Prototyping is often used to predict, or reduce the uncertainty over, the future profitability of a software design choice. Boehm [1] pioneered the use of techniques from statistical decision theory to provide a basis for making prototyping decisions. However his approach does not apply to situations where the software engineer has the flexibility of waiting for more information before making a...

1 Finding new classes of permutation polynomials is a chal-lenging problem with applications in cryptography, coding theory andin combinatorial designs [1]. We will here focus on a specific instanceraised by Patarin in his paper introducig HFE [2], namely characterizingquadratic permutation polynomials. After a survey of existing results, wewill present our extension of some...

This paper reviews our work on monitoring prediction and fault isolation methods for complex dynamic sys tems a ected by abrupt faults The key to this work has been our ability to model the transient behavior in response to these faults in a qualitative framework where the predicted transient e ects of hypothesized faults are captured in the form of signatures that spec ify future behavior for ...

Mast cells represent a potential source of interleukin-6 (ILlenge with SCF, bone marrow-derived cultured mouse mast 6) and other cytokines that have been implicated in host cells (BMCMCs) released amounts of IL-6 that were greater defense, tissue maintenance/remodeling, immunoregulathan 100-fold more than those produced by unstimulated tion, and many other biologic responses. In acquired imcell...

Bagha Chal, or “Moving Tiger”, is an ancient Nepali board game also known as Tigers and Goats. We briefly describe the game, some of its characteristics, and the results obtained from an earlier computer analysis. As in some other games such as Merrill’s, play starts with a placement phase where 20 pieces are dropped on the board, followed by a sliding phase during which pieces move and may be ...

Whether it is possible to build up host resistance against sarcomas induced by the implantation of cellophane films was studied by pretreating autochthonous and isologous (syngeneic) hosts with heavily irradiated cells of the same tumor. In the ten available autochthonous hosts, whose tumors had been operatively removed, no resist ance could be demonstrated after pretreatment with irradiated ce...

This paper studies distributed formation of femto-clouds in a UMTS LTE network. Femtocell access points (FAPs) are equipped with computational resources. They share their resources with neighboring FAPs and form local clouds with the aim to avoid the remote cloud costs while improving the user quality of experience (QoE) in terms of handling latency. In exchange for sharing their excess resourc...

Multicellular organisms achieve final body shape and size by coordinating cell proliferation, expansion, and differentiation. Loss of function in the Arabidopsis ERECTA (ER) receptor-kinase gene confers characteristic compact inflorescence architecture, but its underlying signaling pathways remain unknown. Here we report that the expression of ER in the phloem is sufficient to rescue compact er...

Human stress is a physiological tension that appears when a person responds to mental, emotional, or physical chal-lenges. Detecting human stress and developing methods to manage it, has become an important issue nowadays. Au-tomatic stress detection through physiological signals may be a useful method for solving this problem. In most of the earlier studies, long-term time window was considere...