Steel is one of the most important materials for building a wide variety of products. The downside of a wide usage of steel is the energy-intensive production process and the high output of carbon dioxide. In our efforts to make the production of steel more sustainable, we focus on one step of the steel production only, the conversion of raw iron to high quality steel in a Basic Oxygen Furnace ...

Smaller institutions can now maintain local cluster computing environments to support research and teaching in high-performance scientific computation. Researchers can develop, test, and run software on the local cluster and move later to larger clusters and supercomputers at an appropriate time. This presents challenges in the development of software that can be run efficiently on a range of c...

Mining data streams has raised a number of research challenges for the data mining community. These challenges include the limitations of computational resources, especially because mining streams of data most likely be done on a mobile device with limited resources. Also due to the continuality of data streams, the algorithm should have only one pass or less over the incoming data records. In ...

Innovations in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have dramatically expanded the applicability of control technology in day-to-day life, by enabling the cost-effective deployment of large scale sensor-actuator systems. In this paper, we discuss the issues and challenges involved in deploying control-oriented applications over unreliable, resource-constrained WSNs, and describe the design of our pl...

Emerging ubiquitous multimedia services are expected to be available anytime, anywhere, and using different computing devices. In this paper, we present 2KQ, an architecture that enables such a dynamic and customized delivery of multimedia services. In 2KQ, a multimedia service can be delivered by multiple service configurations, each of which involves a different set of service components. For...

Next Generation Grids aim at attracting commercial users to employ Grid environments for their business critical compute jobs. These customers demand for contractually fixed service quality levels, ensuring the availability of results in time In this context, a Service Level Agreement (SLA) is a powerful instrument for defining a comprehensive requirement profile. Numerous research projects wor...

Humanoid robots are designed to operate in human centered environments. They face changing, dynamic environments in which they need to fulfill a multitude of challenging tasks. Such tasks differ in complexity, resource requirements, and execution time. Latest computer architectures of humanoid robots consist of several industrial PCs containing singleor dualcore processors. According to the SIA...

This implementation aims towards the establishment of performance qualitative analysis on make span in VM task allocation and process according to their deadline, then implemented in CloudSim with Java language. Here major stress is given on the study of dead line based task scheduling algorithm with heterogeneous resources of the cloud, followed by comparative survey of other algorithms in clo...

We present an adaptive compression environment (ACE) that uses both underlying resource performance (network and CPU) predictions and the compressibility of the data stream to perform on-the-fly compression. ACE couples technologies from Computational Grid Computing and dynamic compilation research to predict the efficacy of using compression and to intercept and compress socket-based communica...

Mobile operators wishing to deploy higher-level value-added services face various costs attributable to the introduction of new software and hardware components into their networks. Considering that today’s wireless devices are becoming increasingly capable of running complex applications with server-like features, we could envision the case where mobile operators “outsource” value-added servic...