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Distributed Framework for Visual Event Detection in Parking Lot Area
PublicationThe paper presents the framework for automatic detection of various events occurring in a parking lot basing on multiple camera video analysis. The framework is massively distributed, both in the logical and physical sense. It consists of several entities called node stations that use XMPP protocol for internal communication and SRTP protocol with Jingle extension for video streaming. Recognized events include detecting parking...
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Issues of Estimating the Maximum Distributed Generation at High Wind Power Participation
PublicationThis paper presents the methods of estimating the maximum power that can be connected to the power system in distributed generation sources. Wind turbine generator systems (WTGS) were selected as the subject for analysis. Nonetheless, the considerations presented in this paper are only general and also apply to other types of power sources, including the sources that are not considered part of distributed generation.
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Cache service for maps presentation in distributed information data exchange system
PublicationThe paper presents the proposition of caches implementation for map presentation in distributed information data exchange system. The concept of cache service is described in the context of distributed information data exchange system elements which control and present on maps positions and other identification data of vessels and other suspicious objects on the territorial sea, sea-coast and the internal sea-waters. The proposed...
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Multi-criterion decision making in distributed systems by quantum evolutionary algorithms
PublicationDecision making by the AQMEA (Adaptive Quantum-based Multi-criterion Evolutionary Algorithm) has been considered for distributed computer systems. AQMEA has been extended by a chromosome representation with the registry of the smallest units of quantum information. Evolutionary computing with Q-bit chromosomes has been proofed to characterize by the enhanced population diversity than other representations, since individuals represent...
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TensorHive: Management of Exclusive GPU Access for Distributed Machine Learning Workloads
PublicationTensorHive is a tool for organizing work of research and engineering teams that use servers with GPUs for machine learning workloads. In a comprehensive web interface, it supports reservation of GPUs for exclusive usage, hardware monitoring, as well as configuring, executing and queuing distributed computational jobs. Focusing on easy installation and simple configuration, the tool automatically detects the available computing...
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Compact Electromagnetic Lens Antennas Using Cascaded Metasurfaces for Gain Enhancement and Beam Steering Applications
PublicationElectromagnetic (EM) lens antenna designs using cascaded metasurfaces for gain enhancement and beam steering applications are proposed. Two different lens aperture designs are proposed and populated with aperiodic unit cells of size 0.2λo × 0.2λo. In lens Design 1, the unit cells of different phases are distributed in concentric circular zones, whereas in lens Design 2, the unit cells of different phases are distributed in vertical...
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Complementarity between entanglement-assisted and quantum distributed random access code
PublicationCollaborative communication tasks such as random access codes (RACs) employing quantum resources have manifested great potential in enhancing information processing capabilities beyond the classical limitations. The two quantum variants of RACs, namely, quantum random access code (QRAC) and the entanglement-assisted random access code (EARAC), have demonstrated equal prowess for a number of tasks. However, there do exist specific...
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Loosely-Tied Distributed Architecture for Highly Scalable E-Learning System
PublicationVast majority of modern e-learning products are based on client-server architecture and utilization of web-based technologies (WBT). Such approach permits easy creation of e-learning systems that do not require a complex, operating system dependant client software. Unfortunately there are also drawbacks of such solution. Because of the majority of mechanisms are located on the server, its usage levels trend to build up quickly...
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Model of Volunteer Based Systems.
PublicationThere are two main approaches to processing tasks requiring high amounts of computational power. One approach is using clusters of mostly identical hardware, placed in dedicated locations. The other approach is outsourcing computing resources from large numbers of volunteers connected to the Internet. This chapter attempts to formulate a mathematical model of the volunteer based approach to distributed computations and apply it...
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Open standards-based communication system for distributed intelligent surveillance solution
PublicationThe paper presents an open standards-based communication system being a part of a distributed surveillance solution. The paradigm of “intelligent” surveillance approach is introduced, and employed video processing is discussed briefly. Requirements analysis toward the design of communication subsystem architecture is presented. Special attention is paid to the multimedia streaming functionality of presented solution, which is based...
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Distributed measurement system with data transmission secured using XXTEA algorithm
PublicationThe paper deals with wireless data transmission security in the distributed measurement and control system. An overview of cryptographic algorithms was presented paying special attention to the algorithm dedicated to units with low processing power, which is important due to minimization of energy consumption. Measurement modules equipped with simple microcontrollers send data wirelessly to the central unit. The transmission was...
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Innovative method of localization airplanes in VCS (VCS-MLAT) distributed system
PublicationThe article presents the concept and the structure of the localization module. The prototype module is the part of the VCS (VCS-MLAT) localization distributed system. The device receives the audio signal transmitted in airplanes band (118 MHz – 136 MHz). Received data with the timestamps are send to the main server. The data from multiple devices estimates the localization of the airplane. The main aim of the project is the analysis...
