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5. ANT / 4. SEIT 2014: Hasselt, Belgium
- Elhadi M. Shakshuki, Ansar-Ul-Haque Yasar:
Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT 2014), the 4th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Information Technology (SEIT-2014), Hasselt, Belgium, June 2-5, 2014. Procedia Computer Science 32, Elsevier 2014 - Yoann Lebrun, Sophie Lepreux, Sylvain Haudegond, Christophe Kolski, René Mandiau
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Management of Distributed RFID Surfaces: A Cooking Assistant for Ambient Computing in Kitchen. 21-28 - Umut Tosun:
A New Recombination Operator for the Genetic Algorithm Solution of the Quadratic Assignment Problem. 29-36 - Ahmed-Chawki Chaouche
A Dynamical Plan Revising for Ambient Systems. 37-44 - Humera Farooq, Muhammad Tariq Siddique:
A Comparative Study on User Interfaces of Interactive Genetic Algorithm. 45-52 - Kamalendu Pal, Bill Karakostas:
A Multi Agent-based Service Framework for Supply Chain Management. 53-60 - Omar Marey
Agents' Uncertainty in Argumentation-based Negotiation: Classification and Implementation. 61-68 - Tin Yu Wu, Wei-Tsong Lee, Chien-Yu Duan, Yu-Wei Wu:
Data Lifetime Enhancement for Improving QoS in NDN. 69-76 - Chung-Ming Huang, Yuan-Tse Yu, Yu-Jen Huang:
A Cross-layer Loss Discrimination Scheme for DCCP over the Wireless Network. 77-84 - Mingquan Wang, Jun Wang, Feng Tian:
"City Intelligent Energy and Transportation Network Policy" "Based on the Big Data Analysis". 85-92 - Tiago Augusto Engel, Andrea Schwertner Charão
Performance Improvement of Data Mining in Weka through GPU Acceleration. 93-100 - Ahmed Al-Nazer, Tarek Helmy, Muhammed Al-Mulhem:
User's Profile Ontology-based Semantic Framework for Personalized Food and Nutrition Recommendation. 101-108 - H. Joon Park, Patrick H. Kim, Michael Marsico, Naim Rasheed:
Data Mining Strategies for Real-time Control in New York City. 109-116 - Rafiullah Khan, Sarmad Ullah Khan, Shahid Khan, Mohammad Usman Ali Khan:
Localization Performance Evaluation of Extended Kalman Filter in Wireless Sensors Network. 117-124 - Antriksh Goswami
Loss Rate Control Mechanism for Fan-in-burst Traffic in Data Center Network. 125-132 - Stefan Aust, R. Venkatesha Prasad, Ignas G. Niemegeers:
Codebook Selection Strategies in Long-range Sub-1 GHz WLANs. 133-140 - Imen Mahjri, Amine Dhraief
The Coverage Configuration Protocol under AT-Dist Localization. 141-148 - Sheeraz Akhtar Alvi, Muhammad Shahzad Younis, Muhammad Imran, Fazal-e-Amin
A Weighted Linear Combining Scheme for Cooperative Spectrum Sensing. 149-157 - Chourouk Hammami, Imen Jemili, Achraf Gazdar, Abdelfettah Belghith
Hybrid Live P2P Streaming Protocol. 158-165 - Martin K. Mwila, Karim Djouani
Approach to Sensor Node Calibration for Efficient Localisation in Wireless Sensor Networks in Realistic Scenarios. 166-173 - Mohamed Aissa, Abdelfettah Belghith
A Node Quality based Clustering Algorithm in Wireless Mobile Ad Hoc Networks. 174-181 - Sheneela Naz, Tariq Siraj, Muhammad Sajjad Akbar, Muhammad Yousaf
Performance Analysis of IPv6 QoS for Multimedia Applications Using Real Testbed. 182-189 - Cecilia Occhiuzzi
NIGHT-Care: A Passive RFID System for Remote Monitoring and Control of Overnight Living Environment. 190-197 - Sanaz Rahimi Moosavi, Ethiopia Nigussie, Seppo Virtanen
An Elliptic Curve-based Mutual Authentication Scheme for RFID Implant Systems. 198-206 - Arun Kishore Ramakrishnan, Davy Preuveneers, Yolande Berbers:
