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Installing an on-line information system in a manufacturing environment
Authors: Thomas J. Archbold
Venue: Proceedings of the May 6-10, 1974, national computer conference and exposition (1974)

The Construction Equipment Division of International Harvester Company in 1971 developed a broad program to dramatically improve the material scheduling and shop floor control functions at the Melrose Park plant. The basic objectives were to improve efficiency and to be more responsive to customer demands for our construction equipment. The system that existed then provided manufacturing with data that could be from several days to several weeks old. An up-to-the-minute current status of material availability within the plant was not available. Discrepancies and error conditions of all types were extremely difficult to resolve because of this time delay. Changes to our manufacturing schedules to meet sales requirements were further complicated by the lack of current information. The ACM Portal is published by the Association for Computing Machinery. Copyright © 2010 ACM, Inc. Terms of Usage Privacy Policy Code of Ethics Contact Us Useful downloads: Adobe Acrobat QuickTime Windows Media Player Real Player
Seeing-Is-Believing: using camera phones for human-verifiable authentication
Authors: Jonathan M. McCune, Adrian Perrig, Michael K. Reiter
Venue: International Journal of Security and Networks (2009)

Current mechanisms for authenticating communication between devices that share no prior context are inconvenient for ordinary users, without the assistance of a trusted authority. We present and analyse Seeing-Is-Believing (SiB), a system that utilises 2D barcodes and camera-phones to implement a visual channel for authentication and demonstrative identification of devices. We apply this visual channel to several problems in computer security, including authenticated key exchange between devices that share no prior context, establishment of the identity of a TCG-compliant computing platform, and secure device configuration in the context of a smart home.
Process Mining: Algorithm for S-Coverable Workflow Nets
Authors: Jianchun She, Dongqing Yang
Venue: Proceedings of the 2009 Second International Workshop on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (2009)

To discover process models from event logs has recently aroused many researchers’ interest in the area of process mining. Notwithstanding the interest and related efforts, existing algorithms are far from being satisfactory. For example, some researchers have proved that α-algorithm is capable of discovering the processes of the so-called SWF-nets without short loops; however, α-algorithm has been found to contain some severe limitations. This paper is therefore to introduce the notation of S-Coverable workflow nets, to reach theorems about the characteristics of Sound S-Coverable Workflow Nets, and to develop a new process mining algorithm, namely, algorithm S. On such basis, suggested in the paper is a new approach to dealing with the problem of hidden transition discovering, an approach that, by means of the pretreatment of such hidden tasks, allows algorithm S to discover process models that will help preserve better structures. Theorems thus reached are applicable not only to process mining, but also to process modeling and process model checking.
The role of data center personnel in the development of a large-scale business system
Authors: David A. Cox
Venue: Proceedings of the June 7-10, 1982, national computer conference (1982)

The purpose of this paper is to identify the role that data center personnel should play in the early phases of the development cycle and to highlight special areas of concern in the later phases of the development cycles. In order to provide a framework which will encompass the majority of situations, I have chosen to describe the role of data center personnel in the context of the systems life cycle of a large-scale, complex business system. It is hoped that the result of this paper will be to define a role for operations personnel that is as visible and influential in the early stages of the systems development life cycle as it is during the implementation stage.
An adaptive multi-criteria vertical handover framework for heterogeneous networks
Authors: Zhiwei Yan, Hongbin Luo, Yajuan Qin, Huachun Zhou, Jianfeng Guan, Sidong Zhang
Venue: Proceedings of the International Conference on Mobile Technology, Applications, and Systems (2008)

Future wireless Internet is expected to consist of various heterogeneous wireless access networks with different properties to support different type of services. In order to improve the accuracy of the vertical handover decision for such heterogeneous networks, this paper proposes an adaptive multi-criteria vertical handover framework. This framework focuses on several main aspects of a vertical handover. It is able to trigger a handover intelligently and make a handover decision effectively and adaptively.
Short-Term Electricity Price Forecasting Based on Rough Sets and Improved SVM
Authors: Jinyu Tian, Yan Lin
Venue: Proceedings of the 2009 Second International Workshop on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (2009)

a novel model was proposed for short-term electricity price forecasting based on Rough set approach and improved Support Vector Machines（SVM）. Firstly, we can get reduced information table with no information loss by Rough set approach. And then, this reduced information is used to develop classification rules and train SVM, at the same time, we make use of the Particle Swarm Optimization to optimize the parameters. The effectiveness of our methodology was verified by experiments comparing BP neural networks with our approach.
Implications of VLSI technology for speech processing
Authors: Robert W. Brodersen
Venue: Proceedings of the May 16-19, 1983, national computer conference (1983)

