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Decision Support and Visualization in a Space Situational Awareness C2 Application

As we progress toward a network-centric environment, our dependency upon space assets to meet our force enhancement requirements is expected to grow exponentially. With so many mission assets parked in orbit, it is important for the commander to be operationally aware of the dispositions and movements in this fourth medium. The success of terrestrial forces requires a comprehensive space situational awareness (SSA). 21 Century Systems, Inc. is essentially developing a SSA and decision support client application that, with the proper inputs, will provide an integrated space picture. We call this concept, SituSpace. The visualization uses two and three dimensional depictions to provide the watchstander with rapid, intuitive situational awareness. SituSpace also employs intelligent software agents to provide timely alerts and cogent recommendations. The intelligent agents apply the user’s ROE, situation, resources, etc. to rapidly derive actionable recommendations in order to accelerate the watchstander’s decision loop. The SituSpace concept gains synergy from combining two complementary ideas. Using a metalanguage as the medium of storage and interprocess communication provides for interoperability, flexibility, and multilevel abstraction in the handling and passing of data elements. And a modular publish-subscribe software architecture which supports intelligent agents provides flexibility and tailorability to the SituSpace concept.
Multi-view forests based on Dempster-Shafer evidence theory: a new classifier ensemble method

In this paper, a method to construct ensembles of tree-structured classifiers using multi-view learning instead of feature subset selection is proposed. An essential requirement to train an effective classifier ensemble is the diversity among the base individual classifiers. In order to construct diverse individual classifiers, it is assumed that the object to be classified is represented through multiple feature sets (views). Different views of the data can then be combined to improve the accuracy of the learning task. Multi-view Forests have been examined on a benchmark data set of 3D-object recognition based on 2D camera images. Results show that multi-view learning can improve the performance of the individual classifiers and the whole ensemble, and thus promoting the use of multi-view forests.
Logic for Computable Functions: description of a machine implementation.

This paper is primarily a user''s manual for LCF, a proof-checking program for a logic of computable functions proposed by Dana Scott in 1969 but unpublished by him. We use the name LCF also for the logic itself, which is presented at the start of the paper. The proof-checking program is designed to allow the user interactively to generate formal proofs about computable functions and functionals over a variety of domains, including those of interest to the computer scientist - for example, integers, lists and computer programs and their semantics. The user''s task is alleviated by two features: a subgoaling facility and a powerful simplification mechanism. Applications include proofs of program correctness and in particular of compiler correctness; these applications are not discussed herein, but are illustrated in the papers referenced in this introduction.
Desenvolvimento de Sistemas Orientados a Objetos Utilizando o Sistema Transformacional Draco-Puc

Even not being an unanimity in Software Engineering, there is no way of denying the impact of Object Oriented Technology in all phases of the development process. Besides coming out many object oriented languages, many methods and techniques were born to support specification work and design of object oriented systems. This paper reports the building and how to use a support environment of object oriented development. The environment aggregates a graphical interface with the Draco-Puc machine transformational system. The environment characterizes itself by utilizing transformation technology that allows automatic C++ code generation from specifications of high level abstraction. The paper emphasizes Draco-Puc machine integration as well as its use for code generating. A real case based example is utilized to demonstrate the capacities and utilities of the proposed environment.
Intelligent Data Analysis for Design of Multi-Drilling Gear Machines

PCT No. PCT/JP81/00210 Sec. 371 Date Apr. 21, 1982 Sec. 102(e) Date Apr. 21, 1982 PCT Filed Sep. 1, 1981 PCT Pub. No. WO82/00918 PCT Pub. Date Mar. 18, 1982.A small electromagnetic relay in which an electromagnet (116), having at least a core (130), a coil bobbin (128) and an armature (117), is accommodated in a box-shaped insulated housing (110) which has surrounding walls (114a, 114b) to hold contact terminals (111a, 111b, 112a, 112b), the electromagnet having an accommodation portion that is molded on the outer surface of a flange (138) of the coil bobbin as a unitary structure to rotatably hold the armature, the coil bobbin being equipped with the armature and the core.
Orthogonal Persistence for the Java[tm] Platform: Specification and Rationale

