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Research on Missile-Borne Storage Measurement System
Authors: Ming Li, Mingjie Liu
Venue: Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Measuring Technology and Mechatronics Automation - Volume 01 (2009)

This paper introduces a Missile-borne Storage Measurement System（ MSMS ）, which consists of High-g accelerometer、amplifier、A/Dconverter、micro-controller、NonVolatile-Memory (NVM) and Batteries. It can measure and record the acceleration signal sensed by the accelerometer, and the data can be preserved in NVM even system power is exhausted.After working process is completed, it can be taken out, then the data can be transferred to computer through serial interface (SI). And also the post-processing software can display the signal waveform for further analyses. This system fits for the testing and measuring of vibrations and shocks in various situations. Finally after experiments, the feasibility and reliability of the MSMS is validated.
Ownership and Evolution of Local Process Representations
Authors: Thomas P. Moran, Tara L. Matthews, Laurian Vega, Barton Smith, James Lin, Stephen Dill
Venue: Proceedings of the 12th IFIP TC 13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Part I (2009)

Knowledge workers tailor collaborative business processes to local conditions. They own (i.e., create and maintain) representations of these local processes (such as checklists) to guide the work. Our goal is to design tools to support the ownership of collaborative local processes by enabling workers to flexibly adapt process representations to work situations. This paper focuses on how workers evolve representations for collaborative, locally-owned processes by updating them from situated experiences to keep up with changing business conditions. To understand this, we conducted a field study and a lab study. From the field study, we describe how factors like group roles and documentation purposes affect the evolution of process representations. Based on these observations, we propose a model of the practice of evolving local process representations that provides a framework for understanding activity documentation needs. The lab study then provides behavioral details on the ways people carried out the evolution practice. These studies yield design implications for collaborative activity support tools.
Methods for Evaluating Interactive Information Retrieval Systems with Users
Authors: Diane Kelly
Venue:  (2009)

Methods for Evaluating Interactive Information Retrieval Systems with Users provides a foundation on which those new to Interactive Information Retrieval (IIR) can make more informed choices about how to design and conduct IIR evaluations with human subjects. The primary goal is to catalog and compile material related to the IIR evaluation method into a single source. Methods for Evaluating Interactive Information Retrieval Systems with Users begins by providing historical background on the development of user-centered approaches to the evaluation of interactive information retrieval systems. It proceeds to describe the major components of interactive information retrieval system evaluation and goes on to describe different experimental designs and sampling strategies. From there, it presents core instruments and data collection techniques and measures, explains basic data analysis techniques and reviews and discusses previous studies. It also discusses validity and reliability issues with respect to both measures and methods, presents background information on research ethics and discusses some ethical issues which are specific to studies of interactive information retrieval. It concludes with a discussion of outstanding challenges and future research directions.
On the benefits of exploiting underlying goals in argument-based negotiation
Authors: Iyad Rahwan, Philippe Pasquier, Liz Sonenberg, Frank Dignum
Venue: Proceedings of the 22nd national conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1 (2007)

Interest-based negotiation (IBN) is a form of negotiation in which agents exchange information about their underlying goals, with a view to improving the likelihood and quality of a deal. While this intuition has been stated informally in much previous literature, there is no formal analysis of the types of deals that can be reached through IBN and how they differ from those reachable using (classical) alternating offer bargaining. This paper bridges this gap by providing a formal framework for analysing the outcomes of IBN dialogues, and begins by analysing a specific IBN protocol.
PYTHON 2.6 Reference Manual
Authors: Guido van Rossum, Fred L. Drake
Venue:  (2009)

PYTHON 2.6 Reference Manual (Python Documentation MANUAL Part 2). This is a printed edition of the official Python documentation from the PYTHON 2.6.1 distribution. For each copy sold $1 will be donated to the PYTHON SOFTWARE FOUNDATION by the publisher. This book is part of a six-part series of PYTHON 2.6 documentation. Searching for "Python Documentation Manual" will show all six available books as well as the series of Python 3.0 documentation books. THE AUTHOR Guido van Rossum, is the inventor of Python. Fred L. Drake, Jr. is the official editor of the Python documentation.
Student elaborations and knowledge construction in asynchronous discussion groups in secondary education
Authors: Tammy Schellens, Hilde Van Keer, Bram De Wever, Martin Valcke
Venue: Proceedings of the 8th international conference on International conference for the learning sciences - Volume 3 (2008)

