Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Communicating your artistic vision

An art bible is a way of defining how the game being produced should look, but how do you make sure that that artistic vision is clear enough that the team can work as efficiently as possible? How do you best communicate the vision to your team? This thesis discusses the art bible and what can be done to define the contents of it in a way that helps the team get a good grasp of the intended style and feel for the game being made. It also takes a look at how the communication between the artists is conducted. The paper attempts to answer the questions at hand in three ways; by analyzing literature, conducting interviews with people in the games industry and looking at what artists want to see in the art bible. The findings were then applied when creating a template for an art bible.
An execution time prediction analytical model for GPU with instruction-level and thread-level parallelism awareness

Even with a powerful hardware in parallel execution, it is still difficult to improve the application performance without realizing the performance bottlenecks of parallel programs on GPU architectures. To help programmers have a better insight into the performance bottlenecks of parallel applications on GPU architectures, we propose an analytical model that estimates the execution time of massively parallel programs which take the instruction-level and thread-level parallelism into consideration. Our model contains two components: memory sub-model and computation sub-model. The memory sub-model is estimating the cost of memory instructions by considering the number of active threads and GPU memory bandwidth. Correspondingly, the computation sub-model is estimating the cost of computation instructions by considering the number of active threads and the application’s arithmetic intensity. We use ocelot1) to analysis PTX codes to obtain several input parameters for the two sub-models such as the memory transaction number and data size. Basing on the two submodels, the analytical model can estimates the cost of each instruction while considering instruction-level and thread-level parallelism, thereby estimating the overall execution time of an application. We compare the outcome from the model and the actual execution in GTX260; and the results show that the model can reach 90 percentage accuracy in average for the benchmarks we used.
Un DU d'analyste Big Data en formation continue courte, au niveau L3

Nous presentons le diplome d’universite (DU) Analyste Big Data, delivre depuis cette annee par le departement STID de l’IUT de l’universite Paris Descartes. D’un volume global de 150h, reserve aux apprenants en formation continue courte, au niveau L3, il constitue une voie de diplomation originale dans ce domaine emergent. Constitue de 5 modules, le DU est articule autour de deux modules plutot dedies aux methodes informatiques, deux plutot statistiques qui font la part belle aux donnees de type « open data » et a la fouille des reseaux sociaux, et un dernier module dedie aux enjeux cruciaux concernant la qualite et la confidentialite des donnees. Il s’agit d’orienter fortement vers la mise en œuvre des outils lies a ce sujet emergent. Ainsi plus d’une moitie des inter-venants sont issus du monde economique et industriel, en collaboration avec une equipe academique melangeant statisticiens et informaticiens. Mots-cles : Big Data, formation continue, licence. A diploma of university (DU) "Big Data Analyst" in lifelong training, at level L3 We present the diploma of university (DU) "Big Data Analyst", starting this year and delivered by the STID department of IUT Paris Descartes. This 150-class-hour diploma is available for learners in lifelong training with at least an undergraduate level (L3 in France). It introduces an innovative way to certify es-sential skills in the emergent domain of Big Data. The diploma contains 5 modules. It is organized in two modules dedicated to computing methods, two models focused on statistical techniques, which give a good place to open data and social network analysis, and one module concerns with the crucial stakes of data quality and privacy. Another originality of this diploma is the strong incorporation of implementa-tion tools, such that at least half of the teachers come from industry. Keywords: Big Data, lifelong training, bachelor.
The editor report

The present report documents the research activities undertaken in Task 3.1 of the COMIC project. The objective of the three years of research of Strand 3 is to develop a conceptual foundation for designing computational mechanisms of interaction for CSCW applications that can support the complex task of articulating distributed cooperative activities. The present deliverable presents analyses of a number of realworld mechanisms of interaction. In doing that, the deliverable focuses on the features of these mechanisms that enable them to provide efficient and flexible support of coordination of distributed activities and the way these mechanisms are managed cooperatively. On the other hand, based on these and other studies, the deliverable presents and discusses a conceptual framework for analysis of mechanisms of interaction and derives a set of requirements for a notation for constructing computational mechanisms of interaction Document ID COMIC-D3.2 Status Final Type Deliverable Version 1.4 Date September, 1994 Editors K. Schmidt (Risø) Task 3.1 © The COMIC Project, Esprit Basic Research Action 6225 Project coordinator: Tom Rodden Computing Department University of Lancaster Lancaster LA1 4YR United Kingdom Phone: (+44) 1524 593 823 Fax: (+44) 1524 593 608 Email: tom@comp.lancs.ac.uk The COMIC project comprises the following institutions: Gesellschaft für Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung (GMD), Bonn, Germany Risø National Laboratory, Roskilde, Denmark Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden Swedish Institute for Computer Science (SICS), Stockholm, Sweden Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands University of Lancaster, Lancaster, United Kingdom (Coordinating Partner) University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom University of Milano, Milano, Italy University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland Editor of this report: Kjeld Schmidt Cognitive Systems Group Risoe National Laboratory P.O. Box 49 DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark Phone: (+45) 4677 5146 Fax: (+45) 4675 5170 Email: kschmidt@risoe.dk ISBN 0 901800 55 4 Lancaster University, 1994 This report is available via anonymous FTP from ftp.comp.lancs.ac.uk. Further information on COMIC is available from http://www.lancs.ac.uk/computing/research/cseg/comic/ COMIC Social Mechanisms of Interaction
A Rule-based Detection Mechanism against Distributed Denial of Service Attacks

