Informal presentations are a lightweight means for fast and convenient communication of ideas. People communicate their ideas to others on paper and whiteboards, which afford fluid sketching of graphs, words and other...
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(纸本)1581136218
Informal presentations are a lightweight means for fast and convenient communication of ideas. People communicate their ideas to others on paper and whiteboards, which afford fluid sketching of graphs, words and other expressive symbols. Unlike existing authoring tools that are designed for formal presentations, we created SketchPoint to help presenters design informal presentations via freeform sketching. In SketchPoint, presenters can quickly author presentations by sketching slide content, overall hierarchical structures and hyperlinks. To facilitate the transition from idea capture to communication, a note-taking workspace was built for accumulating ideas and sketching presentation outlines. Informal feedback showed that SketchPoint is a promising tool for idea communication. Copyright 2003 ACM.
Decision making plays a more and more important role in present society, especially in dealing with open complex giant systems, such as macroeconomic decision making. A feasible and effective approach for dealing with...
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Decision making plays a more and more important role in present society, especially in dealing with open complex giant systems, such as macroeconomic decision making. A feasible and effective approach for dealing with the increasingly remarkable decision making problems, in particular open complex giant systems, is to construct a Hall for Workshop of Metasynthetic engineering (HWME), which is essentially an open giant intelligent decision support system in itself. On the other hand, the emergent agent technology is proposed and popularized as a new computing paradigm for building complex software systems. In this paper, we first briefly introduce the principle of metasynthetic engineering and the HWME in terms of decision support, and propose the network-based hierarchical model of an HWME. Furthermore, we discusse the design idea of agent-oriented metasynthetic engineering for decision support systems. We discuss the design scheme, the framework and the working mechanism of an HWME based on intelligent agents in Java which took the macroeconomic decision making as an instance. In addition, we further examine the fundamental problem of designing agent-oriented open giant intelligent decision support systems. The suitability and challenges of the present agent-oriented abstractions for open giant intelligent systems are further analyzed. Then, we propose the concept of societal abstraction for agent-oriented open giant intelligent systems, which is based on the following hypothesis: a unified mechanism — societal interactions, organizational schemes and component patterns, and multi-agent society. Our preliminary study reveals that the agent-oriented metasynthetic engineering is valid and powerful for decision making of open complex giant systems.
Change requests are often formulated into concepts or features that a maintainer can understand. One of the main issues faced by a maintainer is to know and locate "where does this program implement feature X&quo...
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Change requests are often formulated into concepts or features that a maintainer can understand. One of the main issues faced by a maintainer is to know and locate "where does this program implement feature X". However, these features are implicitly available in the code and scattered elsewhere that make them undoubtedly difficult to manage. A technique called software reconnaissance was originally inspired by industrial maintainers about the need for better ways of locating software features in large systems. We present the experience in using the software reconnaissance technique and tool called RECON2, developed by the university of West Florida. Our objective is to understand how the technique and tool work and to further suggest some enhancements with respect to software understanding strategies.
Visualizing the artifacts of a software system graphically has proven to improve the cognitive strategies and understanding of the subject system by programmers. This is more crucial when they need to maintain a softw...
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Visualizing the artifacts of a software system graphically has proven to improve the cognitive strategies and understanding of the subject system by programmers. This is more crucial when they need to maintain a software system with out-dated documentation or without system documentation at all. Many tools have emerged and they predominantly consist of a reverse engineering environment and a viewer to visualize software artifacts such as in the form of graphs. The tools also grant structural redocumentation of existing software system but they do not directly utilize document-like software visualization in their approaches. We propose DocLike modularized graph (DMG) method that represents the software architectures of a reverse engineered subject system graphically in a modularized and standardized document-like manner. To realize this method, we have built a prototype tool called DocLike Viewer that enables a user to redocument, visualize and comprehend a subject system written in C language that is parsed by an existing parser. From the experiment conducted we found that our method managed to statistically improve cognition of a subject system in terms of productivity and quality to solve certain types of maintenance tasks.
The scale of software on digital AV appliances that handle large-volume multichannel digital data has been increased by the GUIs (graphical user interfaces) loaded on them in recent years. In addition, the GUIs of AV ...
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This paper gives an overview of the work carried out during the course of the COST-266 action on circuit/wavelength switched network studies. Several subjects are discussed in detail in this paper. A first important t...
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This paper gives an overview of the work carried out during the course of the COST-266 action on circuit/wavelength switched network studies. Several subjects are discussed in detail in this paper. A first important topic deals with the different control plane models in single- and multidomain networks. A second important issue is the routing and wavelength assignment problem, both in networks with static and dynamic traffic demands. Also the IP-over-OTN network architecture, envisaged to be the network architecture most suited for future transport networks, is discussed. Finally the study on optical virtual private networks is presented.
This paper proposes a reconfigurable processing unit, which performs the MPEG-4 repetitive padding algorithm in real time. The padding unit has been implemented as a scalable systolic structure of processing elements....
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(纸本)1581134622
This paper proposes a reconfigurable processing unit, which performs the MPEG-4 repetitive padding algorithm in real time. The padding unit has been implemented as a scalable systolic structure of processing elements. A generic array of PE has been described in VHDL, and the functionality of the unit has been validated by simulations. In order to determine the chip area and speed of the padding structure, we have synthesized the structure for two FPGA families - Xilinx and Altera. The simulation results indicate that the proposed padding unit can operate in a wide frequency range, depending on the implemented configuration. It is shown that it can process from tens up to hundreds of thousands MPEG-4 macroblocks per second. This allows the real-time requirements of all MPEG-4 profiles and levels to be met efficiently at trivial hardware costs. Finally, the trade-off between chip-area and operating speed is discussed and possible configuration alternatives are proposed. Copyright 2002 ACM.
Selected mapping (SLM) generates a set of independent signals from an information sequence and transmits the signal with minimum peak-to-average power ratio (PAR). To recover data, the receiver is sent critical side i...
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Selected mapping (SLM) generates a set of independent signals from an information sequence and transmits the signal with minimum peak-to-average power ratio (PAR). To recover data, the receiver is sent critical side information (SI) about the generation process. In this paper, a novel blind detection algorithm is developed for coded orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) and SLM. The blind SLM algorithm performs well in both AWGN and fading channels in the presence of amplifier non-linearities.
A design of adaptive beamformer based on average speech spectrum for noisy speech recognition was presented. The automatic speech recognition (ASR) performance was improved with the average speech spectrum weight in n...
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A design of adaptive beamformer based on average speech spectrum for noisy speech recognition was presented. The automatic speech recognition (ASR) performance was improved with the average speech spectrum weight in noisy environments. The automatic estimation of the optimum admissible distortion for ASR in noisy environments was also elaborated.
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