Generative systems are becoming a crucial part of current design practice. There exist gaps however, between the digital processes, field data and designer's input. To solve this problem, multiple processes were d...
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This work presents an optimized exponential function VLSI hardware design by Taylor series expansion. The proposed architecture implements the exponential by approximating the logic design of a 4 th -order Taylor seri...
This work presents an optimized exponential function VLSI hardware design by Taylor series expansion. The proposed architecture implements the exponential by approximating the logic design of a 4 th -order Taylor series and explores efficient CMOS arithmetic operation strategies. It implements a shift-based divider and explores an efficient 4-2 adder compressor in the adder tree. The proposal with a −7 to 11 input values range shows an output error of around 2% of MRED with a reduced energy consumption of 3.63 pJ/operation for 32-bit output. For a 64-bit output, the energy per operation of the VLSI exponential unit is 14.97pJ/op, being able to process a more comprehensive input range (i.e., −14 to 22) for a negligible mean output error of around 1.7% of MRED.
Communication is a cornerstone any social enterprise where knowledge is created and collectively cultivated, like it happens in science and culture. It is also the backbone of social systems or organisations that cura...
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The use of fragment insertion in the protein structure prediction problem can be considered one of the most successful strategies to add problem-dependent information. The well known Rosetta suite provides two protoco...
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Many countries have transparency laws requiring availability of data. However, often data is available but not transparent. We present the Transparency Portal of Brazilian Federal Government case and discuss limitatio...
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Exploring massive parallelism is a common strategy to mitigate the processing time of modern video encoding standards. Nonetheless, the existing data dependencies in some encoding tools pose difficult challenges to ex...
Exploring massive parallelism is a common strategy to mitigate the processing time of modern video encoding standards. Nonetheless, the existing data dependencies in some encoding tools pose difficult challenges to exploit such parallelism, especially during intra prediction, where the reconstructed adjacent blocks are used as references. Although some works made use of different reference samples to allow block-level parallelism in intra prediction, their proposals do not consider the variations caused by different bitrates, leading to some degradation in the output sequence. To deal with multiple bitrates more properly, this work proposes the application of image smoothing techniques to generate alternative reference samples that better represent the nuances of different bitrates. Experimental validations demonstrate that these improved references provide coding efficiency gains while still offering an equivalent parallelization opportunity.
Misconceptions play a significant role in the learning process as they reflect an inaccurate understanding of a particular concept. Error diagnosis can help teachers and intelligent learning environments determine the...
Misconceptions play a significant role in the learning process as they reflect an inaccurate understanding of a particular concept. Error diagnosis can help teachers and intelligent learning environments determine the most appropriate type of student assistance. Previously, misconceptions were identified using rule-based expert systems (bug libraries) and clustering algorithms. Bug libraries demand extensive work from developers to identify all potential misconceptions and code rules for each one in advance. Additionally, these solutions cannot detect misconceptions for which rules were not explicitly programmed. Clustering-based solutions overcome these drawbacks by automatically identifying misconceptions based on students' most common errors. To effectively and efficiently identify misconceptions, clustering solutions must have a suitable representation of the problem and its steps, and employ machine learning algorithms capable of discerning patterns from them. This paper proposes a solution that utilizes expression trees to represent algebraic problem-solving steps and the Density-Based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise (DBSCAN) algorithm to identify misconceptions by clustering similar errors in a database containing 1064 steps from 112 students. This database was collected from an intelligent learning system designed to assist in solving first-degree equations. In our final solution, a Natural Language Processing tokenizer was employed to represent each term numerically, which identified 178 homogeneous clusters with minimal noise and few outliers.
Aedes aegypti is the dengue fever vector, affecting 3.9 billion people worldwide. Found primarily in subtropical areas such as the Philippines. Numerous approaches and procedures had used to identify this disease carr...
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In this paper, we first show that current learning-based video codecs, specifically the SSF codec, are not suitable for real-world applications due to the mismatch between the encoder and decoder caused by floating-po...
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Nowadays, one of the challenges of communications systems is to enhance spectrum utilization and data rate without robustness loses. This situation is more perceptive in digital television applications, since there is...
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