Orthogonal persistence provides the programmer with persistence for all data types, with minimal impact on the programing model or development process. We motivate the addition of orthogonal persistence to the Java[tm] platform, and show how this results in a simple and appealing application development model. The overall goal is to provide the illusion of continuous computation in the face of system shutdowns, planned or unplanned. This is achieved by checkpointing the state of the system periodically to stable memory. We describe how the principles of orthogonal persistence are applied to the Java[tm] programming language and specify the small set of changes to the Java language specification and core libraries necessary to fulfill these principles. We describe the rationale for our particular choices, informed by the experience with the PJama prototype implementations. Finally, the programming model for managing state that is external to the Java[tm] virtual machine is discussed in detail.
An Extensible Transaction Framework: Technical Overview

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Improving Performance On WWW Using Path-Based Predictive Caching And Prefetching

Caching and prefetching are well known strategies for improving the performance of Internet systems. The heart of a caching system is its page replacement policy, which selects the pages to be replaced in a proxy cache when a request arrives. By the same token, the essence of a prefetching algorithm lies in its ability to accurately predict future requests. In this paper, we present a method for caching variable-sized web objects using an n-gram based prediction of future web requests. Our method aims at mining a Markov model from past web document access patterns and using it to extend the well-known GDSF caching policies. In addition, we present a new method to integrate this caching algorithm with our n-gram based prefetching algorithm using the minedMarkov model. We empirically show that the system performance is greatly improved using the integrated approach. iii To MY PARENTS and MY BROTHER iv \The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. " | Albert Einstein v Acknowledgments I owe deep debt of gratitude to my senior supervisor, Dr. Qiang Yang, for his invaluable guidance, insightful advices and continuous encouragement during my research. This thesis would not have been possible without his strongest support to me. I am thankful to my supervisor Dr. Jiawei Han, whose instructions have widened my angle of view and tremendously in uenced and inspired my thoughts in my research. My gratefulness also goes to Dr. Wo-shun Luk, who shares with me his abundant knowledge in this eld and makes valuable comments and suggestions on my thesis. My appreciation also goes to my good old friend Ian Tianyi Li, who unsel shly helps me over the years with his warm-heartedness and wittiness. I am grateful to my friend Michael Zhen Zhang for his constructive discussions. I o er my deepest thanks to Jian Pei and Ye Lu for their informative reviews of my thesis. A special acknowledgment goes to sumo Kindersley, Laura Bottomley and Jim Dumoulin for the web logs collected by them in our experiments. Finally, I wish to thank all who have helped me during my graduate study and research at Simon Fraser University. vi
Constructing a machine-tractable dictionary from longman dictionary of contemporary english

It is the purpose of this research to design a machine-tractable dictionary (henceforth MTD) from Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English (henceforth LDOCE). The MTD is intended to be a basic facility for a whole spectrum of natural language processing tasks. The research adopts a compositional-reduction approach to obtain a formalized set of definitions of sense entries in a nested predicate form, where the predicates are a set of "seed senses". The focus of this research is on the derivation of these "seed senses" and their utilization in the construction of the MTD. The construction of the proposed MTD involves the following four steps: (1) Determine the "defining senses" of LDOCE, i.e., those word senses that are used in the definition of the meanings of 2,137 "controlled words" of LDOCE; (2) Derive the "seed senses" of LDOCE. The "seed senses" are a subset of the defining senses which are sufficient to define the set of defining senses of Step 1. The seed senses are taken as a natural set of semantic primitives derived from LDOCE; (3) Hand-code the initial knowledge base for the natural set of semantic primitives derived from LDOCE; (4) Construct a MTD for the controlled words and the rest of LDOCE words may means of bootstrapping from the initial hand-coded knowledge base. The bootstrapping process is a process of knowledge acquisition from dictionary definition text. Step 1 of the construction process has been completed. A total of 3,860 defining senses have been determined. Step 2 of the construction process has also been completed. A total of 3,280 word senses are found to be the seed senses of LDOCE. These seed senses are taken as a natural set of semantic primitives derived from the dictionary. The feasibility of Steps 3 and 4 of the construction process have been demonstrated with implemented examples. What remains to be accomplished is to complete Steps 3 and 4 to build a full-size MTD from LDOCE using as guidelines the results of initial implementation of the two steps.
The importance of data locality in distributed computing applications

Current grid computing environments are primarily built to support large-scale batch computations, where turnaround may be measured in hours or days – their primary goal is not interactive data analysis. While these batch systems are necessary and highly useful for the repetitive ‘pipeline processing’ of many large scientific collaborations, they are less useful for subsequent scientific analyses of higher level data products, usually performed by individual scientists or small groups. Such exploratory, interactive analyses require turnaround measured in minutes or seconds so that the scientist can focus, pose questions and get answers within one session. The databases, analysis tasks and visualization tasks involve hundreds of computers and terabytes of data. Of course this interactive access will not be achieved by magic – it requires new organizations of storage, networking and computing, new algorithms, and new tools.
Sun, Sex, and Style in Smart Cinema: Tilda Swinton in A Bigger Splash (Luca Guadagnino, 2015)

