Language (UML) profile for developing B2B processes. The formalisms introduced by UMM's stereotypes f... 11-20-2009 - 10 Must Know Keyboard Shortcuts + Make Fine Print Confusion A -
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