ppxscal/embedding_network huggingface dataset:
One Nation Under Blog: Forget the Facts...Believe What I Say!
Authors: David Wallace
Venue:  (2008)

Freedom of speech is alive and well in the blogosphere, but at what price? One Nation Under Blog explores the enormous significance and potential impact of Web logs on every aspect of our lives. From our children's comments on MySpace, to an employee's discussion of internal corporate issues, to fabricated statements about a presidential candidate--blogs can change lives forever with the click of a mouse. Imagine how history might have been altered if blogging had been available and used to target presidents like George Washington, John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. Wallace shares his first-hand experience with the impact of blogs while Mayor of Sugar Land, Texas, Homeland Security Advisory Council appointee and contributor to a nationally recognized Internet safety program. One Nation Under Blog introduces an intense discussion on how blogs affect our sense of security and the need for a code of conduct among bloggers for future generations.
Biochemically-engineered molecular communication interface and propagation system
Authors: Yuki Moritani, Satoshi Hiyama, Tatsuya Suda
Venue: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Bio-Inspired Models of Network, Information and Computing Sytems (2008)

The authors of this paper have proposed the concept of "molecular communication". The molecular communication uses molecules (i.e., chemical signals) as an information medium and allows biological and artificially-created nano- or cell-scale devices to communicate over a short distance. It is a new and biologically inspired communication paradigm and is different from the existing communication paradigm that uses electromagnetic waves (i.e., electronic and optical signals) as an information medium. This paper focuses on designs of a molecular communication interface and a molecular propagation system and their preliminary experiments to show the feasibilities.
Practical guidelines for EDP long-range planning
Authors: John V. Soden, George M. Crandell,  Jr.
Venue: Proceedings of the May 19-22, 1975, national computer conference and exposition (1975)

This paper summarizes the approaches some major organizations are taking toward EDP long-range planning (LRP) and presents what we believe are useful and practical guidelines for others involved in, or contemplating, such an activity. The information presented here was gathered during an April 1974 working conference on long-range planning for information systems cosponsored by McKinsey & Company, Inc., and the University of California at Los Angeles Graduate School of Management.
Application modelling & simulation of data flow in disaster events management
Authors: Jiri F. Urbanek
Venue: Proceedings of the 8th conference on Simulation, modelling and optimization (2008)

CAMouflage means last baseline of Czech University of Defence R&D's project acronym [5]: "Computer Aided Mobile Roaming university made NET for last stage mile". At the ground of former baseline named "CYBERSYS prototype", which was alpha and beta intensive operational tested already, the useCaseCAMouflage represents project's third milestone - initial operational capability. Innovation & iteration processes of projects life cycles were enforced by conditions change of situation awareness and actors requirements. Further function's enriching of the CAMouflage system is necessary for a making of dynamic modelling & simulating & scenarios creation ability via the method UML, (UP)/DYVELOP by means of its dynamic blazons development. It is enabling to serve for relevant entities and domains behaviour of disaster events driven human activities of crisis/emergency management practitioners in various environments. This is a presumption of four project's milestone fruition - product release. Here useCaseBlazons are superior to display & simulate of dynamic events in live PowerPoint presentation, which will be dramatized in Santander finally.
Succinct and I/O Efficient Data Structures for Traversal in Trees
Authors: Craig Dillabaugh, Meng He, Anil Maheshwari
Venue: Proceedings of the 19th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (2008)

We present two results for path traversal in trees, where the traversal is performed in an asymptotically optimal number of I/Os and the tree structure is represented succinctly. Our first result is for bottom-up traversal that starts with a node in the tree T and traverses a path to the root. For blocks of size B, a tree on N nodes, and for a path of length K, we design data structures that permit traversal of the bottom-up path in O(K/B) I/Os using only $2N + \frac{\epsilon N }{\log_B{N}} + o(N)$ bits, for an arbitrarily selected constant, &epsilon;, where 0 < &epsilon;< 1. Our second result is for top-down traversal in binary trees. We store T using (3 + q)N + o(N) bits, where q is the number of bits required to store a key, while top-down traversal can still be performed in an asymptotically optimal number of I/Os.
The role of continuing education in computer science
Authors: Walter J. Karplus
Venue: Proceedings of the May 19-22, 1975, national computer conference and exposition (1975)

In the present context, "Continuing Education" refers to formal courses offered to active professionals for purposes of career development rather than with an academic degree objective. The general need for continuing education in a rapidly evolving field such as Computer Science is so well accepted as to require no further justification at this time. Rather, it is the purpose of this paper to consider the diversity of approaches to advanced education outside the conventional academic framework and to comment on current attitudes and trends.
A hybrid evolutionary approach for heterogeneous multiprocessor scheduling
Authors: C. K. Goh, E. J. Teoh, K. C. Tan
Venue: Soft Computing - A Fusion of Foundations, Methodologies and Applications (2009)

