Evaluating competing technologies on a common problem set is a powerful way to improve the state of the art and hasten technology transfer. Yet poorly designed evaluations can waste research effort or even mislead researchers with faulty conclusions. Thus it is important to examine the quality of a new evaluation task to establish its reliability. This paper provides an example of one such asse...

Abstract—The paper is focused to the evaluation railway tracks in the Slovakia by using Multi-Criteria method. Evaluation of railway tracks has important impacts for the assessment of investment in technical equipment. Evaluation of railway tracks also has an important impact for the allocation of marshalling yards. Marshalling yards are in transport model as centers for the operation assigned ...

The analysis and separation of audio signals into their original components is an important prerequisite to automatic transcription of music, extraction of metadata from audio data, and speaker separation in video conferencing. In this paper, a method for the separation of drum tracks from polyphonic music is proposed. It consists of an Independent Component Analysis and a subsequent partitioni...

(This material was originally intended as part of the article “The Loudness War: Background, Speculation and Recommendations” [1] but was removed for reasons of scope and to keep that article to a manageable length.) In this paper, I briefly review a variety of metrics for quantifying the loudness and dynamic spread of audio recordings. This review was motivated by the need for objective ways o...

Recent surveys of hemodialysis studies strongly support the fact that dialysis prescription is a modifiable risk factor. Six tracks to improve dialysis patient outcomes have been identified: change in vascular access option strategy and restricting catheter use; increasing time or frequency of dialysis sessions; assessment and management of fluid status; favoring removal of middle and large mol...

The goal of this report is to inform the community about how we, the program chairs, organized and managed the technical track of ICSE 2015. The technical track, the most prestigious of our flagship conference, is continuously evolving in an effort to make better decisions, give better feedback to the authors, and more wisely involve the community resources. This year we adjusted the reviewing ...

Railroads in North America have recently come under pressure to avoid transporting certain high hazard materials through metropolitan areas. There are two principal reasonsfear of terrorist attack and concern about the risk of an accident-caused release. Consequently, a number of municipalities are considering legislation to block hazardous materials transportation through their communities, th...

Every cancer treatment, irrespective of its clinical effectiveness, has an impact on patients' quality of life (QoL). Even recently developed targeted therapies might have side effects and significantly impact patients' QoL. Thus, understanding the advantages and disadvantages of different treatments from the patient's standpoint has become a must in clinical research and is highly valued by ma...