Enabling Self-learning in Dynamic and Open IoT Environments. 207-214 - Xiang Su, Hao Zhang, Jukka Riekki
Connecting IoT Sensors to Knowledge-based Systems by Transforming SenML to RDF. 215-222 - Elie Amani, Karim Djouani
Low Complexity Decoding of the 4×4 Perfect Space-time Block Code. 223-228 - Kishwer Abdul Khaliq
Congestion Avoidance Hybrid Wireless Mesh Protocol (CA-HWMP) for IEEE 802.11s. 229-236 - C. B. Tokpo Ovengalt, Karim Djouani
"A Fuzzy Approach for Call Admission Control in LTE Networks". 237-244 - Mohamed Aissa, Abdelfettah Belghith
Quality of Clustering in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks. 245-252 - Nayyab Zia Naqvi, Davy Preuveneers, Yolande Berbers:
A Quality-aware Federated Framework for Smart Mobile Applications in the Cloud. 253-260 - Yasmine Derdour, Kechar Bouabdellah, Fayçal Khelfi
The Impact of the Mobile Element on Performance Improvement in Wireless Sensor Network. 261-268 - Evi Dons
Modeling Personal Exposure to Air Pollution with AB2C: Environmental Inequality. 269-276 - Ryosuke Ando, Tsuyoshi Ono, Fumiaki Obayashi, Yasuhiro Mimura, Kazuhiro Kozuka, Shinji Ozawa:
Effect Analysis of Intelligent Speed Adaptation (ISA) in Advisory Mode on Community Roads. 277-284 - Nedal T. Ratrout
Factors Affecting Performance of Parametric and Non-parametric Models for Daily Traffic Forecasting. 285-292 - Dora L. Borg, Kenneth Scerria:
Constrained Dynamic Control of Traffic Junctions. 293-300 - Miho Iryo-Asano
Analysis of Pedestrian Clearance Time at Signalized Crosswalks in Japan. 301-308 - Luk Knapen
Canonic Route Splitting. 309-316 - Anshul Verma
Mobile Agent based Train Control System for Mitigating Meet Conflict at Turnout. 317-324 - Nedal T. Ratrout
Effects of Using Average Annual Daily Traffic (AADT) with Exogenous Factors to Predict Daily Traffic. 325-330 - Vittorio Astarita
Traffic Delays Estimation in Two-lane Highway Reconstruction. 331-338 - Irith Ben-Arroyo Hartman, Daniel Keren, Abed Abu Dbai, Elad Cohen, Luk Knapen
Theory and Practice in Large Carpooling Problems. 339-347 - Banafsheh Hajinasab, Paul Davidsson
A Survey on the Use of Computational Models for Ex Ante Analysis of Urban Transport Policy Instruments. 348-355 - Brian Portugais, Mandar Khanal:
Adaptive Traffic Speed Estimation. 356-363 - Wael K. M. Alhajyaseen
The Development of Conflict Index for the Safety Assessment of Intersections Considering Crash Probability and Severity. 364-371 - Nedal T. Ratrout
Comparison of Optimal Signal Plans by Synchro & TRANSYT-7F Using PARAMICS - A Case Study. 372-379 - Johan Holmgren, Linda Ramstedt, Paul Davidsson
Combining Macro-level and Agent-based Modeling for Improved Freight Transport Analysis. 380-387 - Siuming Lo
Using Agent-based Simulation Model for Studying Fire Escape Process in Metro Stations. 388-396 - Pedro Lizana, Juan Carlos Muñoz, Ricardo Giesen
Bus Control Strategy Application: Case Study of Santiago Transit System. 397-404 - Sungjin Cho
Integrating GIS and FEATHERS: A Conceptual Design. 405-412 - Wasim Hashmi Syed, Ansar-Ul-Haque Yasar
Analyzing the Real Time Factors: Which Causing the Traffic Congestions and Proposing the Solution for Pakistani City. 413-420 - Salma Najar, Manuele Kirsch-Pinheiro, Carine Souveyet:
A New Approach for Service Discovery and Prediction on Pervasive Information System. 421-428 - Saeed Albukhitan, Tarek Helmy, Muhammed Al-Mulhem:
