This paper shows experiences encountered during the specification of layer 3 protocols for narrowband and broadband ISDN in SDL-92. It shows a methodology how to structure a specification that it can be reused in derived specifications on structural level as well as on behavioural level. SDL provides adequate support for the composition of large specifications. There are difficulties, however, ...

We introduce a framework for the reuse of knowledge from previously trained classifiers to improve performance in a current and possibly related classification task. The approach used is flexible in the type and relevance of reused classifiers and is also scalable. Experiments on public domain data sets demonstrate the usefulness of this approach when one is faced with very few training example...

We introduce a framework for the reuse of knowledge from previously trained clas-siiers to improve performance in a current and possibly related classiication task. The approach used is exible in the type and relevance of reused classiiers and is also scalable. Experiments on public domain data sets demonstrate the usefulness of this approach when one is faced with very few training examples or...

Our research aims at developing and building a generic collaborative environment to support a research and development process, in which heterogeneous (in formalism and format) models are being shared, reused and executed on distributed heterogeneous tools via the Internet. In this paper we briefly describe the implementation of the environment in its current state and consider the functionalit...

In this paper, we briefly present the objectives of Inference Anchoring Theory (IAT) and the formal structure which is proposed for dialogues. Then, we introduce our development corpus, and a computational model designed for the identification of discourse minimal units in the context of argumentation and the illocutionary force associated with each unit. We show the categories of resources whi...

A set of local feature descriptors for fingerprints is proposed. Minutia points are detected in a novel way by complex filtering of the structure tensor, not only revealing their position but also their direction. Parabolic and linear symmetry descriptions are used to model and extract local features including ridge orientation and reliability, which can be reused in several stages of fingerpri...

In this paper we discuss an interactive visualization application that aims to visualize a large repository of small reusable content components that were created by disaggregating legacy content. The purpose of this decomposition is to produce content that can be automatically reused in on-the-fly assemblies of new learning objects. The purpose of the visualization application is to offer insi...

A new CMOS LC Voltage Controlled Oscillator (VCO) for IEEE 802.11a application with low phase noise and consumed power less than 1mW is presented. This circuit was taped out by TSMC 0.18um 1P6M process. The measured phase noise is -115-88dBc/Hz at 1MHz offset at the operation frequency of 5.815GHz. And the dc core current consumption is 0.71mA at a supply voltage of 1.4 V. Its figure of merit (...

n this paper the Low Noise Amplifier (LNA) operating with a centre frequency of 1.5 GHz is designed using 0.25μm CMOS technology. The Designed FB-LNA uses a stagger-tuning technique. A current-reused architecture is employed to decrease the power consumption using an input common-gate stage, common-gate lownoise amplifier (CGLNA) exhibits a relatively high noise figure (NF) at low operating fre...