Among the different lateral force resisting systems, shear walls are of appropriate stiffness and hence are extensively employed in the design of high-rise structures. The architectural concerns regarding the safety of these structures have further widened the application of coupled shear walls. The present study investigated the optimal dimensional design of coupled shear walls based on the im...

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In this paper, an Improved Distributed Shared Memory (IDSM) system, a hybrid version of shared memory and message passing version is proposed. This version effectively uses the benefits of shared memory in terms of ease of programming and message passing in terms of efficiency. Further it is designed to effectively utilize the stateof-art multicore based network of workstations and supports sta...

Requirement engineering is the most important part of the modern software engineering, which evolved over decades and become a science. It probably plays the most vital part in success of the software system. The requirements management world has developed considerably in the last decade and has increasingly become one of the bases of successful software and systems engineering projects. Managi...

We present our complete reimplementation of Karl Sims’ system for evolving and coevolving autonomous creatures in a physically realistic three-dimensional (3D) environment. Creatures are articulated structures composed of rigid blocks and controlled by embedded neural networks. The main differences with Sims are, first, the use of standard McCullochPitts neurons (instead of a set of ad hoc, com...

In this paper we present a face recognition system based on an embedded hidden Markov models, which uses an efficient set of observation vectors obtained from the 2D-DCT coefficients. Two dimensional data such as images are much better modeled by a two dimensional HMM compared to a one dimensional HMM, but the computational complexity of the first makes the recognition process difficult. The em...

INTRODUCTION Occasionally, urologists may see patients requiring temporary bladder irrigation at hospitals without stocks of specialist irrigation apparatus. One option is to transfer the patient to a urology ward, but often there are outstanding medical issues that require continued specialist input. Here, we describe an improved system for delivering temporary bladder irrigation by utilizing ...

Brain tumor detection is well known research area for both medical as well as computer scientists. In last two decades there has been much research done on tumor detection, segmentation, & classification but still there is no complete automated system developed yet. As we know Brain Tumor is one of the deadliest diseases at present which is only curable in its early stages. The paper proposes a...