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Multicast receiver access control by IGMP-AC
Authors: Salekul Islam, J. William Atwood
Venue: Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking (2009)

IP multicast is best-known for its bandwidth conservation and lower resource utilization. The present service model of multicast makes it difficult to restrict access to authorized End Users (EUs) or paying customers. Without an effective receiver access control, an adversary may exploit the existing IP multicast model, where a host or EU can join any multicast group by sending an Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) join message without prior authentication and authorization. We have developed a novel, scalable and secured access control architecture for IP multicast that deploys Authentication Authorization and Accounting (AAA) protocols to control group membership. The principal feature of the access control architecture, receiver access control, is addressed in this paper. The EU or host informs the multicast Access Router (AR) of its interest in receiving multicast traffic using the IGMP protocol. We propose the necessary extensions of IGMPv3 to carry AAA information, called IGMP with Access Control (IGMP-AC). For EU authentication, IGMP-AC encapsulates Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) packets. EAP is an authentication framework to provide some common functions and a negotiation of the desired authentication mechanism. Thus, IGMP-AC can support a variety of authentications by encapsulating different EAP methods. Furthermore, we have modeled the IGMP-AC protocol in PROMELA, and also verified the model using SPIN. We have illustrated the EAP encapsulation method with an example EAP method, EAP Internet Key Exchange (EAP-IKEv2). We have used AVISPA to validate the security properties of the EAP-IKEv2 method in pass-through mode, which fits within the IGMP-AC architecture. Finally, we have extended our previously developed access control architecture to accomplish inter-domain receiver access control and demonstrated the applicability of IGMP-AC in a multi-domain environment.
Evaluating Patient's Health by a Hierarchical Decision Model
Authors: Olga uteric, Uro Rajkovic, Vesna Prijatelj, Vladislav Rajkovic
Venue: Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on eHealth, Telemedicine, and Social Medicine (2009)

In the paper a model for evaluating and analyzing patient’s health condition is proposed. The model is an application of a hierarchical multi-criteria decision-making method. It is based on Henderson’s model of basic living activities (BLA). The central part of the model is the knowledge base, which determines how the input data – the indicators of criteria of individual BLA – are transformed into a comprehensive evaluation. It enables the identification of nursing problems or diagnoses by evaluating BLA, thus, assuring the quality of nursing care. As a part of an information system the model was tested in a community nursing environment.
Ableton Live 6 Csi Master: Cool School Interactus, Cdr edition
Authors: Brian Jackson
Venue:  (2007)

Get ready to master the key operational techniques and cool new features of Ableton Live 6! "Ableton Live 6 CSi Master" is a hands-on training DVD-ROM that provides you with a unique way to take your music to the next level with Live. If you've been using Live and you want to get more out of your rig, then you've come to the right place. You'll cover the major topics as you work through more than four hours of movie tutorials. If you're a new user and need to get up to speed with Live, use the Introduction topic to take you through set-up, basic definition, and the new features added in Live 6."Ableton Live 6 CSi Master" is full of movie tutorials that include not only basic functionality, but also production techniques, special shortcuts, key commands, and before and after audio examples. Work your way through easy-to-follow tutorials, including What's New in Live 6, File Browser, Hot Swapping, Session To Arrangement, Warp Modes and Markers, Sampler, Built-in MIDI Effects, Operator Automatic Tempo, and much more!
ICTs and the limits of integration: Converging professional routines and ICT support in colocated emergency response control rooms
Authors: Stefan Soeparman, Hein van Duivenboden, Pieter Wagenaar, Peter Groenewegen
Venue: Information Polity (2008)

In this article we have tried to establish how the nature of professional routines affects the ICT supported standardization and scripting of work performed by operators in Dutch colocated emergency response control rooms. In this type of multidisciplinary emergency control room three professions - police, fire rescue services and ambulance services - share the same technical facilities and are housed under the same roof. In the control rooms under study, efforts to create a more integrated control room are accompanied by a pursuit to further script and standardize operator intake and dispatch routines with the help of ICTs. Findings suggest that important impediments to the ICT supported scripting and standardization of operator intake and dispatch routines are not of a Human-Machine Interface (HMI) nature, but can mainly be attributed to differences in the nature of each of the three disciplines' professional routines themselves. These impediments are primarily related to ostensive as well as performative aspects of distinct sets of routines in the colocated control room.
Virtual mirror for augmented presence applications
Authors: Andrei Sherstyuk, Kar-Hai Chu, Sam Joseph
Venue: Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology (2008)

We propose a method for overlaying CG elements onto real indoor scenes, without making a viewer wear special display devices, such as HMDs or monocles. The Virtual Mirror utilizes a computer display that operates in a mirror mode. It can be mounted on a wall or on a desktop, providing wide-angle viewing of the augmented scene.
On accuracy and performance of high-order finite volume methods in local mean energy model of non-thermal plasmas
Authors: M. Davoudabadi, J. S. Shrimpton, F. Mashayek
Venue: Journal of Computational Physics (2009)

