In a general purpose cloud system efficiencies are yet to be had from supporting diverse applications and their requirements within a storage system used for a private cloud. Supporting such diverse requirements poses a significant challenge in a storage system that supports fine grained configuration on a variety of parameters. This paper uses the Ceph distributed file system, and in particula...

This article describes the four systems sent by the author to the SENSEVAL-3 contest, the English lexical sample task. The best recognition rate obtained by one of these systems was 72.9% (fine grain score) .

Wireless video broadcast plays an important role in multimedia communication with the emergence of mobile video applications. However, conventional video broadcast designs suffer from a cliff effect due to separated source and channel encoding. The newly proposed SoftCast scheme employs a cross-layer design, whose reconstructed video quality is proportional to the channel condition. In this pap...

PCRP (Parameter Controlled Remote Performance) is a new method to play music together on the Internet despite high delay. In many musical forms, the score of the piece is known beforehand. PCRP measures the deviations of the players from the given score and describes them as parameters. The parameters, which are transmitted instead of the audio data itself, are used on the opposite side of the ...

The dynamic response characteristics of modern aircraft vary substantially with ight conditions. These changes require scheduling of the ight control system with variables such as dynamic pressure and Mach number. This scheduling can be accomplished easily for simple controllers but is much more diicult for complex controllers which result from the use of most modern control design techniques. ...

The objective of the Taguchi parameter design is to improve the performance of a product or a process by determining the levels of its design parameters such that the performance characteristic is robust against various causes of variation. Parameter design problems are broadly classified into static and dynamic ones. Static problems are further classified into the-nominal-thebest, the-larger-t...

Diabetes disease is amongst the most common disease in India. It affects patient’s health and also leads to other chronic diseases. Prediction of diabetes plays a significant role in saving of life and cost. Predicting diabetes in human body is a challenging task because it depends on several factors. Few studies have reported the performance of classification algorithms in terms of accuracy. R...

In some applications of statistical process monitoring, a quality characteristic can be characterized by linear regression relationships between several response variables and one explanatory variable, which is referred to as a “multivariate simple linear profile.” It is usually assumed that the process parameters are known in Phase II. However, in most applications, this assumption is viola...

Background and objectives: Risk-adjusted Bernoulli control chart is one of the main tools for monitoring multistage healthcare processes to achieve higher performance and effectiveness in healthcare settings. Using parameter estimates can lead to significantly deteriorate chart performance. However, so far, the effect of estimation error on this chart in which healthcare ...