Abstract This article will examine the ways in which costuming plays a pivotal and disruptive role in A Bigger Splash. Through Tilda Swinton’s virtually mute performance as recovering rock star Marianne Lane, the intersections between clothing, the body, and performance construct a visual language dominated by desire, touch, conflict, turmoil, and disguise. With costumes designed by Raf Simons at Dior, in collaboration with Giulia Piersanti, an aesthetic of stylish resort wear is showcased to a niche audience. Although A Bigger Splash attempts to position itself as a European version of the American “smart film,” I will argue that it is a “Euro-pudding”: a well-intentioned European coproduction with transnational scope, that aspires to art film status, but is devoid of broader social or political resonance. Through the casting of Swinton, ambivalence is commodified and used to promote luxury designer fashion to an aspirational audience rich in cultural capital, that wishes to distance itself from mainstream celebrity culture and Hollywood blockbusters.
A New Family of Space-Time Codes for Multi-Antenna Systems with Imperfect Channel Estimation

Multiple-antenna systems with space-time block-codes exploit channel-diversity to improve performance without loss in spectral efficiency. A lot of works in this area relies on the assumption that perfect channel estimates are available at the receiver so to make feasible fully-coherent decoding. However, accurate channel-estimates require long training sequences that lower spectral efficiency. After considering emerging Fourth-Generation WLANs as possible application scenarios, in this contribution we present a new family of power and spectral efficient SpaceTime Block Codes (STBCs) that ”self-match” to the channel estimation errors so to meet QoS requirement without wasting system resources.
The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Drama

List of plates List of contributors Preface A note on dates, references and quotations Abbreviations 1. Playhouses and players R. A. Foakes 2. The arts of the dramatist A. R. Braunmuller 3. Drama and society Michael Hattaway 4. Private and occasional drama Martin Butler 5. Political drama Margot Heinemann 6. Romance and the heroic play Brian Gibbons 7. Pastiche, burlesque, tragicomedy Lee Bliss 8. Comedy Jill Levenson 9. Tragedy Robert Watson 10. Caroline drama James Bulman Biographies and selected bibliography A. R. Braunmuller and Michael Hattaway Chronological table Index.
Position paper: towards evaluating the user experience ofinteractive information access systems

The sequence of documents a user accesses while using an Information Access System will heavily influence the user's experience of the system. In this position paper, I discuss the idea of using these sequences to evaluate one facet of the overall user experience. Such sequences can be considered a generalization of rankings used to evaluate Information Retrieval System, but can be generated by any Information Access System. While this view provides greater flexibility for evaluating and comparing different Information Access Systems, it also raises many other issues regarding their application for evaluation. This paper provides an overview of some of these issues along with possible directions for using sequences of documents to evaluate Information Access Systems.
The Ultimate History of Video Games

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The kineikonic mode : a multimodal analysis of students’ claymation movies

Globalised communication in society today is characterised by multimodal forms of meaning making in the context of increased cultural and linguistic diversity. This research paper responds to these imperatives, applying Halliday's (1978, 1994) categories of systemic functional linguistics - representational or ideational, interactive or interpersonal, and compositional or textual meanings. Following the work of Kress (2000), van Leeuwen (Kress and van Leeuwen, 1996), and Jewitt (2006), multimodal semiotic analysis is applied to claymation movies that were collaboratively designed by Year 6 students. The significance of this analysis is the metalanguage for textual work in the kineikonic mode - moving images.
Video Compression and Communications: From Basics to H.261, H.263, H.264, MPEG4 for DVB and HSDPA-Style Adaptive Turbo-Transceivers

Since the publication of Wireless Video Communications five years ago, the area of video compression and wireless transceivers has evolved even further. This new edition addresses a range of recent developments in these areas, giving cognizance to the associated transmission aspects and issues of error resilience. Video Compression and Communications has been updated and condensed yet remains all-encompassing, giving a comprehensive overview of the subject. Covering compression issues, coding delay, implementational complexity and bitrate, the book also looks at the historical perspective to video communication. New edition of successful and informative text, Wireless Video Communications Substantial new material has been added on areas such as H.264, MPEG4 coding and transceivers Clear presentation and broad scope make it essential for anyone interested in wireless communications Systematically converts the lessons of Shannon's information theory into design principles applicable to practical wireless systems. This book is ideal for postgraduates and researchers in communication systems but will also be a valuable reference to undergraduates, development and systems engineers of video compression applications as well as industrialists, managers and visual communications practitioners.
Neural Networks: A Primer