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1+1 Protection of Overlay Distributed Computing Systems: Modeling and Optimization
PublicationW niniejszym artykule przedstawiono autorską koncepcję ochrony transmisji od krańca do krańca (ang. 1+1 protection) dla systemów przetwarzania rozproszonego (ang. distributed computing systems). Artykuł prezentuje nowatorskie rozwiązanie dedykowane systemom typu ''overlay'', w których system przetwarzania rozproszonego stanowi warstwę najwyższą w warstwowej architekturze sieci, korzystającą z usług warstwy sieci transportowej....
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Distributed Detection of Selected Features in Data Streams Using Grid-class Systems
PublicationThis chapter describes basic methodology of distributed digital signal processing. A choice of distributed methods of detection of selected features in data streams using grid-class systems is discussed. Problems related to distribution of data for processing are addressed. A mitigating method for data distribution and result merging is described.
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Distributed processing environment using JINI and Screen saver technology
PublicationArtykuł przedstawia opis zrealizowanego systemu do obliczeń rozproszonych z wykorzystaniem technologii JINI i screen saver. Przedstawiono również przykładowe wyniki zastosowania systemu do obliczeń rozproszonych stosowanych w syntezie obrazów parametrycznych.
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Model of distributed learning objects repository for a heterogenic internet environment
PublicationW artykule wprowadzono pojęcie komponentu edukacyjnego jako rozszerzenie obiektu edukacyjnego o elementy zachowania (metody). Zaproponowane podejście jest zgodne z paradygmatem obiektowym. W oparciu o komponent edukacyjny zaprojektowano model budowy repozytorium materiałów edukacyjnych. Model ten jest oparty o usługi sieciowe i rejestry UDDI. Komponent edukacyjny oraz model repozytorium mogą znaleźć zastosowanie w konstrukcji zbiorów...
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Distributed Operation of CHP and Hybrid PV Using Consensus Protocol
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Conductivity of two-dimensional composites with randomly distributed elliptical inclusions
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Distributed reputation system for multihop mobile ad hoc networks
PublicationZaproponowano system reputacyjny dla bezprzewodowej sieci rozległej ad hoc, pozwalający stacjm sieci zachować tzw. anonimowość pakietową oraz odróżniać zachowania niekoperacyjne od efektów przeciążenia sieci. Zastosowano generację miar reputacyjnych przy wykorzystaniu mechanizmu lokalnego nasłuchiwania (watchdog). Przeprowadzono symulacyjne badania odporności tego systemu na obecność stacji niewspółpracujących.
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A distributed scheme for optimization of interdomain routing between collaborating domains
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Skill of remote sensing snow products for distributed runoff prediction
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Generation of conformance test suites for parallel and distributed languages and APIS.
PublicationArtykuł zarysowuje nową metodologię systematycznego tworzenia Zestawów Testów Zgodności. Testowanie zgodności ma na celu sprawdzenie, czy implementacja jest zgodna ze swoją specyfikacją, co jest szczególnie ważne w środowiskach równoległych i rozproszonych, gdzie musi ze sobą współpracować wiele różnych pakietów. Autor rozpoczął swoje badania w dziedzinie testowania zgodności dla języka równoległego sterowanego danymi Athapascan,...
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Towards a Unified Requirements Model for Distributed High Performance Computing
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An A-Team Approach to Learning Classifiers from Distributed Data Sources
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An A-Team approach to learning classifiers from distributed data sources
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Distributed System For Noise Threat Evaluation Based On Psychoacoustic Measurements
PublicationAn innovative system designed for the continuous monitoring of acoustic climate of urban areas was presentedin the paper. The assessment of environmental threats is performed using online data, acquired through a grid ofengineered monitoring stations collecting comprehensive information about the acoustic climate of urban areas.The grid of proposed devices provides valuable data for the purpose of long and short time acoustic climateanalysis....
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Improving voltage levels in low-voltage networks with distributed generation – case study
PublicationThe use of distributed generation in low-voltage networks may cause the voltage variation in them, within the wide range. In unfavourable circumstances, the voltage may reach unacceptable values. The paper presents the effect of distributed generation on voltage levels in a selected low-voltage rural distribution network in Poland. An analysis of possible methods for improving voltage levels in this network is conducted. The most...
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Human verbal memory encoding is hierarchically distributed in a continuous processing stream
PublicationProcessing of memory is supported by coordinated activity in a network of sensory, association, and motor brain regions. It remains a major challenge to determine where memory is encoded for later retrieval. Here we used direct intracranial brain recordings from epilepsy patients performing free recall tasks to determine the temporal pattern and anatomical distribution of verbal memory encoding across the entire human cortex. High...
