Nowadays, recent intensive signal processing applications are evolving and are characterized by the diversity of algorithms (filtering, correlation, etc.) and their numerous parameters. Having a flexible and programmable system that adapts to changing and various characteristics of these applications reduces the design cost. In this context, we propose in this paper Generic Massively Parallel a...

The population-based incremental learning (PBIL) algorithm is a combination of evolutionary optimization and competitive learning. The integration of PBIL with associative memory schemes has been successfully applied to solve dynamic optimization problems (DOPs). The best sample together with its probability vector are stored and reused to generate the samples when an environmental change occur...

In this paper we present an approach to case{based programming based on anti{uniication. We focus on acquiring a hierarchy of recursive program schemes from programming experience. For a new programming problem a concrete program or a scheme can be reused, that is, we can deal with analogy and abstraction in a uniform way. We investigate a minimal extension of rst order anti{uniication, allowin...

Computing indirect illumination is still too slow to render a high quality image in only one frame. Additionally, in interactive applications such as video games, response is often more important than image quality. In order to increase frames per second and maintain image quality, we exploit temporal coherence in supersampling (See for example [Knecht 2009; Herzog et al. 2010]). In our system ...

Complex software systems have to cope with a steady stream of changing requirements. However, current software engineering techniques are ill equipped for assessing the impact of changes, either within a single system or across reused assets and the systems in which they are reused. This is a critical inhibitor for (amongst others) effort estimation in the object-oriented development process wh...

Document authors cannot routinely afford the overhead imposed by current semantic annotation tools. Some characteristics of their task can be exploited to provide them with a tool that will reduce the effort required to create both the document content and their accompanying semantic annotations. SemanticWord is such a semantic annotation tool. SemanticWord is an environment based in MS Word th...

BACKGROUND Few studies have investigated the difference in bacterial contamination between conventional reused ventilator systems and disposable closed ventilator-suction systems. The aim of this study was to investigate the bacterial contamination rates of the reused and disposable ventilator systems, and the association between system disconnection and bacterial contamination of ventilator sy...

Reusing steel and aluminum components would reduce the need for new production, possibly creating significant savings in carbon emissions. Currently, there is no clearly defined set of strategies or barriers to enable assessment of appropriate component reuse; neither is it possible to predict future levels of reuse. This work presents a global assessment of the potential for reusing steel and ...