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MOBILE TECHNOLOGY

 

1.     

A Framework for VoIP Speech Data Generation Using Asterisk

Chowdhury, P.; Mandal, A.; Kumar, K.R.P.; Athithan, G.;
Devices and Communications (ICDeCom), 2011 International Conference on
Digital Object Identifier:
10.1109/ICDECOM.2011.5738538
Publication Year: 2011 , Page(s): 1 - 4

State-of-the-art approaches for automatic recognition of speech, speaker or language specific information from spoken data rely on statistical techniques that require large databases for training and testing. Application of these techniques on Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) environment requires studying them under different codec and network conditions. Though earlier works have studied and reported the same, a framework for automatic generation of VoIP speech is lacking. A number of speech corpus for different applications are available for microphone speech. As domain specific performance needs to be evaluated in matched acoustic characteristics and application conditions, methods that enable automatic generation of target speech from the available microphone speech are important to a researcher in saving time and effort. We present a framework based on Asterisk, a freely available open source Internet Protocol-Public Exchange (IP-PBX) software for realization of VoIP speech from the available microphone speech corpus in network conditions that is reflective of actual VoIP channels.

 

 

VOIP

 

IEEE Journals

 

2.     

Item-Level RFID in a Retail Supply Chain With Stock-Out-Based Substitution

 

Gaukler, G.M.;
Industrial Informatics, IEEE Transactions on
Volume: 7 , Issue: 2
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TII.2010.2068305
Publication Year: 2011 ,

In this paper, we present a model to help evaluate the impact of an introduction of item-level radio-frequency identification (RFID) in a retail environment where stock-out-based substitution is common.

There are two main thrust areas in this work. First, we examine the impact of RFID in a centralized setting where retailer and manufacturer are one entity. This thrust area is concerned with evaluating the profitability of RFID and exploring which product properties favor an RFID implementation. Second, we examine the impact of RFID in a decentralized setting, where retailer and manufacturer independently maximize their profits. We investigate the problem of sharing the costs of RFID, from both the perspective of tag costs and fixed costs. Our research shows that the presence of substitution at the shelf plays a major role in determining the expected benefits of an RFID implementation, as well as in determining the optimal allocation of these benefits among retailer and manufacturer. It is therefore critically important that decision makers make strong efforts to correctly account for subsitution effects when evaluating potential item-level RFID implementations in the retail sector

ERP Application

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


RFID

 

IEEE Journals

 

3.     

RFID Data Processing in Supply Chain Management Using a Path Encoding Scheme

Chun-Hee Lee; Chin-Wan Chung;
Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE Transactions on
Volume: 23 , Issue: 5
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TKDE.2010.136
Publication Year: 2011 , Page(s): 742 - 758

 

RFID technology can be applied to a broad range of areas. In particular, RFID is very useful in the area of business, such as supply chain management. However, the amount of RFID data in such an environment is huge. Therefore, much time is needed to extract valuable information from RFID data for supply chain management. In this paper, we present an efficient method to process a massive amount of RFID data for supply chain management. We first define query templates to analyze the supply chain. We then propose an effective path encoding scheme that encodes the flows of products. However, if the flows are long, the numbers in the path encoding scheme that correspond to the flows will be very large. We solve this by providing a method that divides flows. To retrieve the time information for products efficiently, we utilize a numbering scheme for the XML area. Based on the path encoding scheme and the numbering scheme, we devise a storage scheme that can process tracking queries and path oriented queries efficiently on an RDBMS. Finally, we propose a method that translates the queries to SQL queries. Experimental results show that our approach can process the queries efficiently.

 

 

 

IEEE Journals

 

4.     

RFID-based localization and tracking technologies

Ni, L.M.; Dian Zhang; Souryal, M.R.;
Wireless Communications, IEEE
Volume: 18 , Issue: 2
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/MWC.2011.5751295
Publication Year: 2011

Radio frequency identification usually incorporates a tag into an object for the purpose of identification or localization using radio signals. It has gained much attention recently due to its advantages in terms of low cost and ease of deployment. This article presents an overview of RFID-based localization and tracking technologies, including tag-based (e.g., LANDMARC), reader-based (e.g., reverse RFID), transceiver-free, and hybrid approaches. These technologies mainly use the readily available resource of radio signal strength information or RSS change information to localize the target objects. A number of well-known approaches and their limitations are introduced. This article also indicates the challenges and possible solutions in the near and long terms. The challenges include multipath propagation, interference, and localizing multiple objects, among others. Most of these challenges exist not only for RFID-based localization, but also for other RF-based localization technologies.

