This work develops a cross correlation maximization technique, based on statistical concepts, for pattern matching purposes in time series. The technique analytically quantifies the extent of similitude between a known signal within a group of data, by means of a single parameter. Specifically, the method was applied to voice recognition problem, by selecting samples from a given individual’s r...

During the past decades, serious efforts have been made to propose various architectures for the future Internet. Each of those architectures has one thing in common, i.e., to focus on content delivery rather than on host-centric approaches. However, only few of them gained popularity due to their possible applications being investigated. In this chapter, we describe the overview of various fut...

We describe a generic approach to image interpretation, based on combining a general method of building flexible template models with Genetic Algorithm (GA) search. The method can be applied to a given image interpretation problem simply by training a Point Distribution Model (PDM), using a set of examples of the image structure to be located. A local optimisation technique, developed for use w...

Sedimentary rocks have complicated permeability patterns arising from the geological processes that formed them. We concentrate on pattern formation in one particular geological process, avalanches (grain flow) in wind-blown or fluvial sands. We present a simple experiment and numerical model of how these avalanches cause segregation in particle size that lead to characteristic laminated patter...

A.1,219 meter (4,000 ft) drill hole in Crater Flat shows the absence of burled Pliocene or Quaternary volcanic rocks, and penetrates a section of Timber Mountain, Paintbrush, and the upper part of the Crater Flat Tuffs, similar to that exposed adjacent-to-Crater Flat. A prominent negative aeromagnetic anomaly between the drill hole and Bare Mountain is attributed to a westward thickening.sectio...

This paper proposes a real time Automatic Vehicle Location (AVL) and Monitoring system for pilgrims road transport coming towards city of Makkah in Saudi Arabia based on Data Distribution Service (DDS). This service is a real time publish/subscribe middleware. Using this middleware approach, we are able to locate and track a huge number of mobile vehicles and identify pilgrims for an annual Isl...

The Facebook Page Network (FPN) is a platform for Businesses, Public Figures and Organizations (BPOs) to connect with individuals and other BPOs in the digital space. For over a decade scale-free networks have most appropriately described a variety of seemingly disparate physical, biological and social real-world systems unified by similar network properties such as scale-invariance, growth via...

Publish/Subscribe systems have become an established model to provide content delivery from publishers to subscribers. Many approaches based on top of a P2P network have been proposed and evaluated, but typically each approach is evaluated on its own. We identify two approaches to implement Publish/Subscribe based on a structured P2P network and provide a mathematical analysis of their complexi...