We consider a BitTorrent type file sharing algorithm with randomized chunk copying process. The system functions in completely distributed way without any ’Tracker’, just relying on randomness. In such case the stability becomes an issue. It may happen, say, that some chunk becomes rare. This problem can persist and cause accumulation of peers in the system, resulting in unstable system. The co...

Low-order detonations of military munitions scatter cm-sized chunks of high-explosives onto military range soils, where rainfall can dissolve and then transport the explosives to groundwater. We present 1 year of mass-loss data obtained from cm-sized chunks of the frequently used explosives TNT (2,4,6-trinitrotoluene) and Tritonal (an 80:20 mixture of TNT and aluminum flakes) exposed outdoors t...

We propose an approach to learn image representations that consist of disentangled factors of variation without exploiting any manual labeling or data domain knowledge. A factor of variation corresponds to an image attribute that can be discerned consistently across a set of images, such as the pose or color of objects. Our disentangled representation consists of a concatenation of feature chun...

In the StreamControl Transmission Protocol (SCTP), when a portion of a packet is corrupted, the entire packet will be discarded at the receiver side. This may result in degradation of the throughput of SCTP over wireless networks with a high bit error rate. This paper proposes a new error control scheme of SCTP using a partial Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) checksum to enhance the throughput per...

Information retrieval (IR) is a crucial area of natural language processing (NLP) and can be defined as finding documents whose content is relevant to the query need of a user. Cross-language information retrieval (CLIR) refers to a kind of information retrieval in which the language of the query and that of searched document are different. One of the fundamental issues in bilingual retrieving ...

This study investigates global properties of literary and non-literary texts. Within the texts, a distinction is made between canonical non-canonical works. The central hypothesis that three text types (non-literary, literary/canonical literary/non-canonical) exhibit systematic differences with respect to structural design features as correlates aesthetic responses in readers. To investigate th...

In chunk-based deduplication systems, logically consecutive chunks are physically scattered in different containers after deduplication, which results in the serious fragmentation problem. The fragmentation significantly reduces the restore performance due to reading the scattered chunks from different containers. Existing work aims to rewrite the fragmented duplicate chunks into new containers...

Even newborn infants are able to extract structure from a stream of sensory inputs; yet how this is achieved remains largely a mystery. We present a connectionist autoencoder model, TRACX2, that learns to extract sequence structure by gradually constructing chunks, storing these chunks in a distributed manner across its synaptic weights and recognizing these chunks when they re-occur in the inp...