Assured Service, a service model of Internet Differentiated Services (DiffServ) architecture, is not so well accommodated by the current Internet environment. This is because the Internet’s Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) employs an AIMD (Additive Increase and Multiplicative Decrease) mechanism to control congestion. As a result, Assured Service cannot meet the target rate of high-profile f...

Based on his personal knowledge of the field in the Netherlands and on written reports from colleagues in other European countries, the author presents an impressionistic overview of the state of affairs in the field of diagnosis and treatment of MPD in Europe. His main impression is of the relatively advanced state of affairs in the Netherlands, although many problems are still encountered. In...

This paper reports the results of exploratory research to develop a pilot pattern language for systems engineers at BAE SYSTEMS. The pattern language was designed to encapsulate knowledge about possible trade-offs made by systems engineers about architecture designs that satisfied different system requirements for submarine manoeuvring systems. Our intention is that this knowledge can be reused...

Lip reading is known to activate the planum temporale (PT), a brain region which may integrate visual and auditory information. To find out whether other types of learned audio-visual integration occur in the PT, we investigated "key-touch reading" using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). As well-trained pianists are able to identify pieces of music by watching the key-touching movem...

In this paper we describe three new music controllers, each designed to be played by two players. As the intimacy between two people increases so does their ability to anticipate and predict the other’s actions. We hypothesize that this intimacy between two people can be used as a basis for new controllers for musical expression. Looking at ways people communicate non-verbally, we are developin...