Empirical evidence reveals positive effects of collaborative learning on students' cognitive and social development. In daily secondary education, however, collaborative learning and CSCL in particular is scarce. This study examines the potential of asynchronous discussion groups in secondary education for two subjects (biology and history). More specifically, the study focuses secondary school students' elaborations and on the quality of knowledge construction. Therefore, content analysis was applied. The results indicate that students are generally discussing on-task and are engaged in sharing information and asking questions. Unfortunately, students appear to strand in this phase of sharing and comparing information and rarely reach higher levels of knowledge construction. Further, the results reveal involvement in metacognitive interaction, focused on planning and instructing other students.
On the Relative Expressive Power of Contextual Grammars with Maximal and Depth-First Derivations
Authors: Lakshmanan Kuppusamy, Kamala Krithivasan
Venue: Proceedings of the 6th International Colloquium on Theoretical Aspects of Computing (2009)

In the recent years, several new classes of contextual grammars have been introduced to give an appropriate model description to natural languages. With this aim, some new families of contextual languages have been introduced based on maximal and depth-first conditions and analyzed in the framework of so-called mildly context sensitive languages. However, the relationship among these families of languages have not yet been analyzed in detail. In this paper, we investigate the relationship between the families of languages whose grammars are based on maximal and depth-first conditions. We prove an interesting result that all these families of languages are incomparable to each other, but they are not disjoint.
Enhancing user interface design patterns with design rationale structures
Authors: Jordan Janeiro, Simone Diniz Junqueira Barbosa, Thomas Springer, Alexander Schill
Venue: Proceedings of the 27th ACM international conference on Design of communication (2009)

User interface design and development activities are typically costly and, despite many research efforts, still lack adequate support tools to make them more efficient. The use of guidelines and principles have been mostly replaced by the use of user interface design patterns, collected in libraries that aim to encompass both general and domain-specific user interface design knowledge. However, such patterns are represented mostly in natural language and other representations that cannot be easily computed. This paper presents an approach to represent user interface design patterns in a knowledge base which, by bringing together semi-structured user interface design patterns and design rationale models, can help designers to search, compare, and reuse proven design solutions in their projects.
Learning with a Quadruped Chopstick Robot
Authors: Wei-Chung Lee, Jong-Chen Chen, Shou-Zhe Wu, Kuo-Ming Lin
Venue: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining in Pattern Recognition (2009)

Organisms exhibit a close structure-function relationship and a slight change in structure may in turn change their outputs accordingly [1]. This feature is important as it is the main reason why organisms have better malleability than computers in dealing with environmental changes. A quadruped chopstick robot controlled by a biologically-motivated neuromolecular model, named Miky, has been developed. Miky's skeleton and its four feet were comprised of 16 deposable chopsticks, with each foot being controlled by an actuator (motor). The neuromolecular model is a multilevel neural network which captures the biological structure-function relationship and serves to transform signals sent from its sensors into a sequence of signals in space and time for controlling Miky's feet (through actuators). The task is to teach Miky to walk, jump, pace, gallop, or make a turn. Our experimental result shows that Miky exhibits a close structure-function relationship that allows it to learn to accomplish these tasks in a continuous manner.
Simple schemes for quantum information processing with W-type entanglement
Authors: Xin-Wen Wang, Guo-Jian Yang, Yu-Huan Su, Min Xie
Venue: Quantum Information Processing (2009)

Simple schemes are proposed for implementing deterministic teleportation, superdense coding, and quantum information splitting with W-type entangled states. The physical realization of these schemes should be much simpler than previous ones due to the assistance of an auxiliary particle. We illustrate the ideas in cavity quantum electrodynamics. The important features of our schemes can also be demonstrated in other systems.
ISeller: A Flexible Personalization Infrastructure for e-Commerce Applications
Authors: Markus Jessenitschnig, Markus Zanker
Venue: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on E-Commerce and Web Technologies (2009)

We present ISeller, an industrial-strength recommendation system for a diverse range of commercial application domains. The system supports several recommendation paradigms such as collaborative, content-based and knowledge-based filtering, as well as one-shot and conversational interaction modes out of the box. A generic user modeling component allows different forms of hybrid personalization and enables the system to support process-oriented interactive selling in various product domains. This paper contributes a detailed discussion of a domain independent and flexible recommendation system from a software architecture viewpoint and illustrates it with different usage scenarios.
Affect of Color of Interface on Accuracy and Speed of Operations
Authors: Hidetsugu Suto, Makiba Sakamoto, Makiko Okita
Venue: Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Biometrics and Kansei Engineering (2009)

