Increasing productivity is considered one of the major driving factors for a successful business. From an Information Technology (IT) infrastructure perspective, obtaining an optimised performance of resources is expe...
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(纸本)1902316460
Increasing productivity is considered one of the major driving factors for a successful business. From an Information Technology (IT) infrastructure perspective, obtaining an optimised performance of resources is expected to improve productivity. From a technical viewpoint, the introduction of Quality of Service (QoS) models have been perceived to optimise the performance of the organisation network backbone. These models aim to provide an acceptable level of service assurance to the newly introduced applications and services such as voice and video. From a management viewpoint, the proper management of IT investments indirect costs can lead to a reduction of the overall cost portfolio. Consequently, both benefits and productivity increase are likely to be realised. This paper introduces network QoS strategy within the hierarchy of business infrastructure. In addition, it aims to identify the relationship between network QoS and IT indirect costs. Such integration demonstrates how network QoS strategy can be used to control IT indirect costs as well as enhancing network performance.
This paper presents a method for noisy speech enhancement based on integration of a formant-tracking linear prediction (FTLP) model of spectral envelope and a harmonic noise model (HNM) of the excitation of speech. Th...
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This paper presents a method for noisy speech enhancement based on integration of a formant-tracking linear prediction (FTLP) model of spectral envelope and a harmonic noise model (HNM) of the excitation of speech. The time-varying trajectories of the parameters of the LP and HNM models are tracked with Viterbi classifiers and smoothed with Kalman filters. A frequency domain pitch estimation is proposed, that searches for the peak SNRs at the harmonics. The LP-HNM model is used to deconstruct noisy speech, de-noise its LP and HNM models and then reconstitute cleaned speech. Experimental evaluations show the performance gains resulting from the formant tracking, harmonic extraction and noise reduction stages.
Liquid crystal thermography (LCT) is a common surface temperature measurement technique. Typically, the colour response is calibrated against temperature by building an analytical relation between the temperature and ...
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This paper proposes a strategy-oriented requirements engineering methodology that creates a best fit between the business strategy and the Web services capabilities that the organization provides to the outside world....
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ISBN:
(纸本)3922602266
This paper proposes a strategy-oriented requirements engineering methodology that creates a best fit between the business strategy and the Web services capabilities that the organization provides to the outside world. The methodology presented in the paper builds upon eBMO, e-Business modeling ontology by Pigneur and Osterwalder by applying Jackson's Progression of Problems. We apply Jackson's Progression of Problem in a unique way to describe business perspective on Web service value. We use problem domain modeling approach to describe Web services capabilities. Our approach is illustrated via an example of Amazon Web services. We found it possible to create a best fit between the strategic objectives to implementation.
IEEE 802.11 is worldwide implemented being the most widely deployed protocol for Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs). In a realistic environment, WLANs encounter channel fading which causes independent and burst tran...
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Delegates and friends, we are very pleased to extend to you the sincerest of welcomes to this, the 10th International Conference on Knowledge Based and Intelligent Information and engineering Systems at the Bournemout...
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ISBN:
(数字)9783540465362
ISBN:
(纸本)9783540465355
Delegates and friends, we are very pleased to extend to you the sincerest of welcomes to this, the 10th International Conference on Knowledge Based and Intelligent Information and engineering Systems at the Bournemouth International Centre in Bournemouth, UK, brought to you by KES International. This is a special KES conference, as it is the 10th in the series, and as such, it represents an occasion for celebration and an opportunity for reflection. The first KES conference was held in 1997 and was organised by the KES conference founder, Lakhmi Jain. In 1997, 1998 and 1999 the KES conferences were held in Adelaide, Australia. In 2000 the conference moved out of Australia to be held in Brighton, UK; in 2001 it was in Osaka, Japan; in 2002, Crema near Milan, Italy; in 2003, Oxford, UK; in 2004, Wellington, New Zealand; and in 2005, Melbourne, Australia. The next two conferences are planned to be in Italy and Croatia. Delegate numbers have grown from about 100 in 1997, to a regular figure in excess of 500. The conference attracts delegates from many different countries, in Europe, Australasia, the Pacific Rim, Asia and the Americas, and may truly be said to be ‘International’. Formed in 2001, KES International has developed into a worldwide organisation that provides a professional community for researchers in the discipline of knowledge-based and intelligent engineering and information systems, and through this, opportunities for publication, networking and interaction.
Delegates and friends, we are very pleased to extend to you the sincerest of welcomes to this, the 10th International Conference on Knowledge Based and Intelligent Information and engineering Systems at the Bournemout...
