The Affinity Propagation (AP) clustering algorithm proposed by Frey and Dueck (2007) provides an understandable, nearly optimal summary of a data set, through message passing among all pairs of data items. However, it suffers two major shortcomings: i) the number of clusters is vague with the user-defined parameter called self-confidence, and ii) the quadratic computational complexity. When aim...

There has been an increasing trend for Electrical and Electronic (E&E) companies to migrate their Supply Chain Management (SCM) online using Internet technologies. In Malaysia however, many of these E&E companies have not or are reluctant to invest in IT to improve their SCM. In order for companies to successfully migrate their SCM online, they need to solve both technical and business issues t...

DVS (Distributed Video Streaming) is an edge streaming architecture for providing smooth video delivery. It is to divide video among multiple streaming senders in order to effectively provide the required throughput. In P2P-based streaming, if some peers are connected with high speed physical link, it is highly probable that they receive the best quality streaming stably from an original source...

During my fellowship, I collaborated with Prof. Ole Morten Aamo and Ass. Prof. Øyvind Stavdahl. One of the objective of the project was the development and investigation of methods for a computer based video sequence analysis in order to detect a certain kind of General Movements (GM) observed in the motion performed by infants with the aim to determine the risk to have Cerebral Palsy. Cerebral...

A recommendation of: Alain Queffelec, Pierrick Fouere, Jean-Baptiste Caverne database of lapidary artifacts in the Caribbean for Ceramic Age 10.31235/osf.io/7dq3b

The biography of the physician general Alain Jean Georges (1946-2012) shows the exceptional career of a military physician-clinical pathologist specialized in tropical medicine and educated at the Navy Health School in Bordeaux and the Pharo School in Marseille. He completed his education at the Institut Pasteur de Paris in courses still conducted in the spirit of those taught by Louis Pasteur....