SSL is one of the most popular protocols used on the Internet for secure communications. However SSL protocol has several problems. First, SSL protocol brings considerable burden to the CPU utilization so that perform...
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In avionics and automotive applications of computing, special care must be taken of issues related to safety. Assurance must be provided that computer hardware or software does not contribute to situations, which may ...
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In avionics and automotive applications of computing, special care must be taken of issues related to safety. Assurance must be provided that computer hardware or software does not contribute to situations, which may cause loss of life or significant property damage. One aspect of this concern is the design of databuses, which provide a medium to exchange information among various electronics devices in a vehicle. Unfortunately, only a few aspects of bus design have been sufficiently covered in the research studying system safety. This paper reviews and compares available information on bus specifications. Databuses are discussed regarding their properties, such as signal characteristics and bus protocols, with respect to safety.
Signal strength estimation for indoor wireless communications has attracted much attention lately due to its many applications in mobile networking including coverage analysis, localization, fast hand-off, and securit...
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Signal strength estimation for indoor wireless communications has attracted much attention lately due to its many applications in mobile networking including coverage analysis, localization, fast hand-off, and security audits. However, it is challenging due to the complexities of the indoor radio propagation characteristics exacerbated by users' mobility. Therefore, a common practice of the indoor wireless research is to manually construct a radio signal strength table mapping signal strength with known locations inside a building. Obviously, this is a tedious and time consuming task; also, the resulting signal strength table does not describe the dynamic property of the indoor radio propagation. The table is static. Thus the credibility of any further application is heavily affected. This paper proposes a novel and automated signal strength estimation method for the indoor wireless research. The method requires only a single signal strength measurement as reference, and the estimated signal strength table is comparable to the actual measurements in real time. With 6 days of continuous measurements and simulations, the results show that the proposed method dynamically estimates the signal strength for the deployed building, and the results achieve average estimation accuracy to within 3% of maximum signal strength. With the dynamic method, the paper shows how the signal strength could be gracefully applied to special tasks such as coverage analysis, and localization.
The separation between analysis and design phases has long been advocated in softwareengineering literature. There has been active interest in the area of agent oriented softwareengineering but the methodologies dev...
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The separation between analysis and design phases has long been advocated in softwareengineering literature. There has been active interest in the area of agent oriented softwareengineering but the methodologies developed do not focus on a clear separation between the two phases. Furthermore, existing agent oriented methodologies tend to be tied to a particular design architecture and applicable only for small systems. In this paper, we describe a goal and role based analysis methodology that is both unbiased towards any design architecture and is scalable. The model is derived from improvements to the ROADMAP methodology for agent oriented systems developed at the University of Melbourne. We also present REBEL - CASE tool developed to support the methodology. Furthermore, several examples and experiences with the method are discussed. We conclude by comparing analysis models of other agent oriented methodologies to ours.
This paper introduces an orthogonal evolutionary algorithm for dynamic optimization problems with continuous variables (called ODEA). Its population does not consist of individuals, but rather of "niches". E...
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This paper introduces an orthogonal evolutionary algorithm for dynamic optimization problems with continuous variables (called ODEA). Its population does not consist of individuals, but rather of "niches". Each niche selects the best solution found so far as its representative. An orthogonal design method is employed to find a potentially good solution that may become the representative of the niche in the mutation operator. We employ a complex benchmark to test the new approach. Numerical experiments show that the ODEA algorithm performs a lot better than the SOS (self organizing scouts) algorithm in Branke, Kaufler, Schmidt and Schmeck, (2000).
An efficient rotation invariant feature extraction technique for texture classification based on Gabor multi-channel filtering is proposed. In this technique, Gabor function is approximated by a set of steerable basis...
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This research proposes to modernize a legacy software system by using web services as the main building blocks of the software reengineering. For this purpose, a legacy theorem proof checking and derivation tool calle...
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(纸本)0769524095
This research proposes to modernize a legacy software system by using web services as the main building blocks of the software reengineering. For this purpose, a legacy theorem proof checking and derivation tool called Bertie3 is reengineered in terms of service-oriented architecture, service-oriented componentization, and external data representation and serialization. With the web services of derivation checking engines and first-order markup languages, a minimal amount of development time can be spent working on well-known and well-developed components. More time can be spent updating the features that make the tool unique. This case study shows that modernizing a software system with web services will allow the business components of the system to be easily expanded and integrated with other application components for future demands.
In this paper, we propose a partially lexicalized parsing model utilizing rich features to improve the parsing ability and reduce the parsing cost. In order to disambiguate parse trees effectively, it employs several ...
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In this paper, we propose a partially lexicalized parsing model utilizing rich features to improve the parsing ability and reduce the parsing cost. In order to disambiguate parse trees effectively, it employs several useful features such as a syntactic label feature, a content feature, a functional feature, and a size feature. Besides, it is partially lexicalized so as to reduce the parsing cost closely connected with lexical information. Moreover, it is designed to be suitable for representing word order variation and constituent ellipsis in Korean sentences. Experimental results show that the proposed parsing model using more features performs better although it less depends on lexical information.
This paper looks into how integrating on-line purchasing with inventory management system for distributed retail chain stores can automate and aid the process of decision-making in relation to on-line product sales an...
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(纸本)1581139306
This paper looks into how integrating on-line purchasing with inventory management system for distributed retail chain stores can automate and aid the process of decision-making in relation to on-line product sales and distribution. It extends the work done in [1], to include not only on-demand and automatic communication between the retail chain store's head office and point-of-sale (POS) outlets, but also to include on-line purchasing capabilities for home users. The application uses distributed databases to store information relevant to customers, products and product transactions at different geographical locations. The system is designed to facilitate the management process between the head office and the POS outlets: it aids top-level management to make the right business decisions in terms of the right products being distributed at the right location and at the right time, and also products ordered by home users to be sent by the right POS outlet, and it aids low-level employees to manage the daily business transactions of each POS outlet efficiently. Copyright 2004 ACM.
Changes in requirements may have a severe impact on development processes. For example, if requirements change during the course of a software development activity, it may be necessary to reschedule development activi...
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Changes in requirements may have a severe impact on development processes. For example, if requirements change during the course of a software development activity, it may be necessary to reschedule development activities so that the new requirements can be addressed in a timely manner. Unfortunately, current software development methods do not provide explicit means to adapt development processes with respect to changes in requirements. The paper proposes a method based on Markov decision theory, which determines the estimated optimal development schedule with respect to probabilistic product demands and resource constraints. This method is supported by a tool and applied to an industrial case.
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