Hereby I declare that I am the author of this thesis, titled "Fault-Tolerance in Wireless Sensor Networks based on Self-Stabilization". All literally or content related quotations from other sources are clearly pointed out and no other sources rather than the ones declared are used. This work is submitted to Hamburg University of Technology as a partial requirement for being awarded as master's...

A number of recent works have investigated the notion of “computational fields” as a means of coordinating systems in distributed, dense and mobile environments such as pervasive computing, sensor networks, and robot swarms. We introduce a minimal core calculus meant to capture the key ingredients of languages that make use of computational fields: functional composition of fields, functions ov...

the subject of monetary policy orientation and tailoring a framework within which the credibility and desirability of the policies and the policy makers is enhanced, while the most important goal of policies, i.e reaching to and preserving a low and stable inflation rate is achieved, has recently been a controversial issue for a large number of economists. in fact the necessity arised since the...

this paper concerns the problem of robust stabilization of uncertain fractional-order non-autonomous systems. in this regard, a single input active control approach is proposed for control and stabilization of three-dimensional uncertain fractional-order systems. the robust controller is designed on the basis of fractional lyapunov stability theory. furthermore, the effects of model uncertainti...

The concept of Expeditionary Economics (ExpECON) was introduced in 2010 in a path-breaking article in the May/June 2010 issue of Foreign Affairs, “Expeditionary Economics: Spurring Growth After Conflicts and Disasters”, by then Kauffman Institute President and CEO Carl Schramm. In that article, Schramm put forth the proposition that economic growth is vital for stabilizing post-conflict/disaste...

The United States adopted a flat-rate 7 percent investment tax credit in the Revenue Act of 1962 to induce higher rates of new capital investment. The underlying purposes were to stimulate the economy and increase its rate of growth in real terms, to reduce unemployment and to make American industry more competitive with foreign firms. Although enacted as a "permanent" credit, certain changes w...