Remote procedure call (RPC) systems have been proven to be a practical basis for building distributed applications. The RPC technique abstracts a typical communication pattern to an ordinary procedure call. Compared with an ordinary procedure call, however, the conventional RPC technique has one evident restriction; pointers (addresses) cannot be passed to remote procedures without the explicit...

Natural Image Mosaicing based on Redundant Keypoint Elimination Method in SIFT algorithm and Adaptive RANSAC method

OBJECTIVES Canadian residency training programs (RTP) have a program director (PD) and a residency program committee (RPC) overseeing program administration. Limited guidance is available about the ideal administrative structure of an RTP. This article describes administrative load in Canadian RTPs, presents a novel approach to delegating core administrative tasks within the RTP, and provides i...

Distributed object systems and the underlying remote procedure call layers which implement them have been engineered for expensive communication (high overhead, low-speed networks with unreliable delivery). The architecture of these RPC systems embody design choices that incur communication overhead , obviating the beneets of inexpensive communication (low overhead, low latency, high bandwidth)...

Stochastic diffusion search (SDS) is a multi-agent global optimisation technique based on the behaviour of ants, rooted in the partial evaluation of an objective function and direct communication between agents. Standard SDS, the fundamental algorithm at work in all SDS processes, is presented here. Parameter estimation is the task of suitably fitting a model to given data; some form of paramet...

A method called σ-consensus is proposed to eliminate the need for a user-defined inlier-outlier threshold in RANSAC. Instead of estimating σ, it is marginalized over a range of noise scales using a Bayesian estimator, i.e. the optimized model is obtained as the weighted average using the posterior probabilities as weights. Applying σ-consensus, two methods are proposed: (i) a postprocessing ste...

BACKGROUND Reactive perforating collagenosis (RPC) is characterized by transepithelial elimination of altered collagen. Two types have been recognized: the childhood form and the adult form. OBJECTIVE Our purpose was to review the associated disorders, evaluate the possible causes, and set criteria for the diagnosis of the disease. METHODS The clinical and pathologic findings of six patient...

Target-specific DNA delivery requires vectors that combine stability in the biological milieu, receptor-mediated uptake into target cells, and intracellular activation to mediate transgene expression. This is achieved here using polymer-coated vectors based on plasmid DNA complexed with a reductively degradable polycation (RPC), designed for intercellular degradation. The RPC were prepared by o...

Transportable agents are autonomous programs that migrate from machine to machine, performing complex processing at each step to satisfy client requests. As part of their duties agents often need to communicate with other agents. We propose to use remote procedure call (RPC) along with a exible interface de nition language (IDL), to add structure to inter-agent communication. The real power of ...

This RPC experiment assesses the potential of VIIRS (Visible/Infrared Imager/ Radiometer Suite) and MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) data for contribution to the EWS. In doing so, the RPC project employed multitemporal simulated VIIRS and MODIS data for detecting and monitoring forest defoliation from the non-native Eurasian gypsy moth (Lymantria despar). Gypsy moth is an i...