In this paper a survey will be made of the state of the art of the application of MOS technology to speech-processing circuits. Projections will be made of the future capabilities of this technology and how it relates to implementation of speech-processing algorithms. The most significant difference between the design of speech-processing systems of the past and the VLSI systems of the future is that VLSI technology can allow essentially complete integration of the system, including the interface circuits, the signal processor, and maybe even the transducer. This implies a major change in system design methodology since many of the most important advantages of VLSI technology will not be realized if each portion of the system is optimized without consideration of the other components. To cope with this problem, designers have in many cases over-simplified the constraints of the other system aspects in order to focus on their particular interests. Several examples will be given of computational techniques, developed for general-purpose computers, that now may become obsolete because of the new constraints of special-purpose VLSI chips. Very large-scale integration (VLSI) has come to mean very different things to different people, and a review will be given of some of the interpretations that are presently in vogue. To many (particularly the computer science community), VLSI implies a technology that has the capability to generate chips of such complexity that the designer of VLSI chips is freed from the constraint of minimizing the circuit area, an almost religious preoccupation of the industrial circuit designer. This then allows a variety of new design styles, such as PLAs, gate arrays, and silicon compilers, that have the capability for a high degree of computer automation. On the other hand, the digital signal processing algorithm community views VLSI as the level of integration that will finally allow low-cost implementation of some of their algorithms. VLSI will therefore finally make possible the development of applications of digital signal processing that will have widespread use. To the technologist and industrial I.C. designer, VLSI refers to an integrated circuit that has more transistors than some arbitrary number that ranges from as low as 1,000 logic gates up to circuits that contain more than 100,000 gates. Often a primary reason in the industrial community for determining whether a chip is of VLSI complexity is the aggressiveness of the public-relations and marketing activity associated with the design. An attempt will be made to integrate these various viewpoints to gain a broader perspective on what the actual impact will be of the future developments of the technology.
Energy efficient architecture of sensor network node based on compression accelerator
Authors: Jue Wang, Beihua Ying, Yongpan Liu, Huazhong Yang, Hui Wang
Venue: Proceedings of the 19th ACM Great Lakes symposium on VLSI (2009)

In this paper, we propose an energy efficient architecture of wireless sensor network node. It consists of a general-purpose processor and several compression accelerators. To verify the low energy consumption of this architecture, we implement a baseband chip of sensor node by 1-poly 6-metal 0.18um CMOS technology, in which a hardware accelerator is realized based on a distributed wavelet compression algorithm. Our measurements show that the compression accelerator based architecture reduces over 98% energy consumption compared with the traditional solution.
Automatic full-page formatting of technical primary journals
Authors: Stanley E. Bammel
Venue: Proceedings of the May 19-22, 1975, national computer conference and exposition (1975)

Computerized photocomposition has been in use for several years at Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) with excellent results for the production of high-volume abstract and index volumes (i.e., secondary publications) of a relatively simple type. The functions performed by the computer include selection of information from a data base, automatic organization of the material into the proper order, and formatting into composed units based on the data element types being processed. Simple hyphenation and justification are included, making use of arbitrary word breaks, but page make-up has required little more than breaking a continuous column of text into columns on a page.
Toward the Study of Sign Language Coarticulation: Methodology Proposal
Authors: Jérémie Segouat, Annelies Braffort
Venue: Proceedings of the 2009 Second International Conferences on Advances in Computer-Human Interactions (2009)

This article proposes a methodology to study coarticulation in sign language. Our aim is to provide information in sign language (SL) thanks to a displayed signing avatar performing SL predefined animations. Therefore, we explain the approach we have chosen to model coarticulation, and animate our avatar. We also propose a definition of what coarticulation is, based on an overview of the literature, and we present the linguistic basis our model will be build on. We explain the methodology we are setting up, based on corpus analysis, and our evaluation protocol. We are aware of the various implications our study will have on several aspects for the deaf community and the SL.
Quadrature rules using an arbitrary fixed order of derivatives
Authors: M. R. Eslahchi, Mehdi Dehghan
Venue: Computers Mathematics with Applications (2009)

In this paper we consider quadrature formulas which use the derivative of only an arbitrary fixed order (m) of function f at the nodes. One of the advantages of the new approach is that we can increase the precision degree of the n-point quadrature formulas from 2n-1 to 2n+m-1. Furthermore we give an asymptotic estimation for the rate of convergence of this formula. Some examples will be given to support the results.
Mostly-Functional Behavior in Java Programs
Authors: William C. Benton, Charles N. Fischer
Venue: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation (2008)