Semantic Annotation Tool for Annotating Arabic Web Documents. 429-436 - Gianni Fenu
A Model of Assessment of Collateral Damage on Power Grids based on Complex Network Theory. 437-444 - Julian Ohrt, Volker Turau:
Building-linked Location-based Instantaneous Services System. 445-452 - Carlos Eric Galván-Tejada
Evaluation of Four Classifiers as Cost Function for Indoor Location Systems. 453-460 - Nesrine Khabou, Ismael Bouassida Rodriguez
A Threshold based Context Change Detection in Pervasive Environments: Application to a Smart Campus. 461-468 - Anzar Mahmood
Home Appliances Coordination Scheme for Energy Management (HACS4EM) Using Wireless Sensor Networks in Smart Grids. 469-476 - Anzar Mahmood
A New Scheme for Demand Side Management in Future Smart Grid Networks. 477-484 - Chenglian Liu
Security Analysis of Liu-Zhang-Deng Digital Signature Scheme. 485-488 - Mouna Jouini, Latifa Ben Arfa Rabai
Classification of Security Threats in Information Systems. 489-496 - Amrita Roy Chowdhury, Tanusree Chatterjee, Sipra Das Bit
LOCHA: A Light-weight One-way Cryptographic Hash Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Network. 497-504 - Rohit Verma
Security Services Using Crowdsourcing. 505-512 - Inshirah Rossan, Maleika Heenaye-Mamode Khan:
Impact of Changing Parameters when Preprocessing Dorsal Hand Vein Pattern. 513-520 - Maleika Heenaye-Mamode Khan, Naushad Mamode Khan:
Analysing Factors Affecting Hand Biometrics during Image Capture. 521-528 - Samir Ouchani
Attacks Generation by Detecting Attack Surfaces. 529-536 - E. A. Feukeu
Performance and Comparative Analysis of ADSA in a Vehicular Network: MAC Approach in IEEE 802.11p. 537-544 - Jasprit S. Gill, Parth Bhavsar
Infrastructure Cost Issues Related to Inductively Coupled Power Transfer for Electric Vehicles. 545-552 - Enrique Garcia-Ceja, Ramón F. Brena:
Long-term Activities Segmentation using Viterbi Algorithm with a k-minimum-consecutive-states Constraint. 553-560 - Karel Jakubec, Marek Polák
Undo/Redo Operations in Complex Environments. 561-570 - Abdulsalam Basabaa, Tarek R. Sheltami
Implementation of A3ACKs Intrusion Detection System under Various Mobility Speeds. 571-578 - Zahoor Ali Khan
Effect of Packet Inter-arrival Time on the Energy Consumption of Beacon Enabled MAC Protocol for Body Area Networks. 579-586 - Arnab Sinha, Yann Glouche, Paul Couderc:
Distributed Tree Structure for Composite Physical Objects. 587-595 - Elhoussini F. Ashmouni, Rabie A. Ramadan
Espresso for Rule Mining. 596-603 - Imen Châari, Anis Koubâa
On the Adequacy of Tabu Search for Global Robot Path Planning Problem in Grid Environments. 604-613
- Mohamed Derradji, Messaoud Aiche:
Modeling the Soil Surface Temperature for Natural Cooling of Buildings in Hot Climates. 615-621 - Farah Zemani, Amina Sabeur-Bendehina
Numerical Investigation of Natural Convection in Air Filled Cubical Enclosure with Hot Wavy Surface and Partial Partitions. 622-630 - Dingquan Wang, Rebecca J. Passonneau, Michael Collins, Cynthia Rudin:
Modeling Weather Impact on a Secondary Electrical Grid. 631-638 - M. Musharraf, I. U. Khan, Nasir Khan:
Design of an Oscillating Coil Pendulum Energy Generating System. 639-646 - Jairo González, Roberto Alvaro, Carlos Gamallo, Manuel Fuentes
Determining Electric Vehicle Charging Point Locations Considering Drivers' Daily Activities. 647-654 - Jun Lee, Jin Ki Eom, Dae-Seop Moon, Kwang Sub Lee:
A Smart Synthetic Analysis System for Efficient Investment on Transportation Systems in Korea. 655-660 - Blaise Kelly, Danilo Hollosi, Philippe Cousin