In this paper, a high-order finite volume method is employed to solve the local energy approximation model equations for a radio-frequency plasma discharge in a one-dimensional geometry. The so called deferred correction technique, along with high-order Lagrange polynomials, is used to calculate the convection and diffusion fluxes. Temporal discretization is performed using backward difference schemes of first and second orders. Extensive numerical experiments are carried out to evaluate the order and level of accuracy as well as computational efficiency of the various methods implemented in the work. These tests exhibit global convergence rate of up to fourth order for the spatial error, and of up to second order for the temporal error.
A Subjective Trust Model Based on Two-Dimensional Measurement
Authors: Chaowen Chang, Chen Liu, Yuqiao Wang
Venue: Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Computer Engineering and Technology - Volume 01 (2009)

Trust models like Beth, Jøsang and EigenRep evaluated trust degree by the history of interactions or the reputations, and some other learners brought fuzzy theory, cloud model into the researches of trust management. All of these models based on the trustee’s outer information. However it is more reasonable to get the evaluations by both the outer information and the inner attributes. Aiming this issue, this paper gets the trustee’s inner attributes through the remote attestation mechanism under the trusted computing specification of TCG, and then combines the history of interactions, and designs a trust model based on two-dimensions (attributes, experiences) in order to make the evaluation of the trust degree more flexible and reliable. The experiments show that this two-dimensions-based model can not only avoid the trust accumulation spoofing better but also calculate the initial trust value more effectively.
Measuring and modeling variabilityusing low-cost FPGAs
Authors: Michael Brown, Cyrus Bazeghi, Matthew Guthaus, Jose Renau
Venue: Proceeding of the ACM/SIGDA international symposium on Field programmable gate arrays (2009)

The focus of this paper is to measure and qualify high-level process variation models by measuring variability on FPGAs. Measurements are done with high spatial resolution and demonstrate how the high-resolution data matches two industry test cases. The benefit of such an approach is that several inexpensive FPGAs, which are normally on the leading edge of technologies compared to ASICs, obviate the need of fabricating many custom test chips. Specifically, our evaluation shows how measurements of an Altera Cyclone II FPGA can be used to derive variability models for several 90nm commercial designs such as the Sun Niagara and Intel Pentium D. Even though the FPGAs and commercial processors are produced by different fabs (TSMC, TI, and Intel, respectively), we find the FPGAs to be very useful for predicting variation in the commercial processors.
Modelling Perceptual Elements of Music in a Vibrotactile Display for Deaf Users: A Field Study
Authors: Maria Karam, Gabe Nespoli, Frank Russo, Deborah I. Fels
Venue: Proceedings of the 2009 Second International Conferences on Advances in Computer-Human Interactions (2009)

The Model Human Cochlea (MHC) is a sensory substitution technique for presenting music as multiple discrete channels of vibrotactile stimuli. The MHC prototype was introduced to a group of Deaf senior citizens at a community centre, where they could try the chair, and provide us with feedback about their experience. Preliminary results from this work suggest that the MHC can potentially offer a more effective means of expressing basic emotional information from music in a vibrotactile display when the signals more closely match the perceptual elements of the music such as melody and instrument parts. We describe the MHC prototype and present the results of our field study, which extends our lab experiments with the MHC to include Deaf and hard of hearing participants in a real world setting.
Learning Visual Keywords for Content-Based Retrieval
Authors: Joo-Hwee Lim
Venue: Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems - Volume 02 (1999)

Today keyword-based text retrieval systems have enjoyed reasonable success in real usage. Despite the simplicity of the keyword metaphor, practical text search engines are able to handle huge volumes of free text documents. In image and video retrieval, search mainly relies on pre-annotated words or/and primitive visual features. In this paper, we propose the notion of visual keywords for content-based retrieval. The visual keywords of a given visual content domain are typical visual entities that are extracted from statistical learning. A visual content is spatially described in terms of the extracted visual keywords and coded via singular value decomposition for similarity matching. We demonstrate our framework in retrieval of natural scene images.
Make It With Microsoft Office: mac 2008
Authors: Vicki Sharp Ph.D., David Hoerger
Venue:  (2008)

