This experiment sought to explore the theory that familiar English words are processed similarly to objects. To do this, we looked for object-based attentional facilitation where cues in a different location to the target still facilitate target detection as long as they are inside the same object. Participants were shown two English words in an array, and cues and targets were embedded inside ...

Nowadays, a large number of data mining (DM) techniques are available for data analysis and prediction in medicine. Few literatures are available that provide a comprehensive view which give a guideline to use the DM techniques in different medical areas (domain). This review provides a comprehensive view of the state of the art of single DM and integrated case-based reasoning (CBR) and DM tech...

A component-based system consists of components linked by connectors. Data can reside in components and/or in external data stores. Operations on data, such as access, update and transfer are carried out during computations performed by components. Typically, in current component models, control, computation and data are mixed up in the components, while control and data are both communicated b...

In this paper, we develop a system for active image-based rendering (IBR). Active IBR is a framework that is capable of estimating the final rendering quality and capturing the next view at the position where the rendering quality can be improved the most. The result is a nonuniform capturing scheme for IBR. Experimental results on synthetic scenes have shown that active IBR outperforms uniform...

In order to obtain information and knowledge about moving entities, spatio-temporal data needs to be collected and analyzed. The idea is to establish a generic tracking framework that is able to integrate, combine, process and analyze spatio-temporal data that is obtained from heterogeneous data sources. This framework allows for the establishment of new location-based services for different sc...

Agent based modelling has been widely accepted as a promising tool for urban planning purposes thanks to its capability to provide sophisticated insights into the social behaviours and the interdependencies that characterise urban systems. In this paper, we report on an agent based model, called TransMob, which explicitly simulates the mutual dynamics between demographic evolution, transport de...

This paper describes an approach to designing and building Tcl extensions that can be flexibly and dynamically changed using either Tcl or C. In particular, extensions having an object-based interface are considered. This extension approach seeks to avoid the “chasm” found in migrating code from Tcl to C as it matures by freely mixing Tcl and C to create an object’s subcommands. The approach di...

In CBR applications, the traditional concept of a case is that of a point in the space spawned by the case’s attributes. Driven by examinations of several new applications, like the retrieval for intellectual properties (IPs), we proposed the concept of generalized cases [BV99, Ber02]. A generalized case (gc) covers not only one point of the attribute space, but a whole subspace of it. It immed...

Moving objects databases have become an intensive field of research in recent years with many applications such as location-based services, traffic monitoring, fleet management, etc. Most of the works in the literature assume free movement in the 2-dimensional space, although in some cases, the objects move within spatially embedded networks, e.g. vehicles in highways and trains in railways. Mo...