This article investigates the assignment of tasks with interdependencies in a heterogeneous multiprocessor environment; specific to this problem, task execution time varies depending on the nature of the tasks as well as with the processing element assigned. The solution to this heterogeneous multiprocessor scheduling problem involves the optimization of complete task assignments and processing order between the assigned processors to arrive at a minimum makespan, subject to a precedence constraint. To solve an NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem, as is typified by this problem, this paper presents a hybrid evolutionary algorithm that incorporates two local search heuristics, which exploit the intrinsic structure of the solution, as well as through the use of specialized genetic operators to promote exploration of the search space. The effectiveness and contribution of the proposed features are subsequently validated on a set of benchmark problems characterized by different degrees of communication times, task, and processor heterogeneities. Preliminary results from simulations demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm in finding useful schedule sets based on the set of new benchmark problems.
Line Transversals and Pinning Numbers
Authors: Otfried Cheong
Venue: Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Algorithms and Computation (2009)

A line transversal to a family of convex objects in ℝ d is a line intersecting each member of the family. There is a rich theory of geometric transversals, see for instance the surveys of Danzer et al. [6], Eckhoff [7], Goodman et al. [8] and Wenger [11].
The interacting-particle algorithm with dynamic heating and cooling
Authors: Orcun Molvalioglu, Zelda B. Zabinsky, Wolf Kohn
Venue: Journal of Global Optimization (2009)

We consider an interacting-particle algorithm which is population-based like genetic algorithms and also has a temperature parameter analogous to simulated annealing. The temperature parameter of the interacting-particle algorithm has to cool down to zero in order to achieve convergence towards global optima. The way this temperature parameter is tuned affects the performance of the search process and we implement a meta-control methodology that adapts the temperature to the observed state of the samplings. The main idea is to solve an optimal control problem where the heating/cooling rate of the temperature parameter is the control variable. The criterion of the optimal control problem consists of user defined performance measures for the probability density function of the particles' locations including expected objective function value of the particles and the spread of the particles' locations. Our numerical results indicate that with this control methodology the temperature fluctuates (both heating and cooling) during the progress of the algorithm to meet our performance measures. In addition our numerical comparison of the meta-control methodology with classical cooling schedules demonstrate the benefits in employing the meta-control methodology.
Fixed-Coefficient Iterative Bilateral Filters for Graph-Based Image Processing
Authors: Chang Jian, Kohei Inoue, Kenji Hara, Kiichi Urahama
Venue: Proceedings of the 3rd Pacific Rim Symposium on Advances in Image and Video Technology (2009)

We present a graph-based image processing algorithm using fast iterative bilateral filters. The computation of bilateral filters is accelerated with fixation of the coefficients during iterations and their approximate decomposition further speeds up the computation. We show that this fixed-coefficient iterative bilateral filter is an alternative solver for optimization problems in graph-based data analyses and apply its fast algorithm to graph-based image processing tasks. Performance of the present algorithm is demonstrated with experiments of contrast enhancement and smoothing of images using cross bilateral filters, in addition to semi-supervised image segmentation and colorization of monochromatic images.
A Novel Hierarchical Framework for Object-Based Visual Attention
Authors: Rebecca Marfil, Antonio Bandera, Juan Antonio Rodríguez, Francisco Sandoval
Venue: Attention in Cognitive Systems: 5th International Workshop on Attention in Cognitive Systems, WAPCV 2008 Fira, Santorini, Greece, May 12, 2008 Revised Selected Papers (2009)

This paper proposes an artificial visual attention model which builds a saliency map associated to the sensed scene using a novel perception-based grouping process. This grouping mechanism is performed by a hierarchical irregular structure, and it takes into account colour contrast, edge and depth information. The resulting saliency map is composed by different parts or `pre-attentive objects' which correspond to units of visual information that can be bound into a coherent and stable object. Besides, the ability to handle dynamic scenarios is included in the proposed model by introducing a tracking mechanism of moving objects, which is also performed using the same hierarchical structure. This allows to conduct the whole attention mechanism in the same structure, reducing the computational time. Experimental results show that the performance of the proposed model is compatible with the existing models of visual attention whereas the object-based nature of the proposed approach renders advantages of precise localization of the focus of attention and proper representation of the shapes of the attended `pre-attentive objects'.
Effect of foreign exchange management on firm performance using genetic algorithm and VaR
Authors: Hochan Kim, Sungmin Hur
Venue: Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal (2009)