The relationships between colors and operations on electronic devices, e.g., web browsers and ATM consoles, are discussed. Two experiments were carried out in order to test the effects of colors on the accuracy and speed of operations. In these experiments, a problem was displayed on the screen with several different color push buttons. Subjects had to select the correct answer from three alternatives and push the answer panel which indicated the answer. The problems changed one after another, and subjects had to push the answer panel quickly. The data, e.g., the time required to answer all problems and the correct answer ratio, was analyzed. We found that the blue one was better than red ones, and formal coloration is better than the other coloration from the viewpoints of accuracy and speed of operations. The authors study aimed to elucidate primitive rules of how color is used in the design of human interfaces.
Evaluation of Human Settlement for Environment-Friendly City Based on Fuzzy Matter-Element
Authors: Zhang Bin, Luo Mingliang, Deng Maolin, Ai Nanshan, Yi Chengbo
Venue: Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Environmental Science and Information Application Technology - Volume 01 (2009)

Evaluation of urban human settlements is a key part of the science of human settlements. Based on the principle of environmental friendliness, evaluation index system of urban human settlement has been established so as to supply city for reference in harmonious development and better-living construction. The model of Fuzzy Matter-element can be used in evaluating the good or bad of urban human settlements. Taking 30 provincial capital cities as an example, the result shows that it is fairly consistent in regard to habitual perceptual cognitions. So the evaluation of urban human settlements will also be helpful to determine function and direction of a city.
A hybrid stock trading system for intelligent technical analysis-based equivolume charting
Authors: Thira Chavarnakul, David Enke
Venue: Neurocomputing (2009)

This paper presents the use of an intelligent hybrid stock trading system that integrates neural networks, fuzzy logic, and genetic algorithms techniques to increase the efficiency of stock trading when using a volume adjusted moving average (VAMA), a technical indicator developed from equivolume charting. For this research, a neuro-fuzzy-based genetic algorithm (NF-GA) system utilizing a VAMA membership function is introduced. The results show that the intelligent hybrid system takes advantage of the synergy among these different techniques to intelligently generate more optimal trading decisions for the VAMA, allowing investors to make better stock trading decisions.
Relationship between Physiological Indices and a Subjective Score in Evaluating Visually Induced Motion Sickness
Authors: Norihiro Sugita, Makoto Yoshizawa, Akira Tanaka, Makoto Abe, Shigeru Chiba, Tomoyuki Yambe, Shin-Ichi Nitta
Venue: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Virtual and Mixed Reality: Held as Part of HCI International 2009 (2009)

Visual environments are evolving rapidly along with the popularization of high resolution and wide field-of-view displays. However, there is a concern that these environments may give negative effects on viewers' health such as visually-induced motion sickness (VIMS). Previous studies reported that some physiological indices were useful to assess the effect of visual stimulation. However, we have little knowledge about temporal relationship between the severity of sickness and the change in the physiological indices. In this study, the average mutual information has been employed to investigate this relationship. The analysis of experimental data has suggested that there is a possibility to detect a sign of VIMS prior to the development of symptoms of VIMS with the physiological indices.
A Sensing Platform for Physiological and Contextual Feedback to Tennis Athletes
Authors: Damien Connaghan, Sarah Hughes, Gregory May, Philip Kelly, Ciarán Ó. Conaire, Noel E. O'Connor, Donal O'Gorman, Alan F. Smeaton, Niall Moyna
Venue: Proceedings of the 2009 Sixth International Workshop on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks (2009)

In this paper we describe our work on creating a multimodal sensing platform for providing feedback to tennis coaches and players. The platform includes a fixed installation around a tennis court consisting of a video camera network and a localisation system as well as wearable sensing technology deployed to individual athletes. We describe the various components of this platform and explain how we can capture synchronised multi-modal sensor data streams for games or training sessions. We then describe the content-based retrieval system we are building to facilitate the development of novel coaching tools. We provide some examples of the queries that the system can support, where these queries are chosen to be suitably expressive so as to reflect a coach’s complex information needs regarding tennis-related performance factors.
Automatic Translation System to Spanish Sign Language with a Virtual Interpreter
Authors: Sandra Baldassarri, Eva Cerezo, Francisco Royo-Santas
Venue: Proceedings of the 12th IFIP TC 13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Part I (2009)

In this paper, an automatic translation system from Spanish language into Spanish Sign Language (LSE) performed by a virtual interpreter is presented. The translator is based on rules from Spanish grammar considering the syntactical and morphological characteristics of words and the semantics of their meaning. The system has been incorporated to an animation engine in which a virtual character acts as an interpreter that communicates using LSE. The mood of the interpreter is considered, so that the translation and the signs are modified depending on whether the interpreter is happy, angry, etc. The system has been tested with satisfactory results in speed and quality.
The Estimation of Chaotic Signal Initial Value
Authors: Huan Li, Bo Ren
Venue: Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Measuring Technology and Mechatronics Automation - Volume 01 (2009)