We have designed a novel flow detection that is a software module on a router/server that inspects the aggregate of arrival packets in a timely manner. The flow detection has established an application monitoring distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. We adopt TFN2K (Tribe Flood, the Net 2K) as an attack traffic generator and monitor the system resource of the victim target like CPU utilization, memory usage, consumed by attack traffic. The types of attack traffic have been analyzed and by that we develop a defense scheme. The experiment has demonstrated that the proposed scheme can effectively prevent the attack traffic with coordinating the firewall.
Web Based Resource Management for Multi-Tiered Web Applications

WEB BASED RESOURCE MANAGEMENT FOR MULTI-TIERED WEB APPLICATIONS Bryce D. Ott School of Technology Master of Science The currently emerging trend of building more complex web applications to solve increasingly more involved software problems has led to the the need for a more automated and practical means for deploying resources required by these advanced web applications. As web based applications become more complex and involve more developers, greater system redundancy, and a larger number of components, traditional means of resource deployment become painfully inadequate as they fail to scale sufficiently. The purpose of this research is to provide evidence that a more sound and scalable test and deployment process can be employed and that many of the components of this improved process can be automated and/or delegated to various system actors to provide a more usable, reliable, stable, and efficient deployment process. The deployable resources that have been included for their commonality in web based applications are versioned resources (both ASCII based and binary files), database resources, cron files, and scripting commands. In order to achieve an improved test and deployment process and test its effectiveness, a web-based code deployment tool was developed and deployed in a production environment where its effects could be accurately measured. This deployment tool heavily leverages the use of Subversion to provide the management of versioned resources because of its extensive ability to manage the creation and merging of branches.
LEARNING AT A DISTANCE WITH MOBILE PHONE

This purpose of the study is to examine the effects of mobile learning with Quick Response Code (QR code) to promote distance learners’ motivation towards the Principles of Economics. This mobile learning with QR code allowed the distance learners to learn and communicate anytime and anywhere with their peers and lecturers. A survey method was employed in this study. A set of 25 items questionnaire constructed by the researcher was used as an instrument for the study. A total of 152 distance learners from one public university in Northern Malaysia were participated in this study. The findings showed that the majority of the respondents had positive results in the questionnaire. This research can be revised to implement in secondary school or different courses of further study.
Analgo-sedazione in soggetti in terapia intensiva con ventilazione meccanica: indagine sulla percezione degli infermieri

I pazienti ventilati meccanicamente ricevono analgesici e sedativi. Dolore non alleviato e inadeguata sedazione comportano rischi. Tramite un questionario somministrato a infermieri di terapia intensiva abbiamo analizzato le loro conoscenze sull'accertamento del dolore e sedazione. Risultato che diversi segni che gli infermieri considerano indicativi di sotto/sovrasedazione e di dolore sono in discordanza con le linee guida. Si evidenzia necessita di aggiornamenti e formazione.
The combinatorial variability hypothesis in the second language

Variability in the production and comprehension of inflectional morphology is widely attested and well documented in L2 acquisition. The sources of this variability are, however, disputed. In this paper, the authors look at the potential of Adger's (2006) Combinatorial Variability Hypothesis (CVH) to explain variable performance in this respect. The CVH explains intra-personal morphosyntactic variation as arising from the combinatorial mechanisms of language itself. It offers an evaluation metric of uninterpretable feature combinations, predicting which forms are going to surface more, and possibly even become defaults, in the acquisition of inflection. The experimental study involves English native speakers who are beginning or intermediate learners of German. They are asked to choose missing subjects among four options in copula sentences. Results indicate that, when choosing pronominal subjects, learners exhibit the pattern of errors predicted by the CVH. Frequency of the inflectional morphemes does not explain the results. The authors argue that there may be different underlying sources for variable L2 morphosyntactic performance: feature re-assembly, perceptual salience, phonological regularity, and semantic complexity may all be relevant. When all of these factors are held constant, though, and errors still persist, only language-internal explanations, such as combinatorial variability of features, are really credible.
Securing E-Business Applications and Communications