 

LANDMARK, and Details

 

 

 

 

IEEE Journals

 

5.     

Real-Time Location Systems for Hospital Emergency Response

D'Souza, I.; Wei Ma; Notobartolo, C.;
IT Professional
Volume: 13 , Issue: 2
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/MITP.2011.31
Publication Year: 2011

Real-time location systems can help hospitals execute a coordinated response during a disaster. However, before implementing an RTLS in such a setting, management must consider the various technologies and the associated benefits, drawbacks, and challenges.

 

 

 

 

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IMAGE PROCESSING

 

6.     

Iris matching using multi-dimensional artificial neural network

Farouk, R.M.; Kumar, R.; Riad, K.A.;
Computer Vision, IET
Volume: 5 , Issue: 3
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1049/iet-cvi.2010.0133
Publication Year: 2011

Iris recognition is one of the most widely used biometric technique for personal identification. This identification is achieved in this work by using the concept that, the iris patterns are statistically unique and suitable for biometric measurements. In this study, a novel method of recognition of these patterns of an iris is considered by using a multidimensional artificial neural network. The proposed technique has the distinct advantage of using the entire resized iris as an input at once. It is capable of excellent pattern recognition properties as the iris texture is unique for every person used for recognition. The system is trained and tested using two publicly available databases (CASIA and UBIRIS). The proposed approach shows significant promise and potential for improvements, compared with the other conventional matching techniques with regard to time and efficiency of results

 

 

 

 

 

IRIS

IET Journals

 

7.     

Privacy Protection of Fingerprint Database

Sheng Li; Kot, A.C.;
Signal Processing Letters, IEEE
Volume: 18 , Issue: 2
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/LSP.2010.2097592
Publication Year: 2011

A fingerprint authentication system for the privacy protection of the fingerprint template stored in a database is introduced here. The considered fingerprint data is a binary thinned fingerprint image, which will be embedded with some private user information without causing obvious abnormality in the enrollment phase. In the authentication phase, these hidden user data can be extracted from the stored template for verifying the authenticity of the person who provides the query fingerprint. A novel data hiding scheme is proposed for the thinned fingerprint template. This scheme does not produce any boundary pixel in the thinned fingerprint during data embedding. Thus, the abnormality caused by data hiding is visually imperceptible in the marked-thinned fingerprint. Compared with using existing binary image data hiding techniques, the proposed method causes the least abnormality for a thinned fingerprint without compromising the performance of the fingerprint identification.

 

Finger Print

IEEE Journals

 

8.     

Smart card with iris recognition for high security access environment

Abdullah, M.A.M.; Al-Dulaimi, F.H.A.; Al-Nuaimy, W.; Al-Ataby, A.;
Biomedical Engineering (MECBME), 2011 1st Middle East Conference on
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/MECBME.2011.5752146
Publication Year: 2011

Smart cards are increasingly being used as a form of identification and authentication. One inherent problem with smart cards, however, is the possibility of loss or theft. Current options for securing smart cards against unauthorized use are primarily restricted to passwords. Passwords are easy enough for others to steal so that they do not offer sufficient protection. This has promoted interest in biometric identification methods, including iris recognition. The iris is, due to its unique biological properties, exceptionally suited for identification. It is protected from the environment, stable over time, unique in shape and contains a high amount of discriminating information. This paper proposes a method to integrate iris recognition with the smart card to develop a high security access environment. An iris recognition system and smart card programming circuit with its software have been designed. Template on card (TOC) category has been employed. Hence, the extracted iris features stored in smart card are compared against the data acquired from a camera or database for authentication. The proposed algorithm has superior performance in terms of security, accuracy and consistency compared with other published technology.

 

 

IRIS

 

 IEEE Conference

 

9.     

