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Forming Square-Styled Brush Written Kanji through Calligraphic Skill Knowledge
Venue: Proceedings of the 1996 International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems (1996)

We propose computer formation of brush-written Kanji characters for training system of brush writing using calligraphic knowledge. The style of brush handwriting depends mainly on the way of using a writing brush. Brush writing skills include the direction of brush at the beginning, curvature and turning the brush, the brush-up at the termination point in a stroke. We revise the calligraphic knowledge base ccording to the above mentioned brush writing skills.For simulating real brush movement, we represent the brush contact form that is the brush shape on the writing plane as a brush-touch. The system can control the size and direction of this brush-touch during the brush simulation. The system simulates the real brush writing to move the brush-touch along the skeleton letter shape in the standard database. We can get the brush written Kanji from the locus of the brush-touch movement. This system is also useful for students learning how to write Japanese letters beautifully with brush.
Two finite elements for general composite beams with piezoelectric actuators and sensors
Authors: Maria Augusta Neto, Wenbin Yu, Sitikantha Roy
Venue: Finite Elements in Analysis and Design (2009)

Two finite elements for the static analysis of smart beams with piezoelectric sensors/actuators are presented: ad hoc smart beam element (ADSBE) and variational asymptotic smart beam element (VASBE). Both elements rely on the computation of the cross-sectional matrices associated with the electromechanical properties of the beam cross-section. ADSBE uses the Timoshenko cross-sectional stiffness matrix computed by the VABS program, and the electric field is assumed constant across the thickness of each piezoelectric layer. Taking advantage of the cross-section discretization of the beam, all the matrices related to the electric field are also computed by performing a numerical integration using the VABS program that was extended to account for these new quantities. VASBE is based on the fully coupled Timoshenko theory for smart beams constructed using the variational asymptotic method. This theory decouples the original three-dimensional electromechanical problem to a two-dimensional electromechanical cross-sectional analysis and a one-dimensional beam analysis. The cross-sectional analysis provides a one-dimensional constitutive model for the beam analysis without a priori assumptions regarding the geometry of the cross-section, the electric field distribution, and the location of smart materials. Several examples available in the literature are used to validate the accuracy of these two new elements. The numerical results obtained using ADSBE and VASBE correlated well with other published results. For structures that are out of the limits in which one structure may be modeled as a beam, the ADSBE showed considerable errors and, therefore, should not be used. Nevertheless, VASBE was able to predict the 3D results available in the literature with an error smaller than 8%.
Implementation and empirical evaluation of voice-enabled web applications
Authors: Shuchih Ernest Chang
Venue: International Journal of Information Technology and Management (2009)

While most users currently receive web services from web browser interfaces, pervasive computing is emerging and offering new ways of accessing internet applications from any device at any location. As a result, there is a growing demand for technology that will allow users to connect to the internet from anywhere through devices that are not suitable for the use of traditional keyboard, mouse and monitor. In this research, cellular phone was chosen as the pervasive device for accessing a multimodal internet application prototype, a voice-enabled web system, through voice user interface technology. The impacts of the forthcoming pervasive computing technology on consumer attitude and the acceptance rate of consumers on new pervasive interface were studied using the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB), a widely used technology acceptance theory. The research findings may be referenced for the purpose of the design and development of successful business applications to catch the revolutionary opportunity and benefit of Voice-enabled Web Systems (VWS).
Dependability Evaluation with Dynamic Reliability Block Diagrams and Dynamic Fault Trees
Authors: Salvatore Distefano, Antonio Puliafito
Venue: IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (2009)

Dependability evaluation is an important step in designing and analyzing (critical) systems. Introducing control and/or computing devices to automate processes increases the system complexity with an impact on the overall dependability. This occurs as a consequence of interferences and similar effects that can not be adequately managed through reliability block diagrams (RBD), fault trees (FT) and reliability graphs (RG), since the statistical independence assumption is not satisfied. Also more enhanced formalisms such as dynamic FT (DFT) might not be adequate to represent all the behavioral aspects of dynamic systems. To overcome these problems we developed a new formalism derived from RBD: the dynamic RBD (DRBD). DRBD exploit the concept of dependence as the building block to represent dynamic behaviors, allowing to compose the dependencies and adequately managing the arising conflicts by means of a priority algorithm. In this paper we explain how to use the DRBD notation by specifying a practical methodology. Starting from the system knowledge, the proposed methodology drives to the overall system reliability evaluation through the entire phases of modeling and analysis. An example taken from literature, consisting of a multiprocessor distributed computing system, is analyzed.
Email licensing
Authors: Yuh-Jzer Joung, Chu-Jui Yang
Venue: Journal of Network and Computer Applications (2009)

