Abstract — Disruption-tolerant networks (DTNs) attempt to route network messages via intermittently connected nodes. Routing in such environments is difficult because peers have little information about the state of the partitioned network and transfer opportunities between peers are of limited

Uncertainty creeps into the software development process in many ways, shapes and forms. In the early stages of software development, key sources of uncertainty are the human stakeholders who help formulate the requirements of the software product. An added layer of uncertainty is inherent as requirements analysts have to deal with subjective, and often conflicting, estimates that humans make, estimates that may significantly affect both the software development process and the eventual software product. Our position is two-fold. We stipulate that in situations where analysts (and later developers) have to deal with human evaluations of uncertainty, special methods and procedures should be used to elicit this information, reconcile this information, and, most importantly, use this information for decision-making. We also note that significant developments are unfolding in the field of Artificial Intelligence in two areas related to dealing with uncertainty: eliciting data from domain experts, and using uncertain data for inference and planning. We believe that mitigation (and proper use) of uncertainty in the early stages of software development calls for collaboration between the fields of Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence. 1.

Abstract. Multitask Learning is an approach to inductive transfer that improves generalization by using the domain information contained in the training signals of related tasks as an inductive bias. It does this by learning tasks in parallel while using a shared representation; what is learned

This paper describes ExOR, an integrated routing and MAC protocol that increases the throughput of large unicast transfers in multi-hop wireless networks. ExOR chooses each hop of a packet’s route after the transmission for that hop, so that the choice can reflect which intermediate nodes actually

In this article, the movement of knowledge and discoveries that take place in Chile, between academia and industry is reviewed. Examples of knowledge transfer activities, such as training, consultancy, contract and collaborative research as well as licensing relating to Chile’s bioscience sector

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. In an effort to promote sustainable development within developing countries that would allow for simultaneous economic growth and emissions cuts, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change included in its articles of development a section pertaining directly to international technology transfer

Abstract. The report presents cooperation capabilities of CAD Centre at the Technical University "Moscow Power Engineering Institute " (MPEI) in the area of heterogeneous system design. The problem of system-level synthesis is considered as hardware / software codesign with result prediction in the early stages of the controled partitioning accounting adjacent effects. This approach avoids apriority restrictions in the system specification, allows the argument choice of candidates for hardware implementation introducing a set of interactive high-level models for an internal representation. The fundamentally new feature of the approach is the possibility to estimate an upper bound of the system implementation complexity. Keywords: MPEI infrastructure for Pan-European Co-operation, heterogeneous systems, hardware/software codesign, high-level models, partitioning

We model the distortions that internal power struggles can generate in the allocation of resources between divisions of a diversified firm. The model predicts that if divisions are similar in the level of their resources and opportunities, funds will be transferred from divisions with poor

Abstract — Studying transfer opportunities between wireless devices carried by humans, we observe that the distribution of the inter-contact time, that is the time gap separating two contacts of the same pair of devices, exhibits a heavy tail such as one of a power law, over a large range of value