Little-JIL, a language for programming coordination in processes is an executable, high-level language with a formal (yet graphical) syntax and rigorously defined operational semantics. The central abstraction in Litt...
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Little-JIL, a language for programming coordination in processes is an executable, high-level language with a formal (yet graphical) syntax and rigorously defined operational semantics. The central abstraction in Little-JIL is the step, which is the focal point for coordination, providing a scoping mechanism for control, data and exception flow and for agent and resource assignment. Steps are organized into a static hierarchy, but can have a highly dynamic execution structure including the possibility of recursion and concurrency. Little-JIL is based on two main hypotheses. The first is that coordination structure is separable from other process language issues. Little-JIL provides rich control structures while relying on separate systems for resource, artifact and agenda management. The second hypothesis is that processes are executed by agents that know how to perform their tasks but benefit from coordination support. Accordingly, each Little-JIL step has an execution agent (human or automated) that is responsible for performing the work of the step. This approach has proven effective in supporting the clear and concise expression of agent coordination for a wide variety of software, workflow and other processes.
Partial order optimization techniques for distributed systems improve the performance of finite state verification approaches by avoiding redundant exploration of some portions of the state space. Previously, such tec...
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Information about which statements in a concurrent program may happen in parallel (MHP) has a number of important applications. It can be used in program optimization, debugging, program understanding tools, improving...
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The Neocognitron, inspired by the mammalian visual system, is a complex neural network with numerous parameters and weights which should be trained in order to utilise it for pattern recognition. However, it is not ea...
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The evaluation of parallel job schedulers hinges on the workloads used. It is suggested that this be standardized, in terms of both format and content, so as to ease the evaluation and comparison of different systems....
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Partial order optimization techniques for distributed systems improve the performance of finite state verification approaches by avoiding redundant exploration of some portions of the state space. Previously, such tec...
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(纸本)9781581131376
Partial order optimization techniques for distributed systems improve the performance of finite state verification approaches by avoiding redundant exploration of some portions of the state space. Previously, such techniques have been applied in the context of model checking approaches. In this paper we propose a partial order optimization of the program model used by FLAVERS, a data flow based finite state verification approach for checking user-specified properties of distributed software. We demonstrate experimentally that this optimization often leads to significant reductions in the run time of the analysis algorithm of FLAVERS. On average, for those cases where this optimization could be applied, we observed a speedup of 21%. For one of the cases, the optimization resulted in an analysis speedup of 91%.
When a discrete nonlinear array is driven across a periodic surface spatially coherent modes of motion can coexist associated with different average velocities due to resonant parametric forcing of the particle fluctu...
When a discrete nonlinear array is driven across a periodic surface spatially coherent modes of motion can coexist associated with different average velocities due to resonant parametric forcing of the particle fluctuations by the center of mass motion. Depending on the coupling strength κ and size of the array N, jumps in the minimum friction (maximum velocity) exhibited by the array occur at κm(N)∼(N/m)2 as new modes stabilize and are selected by the dynamics. The existence of such coherent modes allows both an effective low dimensional description of the dynamics to exist and the possibility for control of friction close to these instabilities.
Popular methods for extracting a text region in video images are in general based on analysis of a whole image such as merge and split method, and comparison of two frames. Thus, they take long computing time due to t...
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(纸本)0780354060
Popular methods for extracting a text region in video images are in general based on analysis of a whole image such as merge and split method, and comparison of two frames. Thus, they take long computing time due to the use of a whole image. Therefore, this paper suggests the faster method of extracting a text region without processing a whole image. The proposed method uses line sampling methods, FFT and neural networks in order to extract texts in real time. In general, text areas are found in the higher frequency domain, thus, can be characterized using FFT. The candidate text areas can be thus found by applying the higher frequency characteristics to neural network. Therefore, the final text area is extracted by verifying the candidate areas. Experimental results show a perfect candidate extraction rate and about 92% text extraction rate. The strength of the proposed algorithm is its simplicity, real-time processing by not processing the entire image, and fast skipping of the images that do not contain a text.
Conventional caption extraction approaches often use a spatial variance method or a color reduction method such as color histogram and color quantization. These methods are time-consuming and restrict the colors for e...
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Conventional caption extraction approaches often use a spatial variance method or a color reduction method such as color histogram and color quantization. These methods are time-consuming and restrict the colors for extracting captions. In this paper we propose a method that extracts caption areas using TFs (topographical features) and isodata color clustering. After extracting TFs points using the topographical characteristics of characters, the isodata clustering method is used to cluster the similar colors. The point-line-region method is used to construct the blocks for each of the clustered groups. Constructed blocks are verified and candidate areas are decided. Caption regions are determined by testing several conditions and verifying those candidate areas. Experimental results show that the candidate region extraction rate is 100%, and the character region extraction rate is 98%.
Traditional character extraction methods use split-and-merge or color segmentation methods from the whole image. These methods do not reflect characteristics of characters such that character regions can be extracted ...
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(纸本)0780354060
Traditional character extraction methods use split-and-merge or color segmentation methods from the whole image. These methods do not reflect characteristics of characters such that character regions can be extracted incorrectly. In this paper, we use topographical features of characters to extract the character points and use the density of those points to extract the candidate regions for captions. Character regions are determined by testing several conditions and verifying those candidate regions. Experimental results show that the candidate region extraction rate is 100%, and the character region extraction rate is 99%. Non-character regions can exist within the extracted character regions which are removed using the Isodata color clustering method.
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