Parallel decimal arithmetic capability is becoming increasingly attractive with new applications of computers in a multiprogramming environment. The direct production of decimal sums offers a significant improvement in addition over methods requiring decimal correction. These techniques are illustrated in the eight-digit adder which appears in the System/360 Model 195.

Immersive video offers the freedom to navigate inside virtualized environment. Instead of streaming the bulky immersive videos entirely, a viewport (also referred to as field of view, FoV) adaptive streaming is preferred. We often stream the high-quality content within current viewport, while reducing the quality of representation elsewhere to save the network bandwidth consumption. Consider th...

We review the extension of modern techniques for the calculation of helicity amplitudes in QCD to massive particles. The focus is on the use of supersymmetric Ward identites that relate amplitudes with massive quarks to those with massive scalars, the application of on-shell recursion relations to amplitudes with massive quarks and an extension of the CSW rules to massive scalars.

In this paper, we present an image-based method for the tracking and rendering of faces. We use the algorithm in an immersive video conferencing system where multiple participants are placed in a common virtual room. This requires viewpoint modification of dynamic objects. Since hair and uncovered areas are difficult to model by pure 3-D geometry-based warping, we add image-based rendering tech...

An important outcome of assessing relative efficiencies within a group of decision making units (DMUs) in fuzzy data envelopment analysis is a set of virtual multipliers or weights accorded to each (input or output) factor taken into account. These sets of weights are, typically, different for each of the participating DMUs, and in some cases it may be considered unacceptable that the same fact...

IEEE Binary Floating-Point is an industrystandard architecture. The IBM System/360 hexadecimal floating-point architecture predates the IEEE standard and has been carried forward through the System/370 to current System/390 processors. The growing importance of industry standards and floatingpoint combined to produce a need for IEEE Floating-Point on System/390. At the same time, customer inves...

In international trade, there are a number of aspects that influence the interactive relationships between business organizations and governmental organizations, which makes it difficult to regulate the business processes in an integrated way. Modeling such kinds of organizational interactions requires a mechanism to differentiate interactive environments and elaborate regulations according to ...

This report describes a prograimiable transmission control unit which is attached to an IBM System/360 Model 67 machine operated in a timeshared environment. Called the Data Concentrator, this device provides service for AT^T teletype equipment, IBM typewriter terminal equipment, and remotely located computer equipment interconnected with serial-synchronous transmission data sets. The Data Conc...

PURPOSE To investigate the effect of 180° versus 360° primary selective laser trabeculoplasty (SLT) on tonographic outflow facility and intraocular pressure (IOP). DESIGN Prospective, single masked randomised clinical trial. PARTICIPANTS Patients with untreated primary open angle glaucoma or ocular hypertension both with IOP > 21-35 mmHg. METHODS 40 patients randomly treated with 180° or ...

The Kinect sensor was introduced in November 2010 by Microsoft for the Xbox 360 video game system. The sensor unit is connected to a base with a motorized pivot. It was designed to be positioned above or below a video display and to track player body and hand movements in 3D space, which allows users to interact with the Xbox 360. The device contains a RGB camera, depth sensor, IR light source,...