Pub Date : 2011-12-01DOI: 10.1109/WICT.2011.6141403
Ievgen V. Korotkyi, O. Lysenko
The link aggregation (LAG) technique for networks-on-chip (NoC) is described and investigated in the paper. It is shown that LAG permits to improve considerably the NoC saturation threshold due to connection of neighboring routers with the aid of multiple physical links. The proposed work has three main contributions. The first is the description of a structure and principle of operation of a NoC with LAG. The second is the comparative analysis of the synthesis results for Stratix IV FPGA. It is shown that hardware costs of LAG and virtual channel (VC) routers are comparable. The third is the evaluation of average latency and saturation threshold in LAG NoC (8×8 mesh). The simulation of System Verilog models indicates that saturation threshold in proposed approach increases by 152% compared to VC NoC.
介绍并研究了片上网络(NoC)中的链路聚合(LAG)技术。结果表明，由于多个物理链路的帮助下相邻路由器的连接，LAG允许显著提高NoC饱和阈值。拟议的工作有三个主要贡献。首先介绍了带LAG的NoC的结构和工作原理。第二部分是对Stratix IV FPGA合成结果的对比分析。结果表明，LAG路由器和虚拟信道路由器的硬件成本是相当的。三是对LAG NoC的平均潜伏期和饱和阈值的评估(8×8 mesh)。系统Verilog模型的仿真表明，该方法的饱和阈值比VC NoC提高了152%。
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Pub Date : 2011-12-01DOI: 10.1109/WICT.2011.6141212
E. Tzafestas
In this work, we are exploring the internals and effects of partner selection on spatial and social dynamics and clashes. We are considering two different social settings: (a) one involving imitation dynamics that is exemplified by a modified Axelrod cultural simulation model extended with a Moore neighborhood, heterogeneous sets of cultural features per agent and a number of psychologically realistic, basic and more advanced, conceptual models of cultural affinity perception and imitation, and (b) one involving game-like interaction dynamics that is exemplified by a model of social noisy IPD interaction with an additional attraction mechanism that makes agents unconditionally cooperative toward attractive opponents. In both models, a simple mechanism of partner selection has been found to modify the social environment by allowing different types of social structures to emerge, such as fast built cultural homogeneous groups in the case of cultural simulation or groups of interacting cooperative agents that are attracted by one another in the case of IPD with attraction. We are identifying a number of cognitive factors that are used to model partner selection, namely memory depth, learning speed and openness, and we study the phenomena obtained. We are finally discussing how these factors may be studied and taken into account when designing complex sociotechnical systems.
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Pub Date : 2011-12-01DOI: 10.1109/WICT.2011.6141311
Nikhat Fatma Mumtaz Husain Shaikh, M. Nashipudimath
Image mining deals with the extraction of image patterns from a large collection of images. Clearly, image mining is different from low-level computer vision and image processing techniques because the focus of image mining is in extraction of patterns from large collection of images, whereas the focus of computer vision and image processing techniques is in understanding and / or extracting specific features from a single image. While there seems to be some overlaps between image mining and content-based retrieval (both are dealing with large collection of images), image mining goes beyond the problem of retrieving relevant images. In image mining, the goal is the discovery of image patterns that are significant in a given collection of images.
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Pub Date : 2011-12-01DOI: 10.1109/WICT.2011.6141334
Vasumathi Badrinathan, A. Gole
This article is based on a study of a sample of students enrolled in a Distance and Open Learning Masters programme on computer applications at the University of Mumbai (IDOL). The students study French language as a compulsory subject in their course. Nurturing autonomous learners is an important goal for language teaching programmes. The article investigates if a distance learning programme helps learners achieve autonomy in a foreign language by studying students' reactions towards learning French through this course. The authors explore if the distance course structure makes students responsible for their learning, helps them develop metacognitive strategies, take proactive steps on their own- vital for the process of autonomization. The paper analyses the success and failure of the French learning programme and concludes with recommendations on an online interactive multimedia environment which could help improve the course technologically and academically and induce learner autonomy.
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Pub Date : 2011-12-01DOI: 10.1109/WICT.2011.6141225
M. Ekpenyong
Speech-enabled applications are gradually finding their way into the lives of today's society. One major concern that is likely to increase the acceptability and popularity of these products is how natural the products sound. This paper therefore concentrates on improving speech naturalness in voice user interface (VUI) designs. The reason for this is to enhance communication, as users will be interacting with a more human (natural) sounding system. Full implementation of a tone language synthesizer, using the Hidden Markov Model approach is presented. Results obtained from this implementation sounds promising with improved intelligibility and well-spoken utterances. The system is currently undergoing rigorous refinements to ensure adaptability and robustness of the design. We are optimistic that this paper shall expand our science and technology horizons and prepare us, the developing world for an in-depth research into the field of speech technologies that will certainly re-direct our livelihood.
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Pub Date : 2011-12-01DOI: 10.1109/WICT.2011.6141369
Shantanu Konwar, A. Paul, Sukumar Nandi, S. Biswas
Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) do not rely on any centralized administration and they are built by the connection of various static and mobile entities (i.e. nodes). The cooperation and coordination between these network entities is very essential to establish a secure routing path. Such distributed nature of WMNs increases the vulnerability of routing protocols. Modeling and computing trust in such a distributed environment is essential since the network is self-organizing, self-configuring and relies on multihop routing. Therefore, to ensure a secure route discovery and its maintenance, it is important to compute trustworthiness of individual nodes in a cooperative manner for discovering neighbors, selecting routers and announcing topology information in WMNs. In order to detect trustworthy nodes in the networks, we propose a model based on Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) which quantifies node behaviors into discrete quantity. The proposed scheme ensures detection of malicious and misbehaving nodes in the network which is verified through code simulation.