Digital signature with localization for image authentication

Mi-Ae Kim; Kil-Sang Yoo; Won-Hyung Lee;
Consumer Electronics (ICCE), 2011 IEEE International Conference on
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/ICCE.2011.5722831
Publication Year: 2011

This paper proposes a method of extracting a digital signature that can localize tampered areas. The method of generating the digital signature of an image is based on the regularity properties of wavelet transform coefficients

Objecive: Person identification as a security means has a variety of important applications. Many techniques and automated systems have been developed over the past few decades; each has its own advantages and limitations. There are often trade-offs amongst reliability, the ease of use,ethical/human rights issues, and acceptability in a particular application. Multimodal identification and authentication can, to some extent, alleviate the dilemmas and improve the overall performance. This paper proposes a new method of the combined use of signatures and utterances of pronounced names to identify or authenticate persons. Unlike typical signature verification methods, the dynamic features of signatures are captured as sound.The multimodal approach shows increased reliability, providing a relatively simple and potentially useful method for person identification and authentication.

 

 

 

IEEE Conferences

 

 

Video Processing

 

10.    

An Advanced Motion Detection Algorithm With Video Quality Analysis for Video Surveillance Systems

Shih-Chia Huang;
Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, IEEE Transactions on
Volume: 21 , Issue: 1
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TCSVT.2010.2087812
Publication Year: 2011

Motion detection is the first essential process in the extraction of information regarding moving objects and makes use of stabilization in functional areas, such as tracking, classification, recognition, and so on. In this paper, we propose a novel and accurate approach to motion detection for the automatic video surveillance system. Our method achieves complete detection of moving objects by involving three significant proposed modules: a background modeling (BM) module, an alarm trigger (AT) module, and an object extraction (OE) module. For our proposed BM module, a unique two-phase background matching procedure is performed using rapid matching followed by accurate matching in order to produce optimum background pixels for the background model. Next, our proposed AT module eliminates the unnecessary examination of the entire background region, allowing the subsequent OE module to only process blocks containing moving objects. Finally, the OE module forms the binary object detection mask in order to achieve highly complete detection of moving objects. The detection results produced by our proposed (PRO) method were both qualitatively and quantitatively analyzed through visual inspection and for accuracy, along with comparisons to the results produced by other state-of-the-art methods. The analyses show that our PRO method has a substantially higher degree of efficacy, outperforming other methods by an metric accuracy rate of up to 53.43%.

 

Motion Detection

IEEE Journals

 

11.    

Face Region Based Conversational Video Coding

Xiong, B.; Fan, X.; Zhu, C.; Jing, X.; Peng, Q.;
Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, IEEE Transactions on
Volume: PP , Issue: 99
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TCSVT.2011.2133530
Publication Year: 2011

Face regions are visual focuses in conversational video communications, thus better reconstruction quality of the regions of interest (ROI) is highly desired or necessary in the bandwidth-constrained conversational video coding. In this paper, we introduce an efficient motion based face detection method to identify face blocks in the first step, which can reduce computational complexity substantially without any loss in face detection results. Then an active contour model is applied to find face contours for more refined and compact face regions. Based on the well-located and compact face regions, facial feature priority based bit allocation is proposed for face ROI based conversational video coding. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed face region based coding can considerably improve the coding results in the face regions, compared with two other relevant video coding schemes, in terms of objective rate-distortion performance as well as subjective visual quality

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

IEEE Transactions

12.    

Motion and feature based person tracking in surveillance videos

Besita Augustin, M.; Juliet, S.; Palanikumar, S.;
Emerging Trends in Electrical and Computer Technology (ICETECT), 2011 International Conference on
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/ICETECT.2011.5760189
Publication Year: 2011

This work describes a method for accurately tracking persons in indoor surveillance video stream obtained from a static camera with difficult scene properties including illumination changes and solves the major occlusion problem. First, moving objects are precisely extracted by determining its motion, for further processing. The scene illumination changes are averaged to obtain the accurate moving object during background subtraction process. In case of objects occlusion, we use the color feature information to accurately distinguish between objects. The method is able to identify moving persons, track them and provide unique tag for the tracked persons. The effectiveness of the proposed method is demonstrated with experiments in an indoor environment.

 

 

 

 

 

IEEE Conferences

 

13.    