E-Commerce: The What and the Why The Digital Revolution Security Encryption Standards Summary A Prelude of Things to Come The Need for Security: Learning from Other's Mistakes A Tangled Web Is Weaved CGI by Example Hello PHF Thinking Like a Hacker Adding Automation to the Task Properly Handling CGI Keep the Noise Down Know What Thy Foe Knows Passwords: Security's Weakest Link The Heart of the Problem Contending with the Internet Statistics Don't Lie The Mathematics of Passwords UNIX and Linux Windows 95/Windows 98 Windows NT 4.0 Windows 2000 UNIX/Linux Recommendations Electronic Business (E-Business) Arpanet-Precursor of a Digital Revolution Awash in Buzzwords Business and the Internet E-Business Models Data Encryption Monoalphabetic Substitution Polyalphabetic Substitution Commercial Encryption Standards Closing Thoughts Hash Algorithms Message Digest (MD) Hash Functions SHA-1 Hash Function Understanding the Java Hashing Program A Practical Web-Based Java Cryptography Example Concluding Thoughts Authentication Protocols and Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) Kerberos History X.509 Certificate Introduction and History Concluding Thoughts Secure Remote Management The Windows 2000 Telnet Service Secure Shell (SSH-1 And SSH-2) FTP, Secure FTP, and SCP Virtual Network Comptuer (VNC) Virtual Private Networking (VPN) Concluding Thoughts The Technology That Enables E-Commerce Developing Client/Server RDBMS Applications Using Java Servlets and JDBC JDBC Applications Web Servers Microsoft's Active Server Command Object Concluding Thoughts Conclusion Some Final Key Points
The designer's guide to Verilog-AMS

The Designer's Guide to Verilog-AMS presents Verilog-AMS, the new analog and mixed-signal extensions to the widely used Verilog hardware description language. It starts by describing a rigorous and proven top-down design methodology. Top-down design is widely seen as the key to being able to design very large and complex mixed-signal circuits and it is enabled by Verilog-AMS. Verilog-A and Verilog-AMS are then introduced without assuming that the reader has a background in behavioral modeling. Finally, it includes a comprehensive reference guide for the language. The Designer's Guide to Verilog-AMS is extensively cross-referenced and indexed, making it an ideal reference for both Verilog-A and Verilog-AMS. A companion website, www.designers-guide.com, provides electronic copies of all the models used in this book, a library of user-contributed models, a discussion forum, additional documents on simulation and modeling, and other useful material. The Designer's Guide to Verilog-AMS is written for analog and mixed-signal designers, particularly those designing larger and more complex circuits.
Technical and logical issues arising from collaboration across multiple organisations

This paper discusses the technical and corresponding logical modelling issues arising out of Collaborative Business Process Engineering (CBPE). These modelling issues are based on the technologies of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Web Services (WS). Business Process Modelling Notation (BPMN) is applied in this paper in order to present the proposed model of collaboration across multiple organisations. The uniqueness of this research, and the ensuing discussion, is that the collaboration between multiple organizations is envisaged through a ‘yellow pages’ and not through the known business-to-business (B2B) interaction. As a result, the collaboration discussed in this paper requires applications to publish, locate and communicate with each other across disparate technical platforms.
Modelling subphonemic information flow: an investigation and extension of Dell's (1986) model of word production

