With more and more real deployments of wireless sensor network applications, we envision that their success is nonetheless determined by whether the sensor networks can provide a high quality stream of data over a long period. In this paper, we propose a consistency-driven data quality management framework called Orchis that integrates the quality of data into an energy efficient sensor system ...

The behavior of Distributed Shared Memory Systems is dictated by the Memory Consistency Model. Several Memory Consistency Models have been proposed in the literature and they fit basically in two categories: uniform and hybrid models. To provide a better understanding on the semantics of the memory models, researchers have proposed formalisms to define them. Unfortunately, most of the work has ...

We discuss a family of estimators for the entropy rate of a stationary ergodic process and prove their pointwise and mean consistency under a Doeblin-type mixing condition. The estimators are Cesàro averages of longest match-lengths, and their consistency follows from a generalized ergodic theorem due to Maker. We provide examples of their performance on English text, and we generalize our resu...

Unlabeled data exploitation and interpretability are usually both required in reality. They, however, conducted independently, very few works try to connect the two. For unlabeled exploitation, state-of-the-art semi-supervised learning (SSL) results have been achieved via encouraging consistency of model output on perturbation, that is, assumption. However, it remains hard for users understand ...

This paper is on the general discussion of memory consistency model like Strict Consistency, Sequential Consistency, Processor Consistency, Weak Consistency etc. Then the techniques for implementing distributed shared memory Systems and Synchronization Primitives in Software Distributed Shared Memory Systems are discussed. The analysis involves the performance measurement of the protocol concer...

PURPOSE We analyzed whether any problems existed in terms of the homogeneity of the Korean International Prostate Symptom Score (IPSS) questionnaire used in real practice. MATERIALS AND METHODS Between July 2012 and August 2012, 48 Korean IPSS questionnaires used in real practice were collected. All the items on the questionnaire, including the quality of life (QoL) questions, were compared a...