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Towards Optimum Play-out Buffering Delay In Voice over IP
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2007-08-23)Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) or transmission of real-time voice packets over the Internet is slowly emerging as a cost-effective alternative to the traditional Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN). However, ... -
Using Part Of Speech Structure Of Text In The Prediction Of Its Readability
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2007-08-23)Readability formulas predict the reading difficulty associated with text. They typically output a U.S. school grade level that indicates the reading ability required of a person in order for him to comprehend that text. ... -
The Advantages Of Implementing Software Engineering Process Models
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2007-08-23)The North Atlantic Treaty Organization Science Committee had discussions on the topic concerned the state of Computer Science. There were worldwide issues with the development of software, the crisis being that software ... -
Multiple Object Tracking Using Particle Filters
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2007-08-23)We describe a novel extension to the Particle filter algorithm for tracking multiple objects. The recently proposed algorithms and the variants for multiple object tacking algorithms estimate multi-modal posterior distributions ... -
Application Of Graph-based Data Mining To Biological Networks
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2007-08-23)A huge amount of biological data has been generated by long-term research. It is time to start to focus on a system-level understanding of bio-systems. Biological networks are networks of biochemical reactions, containing ... -
Quantitative Comparison Of Two Approaches To Agent Cooperation
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2007-08-23)Multi-agent systems (MASs) are characterized by collections of autonomous agents that interact with each other in simple ways, but the collection of agents as a whole is characterized by emergent behavior (EB) which will ... -
Performance Analysis Of The Beacon Period Contraction Mechanism In WiMedia MAC For UWB
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2007-08-23)The WiMedia MAC for UWB based WPANs is currently preferred among standards for wireless network since it requires non-infrastructure for ad hoc network, and also supports for Quality of Service (QoS). Without infrastructure, ... -
Automated Software Testing Using Covering Arrays
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2007-08-23)Modern society is increasingly dependent on the quality of software systems. Software testing is a widely used approach to ensure software quality. Since exhaustive testing is impractical due to resource constraints, it ... -
Analyzing Differences In Color Variation Sensitivity Between Experts And Novices To Find A Differentiating Process In Pigmented Skin Lesion Diagnosis
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2007-08-23)Fatal skin lesions such as melanomas appear as having high color variation to experts but often as having low variation to novices. This thesis investigated if it is possible to find a function representing an expert's ... -
SEES - An Adaptive Multimodal User Interface For The Visually Impaired
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2007-08-23)The enormous amount of electronic data present today can be a daunting task to access and process for a regular person, let alone someone with a disability. The World Wide Web and Electronic Mail have transformed the way ... -
HDB-subdue, A Relational Database Approach To Graph Mining And Hierarchical Reduction
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2007-08-23)Data mining aims at discovering interesting and previously unknown patterns from data sets. Transactional mining (association rules, decision trees etc.) can be effectively used to find non-trivial patterns in categorical ... -
Interactive Animated Concept Map Generation - Using Dynamic Animations
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2007-08-23)We present a visualization tool, which is useful for the illustration of educational concepts using interactive animated concept maps. This system serves as a presentation tool which provides a collection of multimedia ... -
Compensation Of Photobleached Images For A Cell Dynamics System
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2007-08-23)Progress in the field of medicine attributes to the discoveries in biology that require an extensive knowledge of cell dynamics. Intracellular Cell Dynamics Analysis System (ICellDAS) is a web based tool aimed at automating ... -
Relative Clock Drift Rate Based Secure Time Synchronization For Wireless Sensor Networks
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2007-08-23)Time synchronization is critical issue to many wireless sensor network applications such that target tracking, TDMA radio scheduling, and secure localization. However, the most of existing time synchronization algorithms ... -
A Distributed Sensor Data Management Infrastructure Based On 802.15.4/ZigBee Networks
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2007-08-23)Wireless sensor networks consist of a certain number of autonomous devices with sensor, every device has certain detection functionality like light, temperature pressure etc. Communication by using the radio frequency make ... -
CA-OLE- A Collaborative And Adaptive Online Learning Environment
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2007-08-23)Demand for online learning environments has grown in the past few years, and schools have been offering more distance courses to their students. Designing adequate online learning environments is considerably more challenging ... -
Adaptive Load Balancing And Change Visualization For WebVigil
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2007-08-23)There is a need for selective monitoring, the contents of web pages. Periodical visit for understanding changes to a web page is both inefficient and time consuming. WebVigiL is a system developed for automating the change ... -
Querying Microarray Databases
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2007-08-23)Microarray technology has rapidly taken a key position among bioinformatics research tools. After the completion of the Human Genome Project, microarray databases have become particularly important to the management and ... -
A Performance Evaluation Of Alternate Numbering Based XML Indexing Techniques
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2007-08-23)Since XML became a standard of representing semi-structured data and exchanging format over the web, the sheer volume of XML data has become larger. While relational database represents data as a structured format, XML ... -
Solving The Rubik's Cube With Parallel Processing
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2007-08-23)This thesis investigates parallel processing techniques for solving the 3 x 3 x 3 Rubik's Cube. We explore various state-space search based algorithmic approaches to optimally solve the Cube. The parallel processing approach ...