Embedded systems are used in many fields such as home appliances, terminals, controls, communications, etc. So, to manage, control, and test these embedded systems, monitoring programs have been developed variously. In this paper, to overcome the characteristic faults of embedded systems which have resource restrictions, we implemented a development environment based on NFS and designed a monit...

1. The work of Erich Rütsche was funded by the Swiss National Fund Abstract We describe an architecture that supports networked multimedia applications. The architecture is based on a separation of multimedia stream processing and application processing. Applications reside in application pools whereas media stream processing is performed in multimedia terminals. An application controls a set o...

although faster than typewriter devices, do not implicitly create records of the user's interactive sessions. Based on the premise that a display terminal session facility that also has the record-keeping functions of typewriter terminals would increase productivity, a research project was undertaken that has resulted in the session manager discussed. Experience with the system is summarized. D...

In this paper, we describe a system which automatically recognizes human actions from video sequences taken of a room. These actions include entering a room, using a computer terminal, opening a cabinet, picking up a phone, etc. Our system recognizes these actions by using prior knowledge about the layout of the room. In our system, action recognition is modeled by a state machine, which consis...

In recent years, the increased demand for all types of wireless services, as well as the increasing number of users in the wireless networks have led to the development of different wireless technologies, such as 3G networks, WLAN, WiMAX etc, with different advantages and disadvantages in terms of coverage, bandwidth, QoS, cost and mobility. Wireless users can only benefit from the integration ...

For non-minimum phase plants, a partial LTR design of optimal output disturbance cancellation controllers is discussed. A target recoverable by the partial LTR procedure is identified as an output injection with a frequency-shaped gain matrix. The partial LTR result is used to clarify system-theoretic meaning of enforcing the minimum phase LTR procedure. It is shown that the partial LTR procedu...

This paper presents a research framework on loading and unloading process for inter terminal transfer (ITT) operation. Container movement in the transport industry depends on the service provided in the terminal. The complexity of the activities in the process could possibly contribute to potential delays occurred. In this paper, Petri Nets (PN) is introduced as new approach in modeling the con...

We introduce a protocol for authentication between a human and a computer, where the human is able to use no special hardware other than a dumb terminal. Authentication is based on a shared secret which can be reused polynomially often with no danger of exposure, assuming the conjectured uniform hardness of learning parity functions in the presence of noise. Under this conjecture, the protocol ...

The stormy progress of information and communication technologies (ICT) since the end of the 1980s has wonderfully changed not only professional but also everyday life of very many people in the world. Now it is possible to speak with a friend across an ocean and to see your friend; due to cell telephones, the mothers are able to immediately find out what and where their children are doing; we ...