Technical scenarios in areas like automotive or production systems will increasingly consist of a large number of components cooperating in potentially unlimited and dynamically changing networks to satisfy the functional requirements of their execution environment. Due to the high complexity it will be impossible to explicitly design the behaviour of the components for every potentially arisin...

Inherent freedom due to a lack of central authority of self-organised mobile ad hoc networks introduces challenges to security and trust management. In these kinds of scenarios, the nodes themselves are naturally responsible for their own security – or they could trust certain known nodes, called “micro-operators”. We propose an architecture for security management in self-organising mobile ad ...

The problem of system identification is addressed by means of general neural networks with locally distributed dynamics. These networks are based on both multilayer perceptron and radial basis function structures. Evolutionary algorithms are suggested to select the optimal neural topologies and parameters. The accuracy of the neural models and the complexity of their architectures are evaluated...

Bentham’s attack on organised religion was principally an the ‘Church-of-Englandist’ ruling few, and, in particular, ecclesiastical establishment. This article will examine argument that establishment fostered and exploited religious belief, as well hopes fears associated with popular religiosity, pursuit of ‘sinister interest’. Bentham recognised a senior clergy extorted enormous sums money fr...

We propose a novel data collection architecture, called Ring-based Information Collection Architecture (RICA), for sensor networks. In the RICA scheme, sensors are organised into a ring. According to our study, the transmission delay time of data collection in a ring is only a half of that in PEGASIS, in which sensors are organised into a chain. We present a ring construction algorithm for RICA...

Understanding how users think of personal information, and how they mentally categorise or classify the objects they work with, should inform the design of personal information management (PIM) or personal retrieval systems. However, most investigations of this topic predate widespread multimedia, websites, and social media—objects that a contemporary PIM or retrieval system should work with. W...

Abstract For their economic success, organizations in the social economy are particularly dependent on access to collective resources through interorganizational networks. Because self-organised network governance of an is notoriously intransparent, there danger that existing societal inequalities get replicated well. This creates a tension with equality-promoting mission these organizations. p...