Decision support is needed within design processes in order to take into account all the aspects of life cycle assessments (LCA). In order to develop appropriate tools for decision support in design processes, it is necessary to found them on an understanding of design. The framework of methodical design as developed at the University of Twente is extended to integrate the specific LCA aspects....

Automatic musical genre classification is very useful for music indexing and retrieval. In this paper, an efficient and effective automatic musical genre classification approach is presented. A set of features is extracted and used to characterize music content. A multi-layer classifier based on support vector machines is applied to musical genre classification. Support vector machines are used...

We propose a hierarchical movemes structure for the problem of human action prediction. The features of human actions are calculated by HOG descriptors and exemplar-SVM models. The finer-grained descriptions (movemes) of the human action are calculated from these features using dynamic time warping based segmentation. The dataset we use is collected from Youtube and consists of clips from 20 di...

The supplier's cooperative design enables the enterprise to use supplier's technical ability fully, reduce the time of product coming into the market, improve quality, and reduce cost. In order to evaluate the supplier cooperative design ability (SCDA) scientifically and accurately, this paper overcomes the shortcoming of traditional linear SCDA evaluation method, proposes an improved support v...

It has been shown both experimentally and theoretically that sparse signal recovery can be significantly improved given that part of the signal’s support is known a priori. In practice, however, such prior knowledge is usually inaccurate and contains errors. Using such knowledge may result in severe performance degradation or even recovery failure. In this paper, we study the problem of sparse ...

Sensing devices are increasingly being deployed to monitor the physical world around us. One class of application for which sensor data is pertinent is environmental decision support systems, e.g., flood emergency response. For these applications, the sensor readings need to be put in context by integrating them with other sources of data about the surrounding environment. Traditional systems f...

This paper proposes a framework for cross-layer adaptation for multimedia transmission over wired and wireless networks. The main concept is based on a “holistic approach” in which all layers participate to the adaptation process and make its own contributions. In addition, the proposed framework can support both wired and wireless receivers in one platform and cross layer information are used ...

1 Abstract Digital developed the intermediate system-to-intermediate system (IS-IS) intradomain routing information exchange protocol for the DECnet Phase V network layer architecture. This protocol, which has been adopted by the International Organization for Standardization, is based on a link state routing algorithm. The benefits derived from the IS-IS protocol include a self-stablizing meth...

We have designed and implemented a C++ object layer for Khazana, a distributed persistent storage system that exports a flat shared address space as its basic abstraction. The C++ layer described herein lets programmers use familiar C++ idioms to allocate, manipulate, and deallocate persistent shared data structures. It handles the tedious details involved in accessing this shared data, replica...

A series of sorbents containing various amounts of borate groups were prepared by chemical immobilization ofP-aminoethylphenylboric acid on a copolymer- treated organosilane spacer glass plates. It was found thatbaker's yeast cells selectively adhered to these supports. Yeast cells stained with procion red HE-3B formeddenser and more stable layer on the copolymer-grafted supports compared onto ...