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Pub Date : 2011-12-01DOI: 10.1109/WICT.2011.6141333
Ismail Ataie, N. Ghasem-Aghaee, Tania Taami
In this research it has been tried to make a model based on object oriented concepts and the logic of fuzzy sets. And also provide a suitable tool (FOOL language based on Prolog) to the further development works and the implementation of fuzzy object oriented models. Beside this, main effort stressed on removing the shortcomings of previous models by evaluation information from out circumstance, expanding them and making a complementary method in the evolution of the previous methods. Specific feature of this model are using and presenting partial inheritance and partial aggregation relations together besides of fuzzy rules in inference process.
{"title":"Development and implementation environment of fuzzy object oriented models with partial inheritance and aggregation relationships","authors":"Ismail Ataie, N. Ghasem-Aghaee, Tania Taami","doi":"10.1109/WICT.2011.6141333","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WICT.2011.6141333","url":null,"abstract":"In this research it has been tried to make a model based on object oriented concepts and the logic of fuzzy sets. And also provide a suitable tool (FOOL language based on Prolog) to the further development works and the implementation of fuzzy object oriented models. Beside this, main effort stressed on removing the shortcomings of previous models by evaluation information from out circumstance, expanding them and making a complementary method in the evolution of the previous methods. Specific feature of this model are using and presenting partial inheritance and partial aggregation relations together besides of fuzzy rules in inference process.","PeriodicalId":178645,"journal":{"name":"2011 World Congress on Information and Communication Technologies","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114689619","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2011-12-01DOI: 10.1109/WICT.2011.6141323
T. Balakumaran, I. Vennila
Mammography is the most used diagnostic technique for breast cancer. Microcalcification clusters are the early sign of breast cancer and their early detection is a key to increase the survival rate of women. The appearance of microcalcification clusters in mammogram as small localized granular points, which is difficult to identify by radiologists because of its tiny size. An efficient method to improve diagnostic accuracy in digitized mammograms is the use of Computer Aided Diagnosis (CAD) system. This paper presents Multiresolution based foveal algorithm for microcalcification detection in mammograms. The detection of microcalcifications is achieved by decomposing the mammogram by wavelet transform without sampling operator into different sub-bands, suppressing the coarsest approximation subband, and finally reconstructing the mammogram from the subbands containing only significant detail information. The significant details are obtained by foveal concepts. Experimental results show that the proposed method is better in detecting the microcalcification clusters than other wavelet decomposition methods.
{"title":"Detection of microcalcification clusters in digital mammograms using Multiresolution based foveal algorithm","authors":"T. Balakumaran, I. Vennila","doi":"10.1109/WICT.2011.6141323","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WICT.2011.6141323","url":null,"abstract":"Mammography is the most used diagnostic technique for breast cancer. Microcalcification clusters are the early sign of breast cancer and their early detection is a key to increase the survival rate of women. The appearance of microcalcification clusters in mammogram as small localized granular points, which is difficult to identify by radiologists because of its tiny size. An efficient method to improve diagnostic accuracy in digitized mammograms is the use of Computer Aided Diagnosis (CAD) system. This paper presents Multiresolution based foveal algorithm for microcalcification detection in mammograms. The detection of microcalcifications is achieved by decomposing the mammogram by wavelet transform without sampling operator into different sub-bands, suppressing the coarsest approximation subband, and finally reconstructing the mammogram from the subbands containing only significant detail information. The significant details are obtained by foveal concepts. Experimental results show that the proposed method is better in detecting the microcalcification clusters than other wavelet decomposition methods.","PeriodicalId":178645,"journal":{"name":"2011 World Congress on Information and Communication Technologies","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125328318","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2011-12-01DOI: 10.1109/WICT.2011.6141211
N. Sgouros
In recent years the development of a multitude of environments for social interaction has provided unprecedented opportunities for mass participation in social activities on a global scale. Participation in social action can take many forms from well-structured dialogues such as those taking place in scientific conferences to spontaneous crowd reactions similar to those occurring in sports or mass entertainment venues. Our research focuses on the creation of methods for the expression, rendering and analysis of collective reactions in social activities. Collective in this context refers to a number of reactions with similar content, referring to the same situation and posted by a significant number of people at approximately the same point in time. We examine the types of such reactions and propose a number of rendering methods that take into account their magnitude, persistence and the aesthetics of the environment they appear in. We also describe analysis tools for tracking the emergence and evolution of such phenomena and discovering their causes. Finally, we propose methods by which the results of this analysis can be used in the creation of richer and more engaging social interaction experiences.
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Pub Date : 2011-12-01DOI: 10.1109/WICT.2011.6141197
E. Barakova
We apply a participatory co-creation process to empower health researchers/practitioners with robot assistants or mediators in behavioral therapies for children with autism. This process combines (a) a user centered design of a platform to support therapists to create and share behavioral training scenarios with robots and (b) acquisition of domain specific knowledge from the therapists in order to design robot-child interaction scenarios that accomplish specific learning goals. These two aspects of the process are mutually dependant and therefore require an iterative design of a technological platform that will make gradual steps towards creating optimal affordances for therapists to create robot-mediated scenarios to the best of the technical capabilities of the robot, i.e. through co-creation. For this purpose an end-user programming environment augmented with learning by demonstration tool and textual commands is being developed. The initial tests showed that this tool can be used by the therapists to create own training scenarios with existing behavioral components. We conclude that this platform comply with the needs of the contemporary practices that focus on personalization of the training programs for every child. In addition, the proposed framework makes possible to include extensions to the platform for future developments.
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