We propose a framework, email licensing, that allows email users to determine whose messages and in what content and conditions are authorized to come into their inboxes. The idea is to treat email address as a data owned by the addressee, and any use of the data (that is, to send messages to the addressee) must be authorized by the person through the issue of licenses. Subject to laws, an email license (EL) represents a legal agreement between the sender and the recipient upon what type of messages can be delivered, and in what restrictions. EL also enables commercial email senders to adopt a more constructive and legitimate approach to deliver their emails by negotiating with and crediting their customers in reading their emails.
Using OLPC laptop technology as a computer science case study teaching tool
Authors: Suzanne Fox Buchele
Venue: Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges (2009)

The One Laptop Per Child project has succeeded in developing a novel computer that is tailored to the particular needs of the developing world. The use of this example of a modern computer systems design challenge can be a valuable case study as a teaching tool in computer science. The OLPC laptop is a multiple-purpose computer that is rugged, low-cost, low-power, mesh-networked, and inexpensive. An overview of the technology in the laptops is given, as well as curricula suggestions for using the laptops in an undergraduate computer science curriculum.
Debugging AJAX in Production
Authors: Eric Schrock
Venue: Queue (2009)

Lacking proper browser support, what steps can we take to debug production AJAX code?
VIGO: instrumental interaction in multi-surface environments
Authors: Clemens Nylandsted Klokmose, Michel Beaudouin-Lafon
Venue: Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Human factors in computing systems (2009)

This paper addresses interaction in multi-surface environments and questions whether the current application-centric approaches to user interfaces are adequate in this context, and presents an alternative approach based on instrumental interaction. The paper presents the VIGO (Views, Instruments, Governors and Objects) architecture and describes a prototype implementation. It then illustrates how to apply VIGO to support distributed interaction. Finally, it demonstrates how a classical Ubicomp interaction technique, Pick-and-Drop, can be easily implemented using VIGO.
Using Little's Law to estimate cycle time and cost
Authors: Kristin Rust
Venue: Proceedings of the 40th Conference on Winter Simulation (2008)

Well designed models can provide timely answers and summarize understanding of complex systems. Simple use cases can illustrate the applicability and inferences possible with even the most general models. This paper uses Little's Law to demonstrate the prediction of fab operating conditions and associated cost implications.
Recommendations for increasing the availability of capital
Authors: Richard C. Pflager
Venue: Proceedings of the May 19-22, 1980, national computer conference (1980)

Mark Twain's proverbial statement about the weather--- "Everybody talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it"---might be equally applicable to small businesses. Everyone seems to be talking about small businesses these days, but is there really enough that is being done to help them? There are, to be sure, a number of organizations that work on their behalf such as the Small Business Administration in the government sector and venture capital firms in the private sector. There has also been, in recent years, a rapid increase in the number of small business investment companies (SBIC's) as well as minority enterprise small business investment companies (MESBIC's) both federally licensed under the Small Business Investment Act of 1958. More encouraging than the increase in the number of these organizations is the increase in investment funds that they have made available to small businesses: $33 million for MESBIC's and $255 million for SBIC's as of March 31, 1979. 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
Traceability patterns: an approach to requirement-component traceability in agile software development
Authors: Arbi Ghazarian
Venue: Proceedings of the 8th conference on Applied computer scince (2008)

Requirements traceability, regardless of the process used to produce a software system, is an important quality attribute for the resulting software product. However, existing approaches to achieving requirements traceability have been specifically designed for traditional software development with formal requirements processes. With the wide industry adoption of agile development methodologies, where requirements are captured and communicated through informal channels, the applicability of existing traceability approaches to agile software projects has been restricted. In this paper, we introduce traceability patterns as a solution to requirement-component tractability in agile software development. In our approach, we achieve traceability through source code, which is the main development artifact in agile methodologies.
The Emerging Field of Semantic Scientific Knowledge Integration
Authors: Deborah L. McGuinness, Peter Fox, Boyan Brodaric, Elisa Kendall
Venue: IEEE Intelligent Systems (2009)

Interest in and requirements for the next generation of information technology for science are expanding. e-Science has become a growing subject of discussion covering topics such as grid computing for science as well as knowledge-enhanced scientific data retrieval. The demand for deep integration of scientific data and knowledge within and among disciplines is also growing, as larger and broader science questions are becoming more common. Concurrent with the growing demand for next generation information technology for science is a commensurate growth in semantic technologies. We seek to explore the general space of semantic e-Science while focusing on the support and potential for deep data and knowledge integration.
A percolating hard sphere model
Authors: Codina Cotar, Alexander E. Holroyd, David Revelle
Venue: Random Structures Algorithms (2009)

