Speech-based technology is a useful alternative to traditional input techniques such as the keyboard and mouse. For people with disabilities that hinder use of traditional input devices, a hands-free speech-based interaction solution is highly desirable. Various speech-based navigation techniques have been discussed in the literature and employed in commercial software applications. Among them,...

An improved and simplified apparatus for maintaining the rumen microbial population in continuous culture was constructed. All components were easily obtained from commercial sources or were simple to construct. Mechanical difficulties were minimal, and little attention was needed on the part of the operator. The deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) content of the cultures (100 to 150 mug/ml) varied lit...

In this paper, the mooring dynamic loads and the motion responses of a large container ship in irregular waves with steady wind and current is investigated based on the commercial software AQWA. Comparisons between the time-history motion responses of a large container ship and the change of the mooring line tension in three different cases, non-mooring case, V-type mooring case and I-type moor...

The variety and consistency of the agents behaviors greatly influences the realism in multi-agent simulations, and designing scenarios that simultaneously take into account both aspects is a complex task. To address this issue, we propose an approach to automatically create populations using sample data. It facilitates the designers tasks, and variety as well as consistency issues are handled b...

Based on the coupled thermo-mechanical model, a constitutive model for bulk metallic glasses (BMGs), which is generalized to the multi-axial stress state and considers the effects of free volume, heat and hydrostatic stress, has been modified in the present paper. Besides, a failure criterion of critical free volume concentration is introduced based on the coalescence mechanism of free volume. ...

This paper presents an empirical research to study synchronous and asynchronous collaborative design in a technology-mediated situation. In this experiment we wanted to create a design situation where four distant designers had to communicate using commercial software and standard hardware configurations. Our methodological approach gave us the opportunity to examine two main lines of research ...

Object-oriented modeling is used in a growing number of commercial software development projects. But the plethora of approaches and corresponding CASE tools still prevents corporate users from migrating to object-oriented software development methods. Against this background the recent efforts of the Object Management Group (OMG) to standardize object-oriented modeling languages seem to promis...

The higher education community is concerned about the cost and performance of commercial software products. A common view is that existing proprietary options do not have the features required by instructors and students or allow for costeffective customization. One way to address these problems in poorer countries, and hence improve their quality of education and access to knowledge, would be ...

Better post-release defect prediction models could lead to better maintenance resource allocation and potentially a software insurance system. We examine a special class of software systems and analyze the ability of currently-available defect prediction models to estimate user-reported defects for this class of software, widely-used and multi-release commercial software systems. We survey curr...

In this paper, we introduce a framework that identifies online plagiarism by exploiting lexical, syntactic and semantic features that includes duplication-gram, reordering and alignment of words, POS and phrase tags, and semantic similarity of sentences. We establish an ensemble framework to combine the predictions of each model. Results demonstrate that our system can not only find considerabl...