Computers - General

A variety of application areas can be attained in the fields of human-computer interaction for augmented and mixed reality, object tracking and gesture recognition. By combining the areas of 3D computer graphics, computer vision and programming, we have developed a fast, yet robust and...

Privacy and accountability in the cloud explores if we can achieve a balance between our demand for privacy, while achieving a level of accountability that is sufficient for a well functioning democracy. Neither privacy or accountability are a binary value - both are better...

This book presents work in two of the most popular areas of geometric computation: Robust Geometric Computing and Optimal Visibility Coverage. Both areas have been extensively researched in recent years and attracted the attention of many researchers and software developers. (1) Implementation of geometric...

Complex dynamical networks are ubiquitous in many fields of science from engineering to biology, physics, and sociology. Collective behavior, and in particular synchronization, is one of the most interesting consequences of interaction of dynamical systems over complex networks. Analyzing statistical and dynamical properties of...

Just like traditional AI applications, game AI mainly focuses on rational inference. But in the real world, human decision making is not only involving rationality, but also sense. In this book, we propose an architecture for the bot designers to include affective computing in...

The Multiple Associative Computing (MASC) model is multiple SIMD (Single Instruction stream Multiple Date stream) with an associative style parallel computation model. It offers a complete paradigm for general-purpose parallel computation. This book focuses on evaluating the power of the MASC model to provide...

Statistical machine translation (SMT) offers many benefits over rule based and example based machine translation especially ease to train and robustness. It represents state-of-the-art in machine translation (MT) but it has to deal with certain issues that are not trivial to solve in a...

Oil and Gas remain the most exploited source of energy in the world today and have been predicted that they will continue to be available for exploitation in many decades to come. Hence, there is the need to develop accurate and robust predictive models...

Reinforcement learning is the problem faced by an agent that must learn behavior through trial-and-error interactions with a dynamic environment. Usually, the problem to be solved contains subtasks that repeat at different regions of the state space. Without any guidance an agent has to...

This book describes general and robust algorithms that are devoted to automate the analysis process in the 3D space and in time of dynamic objects present in a volume studied by a specific microscope that permits to record images containing their 3D information. This...

In this book you will find the use of sparse Principal Component Analysis (PCA) for representing high dimensional data for classification. Sparse transformation reduces the data volume/dimensionality without loss of critical information, so that it can be processed efficiently and assimilated by a human....

Grid computing enables the sharing of heterogeneous resources among different administrative domains promising unlimited computational and storage power available on demand. However, Grid applications are often developed in an ad-hoc manner with little or no transferability across them. Grid applications not only need to...

As an essential dimension of our information space, time plays a very important role in every aspect of our lives. A specification of temporal information is necessarily required for a large group of applications, including the Semantic Web and natural language. In response to...

This book describes new techniques that can be used in a sign language recognition (SLR) system, and more generally in human gesture systems. Any SLR system consists of three main components: Skin detector, Tracker, and Recognizer. The skin detector is responsible for segmenting skin...

Current methods for detection of malicious software rely on large databases of "signatures" for variations of every known computer virus. When such virus infects a system, the antivirus reacts by removing the threat. Such reactive methods leave computer systems defenseless against new, previously unknown...

Intensity-based 2D-3D medical image registration is a special case of the pose estimation problem from computer vision with many applications in medicine. This work presents an overview of the 2D-3D intensity-based image registration problem in the medical domain as well as results from several...

The current study identifies preferences of a variety of user groups about the information specifics on current exhibits, museum collections metadata information, and the use of multimedia. The study of information seeking behavior of users groups of museum digital collections or cultural collections allows...

Ontologies are formal, declarative knowledge representation models, forming a semantic foundation for many domains. As the Semantic Web gains attention as the next generation of the Web, ontologies' importance increases accordingly. Different ontologies are hetero-geneous, which can lead to misunderstandings, so there is a...

Author: Patrick SinclairISBN-10: 3639111907ISBN-13: 9783639111903Publisher: VDM VerlagLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/10/2008Pages: 164Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.35d

Can agents be intelligent without emotions? Is it possible to incorporate emotions into agents? If possible, how can we do that? Can we build high EQ (emotional quotients) agents which have better performance than rational agents? We believe that, whether for human-like or non-human-like...

In a document retrieval system where data is stored and compared with a specific query and then compared with other documents, we need to find the document that is most similar to the query. The most similar document will have the weight higher than...

Image segmentation refers to a process of dividing the image into disjoint regions that were meaningful. This process is fundamental in computer vision in that many applications, such as image retrieval, visual summary, image based modeling, and so on, can essentially benefit from it....

Organizational behavior theories generally agree that human capital is critical to teams and organizations, but little guidance exists on the extent to which such theories accurately explain the relative contributions of individual actors to overall performance. The experience also demonstrates that there are evidences...

Modern electronic design automation tools can be used to apply a variety of transformations to hardware blocks in an effort to achieve performance and power savings. A number of such transformations require tools with intimate knowledge of the design's timing characteristics. Static timing analysis...

In recent years, two major areas of computer science have started converging. Artificial intelligence research is moving towards realistic domains requiring real-time responses, and real-time systems are moving towards more complex applications requiring intelligent behaviour. This book addresses the question of whether agents can...

Object motion in multimedia database contains important information for data content analysis especially event detection. The motion content in its raw form is real-value multidimensional time series. Processing and analyzing this kind of data is not trivial since most standard machine learning algorithms can...

UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System), the third generation of mobile data services, introduces a new wireless, state-of-the-art technology and thus much higher data speeds to mobile and portable wireless devices. Streaming Media is one of the applications that takes major advantage of the new...

Bloggers have been making a huge impact on society by representing and influencing the people. Topics like politics, sports, business and entertainment being written in blogosphere, generally represent the sentiments of the society. Also, blogging by nature is about expressing and listening to opinion....

Accelerated degradation testing is widely accepted in competitive industries. As there is no longer the need to test till failures, there are tremendous cost and time benefits on fully capitalizing on such a testing regime. Consequently, this research has aimed for better understanding of...

Knowledge sharing and coordination is a critical part of "knowledge work", the broad class of newly dominant professions that hinge upon the successful manipulation and recombination of knowledge and information, rather than physical objects. Research to date has looked at knowledge sharing in the...

The development of user interfaces is influenced by various challenges in recent years. These are foremost caused by an increasing complexity of the underlying applications, the use of applications on different devices and by different types of users and by frequently changing application environments....

This work is dedicated to the problem of computer- aided plagiarism detection, i.e. to the development and the use of software instruments that help to reveal plagiarism. The creation of such tools raises specific algorithmic problems that deserve attention. The results covered in this...

Traditionally, computer simulation techniques are used to perform probabilistic analysis. However, they provide less accurate results and cannot handle large-scale problems due to their enormous CPU time requirements. Recently, a significant amount of formalization has been done in higher-order logic that allows us to...

Author: Kumar MangipudiISBN-10: 3639093283ISBN-13: 9783639093285Publisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Language: EnglishPublished: 11/10/2008Pages: 96Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.32lbsSize: 9.11h x 6.12w x 0.23d

Do video games tell stories? And if they do, how and why do they do so? In this study, Dominic Arsenault takes the reader through the battlefield of ludology and narratology in video game studies, and argues for a radically new narratological conception of...

In today's mobile world, society needs mobile education. The conventional system of education was designed in the industrial age, but needs are changing. To meet the needs of this generation, the present system of education must be renovated. This study suggests computer-based instruction as...

With the ubiquity of powerful, mobile computers and rapid advances in sensing and robot technologies, there exists a great potential for creating advanced, perceptual computing environments. In this work, we investigate techniques for integrating passive, vision-based sensing into such environments, which include both conventional...

In this book, it is shown how pattern recognition approaches developed in computer science can be seamlessly combined with statistical techniques to produce a knowledge driven search algorithm. Two different classes of applications are used to demonstrate the wide applicability of the algorithm. The...

In this analysis, Bernadette Sibuma reveals how the graphic design of characters differentially affects cognitive processes. Participants responded to face designs with and without emotional expressions while electroencephalography (EEG) was recorded. Event- related potentials were extracted and behavioral data were analyzed to determine whether...

This book frames a peer-to-peer information retrieval problem as a multi-agent framework and attacks it from an organizational perspective by exploring various adaptive, self-organizing topological organizations, designing appropriate coordination strategies, and exploiting learning techniques to create more accurate routing policy for large-scale agent organizations....

The Internet has been described as having the potential to ameliorate social and economic disparities among countries and to lead to greater democratization throughout the contemporary world. However, despite references to it as the "World Wide Web," a vast technological gap is apparent between...

This book provides techniques for symbol tracking and carrier acquisition in a Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC) coded transmission. In traditional receiver architectures, acquisition and tracking are performed using phase-lock techniques that are independent of the channel-code decoding process. In burst reception scenarios, bandwidth inefficient piloting...

The ever-increasing reliance of society on computer systems has led to a need for highly reliable systems. There are a number of areas where computer systems perform critical functions and the development of such systems requires a higher level of attention than any other...

Recently, death from breast cancer has dropped significantly in the United States due to early detection and effective treatment. DCE-MRI has emerged as a promising technique for detecting, diagnosing, and staging breast cancer. Computer-aided detection systems have proven to be useful for evaluating the...

Author: Tongshan ChangISBN-10: 3639080092ISBN-13: 9783639080094Publisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Language: EnglishPublished: 08/29/2008Pages: 164Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.35d

Modern applications frequently employ sophisticated object-oriented design. In these codes, deep loop nests are often spread across multiple routines. To achieve high performance, such codes rely on compilers to inline routines and optimize loops. Consequently, to effectively interpret performance, transformed loops must be understood...

Author: Gaston Kuzamunu MazanduISBN-10: 3639077687ISBN-13: 9783639077681Publisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Language: EnglishPublished: 08/28/2008Pages: 112Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.23d

This dissertation presents a technique for recovering translational motion parameters using two simplified planar compound-like eye schemes, namely a parallel trinocular system and a single-row Superposition-type Planar Compound-like Eye (SPCE). The former resolves the matrix singularity problem encountered when attempting to recover motion parameters...

Although Java and Smalltalk share some vital characteristics there are certainly also important differences. The objective of the SICS Java Port Project is to create tools and methodology to translate a large software application from IBM VisualAge for Smalltalk to Java. My main motivation...

RFID tag location in a 3D environment is investigated. The location of the tag with unknown coordinates can be estimated with certain accuracy. However, accuracy can be improved using the knowledge based on measurement of additional reference tags with known location. This book studies...