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NTMS
2015
IEEE
9 years 10 months ago
Using thermal transients at the outlet of electrical water heaters to recognise consumption patterns for heating schedule optimi
—In the midst of environmental concerns, and soaring energy costs and energy shortages, the efficiency of electrical household water heaters (EWHs) has been identified as an ar...
P. J. C. Nel, M. J. Thinus Booysen, B. van der Mer...
73
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NTMS
2015
IEEE
9 years 10 months ago
Pricing strategies in multi-operator heterogeneous wireless networks
— In this paper, three pricing scenarios are proposed to set the transaction cost of the inter-operators agreement in a multi-operator cooperative environment. An analysis, of th...
Soha Farhat, Abed Ellatif Samhat, Samer Lahoud, Be...
108
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NTMS
2015
IEEE
9 years 10 months ago
Serverless lightweight mutual authentication protocol for small mobile computing devices
Small and inexpensive computing devices are becoming potential players in the Internet arena. Smart constrained devices are used for collecting or generating information which is ...
Collins Mtita, Maryline Laurent, Pascal Daragon
93
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PERSUASIVE
2016
Springer
9 years 10 months ago
Smile Catcher: Can Game Design Lead to Positive Social Interactions?
Niaja Farve, Pattie Maes
175
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PERSUASIVE
2016
Springer
9 years 10 months ago
Long-Term Effects of Computerized Simulations in Protracted Conflicts: The Case of Global Conflicts
This article presents an experimental study examining the short term and long term effects of Global Conflicts on attitude change towards the IsraeliPalestinian conflict. Global C...
Ronit Kampf
110
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EAAI
2016
9 years 10 months ago
Combining CSP and MPC for the operational control of water networks
This paper presents a control scheme which uses a combination of linear Model Predictive Control (MPC) and a Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP) to solve the non-linear operatio...
Cong Cong Sun, Vicenç Puig, Gabriela Cembra...
176
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EAAI
2016
9 years 10 months ago
An improved discrete bat algorithm for symmetric and asymmetric Traveling Salesman Problems
Bat algorithm is a population metaheuristic proposed in 2010 which is based on the echolocation or bio-sonar characteristics of microbats. Since its first implementation, the bat...
Eneko Osaba, Xin-She Yang, Fernando Díaz, P...
CANDIE
2016
9 years 10 months ago
Designing a reliable bio-fuel supply chain network considering link failure probabilities
Sushil R. Poudel, Mohammad Marufuzzaman, Linkan Bi...
114
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ETFA
2013
IEEE
10 years 9 months ago
Design of industrial automation systems - Formal requirements in the engineering process
Today’s production plants are not conceivable without automation systems. Due to the increasing complexity of production plants and therefore of automation systems, delays and i...
Björn Böttcher, Johann Badinger, Natalia...
201
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CANDC
2011
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Distributed creative cognition in digital filmmaking
This paper reports on an empirical study that uses a Grounded Theory approach to investigate the creative practices of Machinima filmmakers. Machinima is a new digital film produc...
Nicholas Davis, Boyang Li, Brian O'Neill, Mark Rie...