You ll learn all four components of Office 2008: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Entourage all with the use of this one book!This quick-paced, hands-on guide is designed for busy teachers, educators, parents, students, preservice teachers, student teachers and technology support specialists. It includes a template CD-ROM with more than 35 ready-to-use activities.Make it with Microsoft Office 2008 is four books for the price of one! Using an activity based approach, learn how to use Microsoft Office 2008. Create slide shows, photo albums, screen savers, Web pages, graphs, newsletter, certificates and more...in a matter of minutes. Requires Microsoft Office 2008 software.Tutorials: Word Excel PowerPoint EntourageFeatures: Step-by-step tutorials Pictures with easy-to-read, concise directions More than 35 projects Easy-to-follow organization Activities most frequently used in the classroom and home Assumes no prior knowledge with program Helpful tips, notes, and objectivesDOES NOT include Microsoft Office software.
Improving the Communication of Spatial Information in Crisis Response by Combining Paper Maps and Mobile Devices
Authors: Johannes Schöning, Michael Rohs, Antonio Krüger, Christoph Stasch
Venue: Mobile Response: Second International Workshop on Mobile Information Technology for Emergency Response, MobileResponse 2008. Bonn, Germany, May 29-30, 2008, Revised Selected Papers (2009)

Efficient and effective communication between mobile units and the central emergency operation center is a key factor to respond successfully to the challenges of emergency management. Nowadays, the only ubiquitously available modality is a voice channel through mobile phones or radio transceivers. This makes it often very difficult to convey exact geographic locations and can lead to misconceptions with severe consequences, such as a fire brigade heading to the right street address in the wrong city. In this paper we describe a handheld augmented reality approach to support the communication of spatial information in a crisis response scenario. The approach combines mobile camera devices with paper maps to ensure a quick and reliable exchange of spatial information.
Network Reliability Modeling and Analysis of Passive Optical Networks
Authors: Liqian Wang, Xue Chen
Venue: Proceedings of the 2009 WRI International Conference on Communications and Mobile Computing - Volume 02 (2009)

A novel network reliability model (weighted reliability model) which is more suitable for passive optical networks (PON) is represented in this paper. Due to the point to multi-point architecture of PON, failures in different positions have different effects on the network and this should be measured in network reliability. The weighted reliability model reflects the amount of disruption caused by a failure by introducing a weighting factor. Based on the weighted reliability model, we analyze the reliability performance of PONs with representative topologies, protection types and ONU distribution scenarios. Finally, because the access network is cost-sensitive, the parameter of cost/reliability is calculated to capture the trade-off between cost and reliability.
Statistical approaches to computer-assisted translation
Authors: Sergio Barrachina, Oliver Bender, Francisco Casacuberta, Jorge Civera, Elsa Cubel, Shahram Khadivi, Antonio Lagarda, Hermann Ney, Jesús Tomás, Enrique Vidal, Juan-Miguel Vilar
Venue: Computational Linguistics (2009)

Current machine translation (MT) systems are still not perfect. In practice, the output from these systems needs to be edited to correct errors. A way of increasing the productivity of the whole translation process (MT plus human work) is to incorporate the human correction activities within the translation process itself, thereby shifting the MT paradigm to that of computer-assisted translation. This model entails an iterative process in which the human translator activity is included in the loop: In each iteration, a prefix of the translation is validated (accepted or amended) by the human and the system computes its best (or n-best) translation suffix hypothesis to complete this prefix. A successful framework for MT is the so-called statistical (or pattern recognition) framework. Interestingly, within this framework, the adaptation of MT systems to the interactive scenario affects mainly the search process, allowing a great reuse of successful techniques and models. In this article, alignment templates, phrase-based models, and stochastic finite-state transducers are used to develop computer-assisted translation systems. These systems were assessed in a European project (TransType2) in two real tasks: The translation of printer manuals; manuals and the translation of the Bulletin of the European Union. In each task, the following three pairs of languages were involved (in both translation directions): English-Spanish, English-German, and English-French.
Validation Results of the User Interaction in a Heart Failure Management System
Authors: Elena Villalba, Dario Salvi, Ignacio Peinado, Manuel Ottaviano, María Teresa Arredondo
Venue: Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on eHealth, Telemedicine, and Social Medicine (2009)

Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are the main cause of death in Western world. Furthermore, an aging population will result in increased chronic condition prevalence in the future. Ambient Intelligence (AmI) allows users to benefit from an enormous variety of user-centered services to improve their quality of life and self manage their chronic conditions. Novel collaboration methods are essential with the coming aging society. This paradigm will facilitate user support through novel medical protocol design for chronic disease treatment, based on the healthy lifestyle promotion by allowing intelligent and natural interaction between the context and individuals. This paper presents the iterative validation of the user interaction based on contexts in a Heart Failure Management solution. Heart Failure Management daily monitors vital body signals, using wearable and mobile technologies, to continuously assess this chronic disease. The methodology applied herein has involved stakeholders in an iterative process: Model validation, feasibility, efficiency, user experience, and acceptance. These carefully designed systems play an important role in motivating people to adopt healthier lifestyles by using technical solutions. These solutions allow patient self-management of their chronic condition.
Using the self organizing map for clustering of text documents
Authors: Dino Isa, V. P. Kallimani, Lam Hong Lee
Venue: Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal (2009)