Dell (1986) presented a spreading activation model which accounted for a number of early speech error results, including the relative proportions of anticipations, perseverations and exchanges found in speech error corpora, the lexical bias effect, the phonological similarity effect, and the effect of speech rate on error rate. This model has had an immense influence on the past 20 years of research into word production, with the original paper being cited over 1,000 times. Many studies have questioned how activation should flow between words and phonemes in this model. This thesis aimed to clarify what current speech error evidence tells us about how activation flows between phonemes and subphonemic representations, like features. Does activation cascade from phonemes to features, and does it feed back? The work presented here extends previous modelling investigations in two ways. Firstly, whereas previous modelling research has tended to evaluate model behaviour using arbitrarily chosen parameter settings, we illuminate the influence of the parameters on model behaviour and propose methods to draw general conclusions about model behaviour from large numbers of simulations at orthogonally varied parameter settings. Secondly, we extend the scope of the simulations to consider output at a subphonemic level, modelling recent data acquired via acoustic and articulatory measurements, such as voicing onset time (VOT), electropalatography (EPG) and ultrasound, alongside older transcribed speech error data. Throughout the thesis, we consider whether parameter settings which lead the model to capture individual results also permit other results to be accounted for and do not cause otherwise implausible behaviour. Through manipulating parameter settings in Dell’s (1986) original model, we find that increasing the number of steps before selection generally does not decrease the error rate, but rather increases it, contrary to results reported by Dell (1986). This calls into question the claim that an increase in steps before selection provides a good model of a slower speech rate. We also demonstrate that the model captures the negative correlation reported by Dell, Burger, and Svec (1997) between error
Electric Machines And Drives

Market_Desc: · Electrical Engineering Students · Electrical Engineering Instructors· Power Electronics Engineers Special Features: · Easy to follow step-by-step in depth treatment of all the theory. · Computer simulation chapter describes the role of computer simulations in power electronics. Examples and problems based on Pspice and MATLAB are included. · Introductory chapter offers a review of basic electrical and magnetic circuit concepts. · A new CD-ROM contains the following:· Over 100 of new problems of varying degrees of difficulty for homework assignments and self-learning. · PSpice-based simulation examples, which illustrate basic concepts and help in design of converters. · A newly-developed magnetic component design program that demonstrates design trade-offs. · PowerPoint-based slides, which will improve the learning experience and the ease of using the book About The Book: The text includes cohesive presentation of power electronics fundamentals for applications and design in the power range of 500 kW or less. It describes a variety of practical and emerging power electronic converters made feasible by the new generation of power semiconductor devices. Topics included in this book are an expanded discussion of diode rectifiers and thyristor converters as well as chapters on heat sinks, magnetic components which present a step-by-step design approach and a computer simulation of power electronics which introduces numerical techniques and commonly used simulation packages such as PSpice, MATLAB and EMTP.
RighTime™ A Real Time Clock Correcting Program For MS-DOS-Based Computer Systems

Abstract : A computer program is described which effectively eliminates the misgivings of the DOS system clock in PC/AT-class computers. RighTime is a small, sophisticated memory-resident program that automatically corrects both the DOS system clock and the hardware "CMOS" real time clock (RTC) in real time. RighTime learns what corrections are required without operator interaction beyond the occasional accurate time set. Both warm (power on) and cool (power off) errors are corrected, usually yielding better than one part per million accuracy in the typical desktop computer with no additional hardware, and RighTime increases the system clock resolution from approximately 0.0549 second to 0.01 second. Program tools are also available which allow visualization of RighTime's actions, verification of its performance, display of its history log, and which provide data for graphing of the system clock behavior. The program has found application in a wide variety of industries, including astronomy, satellite tracking, communications, broadcasting, transportation, public utilities, manufacturing, medicine and the military.
Proceedings: 2010 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology—Workshops

Includes papers from: 3rd Workshop on Collective Intelligence in Semantic Web and Social Networks (CISWSN 2010); 4th International Workshop on Intelligent E-Government and Emergency Management (IEEM 2010); International Workshop on Computational Social Networks (IWCSN 2010); International Workshop on Intelligent Web Interaction (IWI 2010); 10th International Workshop on Meta-synthesis and Complex Systems (MCS 2010); Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Ontology Engineering (NLPOE 2010); Workshop on Optimization-Based Data Mining and Web Intelligence (ODMWI 2010); 1st International Workshop on Opinion Mining for Business Intelligence (OMBI 2010); International Workshop on Web-Scale Knowledge Representation, Retrieval, and Reasoning (Web-KR3 2010); International Workshop on Web Personalization and Recommender Systems (WebPRES 2010); 3rd International Workshop on Web Information Retrieval Support Systems (WIRSS 2010); 2nd International Workshop on Collaborative Agents—Research and Development (CARE 2010); 4th International Workshop on Human Aspects in Ambient Intelligence: Agent Technology, Human-Oriented Knowledge, and Applications (HAI 2010); Workshop on Service Intelligence and Engineering (SIE 2010); 3rd Workshop on Logics for Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (WLIAMAS 2010); 3rd WI-IAT Doctoral Workshop (WI-IAT DW 2010)