In this paper, the problem of multi-criteria evaluation is addressed and the different ways of knowledge integration is discussed. Our decisions are becoming increasingly dependent on understanding of complex relation...
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(纸本)9780889867550
In this paper, the problem of multi-criteria evaluation is addressed and the different ways of knowledge integration is discussed. Our decisions are becoming increasingly dependent on understanding of complex relations, deep context and dynamics of phenomena in the world around and geographic information system (GIS) technology is able to incorporate this new requirements. the contribution is focused on the possibilities of GIS in combination with expert knowledge to support the decisions in the field of agriculture production with regards to the prediction of diseases and pests. It is shown that the localized knowledge make possible to aggregate important aspects of defined phenomenon and evaluate them in context of different hypothesis.
In this paper, we present a VQ-based fast face recognition algorithm using an optimized codebook. Previously, Chen et al. 1161 proposed a novel codebook design method based on the systematic classification and organiz...
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(纸本)9781424422388
In this paper, we present a VQ-based fast face recognition algorithm using an optimized codebook. Previously, Chen et al. 1161 proposed a novel codebook design method based on the systematic classification and organization of code patterns abstracted from facial images for reliable face recognition. In this paper, an improved codebook design method is proposed. Combined by a systematically organized codebook based on the classification of code patterns and another codebook created by Kohonen's Self-Organizing Maps (SOM), an optimized codebook consisted of 2x2 codevectors for facial images is generated. We demonstrate the performance of our algorithm using publicly available AT&T database containing variations in lighting, posing, and expressions. Compared withthe algorithms employing original codebook or SOM codebook separately, experimental results show face recognition using the optimized codebook is more efficient. the highest average recognition rate of 98.2% is obtained for 40 persons' 400 images of AT&T database. A table look-up (TLU) method is also proposed for the speed up of the recognition processing in this paper. By applying this method in the quantization step, the total recognition processing time achieves only 28 msec, enabling real-time face recognition.
Many systems have been developed in the past few years to assist researchers in the discovery of knowledge published as English text, for example in the PubMed database. At the same time, higher level collective knowl...
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(纸本)2951740840
Many systems have been developed in the past few years to assist researchers in the discovery of knowledge published as English text, for example in the PubMed database. At the same time, higher level collective knowledge is often published using a graphical notation representing all the entities in a pathway and their interactions. We believe that these pathway visualizations could serve as an effective user interface for knowledge discovery if they can be linked to the text in publications. Since the graphical elements in a Pathway are of a very different nature than their corresponding descriptions in English text, we developed a prototype system called PathText. the goal of PathText is to serve as a bridge between these two different representations. In this paper, we first describe the overall architecture and the interfaces of the PathText system, and then provide some details about the core Text Mining components.
this paper contains the presentation of a virtual environment which allows rapid design and verification of human prostheses. Initially the platform was created for inferior limb prostheses, but it is usable for any k...
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(纸本)9780889867307
this paper contains the presentation of a virtual environment which allows rapid design and verification of human prostheses. Initially the platform was created for inferior limb prostheses, but it is usable for any kind of prostheses. the system enables a virtual testing of the prosthetic models, control systems, sensors and a comparison between the real prosthesis and the virtual one. In a virtual environment, we can perform tests on larger sets of configurations, in a very short time and at a very low cost.
Ambient Networks enable co-operation between heterogeneous networks, on demand, in order to provide ubiquitous connectivity to end-users. We focus on the part of disseminating context information to enable context-bas...
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(纸本)9780769534923
Ambient Networks enable co-operation between heterogeneous networks, on demand, in order to provide ubiquitous connectivity to end-users. We focus on the part of disseminating context information to enable context-based applications (for e.g., resource update and management) and systems in ambient and uhiquitous networks. Our pure overlay, space architecture acts as a base for the development and maintenance of application-layer context-aware dissemination protocols. Our multi-level overlay network based dissemination protocol exhibits dynamic and fair context dissemination. In this paper, we first overview this 'pure overlay' and 'multi-level overlay' combined context dissemination scheme and discuss its constraints in autonomous and heterogeneous environments. M, then focus on proposing techniques for improving this dissemination scheme towards ubiquitous networking which satisfies our goals with regard to creating a user-friendly data model. the proposed optimizations include: local transformations, personalized extensions. and hybrid customizations. this paper is complemented with case study evaluation and simulation study results.
Formal models of rational user behaviour are essential for user-centred reasoning about interactive systems. At an abstract level, planned behaviour and reactive behaviour are two important aspects of the rational beh...
