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Universal, intelligent and multifunctional devices controlling power distribution and measurement will become the enabling technology of the ICT-driven SmartGrid. In this paper we discuss a design and simulation environment which provides a virtual model of such devices and at the same time enables their interoperability and configurability. The solution is based on the combination of IEC 61850 interoperable...
An intelligent control architecture for the Smart Grid is proposed which combines two recently developed industrial standards. The utility network is modelled as IEC 61850-compliant logical nodes, embedded in an IEC 61499 distributed automation framework. We make the case that an incremental approach is required for the transition to the future Energy Web by bringing intelligence down to the level...
Reliable, secure and robust power grid network is a necessity for crucial financial, industrial and business networks. Since national electrical grid, telecommunication, information networks and transportation networks are interdependent critical infrastructures, having an agent-based self-healing framework to reduce cascading failures through the networks and finding reasonable solution for potential...
This work sets the vision for organizational transformation that will secure competitive advantage in the digital economy, as the border between society-market-organization becomes more permeated to facilitate new types of assemblages of dasiameshworkspsila within and across organizational boundaries. We argue that network technologies are feeding the emergence of architectures of participation, protocols...
This work introduces the concept of self-organizing security (SOS) network as a resilient architectural foundation on which the operational mechanism for deploying dynamic, short living emergency response organizations capable to react quickly to emerging crisis situations can be evolved. A simulation testbed for SOS networks is presented that balances micromanagement of subordinates with the excessive...
This paper explores the transition from the command & control (C2) structure and culture of the traditional hierarchy - as backbone of last Centurypsilas Industrial Revolution - towards the eNetworked Industrial Ecosystem - as backbone for this Centurypsilas on-going IT-Revolution. Socio-cultural and economic contextual variables that may help or hinder the implementation of a heterarchical organization...
We believe the clamour to throw away our well managed stable and reliable time division multiplexing (TDM) in favour of collision based networks, meaning code division multiplexing in the case of wireless and unmanaged packets in the case of wireline, is a serious mistake. Before we finally throw away a network that works so well, we are researching the use of TDM for wireline and wireless Internet...
The Internet of the future will be a nervous system for the entire economy, integrating dasiaopportunistic ecosystemspsila of single devices/departments/enterprises into a larger and more complex infrastructure which we refer to as dasiacyber-physical ecosystempsila (CPE). In the CPE, the individual properties or attributes of single entities will be dynamically combined to achieve an emergent desired...
Within the broader context of the Adaptive Risk Management (ARM) Platform described in [27], the aim of this work is to show practically a proof of concept for a network architecture based on mobile code for Weiser's vision of ubiquitous computing [26] and opportunistic computing [22]. The proposed paradigm which animates the Opportunistic Communication Module (OCM) of the ARM Platform enhances both...
Vis-a-vis the state-of-the-art we illustrate how our approach to opportunistic communications tackles the major challenges in next-generation Internet architecture.
We underline the co-evolutionary progress from collaborative automation to the extended and integrated global enterprise through which Industrial Informatics evolved mirroring the paradigm shifts in networking and communications under five years of tumultuous technological transformations. Latest trends that support the dynamic interplay of distributed intelligent technologies and services in today's...
Any critical infrastructure is controlled and managed by networked information and communication technologies (ICT) systems. Tremendous progress in the emerging area of ubiquitous, pervasive and tangible computing enables hardware and software to be integrated to a degree that makes possible a technological revolution in which ICT systems merged with physical infrastructure will be transformed together...
We introduce the adaptive risk management (ARM) platform as a versatile testbed for the development of emergency response applications. The platform consists of three powerful components encompassing M3Data, RightsEnforcer and powerful up-to-date hardware consisting of MOTES, mobile wireless devices and computer networks backed by powerful servers. On a scenario unfolding into gradually increasing...
A distributed approach, specifically the multiagent paradigm, is evaluated as methodology for designing decision support systems (DSS). The main properties of multi-agent systems (MAS) theory such as modularity leaning abilities, and autonomy, are exploited to overcome weaknesses of current DSS design approaches. The approach has been evaluated as proof of concept on two scenarios from the natural...
A fuzzy knowledge base encapsulating core expert rules for glaucoma follow up is developed and subsequently refined into a standard of care by reconciling several expert opinions. The Learning from Examples (LFE) [1] technique is used in addition to expert interviews to generate fuzzy rules from numerical data, and soft competition defines a fuzzy consensus metrics for the expert opinions. Web-based...
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