One of the aspects of applying software engineering to Stochastic Local Search (SLS) is the principled analysis of the features of the problem instances and the behavior of SLS algorithms, which —because of their stochastic nature— might need sophisticated statistical tools. In this paper we describe EasyAnalyzer, an object-oriented framework for the experimental analysis of SLS algorithms, dev...

Fast and accurate speech recognition systems bring with them the possibility of designing flexible voice driven applications. In this paper, we highlight the needs related to a voice interface and describe the implementation of a general-purpose spoken language interface, the Camegie Mellon Spoken Language Shell (CM-SLS). CM-SLS provides voice interface services to different applications runnin...

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 sea spray generation function quantifies the rate at which spray droplets of a given size are produced at the sea surface. As such, it is important in studies of the marine aerosol and its optical properties and in understanding the role that sea spray plays in transferring heat and moisture across the air–sea interface. The emphasis here is on this latter topic, where uncertainty over the ...

Observation of the climate and ecosystem of ice covered polar seas is a timely task for the scientific community. The goal is to assess the drastic and imminent changes of the polar sea ice cover induced by climate change. Retreating and thinning sea ice affects the planets energy budget, atmospheric, and oceanic circulation patterns as well as the ecosystem associated with this unique habitat....

Copyright©The Oceanographic Society of Japan/TERRAPUB/Springer where u∗ is the friction velocity of the air, ρa is air density. U10 is the wind speed at 10 m height above the sea surface in neutral stratification condition; CD is the drag coefficient. Many studies have shown that air-sea exchange is regulated by turbulence associated with wind and wind waves at the air-sea interface (Jähne et a...

We present a modelling study of processes controlling the summer melt of the Arctic sea ice cover. We perform a sensitivity study and focus our interest on the thermodynamics at the ice-atmosphere and ice-ocean interfaces. We use the Los Alamos community sea ice model CICE, and additionally implement and test three new parametrization schemes: (i) a prognostic mixed layer; (ii) a three equation...