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Terminal analysis of the operations of a rescue robot constructed for assisting secondary disaster situations
(© 2016 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2016)
This paper highlights an approach to combat the ramifications of both natural and man-made catastrophe in perspective of Bangladesh, a country highly susceptible to disasters. The aim of the paper is to develop a 'Rescue ...
Tsunami source uncertainty estimation: the 2011 Japan tsunami
(© 2016 Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2016)
This paper studies the initial sea surface displacement and its uncertainty after an earthquake based on tsunami waveforms. The spatial distribution is inferred with a Bayesian approach that provides probabilities that are ...
The citizen’s charter and public service delivery in Bangladesh
(Routledge, 2016)
The Constitution of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh provides that “all powers in the Republic belong to the people . . . every person in the service of the Republic has a duty to strive at all times to serve the people” ...
Muslim Americans: Debating the Notions of American and Un-American
(© 2016 Taylor and Francis Inc., 2016)
With Islamophobia on the rise in the US since 9/11, Muslims remain the most misunderstood people in American society. Taking as its point of departure the question of the compatibility of Islam and democracy, this book ...
Efficient and fast convergent consensus algorithms for faulty nodes tracking in distributed wireless sensor networks
(© 2016 IEEE, 2016-09)
One of the challenging issues in a distributed computing system is to reach on a decision with the presence of so many faulty nodes. These faulty nodes may update the wrong information, provide misleading results and may ...
Research dimensions of open innovation in small and medium enterprises
(© 2016 IGI Global, 2016-06-27)
Innovation is treated as a recognized driver of economic prosperity of a country through the sustained growth of its entrepreneurships. Moreover, recently coined term open innovation is increasingly taking the lead in ...
An automated fire fighting system
(© 2015 IEEE, 2016)
This paper presents the implemented procedure and result of a new ceiling mount firefighting system which uses computer vision theory to detect fire in an indoor environment and subdue it in root level. A domestic home or ...
Reinforcement learning based autonomic virtual machine management in clouds
(© 2016 IEEE, 11/28/2016)
Cloud computing is a rapidly emerging field, services and applications are more or less 24/7. Resource dimensioning in this field is a great issue. Research is already going on to imply reinforcement learning to automate ...
Open innovation: reaching out to the grass roots through SMEs - exploring issues of opportunities and challenges to reach economic sustainability
(© 2016 IGI Global, 6/27/2016)
While talking about successful entrepreneurship and value addition within an enterprise through innovation, one could realize that the innovation paradigm has been shifted from simple introduction of new ideas and products ...
Intelligent intrusion prevention system for households based on system-on-chip computer
(© 2016 IEEE, 2016-05)
Over the course of the last few decades, security systems have undergone radical overhauls and have transitioned into such sophisticated devices that some even completely shun any form of human interventions. In spite of ...