VLSI circuits design allows today to consider new modes of implementation for electrical controls. However, design techniques require an adaptation effort that few designers, too accustomed to the software approach, provide. The authors of this article propose to develop a methodology to guide the electrical designers towards optimal performances of control algorithms implementation. Thus, they...

In the Semantic Web, there are a variety of ontologies, which motivates the need for integrating them. Integration tasks rely on the use of relationships amongst the integrated ontologies, known as mappings. The literature reports on a number of techniques to automatically generate such mappings, unfortunately, the results are not suitable to perform integration tasks since they can produce inc...

Data integration is a problem at the intersection of the elds of Artiicial Intelligence and Database Systems. The goal of a data integration system is to provide a uniform interface to a multitude of data sources, whether they are within one enterprise or on the WorldWide Web. The key challenges in data integration arise because the data sources being integrated have been designed independently...

Integration testing is an important part of the testing process, but few integration testing techniques have been systematically studied or defined. The goal of this research is to develop practical, effective, formalizable, automatable techniques for testing of connections between components during software integration. This paper presents an integration testing technique that is based on coup...

In this paper we adapt the recently proposed Dynamic Integration ensemble techniques for regression problems and compare their performance to the base models and to the popular ensemble technique of Stacked Regression. We show that the Dynamic Integration techniques are as effective for regression as Stacked Regression when the base models are simple. In addition, we demonstrate an extension to...

In the last few years, LIDAR and image-matching techniques have been employed in many application fields because of their quickness in point cloud generation. Nevertheless, these techniques do not assure complete and reliable results, especially in complex applications such as architectural surveys: laser scanning techniques do not allow the correct position of object breaklines to be extracted...

This paper deals with the design of evaluation procedures for surface integration techniques. We start with a survey of existing integration techniques which calculate height maps from dense gradient fields. There are a few proposals of local integration methods [2, 4, 11, 9], and two proposals for global optimization [6, 3]. The examined algorithms perform well for curved objects but unsatisfa...