In Concern-Orientation, software systems are built with the help of reusable artifacts called concerns, leading to reuse hierarchies, because higher-level concerns may reuse lower-level concerns. At each level in the reuse hierarchy, a concern uses goal modelling techniques to describe the impact of selected variations from the concern on system qualities such as performance, cost, and user con...

Behavioral-level synthesis techniques have traditionally focussed on design of a fully-hardwired application-specific implementation of a given computation. In this paper, new techniques are presented for the synthesis of reconfigurable hardware. The technique is applicable for synthesis of several classes of designs, including: 1) design for fault tolerance against permanent faults, 2) design ...

We study the optimal management of evolving hierarchies revenue-generating agents. The initiator invests into expanding hierarchy by adding another agent, who will bring revenues to joint venture and invest herself further, so on. higher investments (which are private information), probability hierarchy. An allocation scheme specifies how distributed, as evolves. obtain schemes that socially in...

We believe it is important to do holistic, systematic study of intercultural adaptation. Our approach is based on the theoretical proposition of the multi-dimensional and functional organization of behavioral acts and human activities developed by A.I. Krupnov. It allows investigating not only separate aspects but the whole system, considering hierarchy and interaction of the components constit...

Complex vision tasks such as event detection in a surveillance video can be divided into subtasks such as human detection, tracking, recognition, and trajectory analysis. The video can be thought of as being composed of various features. These features can be roughly arranged in a hierarchy from low-level features to high-level features. Low-level features include edges and blobs, and high-leve...

Abstract   The Analytic Network Process (ANP) is a generalization of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). The basic structure is an influence network of clusters and nodes contained within the clusters. Priorities are established in the same way they are in the AHP using pairwise comparisons and judgment. Many decision problems cannot be structured hierarchically because they involve the inter...

Modern graphics processing units (GPUs) employ a large number of hardware threads to hide both function unit and memory access latency. Extreme multithreading requires a complex thread scheduler as well as a large register file, which is expensive to access both in terms of energy and latency. We present two complementary techniques for reducing energy on massively-threaded processors such as G...

This paper describes hardware and behavior implementation of a miniature robot in size of a match box that simulates the behavior of cockroaches in order to establish a social interaction with them. The robot is equipped with two micro-processors dedicated to hardware processing and behavior generation. The robot can discriminate cockroaches, other robots, environment boundaries and shelters. I...

k-Anonymity is one of the most popular conventional techniques for protecting the privacy of an individual. The shortcomings in the process of achieving k-Anonymity are presented and addressed by using Coalitional Game Theory (CGT) [1] and Concept Hierarchy Tree (CHT). The existing system considers information loss as a control parameter and provides anonymity level (k) as output. This paper pr...