Object-Oriented software structures represent multi-level characteristics. In this paper, two parameters -structural holes and closeness used in complex networks are introduced to study topological characteristics of software networks from multi-granularity perspective. By this method, software networks are observed and analyzed in three levels: package granularity, class granularity and method...

WEMM:Department of Animal Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, 27695-7621. JB, JO’C: Department of Anatomy, Physiological Science and Radiology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, 27695-8401.␣ AB, GN: United States Animal Health Technical Services, The Upjohn Company, Kalamazoo, Michigan 49001. Effect of injecting sows with prostaglandin F2α ...

In this paper we propose a spatial ontology for reasoning about holes, rigid objects and a string, taking a classical puzzle as a motivating example. In this ontology the domain is composed of spatial regions whereby a theory about holes is defined over a mereotopological basis. Within this theory we define a data structure, named chain, that facilitates a clear and efficient representation of ...

Current allocation of the spectral bands to only licensed users leads to inefficiencies in spectrum utilization. Designing realistic cognitive radios that are capable of sensing spectrum holes is the key to solve this problem and to increase the capacity of next-generation wireless networks. In this paper, we propose convolutional neural networks for predicting the spectrum holes from a data se...

Terahertz transmission filters have been manufactured by perforating metal films with various geometric shapes using femtosecond laser machining. Two dimensional arrays of square, circular, rectangular, c-shaped, and epsilon-shaped holes all support over 99% transmission at specific frequencies determined by geometric shape, symmetry, polarization, and lattice constant. Our results show that pl...

The entropy and information puzzles arising from black holes cannot be resolved if quantum gravity effects remain confined to a microscopic scale. We use concrete computations in nonperturbative string theory to argue for three kinds of nonlocal effects that operate over macroscopic distances. These effects arise when we make a bound state of a large number of branes, and occur at the correct s...

Partial words, which are sequences that may have some undefined positions called holes, can be viewed as sequences over an extended alphabet A = A ∪ { }, where stands for a hole and matches (or is compatible with) every letter in A. The subword complexity of a partial word w, denoted by pw(n), is the number of distinct full words (those without holes) over the alphabet that are compatible with ...