This paper studies the synchronization of a finite number of Kuramoto oscillators in a frequency-dependent bidirectional tree network. We assume that the coupling strength of each link in each direction is equal to th...
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Sign language is a visually oriented, natural, nonverbal communication medium. Having shared similar linguistic properties with its respective spoken language, it consists of a set of gestures, postures and facial exp...
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Sign language is a visually oriented, natural, nonverbal communication medium. Having shared similar linguistic properties with its respective spoken language, it consists of a set of gestures, postures and facial expressions. Though, sign language is a mode of communication between deaf people, most other people do not know sign language interpretations. Therefore, it would be constructive if we can translate the sign postures artificially. In this paper, a capsule-based deep neural network sign posture translator for an American Sign Language (ASL) fingerspelling (posture), has been presented. The performance validation shows that the approach can successfully identify sign language, with accuracy like 99%. Unlike previous neural network approaches, which mainly used fine-tuning and transfer learning from pre-trained models, the developed capsule network architecture does not require a pre-trained model. The framework uses a capsule network with adaptive pooling which is the key to its high accuracy. The framework is not limited to sign language understanding, but it has scope for non-verbal communication in Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) also.
control and scheduling co-design becomes an issue when several controller tasks share the same execution platform and disrupt the ideal sampling and actuation patterns. In co-design the objective is to optimize the co...
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The paper addresses the problem of range-based cooperative underwater target localization. In its simplest form, target localization aims to estimate the position of a stationary or mobile target by using range measur...
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The main goal of the paper is to study the equilibria of a nonlinear system, proving the existence and uniqueness of an equilibrium point in the positive ortant. We also provide numerically tractable conditions (by us...
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There are already plenty of Internet of Things (IoT) architectures and systems available worldwide and this creates challenges for software development and systems entities that use these platforms. Global visibility ...
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Smart buildings viewed as cyber-physical systems are currently a growing research topic oriented towards collaborative groups of buildings. Since buildings consume significant amount of energy, research efforts have c...
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Smart buildings viewed as cyber-physical systems are currently a growing research topic oriented towards collaborative groups of buildings. Since buildings consume significant amount of energy, research efforts have concentrated to make them more efficient, in particular the Heating, Ventilation and Air-Conditioning (HVAC) systems that represent more than 40% of the buildings' energy budget. A key piece of information that facilitates the design of energy efficient HVAC systems, in particular in commercial buildings, is the knowledge of the real-time and predicted occupancy, which would allow an automaticcontrol process to balance the trade-off between energy use and quality of comfort. In practice however, occupancy counting devices are not being wide-spread deployed in the market, so in order to move forward, we believe it is important to estimate occupancy using existing sensors currently deployed in buildings. In this work, we propose to use a combination of sensor data currently available in buildings, such as CO 2 data and airflow, and develop a supervised learning framework that uses existing data to estimate occupancy. We developed two data-driven techniques based on Random Forest (RF) and KNN algorithms to estimate occupancy based on data collected from 4 rooms. Our results show an average RMSE occupancy error that varies from 3.10 to 11.21 for RF (depending on the room) and 2.96 to 8.46 for KNN, with best case results of 1.08 and 0.97 respectively. We believe that our framework can be integrated into existing Building Management Systems (BMS) control processes to improve energy efficiency in smart buildings.
Queuing theory has been extensively used in the modelling and performance analysis of cloud computing systems. The phenomenon of the task (or request) reneging, that is, the dropping of requests from the request queue...
Queuing theory has been extensively used in the modelling and performance analysis of cloud computing systems. The phenomenon of the task (or request) reneging, that is, the dropping of requests from the request queue often occur in cloud computing systems, and it is important to consider it when developing performance evaluations models for cloud computing infrastructures. Majority of studies in the performance evaluation of cloud computing data centres with the use of queuing theory do not consider the fact that the tasks could be removed from queue without being serviced. The removal of tasks from the queue could be due to the user impatience, execution deadline expiration, security reasons, or as an active queue management strategy. The reneging could be correlated in nature, that is, if a request is dropped (or reneged) at any time epoch, and then there is a probability that a request may or may not be dropped at the next time epoch. This kind of dropping (or reneging) of requests is referred to as correlated request reneging. In this paper we have modelled a cloud computing infrastructure with correlated request reneging using queuing theory. An M/M/1/N queuing model with correlated reneging has been used to study the performance analysis of the load balancing server of a cloud computing system. The steady-state as well as the transient performance analyses have been carried out. Important measures of performance like average queue size, average delay, probability of task blocking, and the probability of no waiting in the queue are studied. Finally, some comparisons are performed which describe the effect of correlated task reneging over simple exponential reneging.
Behavior evaluation of tumor and normal cell lines, under the influence of mixture between cytostatic and immunomodulatory compounds represents a challenge in oncologic research, because it is expected that in the pre...
Behavior evaluation of tumor and normal cell lines, under the influence of mixture between cytostatic and immunomodulatory compounds represents a challenge in oncologic research, because it is expected that in the presence of immunomodulatory compound, the normal cells will be less affected and the tumor cells will be destroyed much more. The aim of this paper is to predict the behavior of tumor cell line (FaDu) and normal cell line (HUVEC) under the influence of cytostatic compound named Cisplatin (CisPt) and under the influence of immunomodulatory compound named Curcumin (CR), in order to obtain an optimal mixing ratio between these two compounds. Based on the results obtained in Lab regarding the response of the two cell lines evolution vs. the treatment with each reagent in the concentration range of (0-100μM/mL), it was tried to model the behavior of the system in presence of these two compounds, using a fuzzy prediction. The obtained results were compared with predictions resulted from fuzzy simulation. Analyzing the numeric values, the best results were obtained in the case of prediction regarding HUVEC behavior with a fuzzy simulation.
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