Application of Acoustic Sensing Technology for Improving Building Energy Efficiency. 661-664 - Ichiro Satoh:
IT-enabled Personal-level Carbon Emission Allowance. 665-672 - S. Bouzenada, A. N. Kaabi, L. Fraikin, A. Léonard:
Experimental Study on dehumidification/regeneration of Liquid Desiccant: LiBr Solution. 673-680 - Damian Kelly, Mary Lupa, Maureen Paz de Araujo, Craig Casper:
Asset Management of Vehicles: A Practical Application of the Logic Scoring of Preference Method of Optimizing Programmatic Investment Decisions in a Performance based System. 681-690 - Choo Yoon Yi, Chengzhi Peng
Microclimate Change Outdoor and Indoor Coupled Simulation for Passive Building Adaptation Design. 691-698 - Daniel Röder, Kai Nagel
Integrated Analysis of Commuters' Energy Consumption. 699-706 - Dawn Domaschk, Florin Popescu:
Variable Scheduling of Wind-based Micro-grid for Electric Arc Furnace Steel Production. 707-714 - Malte Thomann, Florin Popescu:
Estimating the Effect of Domestic Load and Renewable Supply Variability on Battery Capacity Requirements for Decentralized Microgrids. 715-722 - Kennedy O. Aduda
On the Use of Electrical Humidifiers in Office Buildings as a Demand Side Resource. 723-730 - Alexander P. Mathews:
Renewable Energy Technologies: Panacea for World Energy Security and Climate Change? 731-737 - Stéphane Galland
Agent-based Simulation of Drivers with the Janus Platform. 738-743 - Oded Cats
An Agent-based Approach for Modeling Real-time Travel Information in Transit Systems. 744-749 - Ifigenia Psarra, Theo A. Arentze, Harry J. P. Timmermans:
The Effect of Emotional Responses on Endogenous Dynamics of Activity-travel Behavior: Numerical Simulation Results. 750-755 - Jin Ki Eom, Kwang Sub Lee, Dae-Seop Moon, Duckshin Park, Keun Yul Yang:
Investigating Activity Patterns and Time Spent for Exposure Assessment of College Buildings in Korea. 756-761 - Kai Nagel
Heterogeneous Tolls and Values of Time in Multi-agent Transport Simulation. 762-768 - Kwang Sub Lee, Jin Ki Eom, Dae-Seop Moon:
Applications of TRANSIMS in Transportation: A Literature Review. 769-773 - Qiong Bao, Bruno Kochan
Geographical Extension of the Activity-based Modeling Framework FEATHERS. 774-779 - Marco Lützenberger, Nils Masuch, Tobias Küster, Jan Keiser, Daniel Freund, Marcus Voß, Christopher-Eyk Hrabia, Denis Pozo, Johannes Fähndrich, Frank Trollmann, Sahin Albayrak
Towards a Holistic Approach for Problems in the Energy and Mobility Domain. 780-787 - Guus Tamminga, Peter Knoppers, J. W. C. van Lint
Open Traffic: A Toolbox for Traffic Research. 788-795 - Zahra Parvaneh, Feixiong Liao
A Micro-simulation Model of Updating Expected Travel Time in Provision of Travel Information: A Bayesian Belief Approach Implemented in a Multi-state Supernetwork. 796-801 - Michael Zilske, Kai Nagel
Studying the Accuracy of Demand Generation from Mobile Phone Trajectories with Synthetic Data. 802-807 - Michal Certický, Michal Jakob, Radek Píbil, Zbynek Moler:
Agent-based Simulation Testbed for On-demand Mobility Services. 808-815 - Andrew Leo Berthaume, Matthew R. E. Romoser, John Collura, Daiheng Ni:
Towards a Social Psychology-based Microscopic Model of Driver Behavior and Decision-making: Modifying Lewin's Field Theory. 816-821 - Stéphane Galland
Multilevel Model of the 3D Virtual Environment for Crowd Simulation in Buildings. 822-827 - Merwan Achibet, Stefan Balev, Antoine Dutot, Damien Olivier:
A Model of Road Network and Buildings Extension Co-evolution. 828-833 - Vincenzo De Florio
Antifragility = Elasticity + Resilience + Machine Learning Models and Algorithms for Open System Fidelity. 834-841 - Eric Verhulst:
Applying Systems and Safety Engineering Principles for Antifragility. 842-849 - Amal Abid, Mouna Torjmen Khemakhem, Soumaya Marzouk, Maher Ben Jemaa, Thierry Monteil, Khalil Drira:
Toward Antifragile Cloud Computing Infrastructures. 850-855 - Liang Guang, Ethiopia Nigussie, Juha Plosila
Positioning Antifragility for Clouds on Public Infrastructures. 856-861 - Mohamed Bakhouya
Bio-inspired Approaches for Engineering Adaptive Systems. 862-869 - Kennie H. Jones:
Engineering Antifragile Systems: A Change In Design Philosophy. 870-875 - Syed Hassan Ahmed
Self-organized e-Health Application Using IEEE 11703: An Experimental Approach. 876-881 - Mohamed Tabaa, Camille Diou
LOS/NLOS Identification based on Stable Distribution Feature Extraction and SVM Classifier for UWB On-body Communications. 882-887 - Mirjami Jutila, Helena Rivas, Pekka Karhula, Susanna Pantsar-Syväniemi:
Implementation of a Wearable Sensor Vest for the Safety and Well-being of Children. 888-893 - Anum Talpur, Natasha Baloch, Nafeesa Bohra, Faisal Karim Shaikh, Emad A. Felemban
Analyzing the Impact of Body Postures and Power on Communication in WBAN. 894-899 - Mohsin Iftikhar, Iftikhar Ahmad:
A Novel Analytical Model for Provisioning QoS in Body Area Sensor Networks. 900-907 - Salvatore Gaglio, Giuseppe Lo Re
A Lightweight Middleware Platform for Distributed Computing on Wireless Sensor Networks. 908-913 - Federico Bergenti
Agent-based Social Gaming with AMUSE. 914-919 - Christian Kuster
Model-driven Development and Validation of Multi-agent Systems in JIAC V with the Agent World Editor. 920-927 - Jaschar Domann, Sindy Hartmann, Michael Burkhardt, Alexander Barge, Sahin Albayrak
An Agile Method for Multiagent Software Engineering. 928-934 - Karima Belgharbi, Mahmoud Boufaïda:
Towards a Distributed Landmarks based Approach for the Localization and Discovery of Things on the Internet. 935-940 - Massimo Ancona, N. Corradi, A. Dellacasa, Giorgio Delzanno, Jean-Luc Dugelay
On the Design of an Intelligent Sensor Network for Flash Flood Monitoring, Diagnosis and Management in Urban Areas - Position Paper. 941-946 - Umut Tosun:
Policy Misuse Detection in Communication Networks with Hidden Markov Models. 947-952 - Muhammad Sajjad Akbar, Muhammad Saleem Khan, Kishwer Abdul Khaliq
Evaluation of IEEE 802.11n for Multimedia Application in VANET. 953-958 - Adel Alti, Sébastien Laborie
Semantic Context-aware Adaptation Platform Architecture. 959-964 - Rajitha Tennekoon, Janaka Wijekoon
Per-hop Data Encryption Protocol for Transmitting Data Securely Over Public Networks. 965-972 - Tariq Saraj, Muhammad Yousaf
ISP Independent Architecture (IIA) for IPv6 Packet Traversing and Inter-connectivity over Hybrid (IPv4/IPv6) Internet. 973-978 - Kennedy O. Aduda
On Defining Information and Communication Technology Requirements and Associated Challenges for 'Energy and Comfort Active' Buildings. 979-984 - Gérôme Bovet, Jean Hennebert:
Will Web Technologies Impact on Building Automation Systems Architecture? 985-990 - Xenofon Fafoutis
Energy Harvesting - Wireless Sensor Networks for Indoors Applications Using IEEE 802.11. 991-996 - Abdaladhem Albreshne, Ayoub Ait Lahcen
