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Augmented reality and rigid body simulation for edutainment: the interesting mechanism - an AR puzzle to teach Newton physics
Authors: Philip Buchanan, Hartmut Seichter, Mark Billinghurst, Raphaäl Grasset
Venue: Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology (2008)

Physics simulation is becoming more common in computing. We have developed a comprehensive toolkit to connect the physical and virtual world within Augmented Reality (AR) using rigid body simulation. Unlike existing techniques of embedding physics simulations into 3D environments, the use of rigid body simulations within AR requires a different approach. To demonstrate our approach we developed an edutainment game based on the concept of chain reactions and physical contraptions. In this paper we elaborate on the constraints introduced by mixing AR and rigid body simulation, and how it subsequently effects the visual richness and perceptual appearance of an AR simulation. We describe our implementation approach and provide an analysis of additional scenarios which would be enriched by physical simulation.
Supporting human memory with interactive systems
Authors: Denis Lalanne, Elise van den Hoven
Venue: Proceedings of the 21st British HCI Group Annual Conference on HCI 2008: People and Computers XXI: HCI...but not as we know it - Volume 2 (2007)

The major goal of this workshop is to explore how interactive systems can support human memory, using novel technologies and innovative human/machine interaction paradigms, such as tangible interaction. We believe this is important since memory and attention are becoming critical resources for our wellness, e.g. with regard to a continuously increasing information overload. The goal of this workshop is not only to support personal information management but also daily life activities, e.g. adapted to user preferences and specific contexts. Where current multimedia search engines are designed for large user communities and their applications, this workshop targets the support of individual's personal memory in everyday life.
Cyber Crime Fighters: Tales from the Trenches, 1 edition
Authors: Felicia Donovan, Kristyn Bernier
Venue:  (2008)

Cyber Crime Fighters: Tales from the Trenches offers one of the most insightful views of the latest criminal threats to the public: cyber crime. This book provides a good primer on how your personal information can be easily obtained by some of the folks you least want to have it. Maureen Boyle, crime reporter, The Enterprise of Brockton, MA Experts Felicia Donovan and Kristyn Bernier pull no punches in explaining the dangers lurking on the Web, from identity appropriation and theft to using new technology and the Internet to facilitate real-life stalking. Parents especially will be shocked at how easy it is for predators to target and solicit children online. By clearly explaining the dangers that lurk online and highlighting practical tips to minimize your risk, the authors have created a book that not only educates but empowers readers to protect themselves. Jennifer Hemmingsen, columnist and former public safety reporter, The (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) Gazette Written by leading cyber crime investigators, Cyber Crime Fighters: Tales from the Trenches takes you behind the scenes to reveal the truth behind Internet crime, telling shocking stories that arent covered by the media, and showing you exactly how to protect yourself and your children. This is the Internet crime wave as it really looks to law enforcement insiders: the truth about crime on social networks and YouTube, cyber stalking and criminal cyber bullying, online child predators, identity theft, even the latest cell phone crimes. Here are actual cases and actual criminals, presented by investigators who have been recognized by the FBI and the N.H. Department of Justice. These stories are trueand if you want to stay safe, you need to know about them. Learn how todays criminals can track your whereabouts, read your emails, and steal your identity Find out how much of your personal information is already onlineand how to keep the rest private Learn how cyber stalkers really thinkand how to protect yourself from them Protect your laptop, your iPod, and your precious data from getting stolen Encounter the dark side of Internet dating Discover the hidden crime wave on todays specialized social networks Uncover the cell phone upskirters and downblousers and the technicalities that keep them out of jail Follow cyber crime specialists as they investigate and catch online sexual predators Get the real truth about phishing, pharming, criminal spam, and online scams See how investigations really workand why TV crime shows often get it wrong! Walk through your own personal, step-by-step, online safety checkup
Text-critiquing with the EPISTLE system: an author's aid to better syntax
Authors: Lance A. Miller, George E. Heidorn, Karen Jensen
Venue: Proceedings of the May 4-7, 1981, national computer conference (1981)

The experimental EPISTLE system is ultimately intended to provide office workers with intelligent applications for the processing of natural language text, particularly business correspondence. A variety of possible critiques of textual material are identified in this paper, but the discussion focuses on the system's capability to detect several classes of grammatical errors, such as disagreement in number between the subject and the verb. The system's error-detection performance relies critically on its parsing component which determines the syntactic structure of each sentence and the grammatical functions fulfilled by various phrases. Details of the system's operations are provided, and some of the future critiquing objectives are outlined.
Models, languages, and heuristics for distributed computing
Authors: Robert E. Filman, Daniel P. Friedman
Venue: Proceedings of the June 7-10, 1982, national computer conference (1982)

