This paper proposes a Topic-Level Opinion Influence Model (TOIM) that simultaneously incorporates topic factor, user opinions and social influence in a unified probabilistic model with two stages learning processes. I...
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In breast thermography diagnostic, proper detection and segmentation of the areola area as well as detection of breast boundaries present the biggest challenge. As the boundaries of breasts especially in the upper qua...
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(纸本)9781467316644
In breast thermography diagnostic, proper detection and segmentation of the areola area as well as detection of breast boundaries present the biggest challenge. As the boundaries of breasts especially in the upper quadrants are usually not present, this produces a great deal of challenge to segment breasts automatically. Many approaches have been developed to segment the breast in the past such as Snakes, Active Contours and Circular Hough Transforms, but these methods fail to detect the boundaries of the breast with the required level of accuracy especially the upper boundaries of the breast. By utilizing most recent segmentation method which is Random Walkers, the breast can be segmented accurately which in turn will increase the accuracy and the reliability of computer aided detection/diagnosis systems.
NS-2 (Network Simulator) is one of the most popular discrete event simulators used for network simulation. Trace files produced by NS-2 provide very useful information for post simulation analysis. This paper presents...
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(纸本)9789898565235
NS-2 (Network Simulator) is one of the most popular discrete event simulators used for network simulation. Trace files produced by NS-2 provide very useful information for post simulation analysis. This paper presents the architecture and development considerations for a TRAce FILe analysis tool, which intends to simplify the management of trace files generated during network simulations. The tool is focused on NS-2 trace files, but can be extended to handle a variety of simulation trace files formats. Its purpose is to make the execution of a large number of network simulations faster, and the extraction of results from a large amount of data more flexible and productive. TRAFIL introduces a novel way of interpreting, parsing, reading and eventually utilizing NS-2 trace files by using "metafiles" and "sub-metafiles" during the trace file recognition and process procedures, making the overall operations more abstract, substantially efficient and faster than alternative approaches. Furthermore, TRAFIL facilitates the whole trace file analysis task, offering the opportunity to store each trace file as well as every measurement produced for each trace file. The tool aims to aid the analysis of simulation results offering features that other tools in this area have been missing.
In Cognitive Radio (CR) Networks, the licensed but vacant spectrum bands are shared by the unlicensed users (CR users) in an opportunistic manner. The CR users should operate and cohabit in the licensed bands without ...
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(纸本)9781467309202
In Cognitive Radio (CR) Networks, the licensed but vacant spectrum bands are shared by the unlicensed users (CR users) in an opportunistic manner. The CR users should operate and cohabit in the licensed bands without causing any interference to the Primary Users (PUs). This CR user cohabitation which is managed by a spectrum Coordinator, enables several design challenges. Therefore, A User Cohabitation Coordinator, UCC, should be designed considering the heterogeneous Quality of Service (QoS) requirements for the CR users and the short-term fluctuations in the available licensed spectrum bands. Moreover, the spectrum coordination among the CR network operators for CR users should also be considered by the UCC for an effective and fair spectrum sharing. Considering these challenges, the main contribution of this paper is to design a QoS-based spectrum coordinator for CR user cohabitation in order to achieve high throughput and fairness. The proposed UCC uses the first-difference filter clustering and correlation based PU modeling to integrate the fluctuations of the PU activities into the spectrum sharing. The UCC characterizes the QoS requirements of CR users by adopting queuing theoretic models. The proposed scheme enables the cohabitation of the CR operators dynamically. The evaluations demonstrate that the proposed UCC provides high throughput while maintaining the fairness in the CR networks.
Motion segmentation for articulated objects is an important topic of research. Yet such a segmentation should be as free as possible from underlying assumptions so as to fit general scenes and objects. In this paper w...
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This paper concerns the domain of the multimodal transportation systems composed of buses, trains, trams and subways lines and focuses on the scheduling problems encountered in these systems. Transportation Network In...
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This paper concerns the domain of the multimodal transportation systems composed of buses, trains, trams and subways lines and focuses on the scheduling problems encountered in these systems. Transportation Network Infrastructure (TNI) can be modeled as a network of lines providing cyclic routes for particular kinds of stream-like moving transportation means. Lines are connected by common shared change stations. Depending on TNI timetabling the time of the trip of passengers following different itineraries may dramatically differ, e.g. the same distances along the north-south, and east-west directions may require different travel time. So, the mine question regards of TNI schedulability, e.g. the guarantee the same distances in arbitrarily assumed directions will require approximate traveled time. Considered timetabling problem belongs to NP-hard ones. The declarative model of TNI enabling to formulate cyclic scheduling problem in terms of the constraint satisfaction one is our main contribution. At last, the simulated results manifest the promising properties of the proposed model.
This paper presents human-robot communication for a monitoring support system in an Intelligent Space. An Intelligent Space (iSpace) is a space in which many intelligent devices are installed to observe the user's...
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This paper presents human-robot communication for a monitoring support system in an Intelligent Space. An Intelligent Space (iSpace) is a space in which many intelligent devices are installed to observe the user's environment. In this paper, we apply the iSpace observation function to a monitoring system used for maintaining the safety of elderly persons receiving home-care support. In addition, we use a mobile robot as a tool to deliver monitoring results to care assistants. We focus on an ethological approach for designing robot behaviors for human-robot communication. The implementation of these robot behaviors based on an ethological approach, and the results of an experiment conducted to evaluate these behaviors, are then presented.
Building a comprehensive medical image database, in the spirit of the UMLS, can be beneficial for assisting diagnosis, patient education and self-care. However, a highly curated, comprehensive image database is diffic...
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We develop the first bisimulation-based method of concept learning, called BBCL, for knowledge bases in description logics (DLs). Our method is formulated for a large class of useful DLs, with well-known DLs like ALC,...
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The work [1] by Nguyen and Szalas is a pioneering one that uses bisimulation for machine learning in the context of description logics. In this paper we generalize and extend their concept learning method [1] for desc...
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