Automatic parking systems consist of three core technologies: target position designation, path planning, and path tracking. Target position designation methods can be divided into four categories: user interface-based, parking slot marking-based, free space-based, and infrastructure-based. Considering the fact that parking assist systems are expected to be used mainly in urban situations, reco...

The subject of this paper is the analysis of a discrete-time queueing model with infinite capacity, a single server serving exactly one packet per slot and with N input lines. On each of these input lines, there are messages arriving to the system that consist of exactly m packets. The important feature of this model however, is the fact that the packets of a message do not all enter the system...

We describe two tasks—named entity recognition (Task 1) and template slot filling (Task 2)—for clinical texts. The tasks leverage annotations from the ShARe corpus, which consists of clinical notes with annotated mentions disorders, along with their normalization to a medical terminology and eight additional attributes. The purpose of these tasks was to identify advances in clinical named entit...

This paper describes the system implemented by the NLP GROUP AT UNED for our first participation in the Knowledge Base Population at the Text Analysis Conference (TACKBP). For this Slot Filling Task, our approach was to design a distant supervised learning system, which was then specialized for the Regular Slot Filling and Full Temporal Slot Filling subtasks. From the initial Knowledge Base and...

We propose a new approach to developing a tractable affective dialogue model for general probabilistic frame-based dialogue systems. The dialogue model, based on the Partially Observable Markov Decision Process (POMDP) and the Dynamic Decision Network (DDN) techniques, is composed of two main parts, the slot level dialogue manager and the global dialogue manager. Our implemented dialogue manage...

Practical aspects of designing microstrip-slot couplers on an AI ~03 ceramic substrate (e, = 9.8) are treated in supplementation of the theoretical analysis of the coupler presented in Part I. Comparison with implemented couplers yields rules for specification of the reference planes at the ends of the coupling section and for the appropriate choice of definition for the slot-line characteristi...

We design, fabricate and experimentally demonstrate a highly efficient adiabatic mode converter for coupling light into a silicon slot waveguide with a slot width as large as 320 nm. This strip-to-slot mode converter is optimized to provide a measured insertion loss as low as 0.08 dB. Our mode converter provides 0.1 dB lower loss compared to a conventional V-shape mode converter. This mode conv...

The paper presents the performances of microstrip patch antennas excited by the aperture-coupling feed that is composed of a T-shaped microstrip feed line and an annular-ring slot. Because the annular-ring slot is designed at a full-wavelength resonant mode, a broad impedance bandwidth can be obtained by combing the resonant modes of the coupling slot and radiating patch; moreover, a low cross ...

The fishery of Lake Victoria became a major commercial fishery with the introduction of Nile perch in 1950s and 1960s. Biological and population characteristics point to a fishery under intense fishing pressure attributed to increased capacity and use of illegal fishing gears. Studies conducted between 1998 to 2000 suggested capture of fish between slot size of 50 to 85 cm TL to sustain the fis...

A novel frequency reconfigurable slot antenna is designed for cognitive radio system. In cognitive radio system the two antennas are required one is a wideband antenna and another is frequency reconfigurable antenna. In this work a frequency reconfigurable slot antenna is designed between the switchable frequency range i.e 7.347.96 GHz at eight different frequency band and capable to operate si...