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A Comparison of Autonomic Decision Making Techniques
(2011-04-01)
Autonomic computing systems are capable of adapting their behavior and resources thousands of times a second to automatically decide the best way to accomplish a given goal despite changing environmental conditions and ...
Werner Reichardt: the man and his scientific legacy
(2011-03-04)
Excerpts from a talk given by Tomaso Poggio in Tübingen on the opening ofthe Werner Reichardt Centrun für Integrative Neurowissenschaften, December 8, 2008.
Evaluation of the usability and usefulness of automatic speech recognition among users in South Africa
(2011)
An automatic speech recognition (ASR) system is a software application which recognizes human speech, processes it as input, and displays a text version of the speech as output or uses the input as commands for another ...
Uncertain input estimation with application to Kalman tracking
(2011)
Many motion tracking systems average and integrate
tracking measurements over a period of time in order to reduce the effects of device noise, external
noise and other disturbances. The target (user) is likely to be ...
The design considerations and development of a simulator for the backtesting of investment strategies
(2011)
The skill of accurately predicting the optimal time to buy or sell shares on the stock market is one that has been actively sought by both experienced and novice investors since the advent of the stock exchange in the early ...
Mobile media distribution in developing contexts
(2011)
There are a growing number of mobile phones being used in developing contexts, such as Africa. A large percentage of these phones have the capability to take photographs and transmit them freely using Bluetooth. In order ...
Comparison of User Traffic Characteristics on Mobile-Access versus Fixed-Access Networks
(2011-05-03)
We compare Web traffic characteristics of mobile- versus fixed-access end-hosts, where herein the term "mobile" refers to access via cell towers, using for example the 3G/UMTS standard, and the term "fixed" includes Wi-Fi ...
Library Cache Coherence
(2011-05-02)
Directory-based cache coherence is a popular mechanism for chip multiprocessors and multicores. The directory protocol, however, requires multicast for invalidation messages and the collection of acknowledgement messages, ...
Gasping for AIR Why we need Linked Rules and Justifications on the Semantic Web
(2011-04-16)
The Semantic Web is a distributed model for publishing, utilizing and extending structured information using Web protocols. One of the main goals of this technology is to automate the retrieval and integration of data and ...
Approximations in the HMAX Model
(2011-04-14)
The HMAX model is a biologically motivated architecture for computer vision whose components are in close agreement with existing physiological evidence. The model is capable of achieving close to human level performance ...