The Open Assembly Design Environment (OpenADE) project is an initiative at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to provide an integrated and augmented CAD environment for assembly design. The goals of the project are: (1) to identify representations and issues for the next generation of assembly-related standards and (2) assist designers with assembly considerations through...

This paper presents a new architecture for automatic continuous speech recognition called HEAR Hybrid Episodic-Abstract speech Recognizer. HEAR relies on both parametric speech models (HMMs) and episodic memory. We propose an evaluation on the Wall Street Journal corpus, a standard continuous speech recognition task, and compare the results with a stateof-the-art HMM baseline. HEAR is shown to ...

The challenge of developing adaptive, responsive low-energy architecture requires new knowledge about the complex and dynamic interaction between envelope architecture, optimization between competing environmental performance metrics (light, heat and wind indices) and local climate variables. Advances in modeling the geometry of building envelopes and control technologies for adaptive buildings...

In this dissertation, we develop a novel cognitive radio (CR) architecture, referred to as the Radiobot [1], whose goals go beyond dynamic spectrum access (DSA) to achieve the main features of cognition, notably, self-learning and self-reconfiguration. The proposed CR architecture is based on a sequence of signal processing and machine learning techniques that enable the Radiobot to sense a wid...

from 60 decade  sustainability issues  and sustainable developing  have opened a way in scientific meetings associated with  environment and urbanization and architecture. sustainability goals are improving of environment situation , less pollution  and at least interference on  land and interaction of  natural and artificial environment , that most of these cases attracted attention in archite...

The conjugate gradient (CG) is one of the most widely used iterative methods for solving systems of linear equations. However, parallelizing CG for large sparse systems is difficult due to the inherent irregularity in memory access pattern. We propose a novel processor architecture for the sparse conjugate gradient method. The architecture consists of multiple processing elements and memory ban...

It is widely known that bandwidth limitations degrade parallel systems’ performance. This paper presents a mapping methodology for coarse-grain reconfigurable arrays which alleviates the bandwidth bottleneck by exploiting the processing elements interconnection network for transferring values with data reuse opportunities. A novel mapping algorithm is also proposed that uses a resource-aware mo...

Image location prediction is to estimate the geolocation where an image is taken. Social image contains heterogeneous contents, which makes image location prediction nontrivial. Moreover, it is observed that image content patterns and location preferences correlate hierarchically. Traditional image location prediction methods mainly adopt a single-level architecture, which is not directly adapt...