In the deformation of layered materials such as geological strata, or stacks of paper, mechanical properties compete with the geometry of layering. Smooth, rounded corners lead to voids between the layers, while close packing of the layers results in geometrically induced curvature singularities. When voids are penalized by external pressure, the system is forced to trade off these competing ef...

Service-based applications have become more and more multilayered in nature, as we tend to build software as a service on top of infrastructure as a service. Most existing SOA monitoring and adaptation techniques address layer-specific issues. These techniques, if used in isolation, cannot deal with real-world domains, where changes in one layer often affect other layers, and information from m...

There has been an increasing interest in the applicability of neural networks in disparate domains. In this paper, we describe the use of multi-layered perceptrons, a type of neural network topology, for financial classification problems, with promising results. Backpropagation, which is the learning algorithm most often used in multilayered perceptrons, however, is inherently an inefficient se...

We study a system of several identical servers in parallel, where a routing decision must be made immediately on a job’s arrival. Jobs arrive according to a Poisson process, with their processing times following a discrete distribution with finite support. The processing time of a job is known on arrival and may be used in the routing decision. We propose a policy consisting of multi-layered ro...

In this article, we describe a multi-layered image-based rendering system that can use different types of input to produce and render new environments. Each separate input that can be manipulated independently is called a layer. In our implementation, the types of layers that can be manipulated are the image-based and 3-D-based layers. The computation required for rendering the newly-crafted en...

One of the basic terms in information engineering is data. In our approach, data item is defined as representation of an information atom stored in digital computers. Although an information atom can be considered as a subject-predicate-value triplet (Lassila, 1999), data is usually given only with its value representation. This fact can lead to definitions where data is just numbers, words or ...

any software libraries have been created to support the commonly used primitive operations needed in image processing, image analysis and image understanding. Generally, these libraries Mar e based on the single-layered Application Program Interface (API). While a single-layered API provides the useful abstraction level to interact with the library and hides unnecessary implementation details f...

This article presents the results of research on multi-layered heterostructures by a modified calculation technique of multiple X-ray diffraction. The Al x In1-x Sb heterostructure and a Zn(Mn)Se/GaAs(001) multi-layered system were used as models to specify conditions for cases of coincidental coplanar three-beam or coincidental noncoplanar four-beam X-ray diffraction. These conditions provide ...

We propose a general topology optimization framework for metasurface inverse design that can automatically discover highly complex multi-layered meta-structures with increased functionalities. In particular, we present topology-optimized multi-layered geometries exhibiting angular phase control, including a single-piece nanophotonic metalens with angular aberration correction as well as an angl...

Attention models have been intensively studied to improve NLP tasks such as machine comprehension via both question-aware passage attention model and selfmatching attention model. Our research proposes phase conductor (PhaseCond) for attention models in two meaningful ways. First, PhaseCond, an architecture of multi-layered attention models, consists of multiple phases each implementing a stack...