With the growing popularity of the Internet, there is increasing interest in using it for audio and video transmission. Periodic network overloads, leading to bursty packet losses, have always been a key problem for network researchers. In a long-haul, heterogeneous network like the Internet, handling such an error becomes especially difficult. Perceptual studies of audio and video viewing have...

Abslracf-The ever-increasing demand on container porl throughput has mounted the necessity of a more efficient container storage StNCtUE, the Equirements of which apparently can be met by ASKS because of its abilities of fully automating material handling and the potentials for delivering high performance. In this study, we present an ASKS for container storage, develop the travel time models f...

Background and Objectives: Rheological characteristics of dough are important for achieving useful information about raw-material quality, dough behavior during mechanical handling, and textural characteristics of products. Our purpose in the present research is to apply soft computation tools for predicting the rheological properties of dough out of simple measurable factors. Materials and Me...

As systems become more complex it is increasingly difficult to anticipate and handle error conditions in a system. The developers of the system must ensure that errors do not cause problems for the users of the system. To do so, they should Keep Exceptions Exceptional, Hide Technical Details from Users and encapsulate the system in a Big Outer Try Block. The administrators must be informed when...

Endogeneity arises for numerous reasons in models of consumer choice. It leads to inconsistency with standard estimation methods that maintain independence between the model’s error and the included variables. The authors describe a control function approach for handling endogeneity in choice models. Observed variables and economic theory are used to derive controls for the dependence between t...

Hyperarticulate speech to computers remains a poorly understood phenomenon, in spite of its association with elevated recognition errors. The present research analyzes the type and magnitude of linguistic adaptations that occur when people engage in error resolution with computers. A semi-automatic simulation method incorporating a novel error generation capability was used to collect speech da...

The main goal of this work is to provide automatic transcriptions of classroom lectures for e-learning and e-inclusion applications. The first experiments using a recognition system trained for Broadcast News resulted in word error rates near 60%, clearly confirming the need for adaptation to the specific topic of the lectures, on one hand, and for better strategies for handling spontaneous spe...

The topic described here refers to real-time communication between two or more partners by way of audio and video streaming over the Internet. Following a preliminary side-condition for a conferencing system, we consider here the state of the art of solutions that do not depend on special encoding hardware or special network connections on the end user’s side, as users are expected to use their...

In this paper we consider a CDMA system with error-control coding. Optimal joint decoding is prohibitively complex. Instead, we propose a sequential approach for handling multiple-access interference and error-control decoding. Error-control decoding is implemented via single-user soft-input decoders utilizing metrics generated by linear algebraic multiuser metric generators. The decorrelator, ...