The MPEG-4 standard defines numerous tools that represent the state-of-the-art in representation, transmission, and decoding of multimedia data. Among these is a new type of audio standard, termed “Structured Audio”. The MPEG-4 standard for structured audio allows for the efficient, flexible description of synthetic music and sound effects, and the use of synthetic sound in synchronization with...

This paper presents a new technique for generating sets of synthetic classifiers to evaluate abstract-level combination methods. The sets differ in terms of both recognition rates of the individual classifiers and degree of similarity. For this purpose, each abstract-level classifier is considered as a random variable producing one class label as the output for an input pattern. From the initia...

We present a purely synthetic proof of Thébault’s theorem, known earlier to Y. Sawayama.

We describe the CAWE framework for the management of contextaware workflow systems, based on Web Services. The framework is based on a hierarchical workflow representation supporting a synthetic and extensible specification of context-sensitive workflows, which can be executed by standard workflow engines. We have exploited the CAWE framework to develop a prototype application handling a medica...

of the Thesis Classification of Imbalanced Data Using Synthetic Over-Sampling Techniques

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Current research has established that women and minorities are underrepresented among managers, especially among top-level managers. However, studies have not tested whether the glass ceiling effect exists in the strict sense as a disadvantage in advancing to top-level positions in organizational hierarchies. This study discusses the criteria for identifying the glass ceiling effect and tests i...