Identification and analysis of human pose in video

Chakraborty, I.; Paul, T.K.;
Applied Machine Intelligence and Informatics (SAMI), 2011 IEEE 9th International Symposium on
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/SAMI.2011.5738893
Publication Year: 2011

 

 

Human figure identification is always a challenging move in field of pattern recognition. This paper presents a complete algorithm to find a single object (human body) and identify the object as human being. The algorithm starts the segmentation process with basic frame difference method and use morphological operators, edge detection, feature point generation and finally spline interpolation to find the human like object. After completion of successful segmentation the algorithm takes a gentle approach to identify the object as human body and detect the pose by matching the templates. This paper describes every single step of single human body detection with perfection and ready for real life use

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

IEEE Conferences

 

 

Mobile Technology

 

14.    

Monorail Car's Wireless Control System based on Smartphone Platform

Xue Huixia; Gao Lin; Wang Lu; Li Wenbin; Yang Kai;
Measuring Technology and Mechatronics Automation (ICMTMA), 2011 Third International Conference on
Volume: 2
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/ICMTMA.2011.444
Publication Year: 2011

To meet the mountainous districts situation in China, this paper introduces a monorail car's wireless control system used in orchard which is based on smart phone and GPRS wireless communication technology. The system can obtain monorail car's speed and position information by rotary encoder, control and transmit data by wireless communication. A SMS module on Windows Mobile Embedded OS 6.1 is developed based on GSM protocol system. Smart phone can receive car's initial information and send orders to the on-vehicle controller for operating the car by GSM message. It describes how the hardware platform works and how to accomplish the design with software. Meanwhile, it tests the data transmission time and makes improvement. The rational design makes it easier to operate, which is proved to be available by tests

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Robotics

IEEE Conferences

 

15.    

The concept of Secure Mobile Wallet

Hao Zhao; Muftic, S.;
Internet Security (WorldCIS), 2011 World Congress on
Publication Year: 2011

 

This paper describes our concept, design and current implementation of the Secure Mobile Wallet. Mobile Wallet is an application stored in mobile phones providing to subscribers the possibility to perform various mobile financial transactions. In our approach Secure Mobile Wallet is stored and running in the Javacard SIM chip, called UICC. It comprises several Javacard applets supporting several types of financial transactions - mobile banking, mobile payments, mobile commerce, mobile micro-loans, mobile ticketing, mobile promotions, and so on. Secure Mobile Wallet supports over-the-air (OTA) transactions based on SMS, GPRS, or mobile Internet protocols and also over-the-counter (OTC) transactions based on NFC or Bluetooth protocols. For users, messages and data stored in the Secure Mobile Wallet are managed and maintained using both, OTA and OTC, protocols. Security is guaranteed by a combination of symmetric and asymmetric cryptography. As a client's application, the Secure Mobile Wallet is integrated into our larger, secure mobile transactions system – SAFE

 

 

 

 

IEEE Conferences

 

16.    

Application development with J2ME for mobile phone

Zabri, S.N.; Awang, A.H.; Salahuddin, L.; Said, M.M.;
Advanced Communication Technology (ICACT), 2011 13th International Conference on
Publication Year: 2011

With mobile commerce technology continuously being taken more into use and introduced in new markets, the transition to mobile commerce (m-commerce) will make mobile shopping exceedingly popular. In the near future mobile shopping will probably replace today's markets or shopping complex. This project presents a mobile application which is built using Mobile Information Device Profile (MIDP) of the Java 2 Platform Micro Edition (J2ME), that enable users to purchase flowers without a trip to the market or elsewhere. Users can access the application or service through mobile phones and view the available items. The application has been deployed and run on an emulator (Wireless Toolkit 2.5 Beta) with a DefaultColorPhone as the default emulator.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

IEEE Conferences

 

 

Voice Processing  - Language Processing

 

17.    

Considerations to Spoken Language Recognition for Text-to-Speech Applications

Rafieee, M.S.; Jafari, S.; Ahmadi, H.S.; Jafari, M.;
Computer Modelling and Simulation (UKSim), 2011 UkSim 13th International Conference on
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/UKSIM.2011.64
Publication Year: 2011 ,

