Auditory filter theory posits a tradeoff in time-frequency analysis: high temporal precision is achievable only at the expense of poorer frequency resolution and vice versa. Here, we examined the hierarchy of brain mechanisms of these spectrotemporal tradeoffs through a series of physiological and behavioral measures aimed to tap temporal and spectral acuity at different levels of the auditory ...

A large volume of research in ubiquitous systems has been devoted to using data, that has been sensed from users’ smartphones, to infer their current high level context and activities. However, mining users’ diverse longitudinal behavioral patterns, which can enable exciting new context-aware applications, has not received much attention. In this paper, we focus on learning and identifying such...

This paper presents a framework for crowd modeling that produces socially plausible animation behaviors. Our high-level behavioral model is able to produce appropriate animated behavior that includes synchronized body-orientation and gesture of individual actors within the simulation. Because the model operationalizes a well-founded social-linguistic Common Ground (CG) theory of human interacti...

It is known that for any class C closed under union and intersection, the Boolean closure of C, the Boolean hierarchy over C, and the symmetric difference hierarchy over C all are equal. We prove that these equalities hold for any complexity class closed under intersection; in particular, they thus hold for unambiguous polynomial time (UP). In contrast to the NP case, we prove that the Hausdorf...

Power consumption in VLSI systems has become a critical metric for design evaluation. Although power reduction techniques can be applied at every level of design abstraction, most automated power reduction techniques apply to the lower levels of design abstraction, such as the register-transfer or gate level. We therefore investigated the power reduction attainable by the evolving automated beh...

To provide services according to user behavior, parameters should be adapted appropriately for the precise recognition of user behavior. In particular, the threshold value which is used to create behavioral patterns matched for behavior recognition impacts accuracy of behavior recognition. Because the threshold value is common to all users in the conventional model, the threshold setting unsu...

This paper describes an application model that couples Analytical Hierarchy Process(AHP) and fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method , which named Fuzzy-AHP(FAHP). AHP has its own superiority in computing index weight and comparing index in the same row than at classifying level. While fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method is good at classifying level. Taking into account their respective advanta...

Current synthesis methodologies based on hardwaredescription languages focus mainly on two distinct levels: behavior and register-transfer levels. In many practical cases, however, the initial specification lies between a pure behavioral description and a completely structural one. This paper presents a method and algorithms for exploring the design space between the register-transfer and behav...

A system organized as a Hierarchy of Processor-And-Memory (HPAM) extends the familiar notion of memory hierarchy by including processors with di erent performance in di erent levels of the hierarchy. Tasks are assigned to di erent hierarchy levels according to their degree of parallelism. This paper studies the spatial locality (with respect to degree of parallelism) behavior of simulated paral...