A technique for comparing numerous performances of an identical selection of music is described. The basic methodology is to split a one-dimensional sequence into all possible sequential sub-sequences, perform some operation on these sequences, and then display a summary of the results as a two-dimensional plot; the horizontal axis being time and the vertical axis being sub-sequence length (lon...

The Grateful Dead were an American band that was born out of the San Francisco, California psychedelic movement of the 1960s. The band played music together from 1965 to 1995 and is well known for concert performances containing extended improvisations and long and unique set lists. This article presents a comparative analysis between 1,590 of the Grateful Dead’s concert set lists from 1972 to ...

Telematic or networked performance is an art form that emerged in the 1980s that applies telecommunication technology to performance. Today, there are typically two versions: high-tech and low-tech. Hi-tech telematic performance has been criticised for focusing on developing the technical and dismissing the aesthetic, by merely displaying the telematic connection in a theatrical manner. In this...

DNS Tunnels are built through proper tools that allow embedding data on DNS queries and response. Each tool has its own approach to the building tunnels in DNS that differently affects the network performance. In this paper, we propose a brief architectural analysis of the current state-of-the-art of DNS Tunneling tools. Then, wepropose the first comparative analysis of such tools in term of pe...

In this study, we evaluated the effects of the normalization procedures on decision outcomes of a givenMADMmethod. For this aim, using theweights of a number of attributes calculated from FAHP method, we applied TOPSIS method to evaluate the financial performances of 13 Turkish deposit banks. In doing this, we used the most popular four normalization procedures. Our study revealed that vector n...

Interactions between instruction visualisations and task mental representations in skill acquisition is arguably knowledge-domain dependent. This paper presents the design and preliminary results of an experiment that extends the knowledge-domain dependent model to the acquisition of spatial navigational skills. A between-group design is proposed and tested to compare post-learning navigational...

The problem of synthesizing novel views consists of generating new views of a scene using at least two reference views. The new generated views, called also novel views, correspond to virtual viewpoints where no real camera has taken snapshots. In the last few year, view synthesis has been a thriving field of research in both computer vision and computer graphics. Applications of novel view syn...

Path loss optimization is an important requirement in the design and implementation phase of mobile radio systems. The accuracy of the propagation model is improved by optimizing the model parameters to reflect the real time environment in a better manner. The paper aims at optimizing the proposed hybrid Walfisch–Ikegami path loss model for cellular signals in urban environment. The hybrid mode...

Humans feel uncertain. They know when they do not know. These feelings and the responses to them ground the research literature on metacognition. It is a natural question whether animals share this cognitive capacity, and thus animal metacognition has become an influential research area within comparative psychology. Researchers have explored this question by testing many species using percepti...

This report presents follow-up work for our previous technical report “Variability-Aware Performance Modeling: A Statistical Learning Approach" (GSDLAB-TR-2012-08-18). We try to give evidence why our approach, based on a statisticallearning technique called Classification And Regression Trees (CART), works for variability-aware performance prediction. To this end, we conduct a comparative analy...