The mobile agent technology provides facilities that enable to reduce the complexity of telecommunication services development. However the major part of this development is still devoted to the code production. In order to optimize the development of services, this production should be reduced while the main part must become an upstream activity, i.e., the elaboration of specifications. This p...

There are many studies about using traditional clustering algorithms like K-means, SOM and Two-Step algorithms to cluster electricity consumption data for definition of representative consumption patterns or for further classification and prediction work. However, these approaches are lack of scalability with high dimensions. Nevertheless, they are widely used, because algorithms for clustering...

The difficulties of computational discovery of transcription factor binding sites (TFBS) are well represented by (l, d) planted motif challenge problems. Large d problems are difficult, particularly for profile-based motif discovery algorithms. Their local search in the profile space is apparently incompatible with subtle motifs and large mutational distances between the motif occurrences. Here...

Aims: The present study was undertaken to evaluate whether a visual classification of anterior malar support using vector relationship is supported by cephalometric analysis and to assess the effects of face mask therapy on vector relationship and other cephalometric variables. Methods and Material: Pre-treatment profile photographs and lateral cephalograms of forty adult subjects (20 positive ...

Objective The aim of this study was to determine cephalometric factors that help predict favorable soft-tissue profile outcomes following treatment with the Class II Twin-block appliance. Methods Pre- and post-treatment lateral cephalograms of 45 patients treated with the Class II Twin-block appliance were retrospectively analyzed. Profile silhouettes were drawn from the cephalograms and eval...

Scour in bed material downstream weirs is considered the most unfavorable process which threats the overall stability of the weir. Weirs with oblique angle in the horizontal plan will affect the scour profile downstream the structure and may reduce it. The objective of this paper is to investigate the effect of oblique weir angle on the scour profile. Furthermore, the effect of V-notch angle on...

During injection or instability, the transverse profile of an individual bunch in a storage ring can change significantly in a few turns. However, most synchrotron-light imaging techniques are not designed for this time scale. We have developed a novel diagnostic that enhances the utility of a fast gated camera by adding, inexpensively, some features of a dual-axis streak camera, in order to wa...

The reconstruction of an unknown temporal-spatial profile from participatory sensing data poses a number of challenges due to uncoordinated user movement and possibly low user involvement. This paper considers the problem of reconstructing such a profile from participatory sensing data by exploiting the theory of compressive sensing. In particular we study the impact of the number of users and ...

Shock waves in gas dynamics can be described by the Euler Nav ie r Stokes, or Boltzmann equations. We prove the existence of shock profile solutions of the Boltzmann equation for shocks which are weak. The shock is written as a truncated expansion in powers of the shock strength, the first two terms of which come exactly from the Taylor tanh (x) profile for the Navie r Stokes solution. The full...