COOPERATIVELY CONTROLLED OBJECTS IN SUPPORT OF COLLABORATION by Lauren J. Bricker Chairperson of the Supervisory Committee: Professor Steven L. Tanimoto Department of Computer Science and Engineering Developing applications to support collaboration by two or more users involves special challenges. An application designer should anticipate the interaction between the user and the computer, as we...

1. This document is Fact Sheet SL-29, one of a series of fact sheets of the Soil and Water Science Department, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. Date first printed: April 1990. Reviewed: April 1998, September 2003. Please visit the EDIS Web site at http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu. 2. R.B. Brown, professor emeritus, Soil and Water...

Cooperative Prototyping can be characterized as the use and development of prototypes as catalysts during discussions between designers and potential users – the overall intention being one of mutual learning. On the one hand, the designers learn more about the work practices of the users in ways that are tied concretely to some current version of the prototype. On the other hand, the users lea...

Cooperation among network users provides transmit diversity in cases where wireless transmitters, due to size and power limitation, cannot support multiple antennas. We consider cooperation between M users, where each user achieves space-time diversity by using other users’ antennas as relays. Cooperation among users has been shown to achieve impressive gains as compared to a non-cooperative sy...

A country with a surplus river basin cooperates with a country with a deficit river basin in a joint investment project to build a water canal. The benefits from the existence of the canal are realized when cooperation halts and countries will have the opportunity to engage in a non-cooperative water market game. We define an imputation distribution procedure to share the “burden” from cooperat...

Abstract The optimal management of scarce transboundary water resources among competitive users is expected to be challenged by the effects climate change on availability. multiple economic and social implications, including conflicts between neighbouring countries, as well sectors within each country are difficult estimate predict, inform policy-making. In this paper, problem approached a stoc...

A major deficiency in state-of-the-art automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems is the lack of robustness in additive and convolutional noise. The model of auditory perception (PEMO), developed by Dau et al. (1996a) for psychoacoustical purposes, partly overcomes these difficulties when used as a front end for automatic speech recognition. To further improve the performance of this auditory-b...

In this section, we briefly present the formalism we use. This formalism aims at describing the state of a system and its dynamic behaviour in an algebraic framework [DG 94]. It was first introduced in a case study on a formal specification of the embedded safety part of an automatic subway pilot [DM 91], [Dau 92], [DGM 93], in order to cope with the large number of variables whose values made ...