In this paper, we introduce the notion of visually descriptive language (VDL) – intuitively a text segment whose truth can be confirmed by visual sense alone. VDL can be exploited in many vision-based tasks, e.g. image interpretation and story illustration. In contrast to previous work requiring pre-aligned texts and images, we propose a broader definition of VDL that extends to a much larger r...

To develop a general reliability theory taking into account various sources of information and a lack of satisfactory data on which estimates of system parameters can be based, the theory of imprecise probabilities can be used. The purpose of the paper is to study structural reliability based on the imprecise probability models taking into account the ageing aspect of the lifetime distributions...

Analyzing network data can provide valuable insights in many diverse fields. However, designing node-link visualizations that effectively communicate the underlying network is challenging, as for every network there are many potential unintelligible or even misleading layouts. Automated layout algorithms have helped, but frequently generate ineffective visualizations. In order to build awarenes...

Multicasting multimedia streams in IEEE 802.11 wireless LANs has two issues: reliability and rate adaptation. We address these issues by proposing two mechanisms that augment the current multicasting standards in a backward-compatible fashion. Semi-reliable multicasting (SRM) selects a leader who sends feedback information to lessen the reliability problem of multicast frames. Probing-based aut...

The enormous growth of the World Wide Web in recent years has made it necessary to perform resource discovery efficiently. For a crawler it is not an simple task to download the domain specific web pages. This unfocused approach often shows undesired results. Therefore, several new ideas have been proposed, among them a key technique is focused crawling which is able to crawl particular topical...

This paper describes the work done in investigating and constructing Optimised Multi-path (OSPFOMP) metric link state for the purpose of load balancing that considers heavy tailed distributions. Simply as the buffer overflow probability increases this metric would increase for this link. The paper provides an update on the work presented last year. This is a work in progress and describes theor...

The capacity benefit of network coding has been extensively studied in wired and wireless networks. Moreover, it has been shown that network coding improves network reliability by reducing the number of packet retransmissions in lossy networks. However, the extent of the reliability benefit of network coding is not known. In this work, we characterize the reliability benefit of network coding f...

We give a description of the completion of the manifold of all smooth Riemannian metrics on a fixed smooth, closed, finite-dimensional, orientable manifold with respect to a natural metric called the L metric. The primary motivation for studying this problem comes from Teichmüller theory, where similar considerations lead to a completion of the well-knownWeil-Petersson metric. We give an applic...

Not only do government interventions tend to compromise the knowledge-utilizing properties of the price system, they also impinge directly and in important ways on local knowledge, or Hayek’s “knowledge of the particular circumstances of time and place.” This local knowledge includes norms and trust levels that promote impersonal market interactions and complement more familiar forms of product...

Current electronic voting systems are not sufficient to satisfy trustworthy elections as they do not provide any proofs or confirming evidences of their honesty. This lack of trustworthiness is the main reason why e-voting is not widely spread even though e-voting is expected to be more efficient than the current plain paper voting. Many experts believe that the only way to assure voters that t...