Management of foreign exchange risk is considered to be as important as trading results in firm performance when international trading and transaction of different kind of currencies are getting popular. Most previous researches on this issue have been based on the foreign exchange market and financial investing and accounting, focusing on theoretical point of view. And it is difficult to apply these research results to each company, since all companies in industry have different financial circumstances. In this paper, the solution for the foreign exchange management is proposed using GA and VaR which is very practical to export-oriented companies. The developed software enables a user to specify the criteria for the foreign exchange trading condition, constraints on dealing amount, GA operator and penalty, and variables in VaR. This approach is useful for managing foreign exchange holdings of a company in a practical way, analyzing past exchange rate trend with dealing results.
Behavior analysis through reputation propagation in a multi-context environment
Authors: Ebrahim Bagheri, Ali A. Ghorbani
Venue: Proceedings of the 2006 International Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust: Bridge the Gap Between PST Technologies and Business Services (2006)

Reputation is a distributed, socially ascribed, and collective belief of the society towards the stand point of a single person, group, role or even a non-human identity within the context of that society. Therefore, reputation can be only formalized based on the underlying principals and values of a specific context. In this paper we propose a model that clearly depicts how the reputation of a person in one context can affect his reputation in other contexts. This model provides a reputation propagation scheme that allows us to analyze the overall behavior of a person within the scope of a multi-context environment. It also caters suitable mechanisms to anticipate a proper initial reputation value for a person within the contexts that he has not been present in before.
Disturbance Fuzzy Approach-based Sliding Mode Control on the Working Attitude Adjusting Device of ROV
Authors: Heping Liu, Zhenbang Gong
Venue: Proceedings of the 2009 International Asia Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (2009)

This paper describes the principle, control method of working attitude of ROV (Remotely Operated Vehicle). While the manipulator is reaching out under the water, the change of the center of the gravity will cause the robot pitching. It will take more time to make a maneuver for a pitched robot. A control device was developed to balance the attitude of the robot. A sliding mode controller was designed to control the balance device, with which the disturbance and uncertainties were approached by a fuzzy system. The experiments were carried. The test results were obtained for the control of pitch change of the robot caused by the manipulators and detecting pan/tilt. The availability of the balance device including its control strategy was proved.
A Labeled Natural Deduction System for a Fragment of CTL*
Authors: Andrea Masini, Luca Viganò, Marco Volpe
Venue: Proceedings of the 2009 International Symposium on Logical Foundations of Computer Science (2009)

We give a sound and complete labeled natural deduction system for an interesting fragment of $\mathit{CTL^*}$, namely the until-free version of $\mathit{BCTL^*}$. The logic $\mathit{BCTL^*}$ is obtained by referring to a more general semantics than that of $\mathit{CTL^*}$, where we only require that the set of paths in a model is closed under taking suffixes (i.e. is suffix-closed) and is closed under putting together a finite prefix of one path with the suffix of any other path beginning at the same state where the prefix ends (i.e. is fusion-closed). In other words, this logic does not enjoy the so-called limit-closure property of the standard $\mathit{CTL^*}$ validity semantics.
FBT: filled buffer technique to reduce code size for VLIW processors
Authors: Talal Bonny, Jörg Henkel
Venue: Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (2008)

VLIW processors provide higher performance and better efficiency etc. than RISC processors in specific domains like multimedia applications etc. A disadvantage is the bloated code size of the compiled application code. Therefore, reducing the application code size is a design key issue for VLIW processors. In this paper we adapt a hardware-supported approach called "Deflate" [12] which has been used before in data compression. It can significantly reduce the code size compared to state-of-the-art approaches for VLIW processors as we will show within this work. In fact, we enhance the "Deflate" algorithm by using a new technique called Filled Buffer Technique which can be applied to any Lempel-Ziv family algorithms to improve compression ratio in average by more than 13% compared to the sole "Deflate" algorithm. Using our Filled Buffer Technique in conjunction with "V2F" [15] improves the compression ratio by 10%. We have conducted evaluations using a representative set of benchmarks (from Mediabench and Mibench) and have applied our scheme to two VLIW processors, namely TMS320C62x and TMS320C64x. We achieved allover compression ratios as low as 44% using the "Deflate" algorithm (61% and 56% in average for TMS320C62x and TMS320C64x, respectively).
New Frontiers in Scientific Discovery - Commemorating the Life and Work of Zdzislaw Pawlak: Book Edition of Fundamenta Informaticae
Authors: E. Orlowska, J.F. Peters, G. Rozenberg, A. Skowron
Venue:  (2007)

