Collective intelligence is the capability for a group of people to collaborate in order to achieve goals in a complex context than its individual member. This common concept increases topic of interest in many sciences including computer science where computers are bring about as group support elements. This paper presents a new platform, called Knowledge Unifying Initiator (KUI) for knowledge ...

Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) is a demanding application that requires separation of targets from a noisy background in a sequence of images. In our previous work [5] the background was adaptively described using twodimensional filters designed by Principle Component Analysis on sampled two-dimensional image patches. Significant improvements in performance have been obtained by decision le...

Device Locks are mechanisms used in distributed environments to facilitate mutual exclusion of shared resources. They can further be used to maintain coherence of data that is cached in several locations. The locks are implemented on the storage devices and accessed with the SCSI device lock command, Dlock. This paper presents the Dlock command and discusses how it can be used as a mutual exclu...

Introduction This proposal provides a method for SATA-capable SAS initiator or expander devices to handshake with SATA devices capable of both SATA and SAS transmission amplitudes such that the OOB sequence results in both devices operating at the optimum amplitude on an operation physical link. Also, this proposal addresses two additional issues. The first could occur when a SAS/SATA initiator...

This paper introduces Teaq, a new peer-to-peer programming model and implementation that places processes into a self-healing, ordered spanning tree, across which distributed object queries are routed. The programmer has control over where in the tree their process resides, how their queries are routed through the tree, and how result objects are generated and passed back to the query initiator...

Mechanical systems or robots to assist landmine detection are expected to greatly improve quality of humanitarian demining tasks. These new systems could provide: i) safer operation; ii) advanced methods for automatic target recognition and discrimination; iii) consistent performance with less influence of “human-factors”; iv) better detection performance, i.e., higher probability of detection ...

Even if several algorithms were proposed in the literature to solve the coverage problem in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), they still suffer from some weaknesses. This is the reason why we suggest in this paper, a distributed protocol, called Single Phase Multiple Initiator (SPMI). Its aim is to find Connect Cover Set (CCS) for assuring the coverage and connectivity in WSN. Our idea is based ...

Moving targets saliency extraction is the key technology in moving target detection, tracking and recognition systems. In order to solve the problems for moving targets detection tasks, such as the background interference, target occlusion and so on, a new moving target detection method by moving saliency calculation is proposed. By the Quaternion Fast Fourier Transform, the proposed method fus...