Given a homogeneous Poisson point process in ℝd, H&auml;ggstr&ouml;m and Meester (Random Struct Algorithms 9 (1996) 295315) asked whether it is possible to place spheres (of differing radii) centred at the points, in a translation-invariant way, so that the spheres do not overlap but there is an unbounded component of touching spheres. We prove that the answer is yes in sufficiently high dimension. &copy; 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Random Struct. Alg., 2009
There are finitely many Q-polynomial association schemes with given first multiplicity at least three
Authors: William J. Martin, Jason S. Williford
Venue: European Journal of Combinatorics (2009)

In this paper, we will prove a result which is formally dual to the long-standing conjecture of Bannai and Ito which claims that there are only finitely many distance-regular graphs of valency k for each k>2. That is, we prove that, for any fixed m"1>2, there are only finitely many cometric association schemes (X,R) with the property that the first idempotent in a Q-polynomial ordering has rank m"1. As a key preliminary result, we show that the splitting field of any such association scheme is at most a degree two extension of the rationals. All of the tools involved in the proof are fairly elementary yet have wide applicability. To indicate this, a more general theorem is proved here with the result alluded to in the title appearing as a corollary to this theorem.
Modified Class-Incremental Generalized Discriminant Analysis
Authors: Yunhui He
Venue: Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Computer Engineering and Technology - Volume 01 (2009)

In this paper, we propose an efficient method for resolving the optimal discriminant vectors of Generalized Discriminant Analysis (GDA) and point out the drawback of high computational complexity in the traditional class-incremental GDA [W. Zheng, "Class-Incremental Generalized Discriminant Analysis", Neural Computation 18, 979–1006 (2006)]. Because there is no need to compute the mean of classes and the mean of total samples in the proposed method as needed in the traditional class-incremental GDA, the computational complexity is reduced greatly. The theoretical justifications of the proposed batch GDA and the class-incremental GDA are presented in this paper.
Apple Aperture 2: A workflow guide for digital photographers (Digital Workflow)
Authors: Ken McMahon, Nik Rawlinson
Venue:  (2008)

Apple's Aperture software is a post-production tool designed to allow digital photographers to import, manage and enhance photographs in one simple, integrated workflow. Aperture 2, the recently updated version of the software, includes more than 100 new features for photo management and image processing, and this much-needed guide takes you through the tools and knowledge necessary to get up-and-running fast.Unlike other software books on the market, Apple Aperture 2 looks at this powerful application in the context of the overall digital photography workflow, helping you to use your time efficiently and enhance your creativity. The book includes clear explanations and step-by-step guidance on how to import, sort and navigate thousands of raw files like a pro; how to view and compare images to make selections quickly; how to turn good photos into beautiful images with adjustment tools; and how to export, showcase and print your best work with high quality results. * Fully updated for Aperture 2, the major update to Apple's powerful photo management and manipulation software* Learn time saving techniques and streamline your digital photography workflow in Aperture* Discover the best way to import, organize and enhance your images for ease of management and high quality results
Multivariate mode hunting: Data analytic tools with measures of significance
Authors: Prabir Burman, Wolfgang Polonik
Venue: Journal of Multivariate Analysis (2009)

Multivariate mode hunting is of increasing practical importance. Only a few such methods exist, however, and there usually is a trade-off between practical feasibility and theoretical justification. In this paper we attempt to do both. We propose a method for locating isolated modes (or better, modal regions) in a multivariate data set without pre-specifying their total number. Information on significance of the findings is provided by means of formal testing for the presence of antimodes. Critical values of the tests are derived from large sample considerations. The method is designed to be computationally feasible in moderate dimensions, and it is complemented by diagnostic plots. Since the null hypothesis under consideration is highly composite the proposed tests involve calibration in order to ensure a correct (asymptotic) level. Our methods are illustrated by application to real data sets.
OntoPneumo: An ontology of pneumology domain
Authors: Audrey Baneyx, Jean Charlet
Venue: Applied Ontology (2008)

In the following paper, we describe OntoPneumo, our ontology of pneumology. We also focus on the method used to build it and discuss its validity. Indeed, we think that building an ontology in the biomedical field is very difficult or even impossible without considering the application system objectives. This is why we describe our goal in building this ontology, and our building methodology based on Natural Language Processing tools. We insist on the need to express precisely, in natural language, the meaning of each concept using differential principles inherited from the Differential Semantics theory. OntoPneumo is used in a software for pneumologists that represents medical knowledge to describe the medical diagnoses in the form of graphs and to propose the proper French DRG (Diagnosis Related Group) code. The middle ontology now contains 1460 primitive concepts. The top-ontology is based on the top-ontology of the MENELAS project and contains 400 concepts.
An approach based on particle swarm computation to study the electron mobility in wurtzite GaN
Authors: F. Djeffal, D. Arar, N. Lakhdar, T. Bendib, Z. Dibi, M. Chahdi
Venue: Microelectronics Journal (2009)

