Cloud computing based e-Learning provides continuous (any time, anywhere and any device learning) and collaborative learning. Cloud computing in an academic environment such as university will be benefitted by every students, faculties, administrators and research scholars. Most of the universities infrastructures are underutilized and in some cases over utilization of resources occurs in order...

2 3 Despite the recent advances in sensor technologies and data acquisition systems, interpreting 4 measurement data for structural monitoring remains as challenge. Furthermore, due to the 5 complexity of the structures, materials used and uncertain environments, behavioral models are 6 difficult to build accurately. This paper presents novel model-free data-interpretation methodologies 7 that ...

When calculating correlation networks from multi-electrode array (MEA) data, one works with extensive computations. Unfortunately, as the MEAs grow bigger, the time needed for the computation grows even more: calculating pair-wise correlations for current 60 channel systems can take hours on normal commodity computers whereas for future 1000 channel systems it would take almost 280 times as lon...

We introduce PatchNets, a compact, hierarchical representation describing structural and appearance characteristics of image regions, for use in image editing. In a PatchNet, an image region with coherent appearance is summarized by a graph node, associated with a single representative patch, while geometric relationships between different regions are encoded by labelled graph edges giving cont...

Among different physical simulation topics, cloth simulation is one of the most popular subjects in computer graphics. There are many different studies published on different aspects of cloth simulation, but there are not many studies focused on the tearing of cloth. Existing studies related to this topic have only dealt with some aspects of the problem [Metaaphanon et al. 2009] and have not pr...

It is known that a certain case of the all-terminal network reliability can be computed via the Tutte polynomial which is an invariant in graph theory. Recently, we have proposed a new approach of computing the Tutte polynomial of a graph of moderate size [9]. In this paper, by using it we analyze computation method of the general all-terminal network reliability and two-terminal network reliab...

We present a hybrid object-image algorithm for the placement of graftels in a scene. Our algorithm addresses the problem of frameto-frame coherency while maintaining image-space constraints. Graftels are attached to objects in the scene. Each graftel has a behavior function that determines its size and orientation based on the current view direction and image-space size. The placement of the gr...

The adoption of the cloud computing paradigm is associated with increasing security concerns. Cloud computing service models (SaaS, PaaS and IaaS) are exposed to different security threats in each level of services. The Trusted Cloud Computing Platform (TCCP) proposes a security model that protects customers VMs at the IaaS level. In this paper, we investigate methodologies for the specificatio...

We propose an open signal processing system design and implementation environment, BEEHIVE, that allows application developers to rapidly compose and debug functional speci cations in a networked, distributed computing environment, and then later migrate the application (transparently) onto an embedded, distributed, computing hardware/software platform, with the capability to recongure (adaptiv...

Cloud computing is envisioned as the next-generation technology. It is an Internet based technology where quality services are provided to users including data and software, on remote servers. Advantages of cloud computing includes creating and storing data at remote servers, hence utilizing the client resource to the minimum level. But this advantage implicitly contains drawback of data securi...