This paper presents a framework for resource management in highly dynamic active networks. The goal is to allocate and manage active node resources in an efficient way while ensuring effective utilization of network and supporting load balancing. The framework supports coexistence of active and non-active nodes and proposes a novel Directory Service (DS) architecture that can be used to discove...

Top predators can suppress mesopredators by killing them, competing for resources and instilling fear, but it is unclear how suppression of mesopredators varies with the distribution and abundance of top predators at large spatial scales and among different ecological contexts. We suggest that suppression of mesopredators will be strongest where top predators occur at high densities over large ...

Active logic is a time-situated reasoner that can track the history of inferences, detect contradictions, and make parallel inferences in time. In this paper, we explore behavior an active-logic based agent on different sets action selection axioms for time-constrained target search task. We compare performance baseline set does not avoid redundant actions with five other axiom repeated but var...

Mammalian hearing relies upon active cochlear mechanics, which arises from outer hair cell electromotility and hair bundle movement, to amplify acoustic stimulations increasing hearing sensitivity and frequency selectivity. Here we describe the novel finding that gap junctions between cochlear supporting cells also have a critical role in active cochlear amplification in vivo. We find that targ...

Proper planning of assembly lines is one of the production managers’ concerns at the tactical level so that it would be possible to use the machine capacity, reduce operating costs and deliver customer orders on time. The lack of an efficient method in balancing assembly line can create threatening problems for manufacturing organizations. The use of assembly line balancing methods cannot balan...

Understanding the implications of active sources models, such as topological defects, on the cosmic microwave background is very exciting area of research, since accurate measurements of the CMB over a wide range of scales will soon be available, enabling us to constrain or rule out whole classes of theories, with profound implications for our understanding of physics at high energies. Here, we...