We are interested in the issues surrounding computer problem solving in systems of loosely coupled processes. This paper is a compendium of ideas related to the software issues involved in programming distributed systems. We discuss two aspects of this problem: languages and models for distribution, and heuristics for organizing distributed systems. The second section of the paper discusses the nature of distributed languages and models, and presents a comparison of the attributes of several of the major proposals for distributed computing. The third section is a discussion of some heuristics for the organization of multiple-process systems.
Simulation of Queensland coal rail operations
Authors: Colin Murray Eustace
Venue: Proceedings of the 40th Conference on Winter Simulation (2008)

Queensland is Australia's biggest coal export state, accounting for almost 50% of global traded coking coal and 10% of global traded thermal coal. Significant increases in throughput are required in response to global demand. Coal rail systems provide common infrastructure for a large number of independently operated mines and multiple domestic and export coal terminals. Coal train movements are typically unscheduled, driven by varying mine demand and are complex due to yard and port constraints. The unique complications and unscheduled nature of the rail operations make the challenge of simulating the operations beyond most commercially available rail simulation software, which are generally timetable driven with some localized conflict resolution. This case study describes the development of a simulation model capable of capturing the complexities of the coal rail system and the use of the model as a tool to support decision making for infrastructure upgrades and operational changes. 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
Variability-aware robust design space exploration of chip multiprocessor architectures
Authors: Gianluca Palermo, Cristina Silvano, Vittorio Zaccaria
Venue: Proceedings of the 2009 Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (2009)

In the context of a design space exploration framework for supporting the platform-based design approach, we address the problem of robustness with respect to manufacturing process variations. First, we introduce response surface modeling techniques to enable an efficient evaluation of the statistical measures of execution time and energy consumption for each system configuration. We then introduce a robust design space exploration framework to afford the problem of the impact of manufacturing process variations onto the system-level metrics and consequently onto the application-level constraints. We finally provide a comparison of our design space exploration technique with conventional approaches.1
Light Linear Logic with Controlled Weakening
Authors: Max Kanovich
Venue: Proceedings of the 2009 International Symposium on Logical Foundations of Computer Science (2009)

Starting from Girard's seminal paper on light linear logic (LLL), a number of works investigated on systems derived from linear logic to capture polynomial time computation within the computation-as-cut-elimination paradigm.The original syntax of LLL is too complicated, mainly because one has to deal with sequents which not just consist of formulas but also of `blocks' of formulas. We circumvent the complications of `blocks' by introducing a new modality $\nabla$ which is exclusively in charge of `additive blocks'. The most interesting feature of this purely multiplicative $\nabla$ is the possibility of the second-order encodings of additive connectives.The resulting system (with the traditional syntax), called Easy-LLL, is still powerful to represent any deterministic polynomial time computations in purely logical terms. Unlike the original LLL, Easy-LLL admits polynomial time strong normalization, namely, cut elimination terminates in a unique way in polytime by any choice of cut reduction strategies.
BER Performance Evaluation in 2 × 2 MIMO Spatial Multiplexing Systems under Rician Fading Channels
Authors: Yutaka Murakami, Takashi Matsuoka, Masayuki Orihashi
Venue: IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences (2008)

In this paper, BER (Bit Error Rate) performance in 2 × 2 MIMO (Multiple-Input Multiple-Output) spatial multiplexing systems under Rician fading channels is evaluated. We examine BER performances employing inverse channel detection (ICD) under Rician fading channels, adding the phase of the direct path and Rician factor as a parameter. The results clearly indicate that the phase of the direct path and Rician factor have a great influence on BER performances employing ICD under Rician fading channels.
Investigating Cache Parameters of x86 Family Processors
Authors: Vlastimil Babka, Petr Tůma
Venue: Proceedings of the 2009 SPEC Benchmark Workshop on Computer Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking (2009)

The excellent performance of the contemporary x86 processors is partially due to the complexity of their memory architecture, which therefore plays a role in performance engineering efforts. Unfortunately, the detailed parameters of the memory architecture are often not easily available, which makes it difficult to design experiments and evaluate results when the memory architecture is involved. To remedy this lack of information, we present experiments that investigate detailed parameters of the memory architecture, focusing on such information that is typically not available elsewhere.
The operationalisation of e-governance
Authors: Jamal Shahin, Matthias Finger
Venue: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance (2008)

