{"title":"The logic of action in the deontic transaction model","authors":"Y. Tretyakova, A. Esterline","doi":"10.1109/SECON.2000.845611","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.2000.845611","url":null,"abstract":"To secure the integrity of extended multiagent actions, we subsume them under the transaction abstraction. Traditional transaction processing systems have the four ACID properties, which make for transaction security, but exceptions are often needed in long-lived applications. Our transaction model uses deontic logic, the logic of normative reasoning, and agent communication is via speech acts, which establish obligations. The complexity of modern software makes unintended events (which are non-ideal with respect to the specification) inevitable. Deontic logic lets us handle such non-ideal behavior within a specification. The authors characterize transactions as complex action expressions, some of whose constituent actions give rise to obligations. Next they present their deontic transaction model and sketch a semantics for its deontic statements. Finally, joint actions and plans are introduced.","PeriodicalId":206022,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the IEEE SoutheastCon 2000. 'Preparing for The New Millennium' (Cat. No.00CH37105)","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121142864","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Implementation of streaming audio and video for online Web based courses using MySQL database server and PHP","authors":"A. Das, S. Devgan","doi":"10.1109/SECON.2000.845625","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.2000.845625","url":null,"abstract":"Next generation database systems will need to support both textual data and other types of multimedia data. These two types of data differ in their organization and management. Multimedia data comprises static media like text and images, that do not vary with time, and dynamic or continuous media like audio and video, that varies with time and requires a guaranteed transfer rate. Conventional database systems are designed for managing textual and numerical data, and retrieving such data is often based on simple comparisons of text/numerical values. However, this simple method of retrieval is longer adequate for the multimedia data, since the digitized representation of images, video, or data itself does not convey the reality of these media items. Multimedia data has certain characteristics that complicate their storage in conventional databases or file systems. First, multimedia data tends to be voluminous. Second, continuous media data, such as video and audio have timing characteristics associated with them. The proposed method is to store multimedia objects in a relational database, which offers several advantages over file system storage, like secure back up, concurrent login, and faster retrieval. The paper shows how database systems can be architected to support multimedia data, making use of a relational database system such as MySQL and the application of real time video streaming in delivering such data. Based on the user query, the retrieved audio/video data is streamed over the Web using Real System G2 which provides high quality audio and video at all bit rates and even under lossy network conditions.","PeriodicalId":206022,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the IEEE SoutheastCon 2000. 'Preparing for The New Millennium' (Cat. No.00CH37105)","volume":"1049 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116467234","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Simple computation of the coupling coefficient due to a rectangular current loop for loaded circular cavities","authors":"K. R. Engala, A. Kishk, D. Kajfez","doi":"10.1109/SECON.2000.845576","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.2000.845576","url":null,"abstract":"A simple method is described to compute the coupling coefficient due to a rectangular loop in a circular cavity that may be loaded with a dielectric resonator. The resonant frequency and the unloaded Q-factor are computed from the modal solution without the presence of the loop. An equivalent circuit is obtained for the unloaded cavity and the loop coupling is represented by a series inductance. As an example the resonant frequency (f/sub 0/), unloaded Q-factor (Q/sub 0/) and the coupling coefficient (K) for a dielectric resonator (DR) placed in a parallel plate cavity are computed. The measured input impedance of the parallel plate resonator is in good agreement with computed values.","PeriodicalId":206022,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the IEEE SoutheastCon 2000. 'Preparing for The New Millennium' (Cat. No.00CH37105)","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125859757","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An interactive real-time electromagnetic field analysis system for educational purposes","authors":"O. Mohammed, D. Minev, J. Castro, G. Roig","doi":"10.1109/SECON.2000.845455","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.2000.845455","url":null,"abstract":"An interactive real-time electromagnetic field analysis system FieldVIEW is being developed at Florida International University with the intention of visualizing the electromagnetic process inside electrical machinery. The proposed system utilizes the finite element method with several hardware and software modules to achieve a real-time analysis of the electromagnetic field in a machine on which an experiment is being performed. Moreover, the intention is to develop a complete set of experiments that are processed in the energy conversion lab, which will allow the user not only to observe, but also to control the system and perform the whole experiment using a computer. As a result the user of this system will have better understanding of the energy conversion concepts as well as the electromagnetic field associated with electrical machinery.","PeriodicalId":206022,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the IEEE SoutheastCon 2000. 