An increasing number of computational and statistical approaches have been used for text classification, including nearest-neighbor classification, naive Bayes classification, support vector machines, decision tree induction, rule induction, and artificial neural networks. Among these approaches, naive Bayes classifiers have been widely used because of its simplicity. Due to the simplicity of the Bayes formula, the naive Bayes classification algorithm requires a relatively small number of training data and shorter time in both the training and classification stages as compared to other classifiers. However, a major short coming of this technique is the fact that the classifier will pick the highest probability category as the one to which the document is annotated too. Doing this is tantamount to classifying using only one dimension of a multi-dimensional data set. The main aim of this work is to utilize the strengths of the self organizing map (SOM) to overcome the inadvertent dimensionality reduction resulting from using only the Bayes formula to classify. Combining the hybrid system with new ranking techniques further improves the performance of the proposed document classification approach. This work describes the implementation of an enhanced hybrid classification approach which affords a better classification accuracy through the utilization of two familiar algorithms, the naive Bayes classification algorithm which is used to vectorize the document using a probability distribution and the self organizing map (SOM) clustering algorithm which is used as the multi-dimensional unsupervised classifier.
Modeling of cache access behavior based on Zipf's law
Authors: Isao Kotera, Ryusuke Egawa, Hiroyuki Takizawa, Hiroaki Kobayashi
Venue: Proceedings of the 9th workshop on MEmory performance: DEaling with Applications, systems and architecture (2008)

Recently, chip multiprocessors (CMPs) that can simultaneously execute multiple workloads using multiple cores have become a key to achieve high-performance processing. To improve CMP performance, various shared resource management mechanisms have been proposed. In particular, cache partitioning is significantly effective to avoid resource conflicts at a shared cache memory. As most cache partitioning methods need to predict the changes in cache access characteristics of each workload when the cache partition moves, it is important for cache partitioning to establish an accurate prediction model. In this paper, we first analyze the cache access locality of various applications using stack distance profiling. We figure out that stack distance distributions incline to obey socalled Zipf's law. To achieve effective cache partitioning, then, we propose a model based on Zipf's law that predicts the changes in the stack distance distributions. Using the model, we also show the validity of a measure, which has been proposed in our previous work to quantify how much a workload demands the cache capacity.
Mexican public hospitals: a model for improving emergency room waiting times
Authors: Rodolfo Medina, Antonio Vazquez, Hector A. Juarez, Ricardo A. Gonzalez
Venue: Proceedings of the 40th Conference on Winter Simulation (2008)

Public health care services are facing a growing demand, where funds to these services are being stretched. Public Hospitals should find a way to optimize the use of resources and improve the quality of services being offered. Even though this Conference has documented successful experiences with simulation through the years, it has also opened discussion for a general, robust model to face emergency room challenges successfully. This paper presents a brief state of the art review of simulation work done in Mexican Public Health Care System, and finally a proposal to improve these services using simulation.
Analysis of the M/G/1 queue with exponentially working vacations--a matrix analytic approach
Authors: Ji-Hong Li, Nai-Shuo Tian, Zhe George Zhang, Hsing Paul Luh
Venue: Queueing Systems: Theory and Applications (2009)

In this paper, an M/G/1 queue with exponentially working vacations is analyzed. This queueing system is modeled as a two-dimensional embedded Markov chain which has an M/G/1-type transition probability matrix. Using the matrix analytic method, we obtain the distribution for the stationary queue length at departure epochs. Then, based on the classical vacation decomposition in the M/G/1 queue, we derive a conditional stochastic decomposition result. The joint distribution for the stationary queue length and service status at the arbitrary epoch is also obtained by analyzing the semi-Markov process. Furthermore, we provide the stationary waiting time and busy period analysis. Finally, several special cases and numerical examples are presented.
Rule flow logic verification: a simulation based approach
Authors: Chunhua Tian, Hao Zhang, Feng Li
Venue: Proceedings of the 40th Conference on Winter Simulation (2008)

In complex rule flow logic verification, simulation based testing approach is one feasible way which tries to go through all the feasible paths. As the baseline, the total number of feasible paths is usually desired to know although it is usually a huge number. The calculation algorithm of feasible paths in a rule flow is proposed in this paper. Using air cargo loading planning rule as an example, we also show how the coverage rate of stochastic algorithm drops sharply as the simulation going on. From rule topologic structure, we propose branch risk measure to denote the impact of the logic error in the branch. This paper also explores to locate the source of logic error through branch tagging and failure test case clustering. The technologies are illustrated in the load planning rule scenario.