Emergencies today seem larger, more complex, and unique than those of the past. Responding to them requires flexibility and creativity not easily achieved. The threat-rigidity the...
We address the problem of distributed source coding, i.e. compression of correlated sources that are not co-located and/or cannot communicatewith each other to minimize their join...
In order to obtain efficiency, current practice in distributed software systems design often suffers from a lack of ion. An object-oriented design technique based on UML notations...
The importance of a design methodology when using Formal Description Techniques is generally agreed in the scientific community. This paper presents some design principles and con...
This paper considers the problem of reduced-order observer design. A design procedure is proposed in which the impulse response of the observer is treated as the solution of a gene...