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PPSN
2004
Springer
16 years 29 days ago
Evaluation of Adaptive Nature Inspired Task Allocation Against Alternate Decentralised Multiagent Strategies
Adaptive multiagent algorithms based upon the behaviour of social insects are powerful decentralised systems capable of solving complex problems. The intelligence of such a system ...
Richard Price, Peter Tiño
SDMW
2004
Springer
16 years 29 days ago
A Structure Preserving Database Encryption Scheme
Abstract. A new simple and efficient database encryption scheme is presented. The new scheme enables encrypting the entire content of the database without changing its structure. I...
Yuval Elovici, Ronen Waisenberg, Erez Shmueli, Ehu...
ICRA
2003
IEEE
88views Robotics» more  ICRA 2003»
16 years 27 days ago
A new concept of modular parallel mechanism for machining applications
The subject of this paper is the design of a new concept of modular parallel mechanisms for three, four or five-axis machining applications. Most parallel mechanisms are designed ...
Damien Chablat, Philippe Wenger
ISIPTA
2003
IEEE
140views Mathematics» more  ISIPTA 2003»
16 years 27 days ago
A Second-Order Uncertainty Model of Independent Random Variables: An Example of the Stress-Strength Reliability
A second-order hierarchical uncertainty model of a system of independent random variables is studied in the paper. It is shown that the complex nonlinear optimization problem for ...
Lev V. Utkin
IBPRIA
2003
Springer
16 years 25 days ago
Segmentation of Curvilinear Objects Using a~Watershed-Based Curve Adjacency Graph
Abstract. This paper presents a general framework to segment curvilinear objects in 2D images. A pre-processing step relies on mathematical morphology to obtain a connected line wh...
Thierry Géraud