When meeting someone new, the first impression is often influenced by someone's physical appearance and other types of prejudice. In this paper, we present TouchMeDare, an interactive canvas, which aims to provide an experience when meeting new people, ...

The paper presents the results of performance analyses of a seismic analysis kernel code on the KSR multiprocessors. The purpose of such analysis is to understand the performance behaviors of a class of applications on shared memory parallel machines. ...

Content-based image retrieval (CBIR) has the potential to provide medical doctors with a powerful resourceto help make accurate diagnoses. To aid in diagnosis,a CBIR system must retrieve similar images from thesame (unknown) disease class as the patient. ...

An essential aspect of mobile and ubiquitous computing research is evaluation within the expected usage context, including environment. When that environment is an urban center, it can be dynamic, expansive, and unpredictable. Methodologies that focus ...

Eigenfactor.org, a journal evaluation tool that uses an iterative algorithm to weight citations (similar to the PageRank algorithm used for Google), has been proposed as a more valid method for calculating the impact of journals. The purpose of this brief ...

This paper studies the realizing progress of data mining in psychological evaluation. Based on the matrix of evaluation data and the actual evaluation work, we propose a kind of generalized linear regression model with convex constraint, named as Evaluation ...

A measurement-based performability model is described that is based on error and resource-usage data collected on a multiprocessor system. A method for identifying the model structure is introduced, and the resulting model is validated against real data. ...

In physics heat energy divided by temperature is entropy which means the conversion degree from heat to work. While in science and technology entropy generally refers to possible degree of certain matter system status, in social science entropy indicates ...

Information visualization systems often present usability problems mainly because many of these tools are not submitted to complete evaluation studies. This paper presents an experimental study based on tests with users to evaluate two multidimensional ...

In this paper, we discuss efficient combinations of data migration processing and method migration processing in object database environments. When we have multiple servers and clients, it is practical to decide at a client which of the two ways should ...

The paper proposes a workflow model based on discrete stochastic Petri net and a corresponding time performance calculating method. On the basis of workflow nets and the principles of simplifying workflow net based T-component nets which maintains time ...

In this paper, based on Constructivist Teaching Theory and the principle of Agent technology, the architecture of Distributed Internet Intelligent Tutoring System based on MAS (Multi-Agent System) and CBR (Case-based Reasoning) is designed. The key technologies ...

Motivation -- Development of new devices for the human-computer interaction allows more efficiency. The aim of this study is to determine in light of motor control theories, what condition of use of digitizing tablet technology is the most efficient ...

Abstract: One of the most sought after software innovation of this decade is the construction of systems using off-the-shelf-workstations that actually deliver and even surpass, the power and reliability of supercomputers. Using completely novel techniques: ...

The significance and possible applications of conditional “total” transition probability expressions t_ij, earlier defined and shown to be basic properties of physical kinetic systems, are reviewed and discussed. A program ...

Linearizer is one of the best known approximation algorithms for obtaining numeric solutions for closed-product-form queueing networks. In the original exposition of Linearizer, the computational cost was stated to be O(MK/sup 3/) for a model with M ...

Articles in high-prestige journals receive more citations and more applause than articles in less-prestigious journals, but how much more do these articles contribute to knowledge?This article uses a statistical theory of review processes to draw inferences ...

Abstract¿In a distributed shared memory (DSM) multiprocessor, the processors cooperate in solving a parallel application by accessing the shared memory. The latency of a memory access depends on several factors, including the distance to the nearest ...

Recently, we can see an increasing amount of dam damage or failure due to aging, earthquakes occurrence and unusual changes in weather. For this reason, dam safety is gaining more importance than ever before in terms of disaster management at a national ...