S4A-11 SESSION 4A

Session 4A Senisor Networks

oEE We study the problem of quantization for distributed parameter estimation in large scale sensor networks. Assuming a Maximum Likelihood estimator at the fusion center, we show that the Fisher Information is maximized by a scoreD 2 function quantizer. This provides a tight bound on best possible MSE for any unbiased estimator. Furthermore, we Y. show that for a general convex metric, the opt...

UB11 Session 11

Run-time monitoring systems on reconfigurable logic have the advantage that they can be customized with respect to specific applications: in the context of automated testing, this can lead to powerful scenarios. This demo presents a smart monitoring system by showing both a customization for stalls identification in a message passing scenario (based on four MicroBlaze that executes a bare-metal...

Session 11: Prosody

This paper provides a brief introduction to prosody research in the context of human-computer communication and an overview of the contributions of the papers in the session. In large part, prosody is "the relative temporal groupings of words and the relative prominence of certain syllables within these groupings" (Price and Hirsehherg [1]). This organization of the words, as Silverman points o...

General Session, June 11 Th

Session 11 - Natural Language III

The five papers in this session, as well as the ten papers in the other two natural language sessions, can be classified into three broad categories: (1) statistical approaches to natural language processing and the automatic acquisition of linguistic structure (2 out of 5 papers in this session; 8 out of 15 overall); (2) robust processing of texts by combining multiple partial analyses (2 out ...