Non-overlapping codes are a set of codewords in $\bigcup _{n \ge 2} \mathbb {Z}_{q}^{n}$ , where notation="LaTeX">$\mathbb {Z}_{q} = \{0,1, {\dots },q-1\}$ such that the prefix each codeword is not suffix any set, including itself; an...

I believe many decisions in life are often a combination of interests and opportunities. When I was a registrar at the Department of Surgery helmed by Prof Soo Khee Chee, the subspecialty of hepatopancreato-biliary (HPB) surgery was just being developed and I came into contact with patients with liver cancer. There seem to be a compelling need, meaning that there were so many things that had to...

Kam-yiu Lam, Edward Chan and Joe Chun-Hung Yuen Department of Computer Science City University of Hong Kong 83 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon Hong Kong Fax: 852-2788-8614 Email: {cskylam|csedchan|csjyuen}@cityu.edu.hk Abstract. Although data broadcast has been shown to be an efficient data dissemination technique for mobile computing systems, many issues such as selection of broadcast data and cachin...

A new learning algorithm called extreme learning machine (ELM) has recently been proposed for single-hidden layer feedforward neural networks (SLFNs) with additive neurons to easily achieve good generalization performance at extremely fast learning speed. ELM randomly chooses the input weights and analytically determines the output weights of SLFNs. It is proved in theory that ELM can be extend...

Permutation codes have recently garnered substantial research interest due to their potential in various applications including cloud storage systems, genome resequencing and flash memories. In this paper, we study the theoretical bounds and constructions of permutation codes in the generalized Cayley metric. The generalized Cayley metric captures the number of generalized transposition errors ...

Abraham A. (United Kingdom) Adolfsson L. (Sweden) Aik S. (Malaysia) Barton-Hanson N. (United Kingdom) Birkholtz F. (South Africa) Blonna D. (Italy) Bose D. (United Kingdom) Britten S. (United Kingdom) Bruce C. (United Kingdom) Burkhart K. (Germany) Chee Y. H. (Singapore) Chua Y. P. (Malaysia) Davis B. (United Kingdom) de Kiewiet G. (United Kingdom) den Hartog D. (Netherlands) Ekholm C. (Sweden)...

To tackle the drawbacks of conventional block-based motion estimation, such as blocking artifacts and poor motion compensated prediction along the moving edges; a new variable block size motion estimation algorithm using 2-D adaptive sampling structures is proposed in this paper. The adaptive sampling structures are built up in a bottom-up manner, in which small blocks are recursively merged to...

Using POMDPs to Forecast Kindergarten Students’ Reading Comprehension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Russell Almond, Umit Tokac and Stephanie Al Ortaiba High-Level Information Fusion with Bayesian Semantics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Paulo Costa, Kathryn Laskey, Kuochu Chang, Wei Sun, Cheol Park and Shou Matsumoto Goal-Based Person T...

INTRODUCTION If ever attained, adopting native-like accent is achieved late in the learning process. Resemblance between L2 and mother tongue can facilitate L2 learning. In particular, cognates (phonologically and semantically similar words across languages), offer the opportunity to examine the issue of foreign accent in quite a unique manner. METHODS Twelve Spanish speaking (L1) adults lear...

vector distribution, a new four-step search (4SS) algorithm with center-biased checking point pattern for fast block motion estimation is proposed in this paper. Halfway-stop technique is employed in the new algorithm with searching steps of 2 to 4 and the total number of checking points is varied from 17 to 27. Simulation results show that the proposed 4SS performs better than the well-known t...