Florin Popentiu-Vladicescu

Reliability in the utility computing era: Towards reliable Fog computing

This paper considers current paradigms in computing and outlines the most important aspects concerning their reliability. The Fog computing paradigm as a non-trivial extension of the Cloud is considered and the reliability of the networks of smart devices are discussed. Combining the reliability requirements of grid and cloud paradigms with the reliability requirements of networks of sensor and actuators it follows that designing a reliable Fog computing platform is feasible.

Neutrosophic Logic Applied to Decision Making

Decision making addresses the usage of various methods to select “the best”, in some way, alternative strategy (from many available) when a problem is given for solving. The authors propose the usage of neutrosophic way of thinking, called also Smarandache’s logic, to select a model by experts when degrees of trustability, ultrastability (falsehood), and indeterminacy are used to decide. The procedures deal with multi-attribute neutrosophic decision making and a case study on e-learning software objects is presented.

On the best adaptive model for web services response time prediction

Quality of Services has an essential role throughout the process of Cloud-based web service composition for faultless and dynamic integration of business applications. Nonetheless, as Cloud-based web services grow, it becomes complicated to make possible service composition rapidly. Because web services response time can be a priceless tool for CWS (Cloud-based web service) composition satisfying end users QoS requirements, in this study we search for the best adaptive model that can do this task.

Augmented Reality Used for Robot Remote Control in Educational Laboratories

One of the main aspects of teaching in engineering education, including robotics engineering, is to experiment. Due to the complexity of the equipment involved, robotics research is expensive, thus limiting the access of researchers/students to perform activities of this kind. One possibility to access these devices is to share them with other universities and research centers from different locations in the world. The research team was focused on building a telerobotic educational lab operated via the web so that interested Internet users should be able – using augmented reality – to manipulate and share with other users the robot control. In this paper the specificity of the robot’s environment is the existence of a grid, drawn on the telerobotic working space.