PURPOSE To examine the association of personal values, the built environment, and auto availability with walking for transportation. SETTING Participants were drawn from 11 U.S. metropolitan areas with good transit services. SUBJECTS 865 adults who had recently made or were contemplating making a residential move. MEASURES Respondents reported if walking was their primary mode for nine tr...

To automatically annotate songs with descriptive keywords, a variety of content-based auto-tagging strategies have been proposed in recent years. Different approaches may capture different aspects of a song’s musical content, such as timbre, temporal dynamics, rhythmic qualities, etc. As a result, some auto-taggers may be better suited to model the acoustic characteristics commonly associated w...

Thomas Karcher Institute for Program Structures and Data Organization Karlsruhe Institute of Technology 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany thomas.karcher@kit.edu Christopher Guckes Institute for Program Structures and Data Organization Karlsruhe Institute of Technology 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany ulcok@student.kit.edu Walter F. Tichy Institute for Program Structures and Data Organization Karlsruhe Institute...

Service-oriented architectures (SOA) and, in particular, Web Services designs are widely adopted for the development of interoperable systems. In a dynamic scenario, a composed service may exploit component services in order to complete its task; composed services are variously distributed, and offered by different providers in different security domains and under different load conditions. So,...

OpenTuner can help users achieve better or more portable performance in their speci c domain through program autotuning. A key challenge for users seeking good autotuning performance in OpenTuner is selecting a search approach appropriate for problem. However, not only are current in-situ learning search approaches not robust enough to handle all search spaces, but there are also too many possi...

OpenTuner can help users achieve better or more portable performance in their speci c domain through program autotuning. A key challenge for users seeking good autotuning performance in OpenTuner is selecting a search approach appropriate for problem. However, not only are current in-situ learning search approaches not robust enough to handle all search spaces, but there are also too many possi...