Modern software architecting increasingly often takes place in geographically distributed contexts involving teams of professionals and customers with different backgrounds and roles. So far, attention and effort have been mainly dedicated to individuals sharing already formalized knowledge and less to social, informal collaboration. Furthermore, in Web 2.0 contexts, little to no attention has ...

Why did you choose the profession of scientific investigation? During high school at Seattle Prep, my favorite subjects were physics, chemistry, and math; there it was emphasized that scholarship required a deep and fundamental knowledge of subjects. In the Jesuit tradition, academic excellence, curiosity, and service are inextricably entwined. During those years, I decided that my mission in l...

Nowadays, Tibetan speech synthesis based on neural network has become the mainstream method. Among them, griffin-lim vocoder is widely used in because of its relatively simple synthesis.Aiming at problem low fidelity vocoder, this paper uses WaveNet instead for synthesis.This first convolution operation and attention mechanism to extract sequence features.And then linear projection feature ampl...

This thesis is about modelling carbon flux in forests based on meterological variables using modern machine learning techniques. The motivation is to better understand the carbon uptake process from trees and find the driving factors of it, using totally automated techniques. Data from two British forests were used, (Griffin and Harwood) but finally results were obtained only with Harwood becau...

In previous contributions [1, 2], we presented a fast algorithm for the reconstruction of a time-domain signal from a magnitude short-time Fourier transform (STFT) spectrogram, and showed experimentally that it could lead to substantial reduction in computation time compared to previous work by Griffin and Lim [3] when both algorithms are initialized using zero phase. We study here other strate...