Chaotic signal has abroad applications in communication. Most such applications require an accurate estimation of initial values of actual chaotic sequence from a noisy signal so as to recover the Chaotic signal to realize the correct receiving in the terminial. Some algorithms are currently available which are limited to ideal situations with very high signal-to-noise ratios(SNR’s). This paper presents a modified minimum mean squares estimate algorithm to estimate the initial condition of a chaotic signal in a wide range of SNR’s down to -3dB. Take the logistic map as an example, we have simulated and validated the new method.
Identifying Proper Scales on Digital Maps for In-Vehicle Navigation Systems
Authors: Anna Wu, Xiaolong Zhang
Venue: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Part III: Applications and Services (2009)

Current commercial mobile navigation systems often use a pre-determined scale selection schema without considering differences in spatial complexity of locations. To identify what map scales people may need and what spatial features make relevant maps stand out, we conducted an experiment on subjective map selection in a route planning task between two cities in the United States. Our results suggest that the distribution of selected maps is fairly concentrated on those maps that contain spatial information about both the origin and the destination, the current location and the destination, and the transition between different important roads in a route. These results suggest that the choice of map scales should not follow a preset scale rule for diverse locations, and instead, it should be adaptive to the complexity of local roads and decision-making processes.
Existence results for a coupled system of nonlinear fractional differential equations with three-point boundary conditions
Authors: Bashir Ahmad, Juan J. Nieto
Venue: Computers Mathematics with Applications (2009)

This paper studies a coupled system of nonlinear fractional differential equations with three-point boundary conditions. Applying the Schauder fixed point theorem, an existence result is proved for the following system D^@au(t)=f(t,v(t),D^pv(t)),D^@bv(t)=g(t,u(t),D^qu(t)),t@?(0,1),u(0)=0,u(1)=@cu(@h),v(0)=0,v(1)=@cv(@h), where @a,@b,p,q,@h,@c satisfy certain conditions.
Path-based distance functions in n-dimensional generalizations of the face- and body-centered cubic grids
Authors: Robin Strand, Benedek Nagy
Venue: Discrete Applied Mathematics (2009)

Path-based distance functions are defined on n-dimensional generalizations of the face-centered cubic and body-centered cubic grids. The distance functions use both weights and neighborhood sequences. These distances share many properties with traditional path-based distance functions, such as the city-block distance, but are less rotational dependent. For the three-dimensional case, we introduce four different error functions which are used to find the optimal weights and neighborhood sequences that can be used to define the distance functions with low rotational dependency.
Cryptanalysis of a Generic Class of White-Box Implementations
Authors: Wil Michiels, Paul Gorissen, Henk D. Hollmann
Venue: Selected Areas in Cryptography: 15th International Workshop, SAC 2008, Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada, August 14-15, Revised Selected Papers (2009)

A white-box implementation of a block cipher is a software implementation from which it is difficult for an attacker to extract the cryptographic key. Chow et al. published white-box implementations for AES and DES. These implementations are based on ideas that can be used to derive white-box implementations for other block ciphers as well. In particular, the ideas can be used to derive a white-box implementation for any substitution linear-transformation (SLT) cipher. Although the white-box implementations of AES and DES have been cryptanalyzed, the cryptanalyses published use typical properties of AES and DES. It is therefore an open question whether an SLT cipher exists for which the techniques of Chow et al. result in a secure white-box implementation. In this paper we largely settle this question by presenting an algorithm that is able to extract the key from such an implementation under a mild condition on the diffusion matrix. The condition is, for instance, satisfied by all MDS matrices. Our result can serve as a basis to design block ciphers and to develop white-box techniques that result in secure white-box implementations.
Development of a Coloration Support Tool for Making Web Page Screens User-Friendly for Color Blind
Authors: Michiko Anse, Tsutomu Tabe
Venue: Proceedings of the Symposium on Human Interface 2009 on Human Interface and the Management of Information. Information and Interaction. Part II: Held as part of HCI International 2009 (2009)

Websites are providing more and more information because of their convenience. Information is often discriminated by color vision ability between individuals. Some people cannot discriminate information depending on the coloration. In these cases, information cannot be correctly discerned. Therefore, the development of a supporting tool for configuring screens is needed.
Final and sequential behaviours of M-automata
Authors: Gabriel Ciobanu, Sergiu Rudeanu
Venue: Acta Informatica (2009)

The present paper presents axiomatic characterizations for the final and sequential behaviours of Mealy and Moore automata. These abstract behaviours are described by isomorphic categories. Another model for them consists of the final and sequential behaviours of M-automata, a device which is introduced here as a new generalization of both Mealy and Moore automata. The category of M-automata decomposes into a category M &#x2113; isomorphic to the category of Mealy automata, and a category Mr whose objects can be viewed as being both Mealy and Moore automata. The category Mr is the pullback of the categories Mealy and Moore over the category S of semiautomata.