Performance index is the standard of performance evaluation, and is the foundation of both performance analysis and optimal design for the parallel manipulator. Seeking the suitable kinematic indices is always an important and challenging issue for the parallel manipulator. So far, there are extensive studies in this field, but few existing indices can meet all the requirements, such as simple,...

IMUTUS (Interactive Music Tuition System) is a EU project that aims to develop a practising environment for the recorder, combining new technologies and new approaches for music learning. Automatic analysis and evaluation of student performances play a central role in the student-system interaction. The performance evaluation module identifies typical performance errors, and provides feedback t...

We propose a novel adaptive reservation scheme that handles, in an integrated way, streaming and elastic traffic. The scheme continuously adjusts the quality of service perceived by users, adapting to any mix of traffic and enforcing a differentiated treatment among services, both in fixed and variable capacity systems. The performance evaluation carried out verifies that the QoS objective is m...

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MELIBEA is a directory of institutional open-access policies for research output that uses a composite formula with eight weighted conditions to estimate the “strength” of Open Access mandates (registered in ROARMAP). We analyzed total Web of Science-(WoS)-indexed publication output in years 20112013 for 67 institutions where OA was mandated in order to estimate the mandates’ effectiveness: How...