People taking part in argumentativedebates through collective annotations face a highly cognitive taskwhen trying to estimate the group’s global opinion. In order to reduce this effort, we propose in this paper to model such debates prior to evaluating their “social validation.” Computing the degree of global confirmation (resp. refutation) enables the identification of consensual (resp. contro...

This chapter examines the use of biometrics techniques within forensic science. It discusses the historic connections between the subjects and then examines face and ear biometrics in detail. The detailed examination starts from one of the most common and familiar biometric features face and then introduces a new biometric feature ear into forensics. Face is the natural means for human beings t...

Background: One aspect of undertaking a systematic literature review is to perform a quality evaluation of primary studies. Most quality checklists adopted from medicine, psychology and social studies assume that the experimental unit in an experiment is a human being. However, in empirical studies in software engineering the experimental unit may be a technology, an application or an algorithm...

As embedded systems continue to face increasingly higher performance requirements, deeply pipelined processor architectures are being employed to meet desired system performance. A signi®cant bottleneck in the validation of such systems is the lack of a golden reference model. Thus, many existing techniques employ a bottom-up approach to architecture validation, where the functionality of an ex...

As embedded systems continue to face increasingly higher performance requirements, deeply pipelined processor architectures are being employed to meet desired system performance. A significant bottleneck in the validation of such systems is the lack of a golden reference model. Thus, many existing techniques employ a bottom-up approach to architecture validation, where the functionality of an e...

BACKGROUND Mortality statistics by age, sex and cause are the foundation of basic health data required for health status assessment, epidemiological research and formation of health policy. Close to half the deaths in Malaysia occur outside a health facility, are not attended by medical personnel, and are given a lay opinion as to the cause of death, leading to poor quality of data from vital r...

We describe a novel approach for fully automated face recognition and show its feasibility on a large data base of facial images (FERET). Our approach, based on a hybrid architecture consisting of an ensemble of connectionist networks radial basis functions (RBF) and inductive decision trees (DT), combines the merits of ’discrete and abstractive’ features with those of ’holistic’ template match...