… on whether readers gloss ‘hero’ to mean protagonist in a technical sense or conclude
that Lermontov’s novel itself asks us to adjust our expectations of the hero as a figure who …

… heroes.” ln Heidegger’s view, although the heroes we choose fundamentally shape our sense
of self, initially we choose our heroes … of heroes as everyone else. By simply taking over a …

BACKGROUND Imaging technologies, which extend human vision capabilities, are such a
natural part of our current everyday experience that we often take them for granted. However, …

Accurate and low-cost sensor localization is a critical requirement for the deployment of
wireless sensor networks in a wide variety of applications. In cooperative localization, sensors …

Self-configuration in wireless sensor networks is a general class of estimation problems that
we study via the Cramer-Rao bound (CRB). Specifically, we consider sensor location …

The expectation-maximization (EM) method can facilitate maximizing likelihood functions
that arise in statistical estimation problems. In the classical EM paradigm, one iteratively …

Zeroth-order (ZO) optimization is a subset of gradient-free optimization that emerges in
many signal processing and machine learning (ML) applications. It is used for solving …

Accurate, distributed localization algorithms are needed for a wide variety of wireless
sensor network applications. This article introduces a scalable, distributed weighted-…

Network security is important for information protection in open, secure, or covert communications.
One such requirement is to achieve high-rate communications between clients, eg, …

We propose a new approach to adaptive system identification when the system model is
sparse. The approach applies ℓ 1 relaxation, common in compressive sensing, to improve the …