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...

A new nozzle system for the efficient production of multi-layered nanofibers through electrospinning is reported. Developed a decade ago, the commonly used coaxial nozzle system consisting of two concentric cylindrical needles has remained unchanged, despite recent advances in multi-layered, multi-functional nanofibers. Here, we demonstrate a core-cut nozzle system, in which the exit pipe of th...

The extraction of social groups from social networks existing among employees in the company, its customers or users of various computer systems became one of the research areas of growing importance. Once we have discovered the groups, we can utilise them, in different kinds of recommender systems or in the analysis of the team structure and communication within a given population. The shortco...

Animating in real-time complex and realistic virtual garments on top of an animated character is a long-standing challenge in the computer graphics field. Animated garments are subject to large dynamic deformations, exhibiting complex wrinkling patterns related to their length preserving behavior and multiple, long-lasting contacts with the underlying body. One of the most complex cloth animati...