A parallel algorithm is proposed for a fundamental problem of machine learning, that of mul-ticategory discrimination. The algorithm is based on minimizing an error function associated with a set of highly structured linear inequalities. These inequalities characterize piecewise-linear separation of k sets by the maximum of k aane functions. The error function has a Lipschitz continuous gradien...

Cerebral processing of pain has been shown to involve primary (SI) and secondary (SII) somatosensory cortices. However, the temporal activation pattern of these cortices in nociceptive processing has not been demonstrated so far. We therefore used whole-head magnetoencephalography to record cortical responses to cutaneous laser stimuli in six healthy human subjects. By using selective nocicepti...

The well-known electro-mechanical analogy that equates current, voltage, resistance, inductance and capacitance to force, velocity, damping, spring constant and mass has a shortcoming in that mass can only be used to simulate a capacitor which has one terminal connected to ground. A new model that was previously proposed by the authors that combines a mass with a pulley (MP) is shown to simulat...

Exploiting an incremental and parallel processing scheme is useful to improve the performance of natural language generation systems. TAG{GEN is a TAG{based syntactic generator that realizes both principles. It is shown how the demands of incremental and parallel generation innuence the deenition, the design, and the processing of syntactic rules on the basis of Tree Adjoining Grammars.

Gang scheduling has recently been shown to be an effective task scheduling policy for parallel computers because it combines elements of space sharing and time sharing [10, 20]. In this paper, we propose new policies to enable gang scheduling to adapt to environments with real-time constraints. Our work, to our best knowledge, is the first attempt to address these real-time aspects with gang sc...

inverse and direct kinematic analysis of the VERNE machine, a serial/parallel 5-axis machine tool designed by Fatronik for IRCCyN. This machine is composed of a three-degree-of-freedom (DOF) parallel module and a two-DOF serial tilting table. The parallel module consists of a moving platform that is connected to a fixed base by three non-identical legs. This feature involves (i) a simultaneous ...

25 Modeling and simulation of a network interface handling two priority levels. We propose a scheme called Double Queue Scheme to reduce the eeects of local jobs' communication on the performance of parallel jobs. It divides the only one input and output queues in traditional network interfaces into two ones. One is for the communication of parallel jobs, and the other is for the communication ...