This paper will address changes in understanding governance processes thanks to new ICTs. Electronic governance, or the facilitation of governance through ICT and related tools, provides a unique opportunity for reassessment of the traditional methods, processes, and outputs of the public sector. This paper addresses some of these key opportunities and the challenges that accompany them. Practically and concretely, this paper intends to provide support to policy makers by addressing the challenges of developing a strategy for implementation of change towards governance structures that recognise the need to improve participatory methods in policy making whilst also assuring that exclusion - of a digital nature or otherwise - does not render the process counter-productive. It will raise questions of representativeness, meaningfulness, the role of existing institutional elements in current governmental structures, and the question of political will for moving towards a governance that makes use of ICT-based means. First, we shall address the results and implications of the electronic government debate and outline the challenges that still remain. This will include a stock-taking exercise in the domain of e-government, which builds upon exiting literature in the field, notably the UN Global E-government Readiness Reports as well as thinking towards future research agendas for e-governance, which shall enable us, in Part 3, to move on to discuss innovations in governance, through an analysis of the concept in a liberal democratic context. The fourth part of the paper will address new tools and applications and how they can encourage change in public sector governance.
IT Security Management Best Practice Handbook: Building, Running and Managing a IT Security Management Governance, Risk and Compliance Process - Ready ... bringing ITIL and GRC Theory into Practice
Authors: Gerard Blokdijk, Ivanka Menken
Venue:  (2008)

Covers every detail, including some missed in other books. This thorough book provides a clear roadmap to designing, implementing and operating IT Security Management. The author leaves no key process out and completely covers everything from initial concept to measuring effectiveness and process improvement.The book starts with an initial strategy that is focused on planning IT Security Management services that are completely aligned to requirements and are based on a mission statement. This business-oriented approach is refreshing and will keep IT grounded in the real reasons for a IT Security Management. More importantly is the process for careful selection of services to provide. An overly ambitious set of service goals will kill a IT Security Management implementation early in its life by offering too much before there is a stable IT Security Management process in place. This book is realistic and lays the foundation for a successful implementation.The section on the actual design of the IT Security Management structure provides insights and information that can be applied to a large number of solutions. Since IT Security Management will be organized in accordance with requirements and unique mission statements, this section of the book is like a catalog of patterns. It has excellent tips on how to best structure IT Security Management to meet requirements and mission. The information on accurately estimating requirements is consistent with industry best practices and something that, believe it or not, is often overlooked when IT Security Management is established.This book gets into the meat by thoroughly covering the processes that are essential to running IT Security Management. There are many topics that stand out as both unique [to books of this genre] and reflect best practices by the best-run IT Security Management Managers. Examples are change control, disaster recovery and vendor management. These topics show that the author not only considers business alignment, but also cross-functional alignment within IT.Professional resources and underlying technology are provided in detail.This book contains an in-depth coverage of operational requirements for IT Security Management once it has been implemented. It hits all of the critical success factors, such as performance metrics, service level agreements, communications and internal evaluations. It even has a chapter on marketing, which is something that is important but not often done by most IT Security Management Managers. This proactive approach to keeping users (your customers) informed of new services, accomplishments and tips is excellent and will go a long way towards attaining high customer satisfaction scores - not to mention proving the value of the IT Security Management to IT and business management.You will find this book to be one of the best for planning and implementing world-class IT Security Management.
The genetic algorithm for breast tumor diagnosis-The case of DNA viruses
Authors: Ming-Hseng Tseng, Hung-Chang Liao
Venue: Applied Soft Computing (2009)

The purpose of this study is to determine the bioinformatics between breast tumors and DNA viruses. To extract significant factors for breast tumors, two methods - analysis of variance (ANOVA) and information measurement - are used; then, the results show that human papillomavirus (HPV) is not significant factor. Further, genetic algorithm (GA)-based data mining was submitted to obtain the rule between other DNA viruses and breast cancer/fibroadenoma. The GA rule shows that the effect of breast cancer includes {herpes simplex virus (HSV)-1 (-), human herpesvirus (HHV)-8 (-,+)}, {HSV-1(-)}, or {HHV-8(-)}, and that the effect of fibroadenoma includes {HSV-1(+), HHV-8(+)}, {HSV-1(+)}, or {HHV-8(+)}. Furthermore, the Mantel-Haenszel test shows that GA rules make a distinction between breast cancer and fibroadenoma. Finally, regarding diagnosis cost and accuracy, this study suggests that considering HSV-1 alone or with HHV-8 is optimal, but considering only HHV-8 yields less accurate results.
Dependability assessment of by-wire control systems using fault injection
Authors: S. Blanc, A. Bonastre, P. J. Gil
Venue: Journal of Systems Architecture: the EUROMICRO Journal (2009)