We present a lightweight type-and-effect system for Java programs that features two major innovations over extant object-oriented effects systems: initialization effects, which are writes to an object's state while it is being constructed, and quiescing fields, which are fields that are never written after an object is constructed. We also present a novel taxonomy of degrees of method purity in object-oriented programs, which characterizes methods whose effects are confined to their receiver object. Finally, we find significant amounts of mostly-functional behavior in realistic Java programs: in the benchmarks we analyzed, between 48---53% of declared fields were identifiable as quiescing and between 24---78% of dynamic field reads were from quiescing fields.
Critical Infrastructure Protection II, 1st edition
Authors: Mauricio Papa, Sujeet Shenoi
Venue: Ifip International Federation For Information Processing (2008)

The information infrastructure---comprising computers, embedded devices, networks and software systems---is vital to day-to-day operations in every sector: information and telecommunications, banking and finance, energy, chemicals and hazardous materials, agriculture, food, water, public health, emergency services, transportation, postal and shipping, government and defense. Global business and industry, governments, indeed society itself, cannot function effectively if major components of the critical information infrastructure are degraded, disabled or destroyed. Critical Infrastructure Protection II describes original research results and innovative applications in the interdisciplinary field of critical infrastructure protection. Also, it highlights the importance of weaving science, technology and policy in crafting sophisticated, yet practical, solutions that will help secure information, computer and network assets in the various critical infrastructure sectors. Areas of coverage include: - Themes and Issues - Infrastructure Security - Control Systems Security - Security Strategies - Infrastructure Interdependencies - Infrastructure Modeling and Simulation This book is the second volume in the annual series produced by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 11.10 on Critical Infrastructure Protection, an international community of scientists, engineers, practitioners and policy makers dedicated to advancing research, development and implementation efforts focused on infrastructure protection. The book contains a selection of twenty edited papers from the Second Annual IFIP WG 11.10 International Conference on Critical Infrastructure Protection held at George Mason University, Arlington, Virginia, USA in the spring of 2008. Critical Infrastructure Protection II is an important resource for researchers, faculty members and graduate students, as well as for policy makers, practitioners and other individuals with interests in homeland security. Mauricio Papa is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and a principal with the Center for Information Security at the University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA. Sujeet Shenoi is the F.P. Walter Professor of Computer Science and a principal with the Center for Information Security at the University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA.
A General Framework and Communication Protocol for the Transmission of Interactive Media with Real-Time Characteristics
Authors: Martin Mauve, Volker Hilt, Christoph Kuhmunch, Wolfgang Effelsberg
Venue: Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems - Volume 02 (1999)

In this paper we present a general framework for the transmission of interactive media with real-time characteristics, i.e. media involving user interaction. By identifying and supporting the common aspects of interactive media the framework allows the development of generic services for distributed, collaborative work involving the transmission of interactive media. Derived from the experience gained with audio and video transmission using the Real-Time Transport Protocol (RTP), we define a new RTP profile for interactive media.
Movement estimation of a robot using stereo vision
Authors: J. Sogorb, O. Reinoso, A. Gil, L. Paya
Venue: Proceedings of the 8th conference on Signal processing, computational geometry and artificial vision (2008)

In this work we focus solely on the problem of localisation, comparing different estimation algorithms of the trajectory taken by a robot from the observations and readings obtained by the robot itself. In our problem, we will work with images taken by a stereoscopic vision system of uncalibrated cameras, we will assume that the movement of the robot is on a flat surface and we will use natural landmarks. As we will see, the information obtained from this type of sensor allows a robust estimation of movement taken between each pair of observations without the need to use the information from the robot's propioceptive sensors. The solution of this problem, known as visual odometry, is critical within the majority of subsequent navigation processes.
Determination of the resistance characteristics of self-compacting concrete samples by artificial neural network
Authors: Mustafa Altin, Sakir Tasdemir, Ismail Saritas, Mehmet Kamanli, M. Tolga Cogurcu, M. Yasar Kaltakci
Venue: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Systems and Technologies and Workshop for PhD Students in Computing (2008)

In this study, in order to determine the resistance characteristics of self-compacting concrete (SCC) samples, experiments were done in the Konya Cement Factory, Ready-mix Concrete Establishment. Four different mixture proportions were chosen in the experimental study. 24 samples of the 4 mixtures were selected in order to set the cube compression strength. For each mixture, these 24 samples were broken down within 28 days and the characteristics of cube compression strength were obtained. After 28 days, compression strength average was found to be 50.0300 MPa. A model of Artificial Neural Network (ANN) was designed for this study and the results were obtained in this model of ANN. Both experimental and ANN data was analyzed with SPSS statistical packet software. The result of statistical analysis (p=0.9972) has been done in 95% of confidence interval. It has been seen that the ANN can be used as reliable modelling method for similar studies.
Turbo Codes with Internal Pilot Insertion
Authors: Abdulkareem A. Kadhim, Ahmed A. Hamad
Venue: Proceedings of the 2008 The Second International Conference on Next Generation Mobile Applications, Services, and Technologies (2008)

