RLPAS: Reinforcement Learning-based Proactive Auto-Scaler for Resource Provisioning in Cloud Environment

Mobile Networks and Applications - Public cloud system offers Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) to deliver the computational resources on demand. Resource requirements of a cloud environment are...     

Evaluation of Intellectual Property Objects in the Nanoindustry Field

Russian Microelectronics - The recently developed nanomaterials and their production technologies as intellectual property objects (IPOs) are considered. The role of the informational-analytical...     

Short-Term Creep of St3 Steel Under Low-Frequency Cyclic Loading

Strength of Materials - Creep constitutive equations have been derived for the materials that exhibit the properties of orthotropy (transversal isotropy) and transient creep under cyclic loading. A...     

Tuning the Operating Band of an Artificial Magnetic Conductor

Journal of Communications Technology and Electronics - Approximate formulas for calculating the coefficient of reflection from an artificial magnetic conductor (AMC) based on a capacitive lattice...     

Microstrip Spurious-Coupling Band-Pass Filters with Quarter-Wavelength and Π-Shaped Resonators

Journal of Communications Technology and Electronics - Microstrip band-pass filters (BPFs) containing quarter-wavelength resonators and a Π-shaped half-wavelength resonator placed next to each...     

A Light Weight Secure Communication Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks

Wireless Personal Communications - The majority of security systems for wireless sensor networks are based on symmetric encryption. The main open issue for these approaches concerns the...     

Protection of an Object on a Movable Base Using Anticipating Control under the Worst Disturbances

Journal of Computer and Systems Sciences International - The problem of constructing a guaranteeing anticipating control for a shock isolator that protects an object on a movable base from impacts...     

Highly Ionized Arc He Plasma: Nonequilibrium,Nonideality, and Kinetics

High Temperature - Experimental findings suggest that a strongly ionized, arc He plasma of atmospheric pressure does not exist in the state of the local thermodynamic equilibrium (LTE) expected for...     

Characterization of Aluminum Foam Impact Response

Strength of Materials - The paper addresses the investigation of high-strain rate compressive behavior of Al foams subjected to impact at the intermediate striking velocity ranged from 40 to...