Service Composition in Pervasive Computing Environments 

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Semantic Service Description Languages: State Of The Art OWL-S (previously named DAML-S)1, is an ontology defined using the Ontology Web Language (OWL)2 to describe Web services capabilities. Using OWL-S, a service descrip- tion...

Micro-foundations of epistemic networks 

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Epistemic communities In this chapter, we present the existing works concerning epistemic community appraisal and representation, and we introduce a formal framework along with various definitions. Context Several works ranging from social epistemology...

Environment and attention-action coordination

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Environment and attention-action coordination We designed a virtual pick-and-place task in a grid world environment, shown in Figure 2.1 to evaluate our future agent. Two infinite sources of blocks are located in two...

CHARACTE RIZATION OF INDOOR ENVIRONMENT FOR A REAL-LIFE SCENARIO

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Exposure due to base station The exposure due to base stations has been a topic of interest for the past many years as the mobile network has experienced exponential growth. The number of...

Normal function of IDHs and IDH1/2 mutations in gliomas

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Hypermethylated phenotypes Epigenetics is related to DNA methylation and histone modification (acetylation or methylation). These changes only affect the regulation and level of gene expression, but do not alter the nucleotide sequence (56)....

Limiting the spatial extent of artificial lighting along ecological corridors: Implications for outdoor lighting planning recommendations

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Context and methodology of an ongoing systematic review During my PhD, I got involved in the COST LoNNe (“Loss of the Night Network”; investigating the impacts of light pollution on ecosystems, human health...

Towards QoS-aware Service-Oriented Middleware for Pervasive Environments 

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » QoS-aware service selection strategies Based on the models presented above, QoS-aware service-oriented middleware approaches proceed to the selection of services using different strategies. Like all the algorithms dealing with combinatorial problems, QoS-aware selection...

Environmental Pressures and emergence of Internal Representations

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Internal Representations and Cognitive Behaviors Traditional theories in cognitive science consider internal models as the basis of cognitive agents’ actions (Craik, 1943; Tolman, 1948; Johnson-Laird, 1983). Those models are described as mental maps...

Sensitivity of Southern Ocean primary production to Climate Change 

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » NEMO modelling environment NEMO is an ocean modelling environment principally developed in Institute Pierre Simon- Laplace (ISPL), France, with the participation of several European research centres2. Its main core is the OPA model,...

Squeezing Creation and Interaction with Environment

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Non Linear Cavity We consider a non linear crystal with an index n in a cavity like in Figure 4.5. We suppose some light at frequency 2! in the cavity, which causes some...