There have been a great deal of discussions throughout the past few years over whether or not Text-to-Speech (TTS) machines can synthesize natural synthetic speech from texts. Aiming to address this need, in this paper we have considered some significant viewpoints of Spoken Language Processing (SLP) on the phonetic transcription of each word for the preprocessing of text-to-speech synthesis. On the other hand, lack of researches on automatic language detection for text transcription in different languages by considering the phonology of that language, motivated us to make a text language identifier system for commonly-used contexts. It therefore encouraged us to conduct a novel research into semi-English texts that people from different nations often use in their conversational transcripts such as email or chat via the Internet or cell phone text messaging services. In this research, we have investigated the language of text sequences by employing phonotactics rules, chiefly on Finglish (a portmanteau term combining Farsi and English) which is an alternative writing format for the Farsi Language, which has its own orthographic system, by means of English letters. As this is the first paper regarding Finglish texts, it can be tremendously exciting to enhance the text-to-speech synthesis systems created by advanced Digital Signal Processing (DSP) algorithms to specifying the language of each sentence in the first place. Finally, we have also proposed highly recommended writing rules for Finglish for it to be easily understood, translated to English and converted to natural speech.

Voice Processing

IEEE Conferences

 

18.    

Hands-free messaging application (iSay-SMS): A proposed framework

Lai Mei Lee; Yusof, Umi Kalsom;
Science and Social Research (CSSR), 2010 International Conference on
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/CSSR.2010.5773701
Publication Year: 2010

Mobile phones have become a necessity in people's life today as almost everyone will have at least one with them. Short message service (SMS) which is an important component in mobile phones is growing popular among mobile phone subscribers. The use of SMS nowadays is more than the calling function itself. In order to make the SMS function in mobile phones more efficient and attractive, speech recognition which allows users to use it for voice messages and enables users to speak in a natural way to communicate with others through their mobile phones is introduced. However, speech recognition technology to SMS is in the form of standard language is contradicted with the popularity of SMS that is used in the form of text abbreviation or short form. The research was conducted to find a solution for speech recognition technologies to enable it to transfer human speech into personalized text abbreviations. Studies and findings had been conducted regarding the possible technologies to solve problems such as voice-tag, architecture of ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition) system and Part-of-speech (POS). The problem with the inability to transfer speech to text abbreviation will be solved by adding a personalized data dictionary that enables users to save their own personalized words by integrating the voice-tag and part-of-speech tagging (POS) technology into iSay-SMS to help in saving and retrieving the text abbreviations. In addition, proposed framework of iSay-SMS is designed in such a way that promotes its marketability and increases the acceptance among the mobile phone subscribers

IEEE Conferences

 

19.    

A Speech Remote Control System Realization Based on Computer Telecommunication Integration

Tan, Baohua; Li, Jiaxiong;
Intelligent Systems and Applications (ISA), 2011 3rd International Workshop on
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/ISA.2011.5873449
Publication Year: 2011

 

Speech control is a hotspot in intelligent control technology. Automatic speech control means that machines can recognize the context of human's voice, and carry on the human's mind based on the recognition results. A speech remote control system is been realized based on computer telecommunication integration and Web Service in this project. And the system structure, technical implement and main function modules have been introduced in detail.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robotics

IEEE Conferences

 

20.    

Automated voice based home navigation system for the elderly and the physically challenged

Megalingam, R.K.; Nair, R.N.; Prakhya, S.M.;
Advanced Communication Technology (ICACT), 2011 13th International Conference on
Publication Year: 2011

In this paper, we propose an Intelligent Home Navigation System (IHNS) which comprises of a wheelchair, voice module and navigation module. It can be used by an elderly or physically challenged person to move inside the home without any difficulty. It's common that the elders forget the way to the different rooms in house and the physically challenged people find it hard to move the wheel chair without external aid. By making use of IHNS, elderly and the physically challenged can go to different rooms in the house like kitchen, living room, dining room etc by just speaking a word which is predefined to that particular room. The voice of the person is detected by voice capture module which will be compared by voice recognition module with predefined voices loaded in to the system. According to the received voice, the destination is automatically understood and the wheelchair moves according to the route which is predefined. It is also equipped with obstacle avoidance technique, where the person may not be able to provide proper voices at the right time. The wheel chair can automatically navigate from one point to the other in the home as per predefined route based on the voice received. Thus the above proposed system can be used by elderly and physically challenged people in day to day life even if they are alone at home

 

Robotics

 

IEEE Conferences

 

NETWORKING

 

21.    