The properties of gallium nitride (GaN) make it a promising material for a variety of different electronic and optoelectronic devices. GaN has a wide direct bandgap and a resulting high breakdown field. Further progress in the development, design and optimization of GaN-based devices necessarily requires new theory and modeling techniques that capture the physics of electron transport accurately and efficiently. So, the objective of this work is to provide an optimized analytical model for low- and high-field electron mobility in wurtzite (hexagonal) GaN in wide temperature and concentration ranges basing on the particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm. A Monte Carlo transport simulations developed in this work has been evaluated and serve as the basis for the model development. The proposed model describes the dependence of the mobility on carrier concentration, temperature, and electric field. Good agreement between our results and measured data has been obtained. Thus, the presented mobility models can be used in device simulations to design and optimize different GaN device structures.
Faulted gear identification of a rotating machinery based on wavelet transform and artificial neural network
Authors: Jian-Da Wu, Jian-Ji Chan
Venue: Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal (2009)

In this paper, a condition monitoring and faults identification technique for rotating machineries using wavelet transform and artificial neural network is described. Most of the conventional techniques for condition monitoring and fault diagnosis in rotating machinery are based chiefly on analyzing the difference of vibration signal amplitude in the time domain or frequency spectrum. Unfortunately, in some applications, the vibration signal may not be available and the performance is limited. However, the sound emission signal serves as a promising alternative to the fault diagnosis system. In the present study, the sound emission of gear-set is used to evaluate the proposed fault diagnosis technique. In the experimental work, a continuous wavelet transform technique combined with a feature selection of energy spectrum is proposed for analyzing fault signals in a gear-set platform. The artificial neural network techniques both using probability neural network and conventional back-propagation network are compared in the system. The experimental results pointed out the sound emission can be used to monitor the condition of the gear-set platform and the proposed system achieved a fault recognition rate of 98% in the experimental gear-set platform.
Communication nets in transportation
Authors: Dan E. Couchenour, C. F. Norton, Donald LePorte, J. Swartz, Dan E. Couchenour
Venue: Proceedings of the May 6-10, 1974, national computer conference and exposition (1974)

Through development and application of combined computer and communications technology the transportation telecommunication network provides the optimum facility utilization. Standardization of data interchange formats, computer-to-computer interfaces, and network control procedures are today a reality. Topics will include: (1) Communication network planning and implementation, (2) Standardization of data interchange, (3) Network consolidation, (4) Computer-to-computer line control procedures used to provide assurance of data interchange, and (5) A panel discussion: Questions and Answers.
Accelerating linpack with CUDA on heterogenous clusters
Authors: Massimiliano Fatica
Venue: Proceedings of 2nd Workshop on General Purpose Processing on Graphics Processing Units (2009)

This paper describes the use of CUDA to accelerate the Linpack benchmark on heterogenous clusters, where both CPUs and GPUs are used in synergy with minor or no modifications to the original source code. A host library intercepts the calls to DGEMM and DTRSM and executes them simultaneously on both GPUs and CPU cores. An 8U cluster is able to sustain more than a Teraflop using a CUDA accelerated version of HPL.
SmartBuckle: human activity recognition using a 3-axis accelerometer and a wearable camera
Authors: Yongwon Cho, Yunyoung Nam, Yoo-Joo Choi, We-Duke Cho
Venue: Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Systems and Networking Support for Health Care and Assisted Living Environments (2008)

Recognizing human activity is one of the most important concerns in many ubiquitous computing systems. In this paper, we present a wearable intelligence device for medical monitoring applications. We called the SmartBuckle that is designed to recognize human activity and to monitor vitality. We developed human activity recognition algorithms and evaluated them by using data acquired from a 3-axis accelerometer with embedded one image sensor in a belt. In order to evaluate, acceleration data was collected from 9 activity labels. In the image sensor, we extracted activity features based on grid-based optical flow method. In the 3-axis accelerometer sensor, we used the correlation between axes and the magnitude of the FFT for feature extraction. In the experiments, our classifiers showed the excellent performance in recognizing activities with an overall accuracy rate of 93%.
System deadlocks resolution
Authors: Koji Nezu
Venue: Proceedings of the May 19-22, 1980, national computer conference (1980)

With rapid large online systems growth, the system deadlocks problem is becoming of major importance. Sharing on increasingly sophisticated set of services and resources among an increasing number of terminal users leads to an increase in the chance for deadlock occurrence.