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This paper presents a parallel simulated annealing algorithm for solving the problem of mapping irregular parallel programs onto homogeneous processor arrays with regular topology. The algorithm constructs and uses joint transformations. These transformations guarantee a high degree of parallelism that is bounded below by d jNpj deg(Gp)+1 e, where jN p j is the number of task nodes in the mappe...

The aim of the work described in this paper is to develop and evaluate the speaker normalization technique based on the test to reference speaker mapping. The method is suitable for uniform time-frequency representation of speech used in speech corrector systems. The normalized spectrum is generated after the analysis by synthesis for the given utterance using the MBE (multiband excitation) cod...

To many people, the word “multimedia” simply means the combination of various forms of information: text, speech, music, images, graphics and video. What is often overlooked is the interaction among these forms. In this paper, we will present our recent results in exploiting the audio-visual interaction that is very significant in multimedia communication. The applications include lip synchroni...

In many models for real-world problems such as the law of conservation of energy, the sum of parameters must be zero. In this paper, we investigate the problem of adding fuzzy numbers using the extension principle based on the concept of the joint possibility distribution. In particular, we present a formula to produce a family of joint possibility distribution indexed by a parameter γ for a gi...

We develop a methodology for solving high dimensional dependency estimation problems between pairs of data types, which is viable in the case where the output of interest has very high dimension, e.g. thousands of dimensions. This is achieved by mapping the objects into continuous or discrete spaces, using joint kernels. Known correlations between input and output can be defined by such kernels...

In an ongoing effort to share heterogeneous electronic medical record (EMR) data in an i2b2 instance between the University Hospitals Münster and Erlangen for joint cancer research projects, an ontology based system for the mapping of EMR data to a set of common data elements has been developed. The system translates the mappings into local SQL scripts, which are then used to extract, transform...

This paper presents a novel decoupled parallel 2-DOF spherical mechanism. First, the design idea is introduced based on a general 2-DOF spherical mechanism. Next, following the discussions of some practical types of flat pairs, the new mechanism is given. Besides, the new mechanism uses a planar parallelogram to replace the prismatic pair to achieve the simple kinematics of one-to-one input-out...

In an ongoing effort to share heterogeneous electronic medical record (EMR) data in an i2b2 instance between the University Hospitals Münster and Erlangen for joint cancer research projects, an ontology based system for the mapping of EMR data to a set of common data elements has been developed. The system translates the mappings into local SQL scripts, which are then used to extract, transform...

Remotely sensed data are particularly efficient for environmental mapping in order to outline major environmental types. Some competent models of piecewisehomogeneous images are used in environmental mapping to segment real images. These models consider both an image and a land cover map. Such a pair constitutes an example of a Markov random field specified by a joint Gibbs probability distribu...