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VISUALIZATION OF SCANTER AND ARPA RADAR DATA IN THE DISTRIBUTED TELEINFORMATION SYSTEM FOR THE BORDER GUARD
PublicationMonitoring of country maritime border is an important task of the Border Guard. This activity can be enhanced with the use of the technology enabling gathering information from distributed sources, processing of that information and its visualization. The paper presents the next stage of development of the STRADAR project (Streaming of real-time data transmission in distributed dispatching and teleinformation systems of the Border...
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The distributed model predictive controller for the nuclear power plant turbo-generator set
PublicationTypically there are two main control loops with PI controllers operating at each turbo-generator set. In this paper a distributed model predictive controller DMPC, with local QDMC controllers for the turbine generator, is proposed instead of a typical PI controllers. The local QDMC controllers utilize step-response models for the controlled system components. These models parameters are determined based on the proposed black-box...
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Database for integration of information in distributed data exchange system elements of Border Guard
PublicationThe paper presents the database solution for integration of information in distributed data exchange system elements of the Polish Border Guard. The proposed database solution is described in the context of data exchange system elements which control position and store identification data of vessels (fishing, sports and sailing boats) and other suspicious objects on the territorial sea, sea-coast and the internal sea-waters controlled...
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Agent System for Managing Distributed Mobile Interactive Documents in Knowledge-Based Organizations
PublicationThe MIND architecture of distributed mobile interactive document is a new processing model defined to facilitate obtaining a proper solution in knowledge processes carried out by knowledge-based organizations. Such organizations have an established structure that defines document templates and knowledge process. The aim of the MIND architecture is to change the static document to mobile agents, which are designed to implement the...
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A Solution to Image Processing with Parallel MPI I/O and Distributed NVRAM Cache
PublicationThe paper presents a new approach to parallel image processing using byte addressable, non-volatile memory (NVRAM). We show that our custom built MPI I/O implementation of selected functions that use a distributed cache that incorporates NVRAMs located in cluster nodes can be used for efficient processing of large images. We demonstrate performance benefits of such a solution compared to a traditional implementation without NVRAM...
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Dynamic Data Management Among Multiple Databases for Optimization of Parallel Computations in Heterogeneous HPC Systems
PublicationRapid development of diverse computer architectures and hardware accelerators caused that designing parallel systems faces new problems resulting from their heterogeneity. Our implementation of a parallel system called KernelHive allows to efficiently run applications in a heterogeneous environment consisting of multiple collections of nodes with different types of computing devices. The execution engine of the system is open for...
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Distributed MIND - A New Processing Model Based on Mobile Interactive Documents
PublicationObliczenia w trybie zespołowym pozwalają na integrację działań ludzi i agentów systemowych w otwartym środowisku rozproszonym w celu rozwiązywania problemów formułowanych dynamicznie w trakcie pracy systemu. Problemy te najczęściej nie mają charakteru algorytmicznego, tzn. generowane rozwiązania nie mogłyby zostać wyliczone w skończonej liczbie kroków na podstawie danych charakteryzujących uczestników obliczeń. Autorzy proponują...
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Asynchronous distributed state estimation based on a continuous time stochastic model
PublicationGłównym zadaniem systemu estymacji jest szacowanie stanu obserwowanego obiektu. W rozproszonych wieloczujnikowych systemach estymacji stan obiektu jest estymowany przez pewien zbiór estymatorów lokalnych. Każdy estymator lokalny wykonuje filtrację (np opartą na filtracji Kalmana) danych pochodzących ze skojarzonego z nim czujnika bądź czujników oraz fuzję przetworzonych danych z czujników z danymi pochodzącymi z innych lokalnych...
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Asynchronous distributed state estimation based on a continuous-time stochastic model
PublicationW artykule rozważa się ogólny problem estymacji stanu w asynchronicznych rozłożonych systemach (ADE) opartych na wielu czujnikach. W takich systemach stan obiektu jest oceniany przez grupę lokalnych estymatorów, z których każdy oparty zwykle na filtrze Kalmana, dokonuje fuzji danych zebranych poprzez jego lokalne czujniki oraz danych uzyskanych od innych (zdalnych) procesorów, w celu wyznaczenia możliwie najlepszych estymat. Przeprowadzając...
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Effective methods for functional confermance testing of parallel and distributed programming libraries.