'Preparing for The New Millennium' (Cat. No.00CH37105)","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124150643","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Implementation of embedded streaming of large video application using object-relational database and PHP","authors":"R. S. Mann, S. Devgan","doi":"10.1109/SECON.2000.845469","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.2000.845469","url":null,"abstract":"There has been much interest in databases that store multimedia data, which comprise static media, like text and images, and dynamic or continuous media, like audio and video. Conventional database systems are designed for managing textual and numerical data. Storing and retrieving such data is often based on simple comparisons of text or numerical values. However, this method of storing and retrieval is not adequate for the multimedia data, since the digitized representation of these data types does not convey the reality of these media items. The conventional method is to store the large multimedia data in a file server and store the associated metadata in a database. The retrieval is done by downloading the files from one computer to the user's computer before playing it. The large size of these files results in long download times. The paper proposes an alternative method of storing multimedia data along with its associated metadata in an object-relational database. The proposed method offers faster retrieval time, secured backup, and concurrent login. The paper shows how database systems can be architected to support multimedia data, making use of an object-relational database system such as PostgreSQL. The main challenge is delivering data over the Web using real time video streaming. The results show that there is a significant change in retrieval rate and Web access time when data is stored in a single database instead of a file server. The application of a multimedia database thus created can be used in different application domains such as digital libraries, training and education, medical databases containing X-rays, etc.","PeriodicalId":206022,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the IEEE SoutheastCon 2000. 'Preparing for The New Millennium' (Cat. No.00CH37105)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128932719","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Enterprise-wide computing with Java","authors":"S. Ahuja","doi":"10.1109/SECON.2000.845597","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.2000.845597","url":null,"abstract":"As the first language designed from the bottom up with networking and distributed computing in mind, Java makes it easy for computers to cooperate. The explosive growth in e-commerce applications is fueling the growth of Java and Java is now in a position to deliver enterprise-wide solutions. This paper focuses on the requirements of enterprise-wide computing and how Java supports these requirements using its support for object-oriented programming, developing client-server applications, multithreaded servers, security, and distributed objects.","PeriodicalId":206022,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the IEEE SoutheastCon 2000. 'Preparing for The New Millennium' (Cat. No.00CH37105)","volume":"162 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132457974","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A priority queue based approach to service subscriber profile: queries in cellular networks","authors":"S. Sinha, S. Anand","doi":"10.1109/SECON.2000.845616","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.2000.845616","url":null,"abstract":"To maintain a subscriber record in a cellular network, we must look at distributed database mechanism and call processing procedures. The overall system performance can be improved by prioritizing database accesses according to the nature of the query. By selectively altering the priority of the query, we can reduce the call set up time. A prioritized access approach is presented here and the numerical results are compared with the non-prioritized one.","PeriodicalId":206022,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the IEEE SoutheastCon 2000. 'Preparing for The New Millennium' (Cat. No.00CH37105)","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132943401","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A genetic algorithm perspective to distributed systems design","authors":"Sanjay P. Ahuja","doi":"10.1109/SECON.2000.845430","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.2000.845430","url":null,"abstract":"Distributed computing systems (DCSs) have the potential for high reliability. When the topology of a DCS is fixed, the DCS's reliability depends mainly on the allocation of various resources. One of the important resources to be allocated in a DCS are various files. In this paper, a genetic algorithm (GA) based file allocation and design scheme has been developed for distributed systems. In this scheme, files are allocated to the nodes of the DCS such that the overall effectiveness of executing a program, which requires files from remote nodes, is maximized. Different topologies are considered to illustrate the GA-based solution approach. The effectiveness of the GA-based approach is demonstrated by comparing the results obtained using the GA with the results obtained by an exhaustive search of the problem state space. A timing study that was carried out also illustrates the effectiveness of the GA-based approach. This paper also studies the impact of the probability of crossover (Pc) and the probability of mutation (Pm) on the results obtained using the GA.","PeriodicalId":206022,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the IEEE SoutheastCon 2000. 'Preparing for The New Millennium' (Cat. No.00CH37105)","volume":"687 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133973729","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Adaptive learning expert systems","authors":"Sakchai Wiriyacoonkasem, A. Esterline","doi":"10.1109/SECON.2000.845609","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.2000.845609","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this research is to improve the performance of an expert system through the use of a neural network, thus allowing the expert system to learn from experience. Even though the knowledge representation schemes used by expert systems allow them to succeed and proliferate, these schemes cause them to be brittle. Human experts usually use more knowledge to reason than expert systems do and often use experience in quantitative reasoning whereas expert systems cannot. Our study shows that a neural network can learn from an expert system's experience and guide the expert system when the expert system does not have enough knowledge to reason.","PeriodicalId":206022,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the IEEE SoutheastCon 2000. 'Preparing for The New Millennium' (Cat. No.00CH37105)","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127726340","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fuzzy BDI architecture for social agents","authors":"S. Long, A. Esterline","doi":"10.1109/SECON.2000.845428","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.2000.845428","url":null,"abstract":"We present a fuzzy belief, desire and intention (BDI) architecture as a useful framework for modeling co-operative societies of artificial agents. We outline the social conditions necessary for agents to form joint intentions and joint actions. Our architecture facilitates the inference of a mutual belief by the agents of the society. We see this as critical because mutual belief is the starting point for joint action.","PeriodicalId":206022,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the IEEE SoutheastCon 2000. 'Preparing for The New Millennium' (Cat. No.00CH37105)","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114667518","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}