Color moments are measures that can be used to differentiate images based on their color. Once computed, these moments provide a measure for color similarity between images. This color similarity can become a measure of finding difference between consecutive frames in a video. Finding the difference between temporally arranged frames in video is one of the issues in shot boundary detection whic...

Time synchronization plays a critical role in determining the reliability and predictability of distributed cyberphysical systems. In this work, we demonstrate a distributed synchronous scheduling technique for time-coordinated distributed systems. The demonstrated technique provides user-level applications the ability to synchronously schedule tasks that can coordinate based on a shared notion...

Quantitative conformance testing of cyber-physical system (CPS) exploits time series of measurements, such as temperature or energy, for validating the correctness of deployed systems. This paper presents the foundations of segmented state space traversal in the setting of quantitative conformance testing of a CPS. It is demonstrated how this strategy together with domain-specific adaptations r...

Article history: Received 9 March 2017 Received in revised form 11 September 2017 Accepted 11 September 2017 Available online xxxx Ecology and geomorphology recognize the dynamic aspects of resistance and resilience. However, formal resilience theory in ecology has tended to deemphasize the geomorphic habitat template. Conversely, landscape sensitivity and state-and-transition models in geomorp...

Cyber-physical systems, such as mobile robots, must respond adaptively to dynamic operating conditions. Effective operation of these systems requires that sensing and actuation tasks are performed in a timely manner. Additionally, execution of mission specific tasks such as imaging a room must be balanced against the need to perform more general tasks such as obstacle avoidance. This problem ha...

Space-based systems play an important role within national critical infrastructures. They are being integrated into advanced air-traffic management applications, rail signalling systems, energy distribution software etc. Unfortunately, the end users of communications, location sensing and timing applications often fail to understand that these infrastructures are vulnerable to a wide range of s...

As the telecommunications industry endeavours to reinvent itself, the effective management and exploitation of information, data delivered in context, is now the key weapon in gaining and retaining customers. The data management challenges in an environment of massively growing data volumes and complexity introduced by distributed processing are outlined. A framework and methodology for the man...

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) [1] are engineered systems that require tight interaction between physical and computational components. Designing a CPS is highly challenging [2] because these systems are inherently complex, need significant effort to describe and evaluate a vast set of crossdisciplinary interactions, and require seamless meshing of physical elements with corresponding software ar...

along with the advent of recent communicative technologies, new cyber social networks have been emerged as the most influential line of interaction. this is a new world free from many of constraints and limitations of the physical world. it lacks weather, gravity, and geographical features; therefore it does not require addressing many of structures and necessities of the real world. in the vir...

Marcos Novak mainly considers a type of architecture cuts loose from the expectations of logic, perspective, and laws of gravity, and has invented a set of conceptual tools for thinking about and constructing territories in cyberspace. Novak introduces the concept of "liquid architecture”, a fluid, imaginary landscape that exists only in the Digital domain. He views trans-architecture as an exp...