PublicationRozprawa przedstawia kompletna metodykę tworzenia Zestawów Testów Zgodności dla języków programowania, bibliotek i API, ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem języków i bibliotek programowania równoleglego i rozproszonego. Autor rozpoczął badania w dziedzinie testowania zgodności dla bibliotek programowania równoleglego i rozproszonego, ale Metodyka Kolejnych zawężeń (ang. Consecutive Confinenments Method -CoCoM, stworzona przez Autora,...
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Modelling of distributed-lumped parameter systems by application of modal bond graphs.
PublicationZastosowano metodę transmitancji układów o parametrach rozłożonych oraz dekompozycję modalną do modelowania wybranych układów dynamicznych. Zaproponowane podejście pozwala otrzymać dokładne modele niskiego rzędu w postaci grafów wiązań.
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Determining coinsistent states of distributed objects paricipating in a remote method call
PublicationPrzedstawiono metodę testowania obiektów w systemie rozprzoszonym z wykorzystaniem replikacji stanu obiektów. W szczególności zaproponowano technikę zegarów haszujących do identyfikacji zdarzeń w systemach zawierających nieznaną a'priori liczbą obiektów oraz E-drzewo do identyfikacji stanu tych obiektów.
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Asynchronous distributed state estimation based on a continuous-time stochastic model
PublicationW artykule rozważa się problem estymacji stanu w asynchronicznych rozłożonych systemach (ADE) opartych na wielu czujnikach pomiarowych. W systemach takich stan obiektu jest oceniany przez grupę lokalnych estymatorów, z których każdy (oparty zwykle na filtrze Kalmana) dokonuje fuzji danych zebranych poprzez jego lokalne czujniki oraz danych odebranych od innych zdalnych procesorów, w celu wyznaczenia możliwie najlepszych estymat....
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Visual Low-Code Language for Orchestrating Large-Scale Distributed Computing
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A Comparison Study of Strategies for Combining Classifiers from Distributed Data Sources
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Hybrid Multi-Criteria Method of Analyzing the Location of Distributed Renewable Energy Sources
PublicationThis paper presents the development and the application of a hybrid multi-criteria method, the combination of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), and numerical taxonomy (NT),to support the decision making on the location of distributed renewable energy sources meetingvarious types of assessment criteria. Finding criteria weights, using the AHP method, eliminates thedisadvantage of NT—which, in current form, is defined by its...
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MAPSERVER – INFORMATION FLOW MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE FOR THE BORDER GUARD DISTRIBUTED DATA EXCHANGE SYSTEM
PublicationIn this paper the architecture of the software designed for management of position and identification data of floating and flying objects in Maritime areas controlled by Polish Border Guard is presented. The software was designed for managing information stored in a distributed system with two variants of the software, one for a mobile device installed on a vessel, an airplane or a car and second for a central server. The details...
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Deduplication of Position Data and Global Identification of Objects Tracked in Distributed Vessel Monitoring System
PublicationVessel monitoring systems (VMS) play a very important role in safety navigation. In most cases, their structure is distributed and they are based on two data sources, namely Automatic Identification System (AIS) and Automatic Radar Plotting Aids (ARPA). Such approach results in several objects identification and position data duplication problems, which need to be solved in order to ensure the correct performance of a given VMS....
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RDF dataset profiling - a survey of features, methods, vocabularies and applications
PublicationThe Web of Data, and in particular Linked Data, has seen tremendous growth over the past years. However, reuse and take-up of these rich data sources is often limited and focused on a few well-known and established RDF datasets. This can be partially attributed to the lack of reliable and up-to-date information about the characteristics of available datasets. While RDF datasets vary heavily with respect to the features related...
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Distributed protection against non-cooperative node behavior in multi-hop wireless networks
PublicationAn important security problem in today's distributed data networks is the prevention of non-cooperative behavior i.e., attacks consisting in the modification of standard node operation to gain unfair advantage over other system nodes. Such a behavior is currently feasible in many types of computer networks whose communication protocols are designed to maximize the network performance assuming full node cooperation. Moreover, it...
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Ultimate strength of stiffened plates subjected to compressive load and spatially distributed mechanical properties
PublicationThe present study deals with the ultimate strength of stiffened plates subjected to spatially distributed mechanical properties and compressive load. Normally, mean values of mechanical properties based on tensile tests are used to validate the numerical assessment with experimental results. However, mechanical properties may vary within a single specimen. To investigate the impact of that, random fields of yield stress and Young...
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Three levels of fail-safe mode in MPI I/O NVRAM distributed cache
PublicationThe paper presents architecture and design of three versions for fail-safe data storage in a distributed cache using NVRAM in cluster nodes. In the first one, cache consistency is assured through additional buffering write requests. The second one is based on additional write log managers running on different nodes. The third one benefits from synchronization with a Parallel File System (PFS) for saving data into a new file which...