[1] Sea level in the Mediterranean Sea over the period 1993–2011 is studied on the basis of altimetry, temperature, and salinity data and gravity measurements from Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) (2002–2010). An observed increase in sea level corresponds to a linear sea level trend of 3.0 0.5mm/yr dominated by the increase in the oceanic mass in the basin. The increase in sea le...

Recent work on Stochastic Local Search (SLS) for the SAT and CSP domains has shown the superior performance of SLS over traditional backtracking algorithms on a broad range of problem instances. In this paper, we report on a technique for enhancing the performance of SLS solvers by incorporating a preprocessing phase in which resolution is used to deduce consequences of the input clauses, expos...

Hair is a very important part of human appearance. Robust and accurate hair segmentation is difficult because of challenging variation of hair color and shape. In this paper, we propose a novel Compositional Exemplar-based Model (CEM) for hair style segmentation. CEM generates an adaptive hair style (a probabilistic mask) for the input image automatically in the manner of Divide-and-Conquer, wh...

In recent years, reliability-based design (RBD) has gradually gained popularity in geotechnical engineering. Several RBD codes have been developed and implemented around the world that calibrate ultimate limit state (ULS) designs for a target ULS reliability index (βuls). However, the serviceability limit state (SLS) design still is considered using conventional deterministic approaches with an...

This document addresses the problem of mapping Service Level Specifications (SLS) to IP Differentiated Services (DiffServ) configuration. We introduce a two step mapping controlled via a policy-based management system. The two step mapping includes the service specification to intra-domain service mapping (Per-Domain Behavior (PDB) [PDB-DEF]) and the further mapping to the DiffServ mechanism av...

The spread use of virtual learning environments presents a great potential for the development of applications which meet educational area needs. In view of the importance of a more dynamic implementation and that it will be able to continuously adapt to the students needs, it was proposed and developed the U-SEA (System of Teaching Adapted Ubiquitous). A software built on the basis of virtual ...

We propose a simple relationship linking global sea-level variations on time scales of decades to centuries to global mean temperature. This relationship is tested on synthetic data from a global climate model for the past millennium and the next century. When applied to observed data of sea level and temperature for 1880-2000, and taking into account known anthropogenic hydrologic contribution...

This document describes an analysis of long-term relative sea level change 1 at Funafuti, Tuvalu. It is based on data provided by the University of Hawaii Sea Level Centre (UHSLC) and the Australian National Tidal Facility (NTF), and covers the years 1978 to 2001 inclusive. Standard statistical techniques have been used to estimate the rate of change of sea level and its associated uncertainty....