This book is dedicated to the memory of Zdzislaw Pawlak, a great scientist and a great human being. A short perspective on the life and work of Zdzislaw Pawlak is given at the beginning of this volume. During his lifetime, the research interests of Pawlak were rich and varied. His research ranged from his pioneering work on knowledge description systems and rough sets during the 1970s and 1980s to his work on the design of computers, information retrieval, modeling conflict analysis and negotiation, genetic grammars and molecular computing. One should also mention his active lifelong interest in painting, photography and poetry. During his lifetime, Pawlak nurtured worldwide interest in approximation, approximate reasoning and rough set theory and its applications. A compelling evidence of the scientific influence of Pawlak is the literature on rough sets that now includes over 4000 publications as well as the growth and maturity of the International Rough Set Society. Many papers that appear in this book reflect the profound influence of a number of research initiatives by Pawlak in a whole range of research areas. It can also be inferred from the papers included in this volume, that research concerning the foundations and applications of rough sets remains a vivid and still growing research area worldwide. During the past 35 years since the introduction of knowledge description systems in the 1970s by Pawlak, the theory and applications of rough sets as well as the advent of approximation spaces to facilitate perception and observation concerning classes of objects has developed in a truly impressive way.
Vertical Handoff Decision Algorithm for Integrated UMTS and LEO Satellite Networks
Authors: Patrick Nay, Chi Zhou
Venue: Proceedings of the 2009 WRI International Conference on Communications and Mobile Computing - Volume 02 (2009)

As one standard of third generation (3G) cellular network, Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) can be integrated with Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite networks. With such a system, mobile phones could for example benefit from a global coverage anywhere and anytime by using LEO satellite networks in remote areas not covered by UMTS cellular networks. For this interworking communication system, we provide a possible network architecture and we design and develop a Vertical Handoff Decision Algorithm (VHDA) which will decide when it is best to perform a vertical handoff for a mobile user in the overlaid area between these two networks. The VHDA will depend on two leading factors: the performance of Quality of Service (QoS) of both networks and the cost of handoffs. We also simulate this scheme using MATLAB.
Experiences from Teaching an Interdisciplinary Multimedia Course
Authors: Panagiotis T. Metaxas, Naomi Ribner
Venue: Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems - Volume 2 (1999)

At Wellesley College very rarely do the Fine Art and Computer Science faculty cross paths. That was the case until two years ago when we taught an experimental course that brought together work the authors were doing in their respective fields. In this course, art and computer science students worked in assigned pairs to produce an interactive multimedia project on a topic of their choice. The project had to be taken from conception to publication on CD ROM. Theoretical material from both disciplines was presented in addition to the hands-on production skills. The projects covered a diverse range of topics, including: an interactive museum, a children?s game, the nature of fractals, a jazz tutorial. The results far exceeded the instructors? expectations for the excellence of the projects. In the process, the students learned a great deal about multimedia and an important lesson about the nature of collaboration. The course has become since a showcase of the schools interdisciplinary offerings and has created an increasing stream of Media Arts and Sciences majors.
Quantum-Zeno Control of Collisional Entanglement in a Bose-Josephson Junction
Authors: Amichay Vardi, Yuri Khodorkovsky, Gershon Kurizki
Venue: Proceedings of the 2009 Third International Conference on Quantum, Nano and Micro Technologies (2009)

We propose a scheme to control the collision-induced entanglement between atoms in the two-site Bose-Hubbard model, by means of site-indiscriminate noise. This decoherence mechanism induces the continuous measurement of the quasi-momentum, protecting single-particle coherence via a Bose-enhanced many-body Quantum-Zeno effect.
The design of a firmware engineering tool: the microcode compiler
Authors: Perng-Yi Ma
Venue: Proceedings of the May 4-7, 1981, national computer conference (1981)

The explosive rate of progress of hardware technology has made the microprogrammable processor characterized by horizontal microcoding extremely attractive for many high speed and real time applications, such as signal processors. However, the human microprogrammer currently has little but assembly language and text editor to help with code developments. The lack of software tools to support microcode generation results in high costs and poor reliability especially when the volume of microcode increases. The application of software tools to microprogramming will be termed firmware engineering in the remainder of this paper.
Quantum leap cluster upgrade
Authors: Tirthankar Das, Ellard T. Roush, Pramod Nandana
Venue: Proceedings of the 2nd Bangalore Annual Compute Conference (2009)

This paper describes upgrading a running high availability cluster while applications are still running. The whole software stack can be upgraded including operating system, cluster software, volume manager software, application software etc with almost zero downtime. This is done by splitting the cluster in two partitions and upgrading one at a time. This method is different from other split mode upgrade technology by providing the ability to complete all software initialization on the partition running the new software while the older partition hosts service. We call this method Quantum Leap because the cluster leaps from one version of the software to the other.