Abstract : Neural network technology has recently demonstrated capabilities in areas important to personnel research such as statistical analysis, decision modeling, control, and forecasting. This paper is an introduction to neural network terminology, definitions, capabilities, and applications. It provides a discussion of traditionally used statistical methods and compares them to neural network architectures. The benefits of using neural networks is their ability to derive nonlinear and interacting relationship among variables of a model. This paper is designed for individuals who have little or no knowledge of this growing field.
Song Grammars as Complex Sexual Displays

We study the complex evolution of song grammars of the Bengalese finch. Their mating songs have the remarkable feature that they are described by finite-state automata. (Honda and Okanoya, 1999) In addition, it has been experimentally confirmed that complex songs are preferred by females and that the Bengalese finch's song is more complex than that of its ancestors. (Okanoya, 2002) These facts suggest that complex grammar-like systems may have evolved as a result of sexual selection. In order to explore this hypothesis, we study the communication between male and female finches, modeling their co-evolution by asymmetric finite-state automata. By introducing a complexity measure for song grammars, we study the effect of females' preferences. We observe that a gradual transition from lower complexity to higher complexity grammars is associated with the changing of male birds' courting strategy.
ELF: From The Programmer's Perspective

In this paper, we discuss the new ELF binary format for Linux speciﬁcally from the view of the programmer. We introduce some techniques which can be used with ELF to control the execution of a program at run time. We show how to use dynamic linking and dynamic loading under ELF. We also demonstrate how to use the GNU C/C++ compiler and binary utilities to create shared C/C++ libraries under Linux.
HIERARCHICAL DIRECTORY CONTROLLERS IN THE NUMACHINE MULTIPROCESSOR

In multiprocessors, caching is an ef fective latency reducing technique. However , adding caches to a multiprocessor system also introduces the cache coherence problem. Many dif ferent solutions to this problem have been proposed and implemented. This work focuses on the design of hardware controllers that enforce cache coherence, enable non-coherent operations, uncached operations and special functions in the NUMAchine multiprocessor . The controller logic is functionally decomposed into simpler components which enables an ef ficient and flexible implementation in field-programmable devices (FPDs). The controllers have been built and tested to run at a clock rate of 50 MHz. This implementation of hardware cache coherence provides a good trade-of f between cost, flexibility and performance, placing it between implementations using custom hardware and those using commodity parts.
MASTER SLAVE SYNCHRONIZATION OF TWO ROSSLER SYSTEMS

Since 1990 chaos synchronization has been a topic of great interest as shows the most comprehensive bibliography on control and synchronization. In this work OPCL (open-plus-closed-loop) method of control is used to study the synchronization for two Rossler systems. The method offers a precise coupling for two identical oscillators. The graphics of MATLAB soft is used to present the synchronization of these systems.
Data Clustering Analysis - From Simple Groupings to Scalable Clustering With Constraints

Clustering is the problem of grouping data based on similarity and consists of maximizing the intra-group similarity while minimizing the iter-group similarity. While this problem has attracted the attention of many researchers for many years, we are witnessing a resurgence of interest in new clustering techniques in the data mining community. In this paper we discuss some very recent clustering approaches and recount our experience with some of these algorithms. We also present the problem of clustering in the presence of constraints and discuss the issue of cluster validation.
Proof of the Secrecy Property of Secure WLAN Authentication Scheme (SWAS) using Extended Protocol Composition Logic

An effective and secure key exchange is one of the essential feature of a secure communication. Secure WLAN Authentication Scheme (SWAS) is one such mechanism that involves cryptographic operations for providing a secure key exchange. The scheme not only provide entity authentication but also provide authentication to the individual frames involved. It evolves fresh keys for securing data sessions. It enhances the network performance by reducing the number of messages required for authentication and key exchange. The protocol enhances reliability of the WLAN communication system and hence its properties need to be validated. Extended Protocol Composition Logic (PCL) is a formal method used extensively for validating the security properties of a protocol. In this paper, we utilize it for proving the secrecy property of SWAS. Thus, main contribution of the paper is presentation of formal proof for the secrecy property of the SWAS scheme.