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ISBN:
(数字)9783540465447
ISBN:
(纸本)9783540465423
Delegates and friends, we are very pleased to extend to you the sincerest of welcomes to this, the 10th International Conference on Knowledge Based and Intelligent Information and engineering Systems at the Bournemouth International Centre in Bournemouth, UK, brought to you by KES International. This is a special KES conference, as it is the 10th in the series, and as such, it represents an occasion for celebration and an opportunity for reflection. The first KES conference was held in 1997 and was organised by the KES conference founder, Lakhmi Jain. In 1997, 1998 and 1999 the KES conferences were held in Adelaide, Australia. In 2000 the conference moved out of Australia to be held in Brighton, UK; in 2001 it was in Osaka, Japan; in 2002, Crema near Milan, Italy; in 2003, Oxford, UK; in 2004, Wellington, New Zealand; and in 2005, Melbourne, Australia. The next two conferences are planned to be in Italy and Croatia. Delegate numbers have grown from about 100 in 1997, to a regular figure in excess of 500. The conference attracts delegates from many different countries, in Europe, Australasia, the Pacific Rim, Asia and the Americas, and may truly be said to be ‘International’. Formed in 2001, KES International has developed into a worldwide organisation that provides a professional community for researchers in the discipline of knowledge-based and intelligent engineering and information systems, and through this, opportunities for publication, networking and interaction.
The research on distributed video coding (DVC) has been increasingly popular in recent times due to its promising features. Primarily it modifies the complexity balance between the encoder and decoder in the tradition...
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The research on distributed video coding (DVC) has been increasingly popular in recent times due to its promising features. Primarily it modifies the complexity balance between the encoder and decoder in the traditional video coding architecture. In this paper, we present a novel architecture for the DVC codec involving a pixel interleaver/de-interleaver stage. This modification enables the exploitation of the unequal distribution of motion levels on the frame to improve the perceptual video quality at the receiver. This modified codec architecture does not involve a reverse channel and hence is suitable for applications with unidirectional channels and also for video storage based applications. The simulation results show a PSNR gain of up to 12 dB compared to a DVC codec not involving pixel interleaver function
In this paper, we propose a novel concept for key frame encoding in distributed video codecs (DVC) without using any additional coding scheme. The proposed concept is an extension of Wyner-Ziv coding for key frame cod...
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In this paper, we propose a novel concept for key frame encoding in distributed video codecs (DVC) without using any additional coding scheme. The proposed concept is an extension of Wyner-Ziv coding for key frame coding. Since key frames are used in the prediction purposes, the quality of them is critical in the DVC codecs. Therefore we use a fine quantizer (high quality) to encode these key frames. Side information is generated as in the conventional DVC codecs for Wyner-Ziv frames and the decoder requests parity information from the encoder based on this side information until it decodes the complete frame with a predetermined picture quality. Simulation results show that, up to 8 dB PSNR gain can be obtained with the proposed algorithm over H.264 intra frame encoding at the same bit rate
Delegates and friends, we are very pleased to extend to you the sincerest of welcomes to this, the 10th International Conference on Knowledge Based and Intelligent Information and engineering Systems at the Bournemout...
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ISBN:
(数字)9783540465393
ISBN:
(纸本)9783540465379
Delegates and friends, we are very pleased to extend to you the sincerest of welcomes to this, the 10th International Conference on Knowledge Based and Intelligent Information and engineering Systems at the Bournemouth International Centre in Bournemouth, UK, brought to you by KES International. This is a special KES conference, as it is the 10th in the series, and as such, it represents an occasion for celebration and an opportunity for reflection. The first KES conference was held in 1997 and was organised by the KES conference founder, Lakhmi Jain. In 1997, 1998 and 1999 the KES conferences were held in Adelaide, Australia. In 2000 the conference moved out of Australia to be held in Brighton, UK; in 2001 it was in Osaka, Japan; in 2002, Crema near Milan, Italy; in 2003, Oxford, UK; in 2004, Wellington, New Zealand; and in 2005, Melbourne, Australia. The next two conferences are planned to be in Italy and Croatia. Delegate numbers have grown from about 100 in 1997, to a regular figure in excess of 500. The conference attracts delegates from many different countries, in Europe, Australasia, the Pacific Rim, Asia and the Americas, and may truly be said to be ‘International’. Formed in 2001, KES International has developed into a worldwide organisation that provides a professional community for researchers in the discipline of knowledge-based and intelligent engineering and information systems, and through this, opportunities for publication, networking and interaction.
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