Using a Residential Environment Domain Ontology for Discovering and Integrating Smart Objects in Complex Scenarios. 997-1002 - Nikos Zarkadis, Antonio Ridi, Nicolas Morel:
A Multi-sensor Office-building Database for Experimental Validation and Advanced Control Algorithm Development. 1003-1009 - Antonio Ridi, Jean Hennebert:
Hidden Markov Models for ILM Appliance Identification. 1010-1015 - Maurizio Caon
Affective Interaction in Smart Environments. 1016-1021 - Hafiz Husnain Raza Sherazi
Multi-radio over Fiber Architecture for Road Vehicle Communication in VANETs. 1022-1029 - Muhammad H. Raza, Alireza Nafarieh, Bill Robertson:
Indirect Estimation of Link Delays by Directly Observing a Triplet of Network Metrics. 1030-1036 - Yashar Fazili
Table Driven Hybrid Energy-aware and SLA-based Routing Mechanism over Optical Networks. 1037-1043 - Alireza Nafarieh, Yashar Fazili
A Comparative Study on Emission Efficient Routing Mechanisms in GMPLS Networks. 1044-1049 - Muhammad H. Raza, Shyamala C. Sivakumar, Alireza Nafarieh, Bill Robertson:
A Comparison of Software Defined Network (SDN) Implementation Strategies. 1050-1055 - Alireza Nafarieh, Shyamala C. Sivakumar, Muhammad H. Raza, William Robertson:
A Review of QoS-based Routing Mechanisms over Shared Mesh Protected Optical Infrastructures. 1056-1062 - Maroua Meddeb, Mahdi Ben Alaya, Thierry Monteil, Amine Dhraief
M2M Platform with Autonomic Device Management Service. 1063-1070 - Ghada Gharbi, Nawal Guermouche, Thierry Monteil:
Timed Verification of Machine-to-Machine communications. 1071-1078 - Mahdi Ben Alaya, Yassine Banouar, Thierry Monteil, Christophe Chassot, Khalil Drira:
OM2M: Extensible ETSI-compliant M2M Service Platform with Self-configuration Capability. 1079-1086 - Hajer Souri, Amine Dhraief
Smart Metering Privacy-preserving Techniques in a Nutshell. 1087-1094 - Andrea Pennisi
Distributed Sensor Network for Multi-robot Surveillance. 1095-1100 - Arturo Torres-González
Exploiting Multi-hop Inter-beacon Measurements in RO-SLAM. 1101-1107 - Sahar Trigui, Anis Koubâa
A Distributed Market-based Algorithm for the Multi-robot Assignment Problem. 1108-1114 - Cristina Rottondi
Mitigation of the Eclipse Attack in Chord Overlays. 1115-1120 - Sebastian Feld, Mirco Schönfeld
Analyzing the Deployment of Bitcoin's P2P Network under an AS-level Perspective. 1121-1126 - Timothy Nix, Riccardo Bettati:
Neighborhood Failures in Random Topology Covert Communication Networks. 1127-1134 - Zied Trifa, Maher Khemakhem
Sybil Nodes as a Mitigation Strategy Against Sybil Attack. 1135-1140 - Salah A. Aly, Turki A. AlGhamdi
Information Gathering Schemes for Collaborative Sensor Devices. 1141-1146 - Kazumi Kumazoe, Daiki Nobayashi, Yutaka Fukuda, Takeshi Ikenaga
Station Reassociation Scheme for Wireless Green Networking. 1147-1153 - Ahmed Jemal, Marwa Hachicha, Riadh Ben Halima, Ahmed Hadj Kacem, Khalil Drira, Mohamed Jmaiel:
Energy Saving in WSN Using Monitoring Values Prediction. 1154-1159 - Marwa M. Hassan, Rabie A. Ramadan
Finding the Best Sink Location in WSNs with Reliability Route Analysis. 1160-1167 - Eman M. Elshahed, Rabie A. Ramadan
Modified Gur Game for WSNs QoS control. 1168-1173 - Ahmed E. El-Din, Rabie A. Ramadan
Novel Scheme of Fuzzy based Concealing Sink Node with Fake Holes (F-CSH). 1174-1179 - Salim El Khediri, Nejah Nasri, Anne Wei, Abdennaceur Kachouri:
A New Approach for Clustering in Wireless Sensors Networks Based on LEACH. 1180-1185
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