Important information is often generated at meetings but identifying, and retrieving that information after the meeting is not always simple. Automatically capturing such information and making it available for later retrieval has therefore become a topic of some interest. Most approaches to this problem have involved constructing specialized instrumented meeting rooms that allow a meeting to b...

Polymer-coated metal or metal oxide nanoparticles have a variety of uses in industry, biological research, and medicine. Characterization of nanoparticles often includes determination of the dimensions of the electron-dense core by transmission electron microscopy (TEM), with the weight of the core determined from core volume and core density. However, TEM is labor intensive, has a long turnaro...

Loading and hauling machineries are highly capital intensive equipment to procure, operate and maintain in surface mining operation. It must be borne in mind that with this huge and capital-intensive equipment, every second of its life time is absolutely important from the production and productivity point of view. As such, it is imperative to optimize the overall cycle time and speed factor of...

Group communication, providing virtual synchrony semantics, is a powerful paradigm for building distributed applications. For applications that require a large number of groups, signi cant performance gains can be attained if these groups share the resources required to provide virtual synchrony. A service that maps multiple user groups onto a small number of instances of a virtually synchronou...

We built a limited but successful user interface management system named HYPE which supports rapid interactive creation and organization of user interfaces for a large class of applications. HYPE is targeted at applications for which the user interface is only loosely coupled to the application. Examples of this class of application are ‘command line-driven’ programs. Many applications in this ...

The virtual synchrony model for group communication has proven to be a powerful paradigm for building distributed applications. In applications that use a large number of groups, signi cant performance gains can be attained if these groups share the resources required to provide virtual synchrony. A service that maps user groups onto instances of a virtually synchronous implementation is called...

N4016 makes a case for adding execution modes for threads of execution that are less capable than std::thread; doing so either allows for avoiding runtime overheads of std::thread or enables semantically different ways to execute such as SIMD loops. This paper defines the semantics of these lighter-weight modes of execution by defining certain kinds of execution agents (EAs). An EA is a mechani...