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Autonomic Systems aim to reduce the costs of operating information and communication technology systems through employing knowledge-driven control loops to ensure that the systems operate within a defined behavioral envelope that conforms to business goals. However, as autonomic system implementations become more flexible and as the business environments within which they operate become more dynamic,...
Adaptive software is a closed-loop system which aims at adjusting itself in different situations at runtime. This paper looks at adaptation as changes in the context of dynamic software evolution, and proposes a conceptual model for these changes based on Activity Theory. This model consists of a hierarchy of activities making changes, and the objectives motivating these changes. This model is an...
The Multi-Attribute Global Inference of Quality (MAGIQ) technique is a simple way to assign a single measure of overall quality to each of a set of similar software systems. Software testing activities can produce a wide range of useful information such as bug counts, performance metrics, and mean time to failure data. However, techniques to aggregate quality and testing metrics into a single quality...
This paper aims to describe a technique that can make onepsilas leadership qualities more effective. For this purpose the paper will mainly focus on "Neuro Linguistic Programming" Techniques and portray past great leaders as a supportive argument. Leading is the ability to influence others to follow, by developing trust and commonality. "Neuro Linguistic Programming" effectively...
In this paper, an image retrieval framework combining content-based and content-free methods is proposed, which employs both short-term relevance feedback (STRF) and long-term relevance feedback (LTRF) as the means of user interaction. The STRF refers to iterative query-specific model learning during a retrieval session, and the LTRF is the estimation of a user history model from the past retrieval...
The performance of a mobile working machine is strongly dependent on the skills of the operator. This paper describes a method for coaching operators of mobile working machines, aiming at increasing the performance of the machine work. The first step is to recognize the plan of the operator, the intent behind the operator's actions. The plan is recognized from the control signals given by the operator...
Genetically epileptic EL mice develop the ictogenesis if they receive tossing-up stimulation from 12 weeks old. We investigated the effects of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) on the development of ictogenesis in EL mice. Female EL mice have received low (1 Hz)- or high (10 Hz)-frequency rTMS (100% of motor threshold, 300 pulses/day, once a week) from 8 to 19 weeks old. From 12...
Service-Oriented Computing allows new applications to be developed by using and/or combining services offered by different providers. Service discovery and composition are performed aiming to comply with the clientpsilas request in terms of functionality and expected outcome. In this paper we present a framework for dynamic service discovery and composition. This framework is based on goals and tasks...
Current implementations of agent-based online auction systems only support simple predefined bidding strategies for bidding agents. In this paper, we introduce a formal bidding strategy model for specification of flexible and complex bidding strategies. The formal model is defined as a layered bidding strategy model (LBSM), which can be represented using notations borrowed from UML activity diagrams...
Human area V1 offers an excellent opportunity to study, using functional MRI, a range of properties in a specific cortical visual area, whose borders are defined objectively and convergently by retinotopic criteria. Previous fMRI studies in V1 retinotopic are typically used central and/or peri-central visual field stimulus. The retinotopic characteristics on human peripheral vision are still not well...
In recent years many methods and tools for software clone detection have been proposed. While some work has been done on assessing and comparing performance of these tools, very little empirical evaluation has been done. In particular, accuracy measures such as precision and recall have only been roughly estimated, due both to problems in creating a validated clone benchmark against which tools can...
Engineering asset management (EAM) process is a broad discipline and the EAM functions and processes are characterized by its distributed nature. However, engineering asset nowadays mostly relies on self-maintained experiential rule-bases and periodic maintenance, which is lacking a collaborative engineering approach. To enrich the maintenance efficiency and customer relationship, this research proposes...
Detecting and segmenting out the regions of interest (ROIs) is one of the foundations in image processing and analysis. Because the final information sink of images is human, for segmenting out the ROIs effectively, we need to study human visual system (HVS) and imitate the behaviors when human viewing a scene. Researchers have found several factors which affect human attentions by studying eye movements...
Collaborative design often meets together experts of different domains. Such groups need to share a context but often limited this one is often limited to few elements as common language, common tools and a same goal (the design process). Our goal is to developing a shared context to make compatible different experts' viewpoints. Making context explicit and shared supposes some explanatory capability...
We have previously reported human dermal fibroblasts cultured under serum-free conditions without the use of a three dimensional scaffold produce an organized extracellular matrix in vitro. This matrix bears marked resemblance to the human dermis and is capable of producing large amounts of hyaluronic acid (HA, hyaluronate). We have investigated the effect of the hormone hydrocortisone in differing...
Statistical Spoken Language Understanding grammars (SSLUs) are often used only at the top recognition contexts of modern large-scale spoken dialog systems. We propose to use SSLUs at every recognition context in a dialog system, effectively replacing conventional, manually written grammars. Furthermore, we present a methodology of continuous improvement in which data are collected at every recognition...
Sentence similarity computation has been used widely in the field of information processing. Many methods have been proposed to measure the similarity of sentences, but they focus mainly on one or two features, e.g. words, structure or semantic information and so on. The accuracy of these methods is usually lower. In this paper, we present a new approach to compute the similarity of sentences based...
This paper describes the development of a hand-arm model rig to represent the behavior of human postural tremor. The experimental rig is designed as an apparatus to induce vibration along the hand-arm model. In this study an Intra Vernacular (IV) Training arm is used as the hand-arm model. Two DC motors are used each driving an unbalancing mass to produce vibration along the arm model which is very...
Human resources of colleges and universities were the most important resource in higher education resources and important assurance of higher education development, and teachers of colleges and universities were the main force of college and university human resources. In this paper, computer data analysis on need hierarchical structure of part Heilongjiang colleges and universities and difference...
In the research of agent theory and technology, BDI model is the most studied one with the broadest applications. But it lacks specific mapping relationship research between BDI model and particular agent architecture. In this paper, we firstly establish abstract mapping between BDI model and agent autonomy, then stimulate human being autonomy mechanism, establish specific mapping relationship between...
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