In this paper, we reveal inherent robustness issues of XCP (eXplicit Control Protocol), and propose extensions to XCP for increasing its robustness. XCP has been proposed as an efficient transport-layer protocol for wide-area and high-speed network. XCP is a transport-layer protocol that performs congestion control based on explicit feedback from routers. In the literature, many performance stu...

In Computer Mediated Communication, static video cameras provide a restricted field of view of remote sites. The concept of virtual window has been introduced to alleviate this problem. Although this technique is interactionally attractive, early implementations have proved unsatisfactory because of lack of robustness. In this paper, we demonstrate that robustness and accuracy can be increased ...

Gene regulatory networks (GRNs) comprise the interacting genes and gene products that drive genetic regulation within the cell. Because of the vital role they play in producing cell function, GRNs are robust to a variety of perturbations, including genetic mutation. There are multiple underlying causes for this robustness, including topological properties of GRNs, such as their degree distribut...

Associative Morphological Memories are a recently proposed neural networks architecture based on the shift of the basic algebraic framework. They possess some robustness to specific noise models (erosive and dilative noise). Combining the Associative Morphological Memories with erosion/dilation scale-spaces, we achieved an increased robustness against noise. Here we report ongoing work on their...

BACKGROUND Organisms use a variety of mechanisms to protect themselves against perturbations. For example, repair mechanisms fix damage, feedback loops keep homeostatic systems at their setpoints, and biochemical filters distinguish signal from noise. Such buffering mechanisms are often discussed in terms of robustness, which may be measured by reduced sensitivity of performance to perturbation...

the research on project scheduling has widely expanded over the last few decades. the vast majority of these research efforts focus on exact and suboptimal procedures for constructing a workable schedule, assuming complete information and a static deterministic problem environment. project activities are scheduled subject to both technological precedence constraints and resource constraints, mo...