Risk design optimization (RDO) is a competent approach for automated performance-based structural design by achieving a balance between safety and economy. Performance-based wind engineering (PBWE) is aimed at improving the life-cycle functionality of wind-sensitive structures, hence could be the very field RDO is tailor-made for. In this paper, we embed PBWE of tall buildings into RDO and tack...

The rate-distortion optimization (RDO) method is an informative technology that improves the coding efficiency, but increases the computational complexity, of the H.264 encoder. In this letter, a fast Macroblock mode determination algorithm is proposed to reduce the computational complexity of the H.264 encoder. The proposed method reduces the encoder complexity by 55%, while maintaining the sa...

Keywords A Note on Inequality Criteria absolute differentials ordering relative differentials ordering Lorenz ordering JEL classiication March 2001 The (ADO) and the (RDO) have been introduced as suitable alternative inequality criteria to (LO). We provide two new alternative proofs that ADO and RDO are sub-orderings of LO. Furthermore , we point out some paradoxical situationss, where these tw...

High-efficiency video coding (HEVC) is a new video coding standard being developed by the Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding. HEVC adopted numerous new tools, such as more flexible data structure representations, which include the coding unit (CU), prediction unit, and transform unit. In the partitioning of the largest coding unit (LCU) into CUs, rate distortion optimization (RDO) is appl...

In the chain of stereoscopic video processing, stereoscopic video coding and viewing are usually two independent stages. Conventional stereoscopic video coding puts emphasis on improving the coding efficiency by seeking the optimal trade-off between the coding bit-rate and the signal-based distortion, while neglecting the perceptual behaviors of binocular combination when stereoscopic video is ...

Department of Biological Sciences, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409-3131, USA (RDO) Martı́n Barrios 2230 c/ Pizarro, Barrio Republicano, Asunción, Paraguay (RDO) Department of Geography, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA (DGG, DEK) Southern Research Institute, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 2000 9th Avenue South, Birmingham, AL 35205-5305, USA (Y-KC, CB...

Robust design optimization (RDO) problems can generally be formulated by incorporating uncertainty into the corresponding deterministic problems. In this context, a careful formulation of deterministic equality constraints into the robust domain is necessary to avoid infeasible designs under uncertain conditions. The challenge of formulating equality constraints is compounded in multiobjective ...

Rate distortion optimization (RDO) technique is the best known mode decision method in recent video coding standard, such as H.264 and AVS. However, the unbearable computational burden limits its application. According to the proposed block-level pipeline architecture of RDO-based MD, we find that zigzag scanning and entropy coding are the bottlenecks. In our paper, we firstly analyze the time ...

The accompanying paper (Heath and Ghalambor, 1963) presents evidence for the occurrence of 2-keto-3-deoxy-octonate @DO) as a glycosidically bound constituent in preparations of cell wall lipopolysaccharide (LPS) obtained from Escherichia cs 0111-B4. The purpose of this paper is to report the biosynthesis of cytidine monophospho-RDO (CMP-KDO) by an enzyme purified from this organism. Materials a...