existed electricity grids deliver produced power to the consumer passing through transmission and distribution grids. according to high losses of these grids in transmission level and inexistence of bilateral interaction for simultaneous information exchange, a concept of smart grids were made by capabilities such as consciously participation of consumers in the smart electricity grids, an amou...

Recent progress in the next generation of automobile technology is geared towards incorporating information technology into cars. Collectively called smart cars are bringing intelligence to cars that provides comfort, convenience and safety. A branch of smart cars is connected-car system. The key concept in connected-cars is the sharing of driving information among cars through decentralized ma...

The control performance of a smart top-story isolation system for a building structure subjected to seismic excitation was investigated in this paper. For this purpose, a 20-story shear building model was selected as an example structure and an artificial earthquake generated based on design spectrum of low-to-moderate seismicity regions such as Korea was used for structural analyses. MR damper...

In this paper we describe a methodology to support the modeling and deployment of surveillance data for cooperative inference in wide area surveillance on the smart camera networks. Advanced smart cameras have the ability to detect motion and track objects. Some experimental smart cameras can identify objects and extract features. Recognized features if properly structured and annotated, can be...

Technological advances allowing optimal exploitation of renewable energy sources and the development of new information and communications technology (ICT), have led to the appearance of a new network so-called Smart Grid. This article is dedicated to the study of similarities and differences between the smart grid and the computer network, thus, in order to better carry out this comparison. Fi...

The smart vision chip has a large potential for application in general purpose high speed image processing systems. In order to fabricate smart vision chips including photo detector compactly, we have proposed the application of three dimensional LSI technology for smart vision chips. Three dimensional technology has great potential to realize new neuromorphic systems inspired by not only the b...

Model Driven Engineering based on the European Smart Grid Architecture Model (SGAM) has proven to be a bestpractice approach in realizing complex Smart Grid projects. In this paper, an extension of this approach towards Smart City Systems is proposed. It is argued that with the complexity of the involved domains, each application domain should be represented in an individual Application Domain ...

BACKGROUND The 5' untranslated regions of mRNA play an important role in their translation. RESULTS Here, we describe the development of four methods of profiling mRNA 5' ends using the Illumina sequencing platform; the first method utilizes SMART (Switching Mechanism At 5' end of RNA Transcript) technology, while the second involves replacing the 5' cap structure with RNA oligomers via ligat...

Smart Grid is a vague concept with little theoretical studies. We propose in this paper a state of the art on Smart Grids to clarify the concept and identify the important issues. This term refers to an electrical network integrating the behavior and actions of users. It uses new information and communication technologies and new services combining: monitoring, control, communication and self-h...