Information overload is a severe problem for human operators of large-scale control systems, for instance, in road traffic management. In order to determine a complete and coherent view of the overall situation (i. e., gain situation awareness), an operator of such a system must consider various heterogeneous sources providing streams of information about a large number of real-world objects. S...

To apply branch-and-bound algorithm to minimize the quality function (6) in the main paper, we first specify the spaces where Ts and Te may take a value. We denote the length of the shortest exemplar activity as Tmin, then we assume 1 ≤ Ts ≤ T − Tmin + 1 and Tmin + 1 ≤ Te ≤ T . Additional constraint may be imposed, such as Tmin ≤ Te − Ts. Given these information, the temporal branch-and-bound a...

The present study critically reviews the synthetic unit hydrograph (SUH) methods available in hydrologic literature. The study reveals that the traditional methods of SUH derivation, e.g., Snyder, SCS, traditional methods like Snyder and TS method that does not yield satisfactory results, and their application to the practical engineering problems is tedious and combursome. On the other hand, p...

Translation needs have greatly increased during the last years. In many situations, text to be translated constitutes an unbounded stream of data that grows continually with time. An effective approach to translate text documents is to follow an interactive-predictive paradigm in which both the system is guided by the user and the user is assisted by the system to generate error-free translatio...

We have developed an image retrieval system named Pic-SOM which uses Tree Structured Self-Organizing Maps (TS-SOMs) as the method for retrieving images similar to a given set of reference images. A novel technique introduced in the PicSOM system facilitates automatic combination of the responses from multiple TS-SOMs and their hierarchical levels. This mechanism aims at adapting to the user's p...

The effects of fuel and air stream dilution (ASD) with carbon dioxide on the suppression of normal and microgravity laminar methane–air partially premixed coflow jet flames were experimentally and numerically investigated. Experiments were conducted both in our normal-gravity laboratory and at the NASA Glenn Research Center 2.2 s drop tower. Measurements included flame topology and liftoff heig...

Dialogue act modeling in task-oriented dialogue poses significant challenges. It is particularly challenging for corpora consisting of two interleaved communication streams: a dialogue stream and a task stream. In such corpora, information can be conveyed implicitly by the task stream, yielding a dialogue stream with seemingly missing information. A promising approach leverages rich resources f...

Scalable execution of continuous queries over massive data streams often requires splitting input streams into parallel sub-streams over which query operators are executed in parallel. Automatic stream splitting is in general very difficult, as the optimal parallelization may depend on application semantics. To enable application specific stream splitting, we introduce splitstream functions whe...

An MPEG-2 Transport Stream (TS) is a standard container format used in the transmission and storage of multimedia data. Unicast/ multicast MPEG-2 TS over RTP is widely deployed in IPTV systems. This document defines an RTP Control Protocol (RTCP) Extended Report (XR) block that allows the reporting of MPEG-2 TS decodability statistics metrics related to transmissions of MPEG-2 TS over RTP. The ...

The Adaptation in Social and Semantic Web workshop analyzes the benefits adaptation and personalization have to offer within the current Web and the Web of the future, and the numerous open challenges, putting together the Semantic Web, Social Web and Adaptation field. The workshop discusses the state-of-the-art, open problems, challenges and innovative research approaches in adaptation and per...