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While it is clear that the full emotional effect of a movie scene is carried through the successful interpretation of audio and visual information, music still carries a significant impact for interpretation of the director's intent and style. The intent of this study was to provide a preliminary understanding on a new database for the impact of timbral and select rhythm features in characterizing...
Application of clustering approaches in cross-disciplinary domains has necessitated the identification of new methods capable of simultaneous examination of multiple conflicting metrics during optimization. In this work, we propose a novel multi-objective clustering approach based on the concepts of microeconomic theory. In a multi-step, normal form game theoretic setup, each randomly initialized...
The field of wireless sensor networks offers a rich, multi-disciplinary area of research, in which a variety of tools and concepts can be employed to address a diverse set of applications. As such, many potentials of this field have been under study both in academia and in the industry. Smart environments represent the next evolutionary development step in building, utilities, industrial, home, shipboard,...
In this research, we propose a novel approach for simultaneous optimization of power, crosstalk noise and delay via gate sizing, in the presence of scarce information about the distribution of the variations. The methodology uses the concepts of utility theory and risk minimization to identify a deterministic equivalent model of the stochastic problem, ensuring high levels of expected utilities of...
The aggregation of robots into teams is necessitated due to the limited power and communication capabilities in emergency environments. The formation of robot teams significantly enhances the performance and efficiency of search and rescue missions in such environments. As opposed to the classical partitioning application domains, the robot aggregation requires multiple confticting objectives to be...
With the advent of the information revolution and the shear bulk of information that are freely available on the Web, many of our user's perception of information is that if it is not easily accessible, it's not worth the effort. It is therefore imperative that librarians and information providers find out why this preference is so dominant especially among undergraduate students and use this information...
Resource management is a well studied field. Existence of multiple emergencies in a locality, in a time overlapped manner, demands an optimal allocation of required resources to the emergencies. This is an intricate problem if the availability of resources is limited. Involvement of human lives in such situations poses a very important constraint of social fairness on the optimality criteria of allocation...
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