In this paper we present a brokerage system for using idle computing resources as a micro-currency for Web services hardly quantifyable with real currencies as downloading stock charts or accessing a search engine. The Locust (LOw cost Computing Utilizing Skimmed idle Time) system acts as a Broker for micro-payable services by demanding a part of the user’s idle computing resources in exchange ...

This paper addresses an important question of how to achieve an appropriate and nearly uniform work-load for an under-utilized staff in a waiting line situation by scheduling an appropriate amount of supplementary work during the idle time. We present an M/G/1 queue with a special server’s vacation policy to model this situation. In this system, after serving all arriving customers, the server...

Networked video sensors need to execute two dependent periodic tasks: video encoding and transmission. The dependency and periodicity often result in small idle intervals of CPU and wireless network interface card (WNIC). In this paper, we present a sender-buffering approach to exploit such idle intervals for energy saving. Specifically, a video sensor encodes frames in a timely fashion, but bu...

Idle speed control remains one of the most challenging problems in the automotive control eld owing to its multiple-input, multiple-output structure and the step nature of the disturbances applied. In this paper a simulation model is described for a 4.0 l production engine at idle which includes the standard bypass air valve and spark advance dynamics, as well as the e ects of operating point o...

NOx pollution is one of the greatest air quality issues that urban areas face today, particularly within European Union (EU), yet currently this pollutant only controlled through homologation process. There no periodic technical inspection (PTI) process for emissions EU, leaving a weakness in legislation allowing high polluters to negatively impact quality. Work needs be performed incorporate s...

Power has become the first class design constraint in modern processor design. To reduce the power density caused by aggressive, speculative execution seen in previous processor generations, computer architects have turned to a multicore design strategy with each core substantially simplified. Additionally, different power-saving features have been proposed and integrated into each core to adap...

– Existing networked workstations are becoming increasingly effective as non–dedicated computing clusters. Effective scheduling in such clusters requires knowledge of the availability of the workstations. A successful method for predicting workstation idle periods with statistical distributions is presented. The Weibull probability density function is shown to be useful in modeling workstation ...

The Non-Dedicated Distributed Environment (NDDE) aims to muster the idle processing power of interactive computers (workstations or PCs) into a virtual resource for parallel applications and grid computing. NDDE is novel in the sense that it allows for safe and continuous use of idle cycles. Differently from existing solutions, NDDE applications run inside a virtual machine rather than on the u...

There is a surge in the use of virtual characters cognitive sciences. However, their behavioural realism remains to be perfected order trigger more spontaneous and socially expected reactions users. It was recently shown that biological postural oscillations (idle motion) were key ingredient enhance empathic response its facial pain expression. The objective this study examine, using electroenc...