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Recent advances in the development of commercial quantum annealers such as the D-Wave 2X allow solving NP-hard optimization problems that can be expressed as quadratic unconstrained binary programs. However, the relatively small number of available qubits (around 1000 for the D-Wave 2X quantum annealer) poses a severe limitation to the range of problems that can be solved. This paper explores the...
Home Automation Systems have been continuously evolving in the past few years: some of the systems are focusing their attention on providing remote access and control of the system, while others are more focused on the interconnectivity of the devices and on integrating them into greater systems, like smart cities. In this paper we propose a hierarchical architecture for Home Automation Systems, which...
Quantum memory-driven computing on the classical computers for design and test of black-box functionality is considered. A method for synthesis and minimization test for the black-box functionality, based on a qubit derivative matrix and sequencer for searching a quasi-optimum coverage, is proposed. Examples of quantum memory-driven design and test minimization of the Schneider logic circuit are presented...
In this paper, we have presented a design of hybrid arithmetic logic unit (ALU) in Double precision format (DPF) according to the IEEE-754 standard. In this we have designed an ALU which consists of the two different architectures. First architecture is semi-floating point unit (Semi-FPU) and the second architecture is floating point unit (FPU). Semi-FPU takes a 32-bit integer input and produces an...
In this paper, we address the problem of evaluating the aggregated services offered to the user through a multimodal travel planner. The effective design of a multimodal travel planner is considered a complex task since it requires the identification of the best possible route that combines segments of different transport modes. We describe a novel architecture and its respective connectivity infrastructure...
Nowadays, Edge computing allows to push the application intelligence at the boundaries of a network in order to get high-performance processing closer to both data sources and end-users. In this scenario, the Horizon 2020 BEACON project - enabling federated Cloud-networking - can be used to setup Fog computing environments were applications can be deployed in order to instantiate Edge computing applications...
Clinical summarization means the collection and synthesis of a patient's significant data, undertaken in order to support health-care providers in the process of patient care. Considering that medical information comes from multiple sources, a system for the automatic generation of problem lists could prove to be very effective in terms of saving time in the analysis of large amounts of medical data...
Software-Defined Networks (SDN) rely on flow tables to forward packets from different flows with different policies. To speed up packet forwarding, the rules in the flow table should reside in the forwarding plane as much as possible to reduce the chances of consulting the SDN controller, which is a slow process. The rules are usually cached in the forwarding plane with a Ternary Content Addressable...
Ubiquitous Learning Environments (ULEs) - or Technology Rich Classrooms - are created to combine real and virtual learning environments in order to produce richer study artifacts to support both instructors and students in the teaching/learning process. However, they produce a huge volume of Learning Objects (LOs), often unstructured, which makes retrieving and presenting them a challenge, especially...
Underwater sensor networks are bounded by data sensing, transmitting, and forwarding limitations. The transmitting of large volumes of data can require a large amount of time and power. This has led researchers to focus on the new technology of underwater computing systems, in which information is extracted under the water using embedded processors via data mining and/or data compression. In this...
We are currently witnessing an evolution towards network virtualization and Software Defined Networking (SDN) paradigm. SDN permits the decoupling of the control and data planes of traditional networks, and offers flexible and programmable networks. Besides, the need for dynamic provisioning and composition of networking services leads to the deployment of software components on virtualized network...
Current Web-based Services are highly heterogeneous not only on data but also with regard to service interaction. Despite their heterogeneity, composition of these services is required in order to achieve additional functionality. Semantic descriptions and composition algorithms for heterogeneous services have been recently proposed. However, existing techniques do not take the Publish/Subscribe paradigm...
Avionics systems, along with their internal hardware and software components interfaces, must be well defined and specified (e.g., unambiguous, complete, verifiable, consistent, and traceable specification). Such a specification is usually written in the form of an Interface Control Document (ICD), and represents the cornerstone of the avionics system integration activities. However, there is no commonly...
This work presents a platform for decentralized distributed computingcalled Resilient Information Architecture for the Smart Grid(RIAPS) through a transactional energy and a traffic application.
Last year saw the first quantum computers realized that can be programmed from a high level user interface to run arbitrary quantum algorithms [1, 2]. While these devices are still small in scale, only comprising a handful of qubits each, they nevertheless allow the implementation of quantum circuits in a way that is basically blind to the underlying hardware itself. This constitutes a new level of...
In the large-scale Wireless Metropolitan Area Network (WMAN) consisting of many wireless Access Points (APs),choosing the appropriate position to place cloudlet is very important for reducing the user's access delay. For service provider, it isalways very costly to deployment cloudlets. How many cloudletsshould be placed in a WMAN and how much resource eachcloudlet should have is very important for...
We optimize and compare the performance of different deep learning architectures for awareness on a sidewalk using small form factor devices such as Raspberry Pi 3. Our main objective is to find deep learning architecture that is complex enough to accurately classify a set obstacles on the sidewalk. Out selection criteria are: minimum number of parameters, lower power consumption, and robustness against...
Simulation-based testing has been found to be an effective testing technique for complex systems. One of the prevalent modeling and simulation tools is MATLAB/Simulink, which allows, among other advantages, the integration of software with complex mathematical models and automatic code generation. However, we found a set of limitations with this tool in the vertical transport domain, where different...
Software Defined networks (SDNs) paradigm tries to improve the network performance, facilitating the network management and the scalability basing on open-source software and adding a new entity called controller that manages the entire network. One of the goals of the controller is taking decisions in regards to routing instead of distributing it among the network nodes, as usual. However, this field...
In this paper, interaction between humans and robots and for rehabilitation applications in social areas is investigated. People suffering from some disorders require better nursing service for interacting socially. Additionally, utilizing human-robot interaction (HRI), this proposed architecture may be a suitable resolution for problems related to optimizing the focusing and sustaining attention...
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