This paper is focused on the validation by means of physical fault injection at pin-level of a time-triggered communication controller: the TTP/C versions C1 and C2. The controller is a commercial off-the-shelf product used in the design of by-wire systems. Drive-by-wire and fly-by-wire active safety controls aim to prevent accidents. They are considered to be of critical importance because a serious situation may directly affect user safety. Therefore, dependability assessment is vital in their design. This work was funded by the European project 'Fault Injection for TTA' and it is divided into two parts. In the first part, there is a verification of the dependability specifications of the TTP communication protocol, based on TTA, in the presence of faults directly induced in communication lines. The second part contains a validation and improvement proposal for the architecture in case of data errors. Such errors are due to faults that occurred during writing (or reading) actions on memory or during data storage.
Data Allocation for SPM Based on Knapsack Problem
Authors: Yingbiao Yao, Bin Wang, Huahua Chen, Jianwu Zhang
Venue: Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Computer Engineering and Technology - Volume 02 (2009)

Data allocation of on-chip scratch-pad memory is a key problem for the performance of embedded system employing SPM as on-chip data memory. Based on the solution to knapsack problem, we propose its knapsack model then employ dynamic planning method to give its optimal algorithm with the complexity of O(nC). Experiment results show that the method proposed in this paper can obtain the optimal result during static or dynamic data allocation of SPM.
Automated computer controlled editing sound system (ACCESS)
Authors: William R. Deitrick
Venue: Proceedings of the May 19-22, 1980, national computer conference (1980)

The ACCESS hardware is comprised of eight 200 megabyte moving head, removable disk pack disk drives. There are two microcomputers, a disk drive controller, two auxiliary memory banks, three sound data channels and a two channel independent high speed memory bus (DMA) which interconnects all of the preceding devices. There are various peripheral controllers for interfacing and controlling external equipment such as video tape record/playback units, magnetic tape recorder/players, sound amplifiers, level monitors, and SMPTE code conversion units. The CRT terminal (with keyboard), a 300 line per minute printer, video monitor, speakers, and the operations console which contains, switches, indicators, and sound modification controls are all located in the operations room which is about 60 feet from the computer room where all the other equipment is located. The computer electronics hardware is mechanized on two sided printed circuit cards (PCB) approximately 5 X 8 inches, with wire-wrapped integrated circuit sockets, and interface, connectors on both ends. The PCBs plug into standard 7 inch high, 19 inch wide card cages with combination wire-wrapped and printed circuit backplanes. Ribbon cables on the back edge of the PCBs interface between card cages and to external peripheral equipment. The card cages, disk drive controller, and power supplies are mounted in a standard cabinet 84 in H X 19 in W X 24 in D. 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
Latent Style Model: Discovering writing styles for calligraphy works
Authors: Yueting Zhuang, Weiming Lu, Jiangqin Wu
Venue: Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation (2009)

Chinese calligraphy works is a valuable part of the Chinese culture heritage. More and more calligraphy works images are digitized, preserved and exhibited in digital library. Users always want to appreciate the style-similar works simultaneously. To satisfy their need, calligraphic style representation and browsing calligraphy works by its style are the most important problems to be addressed. This paper proposes calligraphic style representation which is a multinomial probability distribution over visual words, and Latent Style Model to discover the style of calligraphy works and organize the works by style. In our experiments, we evaluated various factors that influence the model, and proved the effectiveness of the style representation and the model. At last, we illustrate the Calligraphic Style Browser to organize and exhibit the resource according to the styles.
Bayesian segmentation of hepatic biopsy color images in the JPEG compressed domain
Authors: Mihaela Gordan, Camelia Popa, Georgiana Nagy, Serban Meza, Aurel Vlaicu, Petru Mircea
Venue: Proceedings of the 8th conference on Signal processing, computational geometry and artificial vision (2008)

This paper proposes a fast and accurate approach for the identification and quantification of the hepatic fibrosis from liver biopsies using Bayesian tissue classification methods. The approach is based on the pixel level color information, but also on the local texture information in 8×8 pixel neighborhoods, making thus use of the already available information in the microscopic images at hand by considering their representation in the JPEG format. Thus, the image storage format itself provides the information needed for an accurate identification/segmentation of the hepatic biopsies into tissue vs. microscopic slide and further, of the tissue into healthy tissue vs. hepatic fibrosis. The experimental results of the proposed method prove not only a good accuracy but also a fast classification, done to the expense of the transform domain data, which makes it sufficiently to perform a block classification rather than a pixel-level classification. Whereas complicating to some extent the training phase, the classification (test) phase is significantly faster. Also the accuracy provided by the implicit use of texture information is superior to the one based by pixel-level color info alone.