We will present an overview of the CLARAty architecture which aims at developing reusable software components for robotic systems. These components are to support autonomy software which plans and schedules robot activities. The CLARAty architecture modifies the conventional threelevel robotic architecture into a new two-layered design: the Functional Layer and the Decision Layer. The Functiona...

Membrane-anchored SNAREs assemble into SNARE complexes that bring membranes together to promote fusion. SNARE complexes are parallel four-helix bundles stabilized in part by hydrophobic interactions within their core. At the center of SNARE complexes is a distinctive zero layer that consists of one arginine and three glutamines. This zero layer is thought to play a special role in the biology o...

To support rate allocation schemes for wireless ad hoc networks at the MAC layer, a cross-layer MAC protocol is proposed in this paper to coordinate transmissions among flows and guarantee their allocated rates. Two different algorithms are implemented in this protocol: the first one is able to support an arbitrary bandwidth allocation scheme but has a longer convergence time, while the second ...

A decision support system (DSS) that has been designed to manage patients using a home telehealth system is presented. The DSS has been developed to assist home telehealth clinical support staff with their workload, and to provide more effective communication between multiple home telehealth users. The three-tier system architecture that consists of a data layer; a business logic layer; and a f...

Through the analysis of one-vs.-one, one-vs.-rest and the decision tree mechanism of binary support vector machine emotion classifiers, a method based on feature-driven hierarchical support vector machine is proposed for speech emotion recognition. For each layer, classifier used different feature parameters to drive its performance, and each emotion is subdivided layer by layer. This method di...