A number of industrial applications advocate the use of time triggered approaches for reasons of predictability, cost, product reuse, and maintenance. The rigid offline scheduling schemes used for time triggered systems, however, do not provide for flexibility. At runtime, aperiodic tasks can only be included into the unused resources of the offline schedule, supporting neither guarantees nor f...

Performance of Automatic Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) is greatly affected by its matching rate, means it should have low False Acceptance Rate (FAR) and False Rejection Rate (FRR). Minutiae based fingerprint matching techniques are normally used for fingerprint matching. In this paper, we present a new technique for fingerprint image postprocessing. This postprocessing is used to el...

Reliability acceptance sampling plans (RASPs) are used to determine the acceptability of a collection of units (e.g., a lot) with respect to lifetime. Most of the previous works on RASPs assume that life tests are conducted at the use or accelerated conditions. For high-reliability units, however, adopting life tests may easily turn out to be impractical in terms of the sample size and the amou...

There are many good methods for sampling Markov chains via streams of independent U [0, 1] random variables. Recently some non-random and some random but dependent driving sequences have been shown to result in consistent Markov chain sampling, sometimes with considerably improved accuracy. The key to consistent sampling is for the driving sequence to be completely uniformly distributed (CUD) o...

In this paper, we introduce a novel, general purpose, technique for faster sampling of nodes over an online social network. Specifically, unlike traditional random walks which wait for the convergence of sampling distribution to a predetermined target distribution a waiting process that incurs a high query cost we develop WALK-ESTIMATE, which starts with a much shorter random walk, and then pro...

Double sampling plan is an examination with a certain parameter, so it cannot decide about manufactured products whose portion parameter ( ) is not certain. The main goal of this survey is to introduce double variable plan when  is indefinite to examine manufacturing products when concerned characteristics are normally distributed. Plan parameters are achieved by an optimization manner. Sum of ...

Random Sampling from Databases by Frank Olken Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science University of California at Berkeley Professor Michael Stonebraker, Chair In this thesis I describe e cient methods of answering random sampling queries of relational databases, i.e., retrieving random samples of the results of relational queries. I begin with a discussion of the motivation for including samp...

The paper presents a fully automatic palmprint verification system which uses 2D phase congruency to extract line features from a palmprint image and subsequently performs linear discriminant analysis on the computed line features to represent them in a more compact manner. The system was trained and tested on a database of 200 people (2000 hand images) and achieved a false acceptance rate (FAR...

A combination handwritten signature veri ̄cation system is proposed for managing con°icts provided from each individual o®-line and on-line support vector machine (SVM), respectively. Basically, the system is divided into three parts: (i) O®-line veri ̄cation system, (ii) on-line veri ̄cation system and (iii) combination module using belief function theory. The proposed framework allows combining ...

BACKGROUND Diabetes Mellitus (DM) imposes restrictions on physical, emotional and social functioning of children and adolescents. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to determine the impact of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) on perceived stress and special health self-efficacy in seven to fifteen-year-old children with DM. PATIENTS AND METHODS The present study was a clinical trial...