ETFA
2008
IEEE
13 years 4 months ago
2008
IEEE
Interest on using mobile autonomous agents has been growing, recently, due to their capacity to cooperate for diverse purposes, from rescue to demining and security. However, such...
ETFA
2008
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
2008
IEEE
Distributed real-time applications implement distributed applications with timeliness requirements. Such systems require a deterministic communication medium with bounded communic...
ETFA
2008
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
2008
IEEE
Currently, falling prices in technologies associated with surveillance applications has led to a huge increase in their use in all types of environments, although the most common ...
ETFA
2008
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
2008
IEEE
A remarkable research activity has been carried out in the past few years to support real-time applications by means of appropriate scheduling solutions. For scarcely known or hig...
ETFA
2008
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
2008
IEEE
Microshrinkages are known as probably the most difficult defects to avoid in high-precission foundry. Depending on the magnitude of this defect, the piece in which it appears must...
ETFA
2008
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
2008
IEEE
Technological advancements in communication and embedded computing lead to the increasing application of decentralized structures in automation and control. The decentralization a...
ETFA
2008
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
2008
IEEE
Exact client localization has been an obstacle in the use of WLAN in factories and offices for providing location based service. With respect to a novel localization scheme in WLA...
ETFA
2008
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
2008
IEEE
In factory automation, production line scheduling entails a number of competing issues. Finding optimal configurations often requires use of local search techniques. Local search l...
ETFA
2008
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
2008
IEEE
Modern trends in manufacturing demand more flexible and adaptive handling of production order execution. Due to its distributed nature, agent-based systems become a suitable solut...
ETFA
2008
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
2008
IEEE
The deployment of a wireless control system must cope with a number of effects usually negligible in a wired scenario. To this aim, an experimental analysis on suitable prototypes...