This a summary of the author's PhD thesis supervised by Leo Liberti, Philippe Baptiste and Daniel Krob and defended on 18 June 2009 at Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France. ...
Markov Decision Processes (MDP) have been widely used as a framework for planning under uncertainty. They allow to compute optimal sequences of actions in order to achieve a given...
Continuous monitoring and diagnosis of network performance are of crucial importance for the Internet access service and virtual private network (VPN) service providers. Various o...
Yao Zhao, Zhaosheng Zhu, Yan Chen, Dan Pei, Jia Wa...
Abstract--Path openings and closings are morphological operations with flexible line segments as structuring elements. These line segments have the ability to adapt to local image ...
Reliability is a very important issue in Mobile Ad hoc NETworks (MANETs). Shortest paths are usually used to route packets in MANETs. However, a shortest path may fail quickly, bec...