The rapid development of deep learning technology allows ordinary people to create artwork that imitates the style of paintings by famous masters through an algorithm. To create such works with artistic style, this re...
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A major trend in recent cluster communication systems is to circumvent the operating system during the actual data transfers. That, on the one hand, reduces latency since there is no user-kernel transition needed and,...
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Nowadays, most computers that are commercially available off-the-shelf (COTS) include hardware features that increase the performance of parallel general-purpose threads (hyper threading, multicore, ccNUMA architectur...
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This paper compares some mntationoperators containing expert knowledge about the problem of optimizing the parameters of a Radial Basis Function Neural Network. It is shown that the expert kno wledge is not always abl...
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Uncertainty handling is a major issue for the control of real-world systems. Traditional singleton type-1 Fuzzy Logic Controllers (FLCs) with crisp inputs and precise fuzzy sets cannot fully cope with the high levels ...
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Uncertainty handling is a major issue for the control of real-world systems. Traditional singleton type-1 Fuzzy Logic Controllers (FLCs) with crisp inputs and precise fuzzy sets cannot fully cope with the high levels of uncertainties present in real world environments (e.g. sensor noise, environmental impacts, etc.). While non-singleton type-1 fuzzy systems can provide an additional degree of freedom through non-singleton fuzzification of the inputs, it is unclear how this capability relates to singleton type-1 and specifically interval type-2 FLCs in terms of control performance (also because the application of non-singleton type-1 FLCs is quite rare in the literature). In recent years interval type-2 FLCs employing type-2 fuzzy sets with a Footprint of Uncertainty (FOU) have become increasingly popular. This FOU provides an additional degree of freedom that can enable type-2 FLCs to handle the uncertainties associated with the inputs and the outputs of the FLCs. One of the main criticisms of singleton type-2 FLCs is that they outperform (the usually singleton-) type-1 FLCs because they - respectively their type-2 fuzzy sets, employ extra parameters, thus making improved performance an obvious result. In order to address this criticism, we have implemented a non-singleton type-1 FLC which allows a more direct comparison between the non-singleton type-1 FLC and singleton interval type-2 FLC as the number of parameters for both controllers is very similar. The paper details the implementation details of the FLCs for the application of a nonlinear servo system and provides the experimental simulation results which were performed to study the effect of increasing levels of uncertainty (in the form of input noise) and the capability of the individual FLCs to cope with them. We conclude by providing our interpretation of the results and highlighting the essential differences in the uncertainty handling between the (non-) singleton type-1 and singleton interval type-2 FLC
Emerging byte-addressable non-volatile memory technologies, such as phase change memory (PCM) and spin- transfer torque RAM (STT-RAM), offer both the byte-addressability of memory and the durability of storage, th...
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Emerging byte-addressable non-volatile memory technologies, such as phase change memory (PCM) and spin- transfer torque RAM (STT-RAM), offer both the byte-addressability of memory and the durability of storage, thus making it feasible to build single-level store systems. To ensure the consistency of persistent data structures in the presence of power failures or system crashes, it requires flushing cache lines to persistent memory frequently, thus incurring non-trivial synchronization overhead. To mitigate this issue, we propose two techniques. First, we use non-volatile STT-RAM as scratchpad memory on chip to store recovery information, thereby eliminating synchronization cost in the logging phase due to the avoidance of off-chip logging operations. Second, we present an adaptive synchronization policy based on caching modes in terms of data access patterns, thereby eliminating unnecessary synchronization cost in the checkpoint phase. Evaluation results indicate that the two techniques improve the overall performance from 2.15x to 2.39x compared with conventional transactional persistent memory.
Angle rigid multi-agent formations can simultaneously undergo translational,rotational,and scaling maneuvering,therefore combining the maneuvering capabilities of both distance and bearing rigid ***,maneuvering angle ...
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Angle rigid multi-agent formations can simultaneously undergo translational,rotational,and scaling maneuvering,therefore combining the maneuvering capabilities of both distance and bearing rigid ***,maneuvering angle rigid formations in 2D or 3D with global convergence guarantees is shown to be a challenging problem in the existing literature even when relative position measurements are *** by angle-induced linear equations in 2D triangles and 3D tetrahedra,this paper aims to solve this challenging problem in both 2D and3D under a leader-follower *** the 2D case where the leaders have constant velocities,by using local relative position and velocity measurements,a formation maneuvering law is designed for the followers governed by double-integrator *** the leaders have time-varying velocities,a sliding mode formation maneuvering law is proposed by using the same *** the 3D case,to establish an angle-induced linear equation for each tetrahedron,we assume that all the followers'coordinate frames share a common Z ***,a formation maneuvering law is proposed for the followers to globally maneuver Z-weakly angle rigid formations in *** extension to Lagrangian agent dynamics and the construction of the desired rigid formations by using the minimum number of angle constraints are also *** examples are provided to validate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithms.
In this paper, a Fuzzy Dominant Texture Descriptor is proposed for semantically describing an image. This fuzzy descriptor is defined over a set of fuzzy sets modelling the "coarseness" texture property. Con...
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Current popular systems, Hadoop and Spark, cannot achieve satisfied performance because of the inefficient overlapping of computation and communication when running iterative big data applications. The pipeline of com...
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Current popular systems, Hadoop and Spark, cannot achieve satisfied performance because of the inefficient overlapping of computation and communication when running iterative big data applications. The pipeline of computing, data movement, and data management plays a key role for current distributed data computing systems. In this paper, we first analyze the overhead of shuffle operation in Hadoop and Spark when running PageRank workload, and then propose an event-driven pipeline and in-memory shuffle design with better overlapping of computation and communication as DataMPI- Iteration, an MPI-based library, for iterative big data computing. Our performance evaluation shows DataMPI-Iteration can achieve 9X-21X speedup over Apache Hadoop, and 2X-3X speedup over Apache Spark for PageRank and K-means.
The analysis of the perceptual properties of texture plays a fundamental role in tasks like semantic description of images or content-based image retrieval using linguistic queries. In this paper, we propose to model ...
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