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(纸本)9780769534374
Formal models of rational user behaviour are essential for user-centred reasoning about interactive systems. At an abstract level, planned behaviour and reactive behaviour are two important aspects of the rational behaviour of users for which existing cognitive modelling approaches are too detailed. In this paper, we propose a novel treatment Of these aspects within our formal framework of cognitively plausible behaviour We develop an abstract, formal model of rational behaviour as a game between two opponents. Intuitively, an Angel abstractly represents the planning aspects, whereas a Demon represents the reactive aspects of user behaviour the formalisation is carried out within the MOCHA framework and is illustrated by simple examples of interactive tasks.
Service providers as we know them nowadays are the always-on "static" web service providers, that aim at Five9 availability (99.999%). Formal, or de-facto, standards, such as WSDL and BPEL, have become techn...
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(纸本)9780769533735
Service providers as we know them nowadays are the always-on "static" web service providers, that aim at Five9 availability (99.999%). Formal, or de-facto, standards, such as WSDL and BPEL, have become technology enablers for the easy discovery, use and coordination of such services. However, we envisage tomorrow's services to become increasingly pervasive, being deployed within buildings, transport systems, markets, as well as people portable devices. Such services will be, by their own nature, simple and fine grained, as a consequence, service composition will become crucial to deliver rich functionalities that satisfy end users requests. Composing services in mobile environments opens up significant challenges. In particular, the Five9 availability assumption no longer holds: the higher the dynamic nature of the environment, the higher the chances that services will move out-of-reach before the composition completes, causing the service as a whole to fail. We argue that, in order to enable the successful completion of compound services, the reliability of the composition must be measured and reasoned about. In order to do so, we propose to dynamically deploy a prediction model to estimate the duration of colocation between component services. these estimates are fed in input to a service composition semantics reasoner, which then autonomically selects those providers, within the current environment, that maximise the chances of successful compound service completion. We demonstrate the positive impact that the reliability reasoning has onto the ratio of successfully completed compound services in a typical human movement scenario.
Understanding the structure of large existing (and evolving) software systems is a major challenge for software engineers. In reverse engineering, we aim to compute, for a given software system, a decomposition of the...
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(纸本)9781605580791
Understanding the structure of large existing (and evolving) software systems is a major challenge for software engineers. In reverse engineering, we aim to compute, for a given software system, a decomposition of the system into its subsystems. CCVISU is a lightweight tool that takes as input a software graph model and computes a visual representation of the system's structure, i.e., it structures the system into separated groups of artifacts that are strongly related, and places them in a 2- or 3-dimensional space. Besides the decomposition into subsystems, it reveals the relatedness between the subsystems via interpretable distances. the tool reads a software graph from a simple text file in RSF format, e.g., call, inheritance, containment, or co-change graphs. the resulting system structure is currently either directly presented on the screen, or written to an output file in SVG, VRML, or plain text format. the tool is designed as a reusable software component, easy to use, and easy to integrate into other tools;it is based on efficient algorithms and supports several formats for data interchange.
In this paper, we propose a semi-supervised learning (SSL) algorithm based on local and global regularization. In the local regularization part, our algorithm constructs a regularized classifier for each data point us...
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In his 1917 "On Quantum theory of Radiation" paper Albert Einstein introduced the concept of amplification of radiation through stimulated emission with coherence. this concept had not been applied in practi...
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(纸本)9780819473790
In his 1917 "On Quantum theory of Radiation" paper Albert Einstein introduced the concept of amplification of radiation through stimulated emission with coherence. this concept had not been applied in practice until 1952 when Joseph Weber, followed by Townes, Basov and Prokhorov, developed the theory and started working on the construction of masers. the first maser was demonstrated by Townes' team in 1953. Many researchers began thinking about making an "optical maser", but the transition from centimeter to nanometer waves posed a problem. Well funded researchers in the USA and Soviet Union put their efforts into making an "optical maser". In May 16, 1960 an unknown and underfunded researcher, theodore Harold Maiman, won the race and demonstrated a fully functional ruby laser. the scientific world was astonished by its simplicity and elegance. Maiman's short paper describing the invention appeared immediately in Nature magazine. this invention caused an avalanche of new laser developments followed by the growing number of applications in almost all fields of our lives. Ted Maiman died in 2007 in Vancouver, just 13 days before the 47(th) anniversary of the invention of the laser. the intention of this paper is to focus on the life of the scientific maverick and great man.
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