Service Oriented Smart Sustainable City Architecture

In present world development of a country is measured in terms of the communication technology infrastructure of that Country. Information communication technology(ICT) is not  limited to internet usage and mere interconnection of  connecting devices now .but has advanced deep into the major transaction  of our day-to-day operations almost in every aspect of  livelihood be it a health care, personnel, economic transaction, Industry, monitoring ,environment protection or automation process. This has given rise to apt number of concepts and disciplines in the field of ICT. The concept of smart city is one of the outcome of our endeavour to use ICT to its full. Smart cities, which will lead to smart nations and ultimately smart world is the discipline which needs due attention from the researchers, engineering and policy makers. Architecture of the Smart city forms the basis of this concept, which is yet to get the final standard. In this paper an Architecture is proposed which is generic and almost covers most of issues to achieve the goal of smart cities. Keywords: Smart sustainable city, Internet of Things (IOT), Security, Information Communication Technology (ICT

Communications for cooperation: the RoboCup 4-legged passing challenge

Communications are the basis for the collaborative activities in the TeamChaos 4-legged team. In this paper we present the communications architecture developed both to let teammates communicate, and to easy the debugging of robot behaviors from external computers. Details of its implementation on the aiBo robots are also given. Using this infrastructure we describe a protocol for role exchange named Switch! that we have created. We also describe the use of both the communication architecture, and the Switch! protocol in the passing challenge of the 2006 edition of the RoboCu

Evolutionary Computation

This book presents several recent advances on Evolutionary Computation, specially evolution-based optimization methods and hybrid algorithms for several applications, from optimization and learning to pattern recognition and bioinformatics. This book also presents new algorithms based on several analogies and metafores, where one of them is based on philosophy, specifically on the philosophy of praxis and dialectics. In this book it is also presented interesting applications on bioinformatics, specially the use of particle swarms to discover gene expression patterns in DNA microarrays. Therefore, this book features representative work on the field of evolutionary computation and applied sciences. The intended audience is graduate, undergraduate, researchers, and anyone who wishes to become familiar with the latest research work on this field