In this paper we present a simple modification of a classical turbo code allowing for improved distance properties and rate adaptation. The proposed scheme suggests the insertion of pilot bits in the data sequence in such a manner that low weight codewords are eliminated or their weight multiplicity being reduced. In this way, pilots are utilized to increase the minimum distance of the code effectively. Furthermore, the rate can be made adaptive, almost arbitrarily according to the channel conditions under fixed interleaver length constraint. The resulting code uses fixed length codeword, can support a wide range of rates and even outperform the original system that uses external pilot insertion, in terms of error performance specifically at high signal to noise ratio. The proposed scheme does not add any complexity to the encoder neither to the decoder. Two recursive systematic convolutional (RSC) encoders together with S-random interleaver are used at the encoder side. At the decoder, soft-input soft-output Viterbi algorithm (SOVA) to accomplish iterative decoding with a maximum of five iterations is used.
Studies on a Grey Financial Alert Model of the Public Corporations Based on Degree of Grey Incidence
Authors: Jia-xiang Zhu, Qing-mei Tan
Venue: Proceedings of the 2009 Second International Symposium on Intelligent Information Technology and Security Informatics (2009)

A“typical public corporation” was constructed by us according to its stylebook based on the assumption of the bankruptcy tendency of any corporations, then a Grey Financial Alert Model Of the Public Corporations Based on Degree of Grey Incidence was further presented, and its grade can estimate the currant financial risk of a public corporation and An example is employed to illustrate its application. Further the mode can be taken to keep away from financial risks before it befall down to the public corporation, lest the public corporations finance get worse.
Performance and Reliability Study for Distributed Video Servers: Mirroring or Parity?
Authors: Jamel Gafsi, Ernst W. ~Biersack
Venue: Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems - Volume 02 (1999)

We study video server performance and reliability. We classify several reliability schemes based on the redundancy technique used (mirroring vs. parity) and on the distribution granularity of redundant data. Then, we propose for each scheme its adequate data layout. To calculate the server reliability, we apply discrete modeling based on Markov chains. Further, we focus on the trade-off between achieving high reliability and low per stream cost. Our results show that, in contrast to intuition, for the same degree of reliability, mirroring-based schemes always outperform parity-based schemes in terms of per stream cost and also restart latency after disk failure. Our results also show that a mirroring scheme that copies original data of a single disk onto a subset of all disks significantly improves the server reliability and slightly increases the per stream cost as compared to the classical interleaved mirroring scheme.
Improving multi-level NAND flash memory storage reliability using concatenated TCM-BCH coding
Authors: Shu Li, Tong Zhang
Venue: Proceedings of the 19th ACM Great Lakes symposium on VLSI (2009)

By storing multiple bits in each memory cell, multi-level per cell (MLC) NAND flash memories have been increasingly dominant in the flash memory market due to their obvious storage density advantage. However, MLC NAND flash memories are much more subject to storage reliability degradation as the technology continues to scale down. This paper presents an error correcting solution by concatenating trellis coded modulation (TCM) with an outer BCH code, which can greatly improve the performance compared with the current design practice that uses BCH codes only. The key is that TCM can well match to the multi-level storage characteristic in order to reduce the memory bit error rate and hence relieve the burden of outer BCH code, at no cost of extra redundant memory cells. The superior error correcting performance of such concatenated TCM-BCH coding systems for MLC NAND flash memories has been well demonstrated through computer simulations, and their silicon implementation efficiency has been evaluated through ASIC design at 65nm node.
Creating Collaborative Advantage Through Knowledge and Innovation
Authors: Suliman Hawamdeh
Venue: Series On Innovation And Knowledge Management (2007)

Selected from the prestigious 2006 International Conference on Knowledge Management held in Greenwich, London, this volume represents much of the best and most up-to-date work by researchers and practitioners in the field of knowledge management (KM). It covers a wide range of topics that include social network analysis, innovation and creativity, KM tools and technologies, social network technologies, collaboration and knowledge sharing, issues in KM education and training, knowledge discovery (data mining, data warehousing, intelligent agents), knowledge organization (meta data, taxonomies, ontology), and social and psychological dimensions.