The paper is about design of object stores for distributed memory computers. Problems of distribution within such stores are described through the design of Distributed Texas, a system derived from the Texas store [6] and implemented on a scalable multicomputer (a Fujitsu AP1000). Problems discussed include creating a single image of an object space across multicomputer architectures, tradeoffs...

In this paper a Cellular Fuzzy Associative Memory containing fuzzy rules for bidimensional image fuzzification in robot vision systems is developed. This cellular processor constitutes a subsystem of a CNNbased architecture which can store both bidimensional patterns and the rules to process them. After establishing the fuzzy rules characterizing the Fuzzy Associative Memory, a CNN behaving as ...

Telecardiology provides remote delayed interpretation of echocardiographic images through a store and forward program between the interpreting center, Tripler Army Medical Center, Honolulu Hawaii, and the image acquisition center, Guam Naval Hospital, Guam USA. This routine store and forward system has inherent delay, limiting application for management of acute medical conditions. In this case...

a r t i c l e i n f o This study investigates the effect of the interplay between a multi-channel retailer's offline and online brand images on consumers' online perceived risk and online loyalty within the framework of a theory of cognitive dissonance. A sample of 671 female college students participated in an experiment using a 2 (prior offline brand image) × 2 (online performance) between-su...

one way to increase the shelf life of agriculture products is using of controlled atmosphere storages. in order to obtain the controlled gas components, an equipped cold store with cooling system and atmosphere controller system designed and constructed. the injection of co2, o2 and n2 were controlled automatically into the store by programable logic control (plc). the store was a laboratory re...

In order to improve the efficiency of massive medical images retrieval, against the defects of the single-node medical image retrieval system, a massive medical images retrieval system based on Hadoop is put forward. Brushlet transform and Local binary patterns algorithm are introduced firstly to extract characteristics of the medical example image, and store the image feature library in the HD...

Traditional approaches for music recommender systems face the known challenges of providing new recommendations that users perceive as novel and serendipitous discoveries. Even with all the music content available on the web and commercial music streaming services, discovering new music remains a time consuming and taxing activity for the average user. The goal for our proposed system is to pro...

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the competition among mobile app stores for smart mobile media devices. Therefore, the business models of seven mobile app stores are analyzed with a special focus on Apple and Google. We use e3-value modelling – a formal business modelling technique – for analyzing the critical elements of these mobile ecosystems. The analysis of the app store ecosystems...