Smart Grid is designed to integrate advanced communication/networking technologies into
electrical power grids to make them “smarter”. Current situation is that most of the blackouts …

Wireless sensor networks consist of sensor nodes with sensing and communication
capabilities. We focus on data aggregation problems in energy constrained sensor …

Service and resource discovery has become an integral part of modern networked systems.
In this survey we give an overview of the existing solutions for service and resource …

Self-Organization in Sensor and Actor Networks explores self-organization mechanisms and
methodologies concerning the efficient coordination between intercommunicating …

A sensor in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) periodically produces data as it monitors its
vicinity. The basic operation in such a network is the systematic gathering (with or without in …

This paper evaluates the effect of timing in data aggregation algorithms. In-network
aggregation achieves energy-efficient data propagation by processing data as it flows from …

This paper studies the distributed state estimation problem for a class of discrete time-
varying systems over sensor networks. Firstly, it is shown that the gain parameter …

This paper presents an objective comparative evaluation of layout analysis methods in
realistic circumstances. It describes the Page Segmentation competition (modus operandi …

Secure in-network aggregation in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is a necessary and
challenging task. In this paper, we first propose integration of system monitoring modules …

Head pose estimation from images has recently attracted much attention in computer vision
due to its diverse applications in face recognition, driver monitoring and human computer …