PC users have started viewing crashes as a fact of life rather than a problem. To improve operating system dependability, systems designers and programmers must analyze and understand failure data. In this paper, we analyze Windows XP kernel crash data collected from a population of volunteers who contribute to the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) project. We found tha...

This paper presents a case study of our experience conducting HCI experiments to inform multimedia cue generation. We analyze the interrelated HCI and NLG issues that a complete multimedia cue generator should address, and the limitations of current empirical approaches. We describe the two experiments we performed. Given their limited success, the cost-benefit of adopting this approach remains...

The computational problems in understanding images from environment could benefit from models of processes underlying human perception of geometric forms. Appealing to perceptual geometry, we take advantage of almost regularity of some surfaces, in order to analyze their images for purposes of estimation of their shape and other geometric features.

With the development of object identification technology object tagging becomes more and more common. In this work we analyze how recycling processes can benefit from deployment of passive RFID tags and discuss how spreading small electronic chips in the environment by attaching them to many everyday objects may lead to additional problems.

The effect of steering delay quantization on beamformer frequency and azimuth response is not well understood. This project will attempt to analyze the relationship between steering delay quantization, with its corresponding impact on computational complexity, and beamformer response error. Results found here should benefit both conventional beamforming and modern adaptive beamforming applicati...

The goal of this contribution is to discuss local computation in credal networks — graphical models that can represent imprecise and indeterminate probability values. We analyze the inference problem in credal networks, discuss how inference algorithms can benefit from local computation, and suggest that local computation can be particularly important in approximate inference algorithms.

The economic benefit of a certain development process or particular activity is usually unknown and indeed hard to predict. However, the cost-effectiveness of process improvements is of paramount importance and the question how profitable certain activities are needs to be answered. Within a large-scale commercial organization, we were challanged with the task to quantify the economic benefit o...

Statistical business process is variously designed and implemented in different organizations. This makes it difficult to exchange the knowledge, benefit from the good practices and the cooperation between national and international organizations. In order to solve this problem and help statistical organizations discuss developing statistical metadata systems, General Statistical Business Proce...

We analyze cooperative relaying in vehicular communications by real-world measurements and compare its performance in terms of packet delivery ratios to conventional communication schemes. Results indicate that the temporal correlation of packet delivery is a key factor on whether or not cooperative relaying is of benefit compared to time diversity, where a packet is retransmitted if the first ...

the purpose of this study was to analyze the relationship of authentic leadership and organizational voice. the population of the study was all of the staff ministry of roads and urban development tehran (n: 400). using simple random sampling 169 persons selected and authentic leadership questionnaire and organizational voice have responded. data analysis showed that authentic leadership and it...