Network traffic monitoring, analysis and anomaly detection

Wang, W.; Zhang, X.; Shi, W.; Lian, S.; Feng, D.;
Network, IEEE
Volume: 25 , Issue: 3
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/MNET.2011.5772054
Publication Year: 2011

Modern computer networks are increasingly pervasive, complex, and ever-evolving due to factors like enormous growth in the number of network users, continuous appearance of network applications, increasing amount of data transferred, and diversity of user behaviors. Understanding and measuring such a network is a difficult yet vital task for network management and diagnosis. Network traffic monitoring, analysis, and anomaly detection provide useful tools for understanding network behavior and determining network performance and reliability so as to effectively and promptly troubleshoot and resolve various issues in practice.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

IEEE Journals

22.    

A Generic NFC-enabled Measurement System for Remote Monitoring and Control of Client-side Equipment

Opperman, C.A.; Hancke, G.P.;
Near Field Communication (NFC), 2011 3rd International Workshop on
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/NFC.2011.11
Publication Year: 2011

NFC technology can be integrated into existing systems to simplify and speed up the process of monitoring and control of these systems. In this paper we address a problem pertaining to the complexity of the monitoring and control of sensor or measurement equipment. Manual monitoring of measurement systems can be a tedious endeavor, especially in systems where the measurements are numerous and at regular intervals. A possible solution to the tediousness of manual monitoring is to link up measurement systems to a computer using a suitable communication protocol, but this becomes a problem if the monitoring needs to be done remotely or the measurement device needs to be mobile. We propose using NFC technology to facilitate the process of data acquisition from a measurement or sensor device. An existing measurement device can be fitted with an NFC interface to enable easy access to measurement data by simply touching the device with an NFC reader. By using an NFC-enabled mobile phone as a reader, the GPRS capabilities of the phone can be implemented to enable the transmission of acquired data to a remote location. The process is activated by simply bringing an NFC-enabled mobile phone into close proximity of an NFC-enabled measurement device. From a remote location, data from these devices can be processed and control commands can be sent to the devices, using an NFC-enabled mobile phone as an intermediary device. Applying NFC to measurement devices can save time and effort, and no specialized skills are needed by a person initiating the acquisition of data, as a simple "touch' is all that is required.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

IEEE Conferences

23.    

A Speech Remote Control System Realization Based on Computer Telecommunication Integration

Tan, Baohua; Li, Jiaxiong;
Intelligent Systems and Applications (ISA), 2011 3rd International Workshop on
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/ISA.2011.5873449
Publication Year: 2011

Speech control is a hotspot in intelligent control technology. Automatic speech control means that machines can recognize the context of human's voice, and carry on the human's mind based on the recognition results. A speech remote control system is been realized based on computer telecommunication integration and Web Service in this project. And the system structure, technical implement and main function modules have been introduced in detail.

 

IEEE Conferences

 

24.    

RITAS: Services for Randomized Intrusion Tolerance 

Dependable and Secure Computing, IEEE Transactions on
Publication Year: 2011 , Page(s): 122 - 136

Randomized agreement protocols have been around for more than two decades. Often assumed to be inefficient due to their high expected communication and computation complexities, they have remained overlooked by the community-at-large as a valid solution for the deployment of fault-tolerant distributed systems. This paper aims to demonstrate that randomization can be a very competitive approach even in hostile environments where arbitrary faults can occur. A stack of randomized intrusion-tolerant protocols is described and its performance evaluated under several settings in both local-area-network (LAN) and wide-area-network environments. The stack provides a set of relevant services ranging from basic communication primitives up to atomic broadcast. The experimental evaluation shows that the protocols are efficient, especially in LAN environments where no performance reduction is observed under certain Byzantine faults

IEEE Jornal

 

Data Mining

 

25.    

Automatic Template Extraction from Heterogeneous Web Pages

Chulyun Kim; Kyuseok Shim;
Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE Transactions on
Volume: 23 , Issue: 4
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TKDE.2010.140
Publication Year: 2011

World Wide Web is the most useful source of information. In order to achieve high productivity of publishing, the webpages in many websites are automatically populated by using the common templates with contents. The templates provide readers easy access to the contents guided by consistent structures. However, for machines, the templates are considered harmful since they degrade the accuracy and performance of web applications due to irrelevant terms in templates. Thus, template detection techniques have received a lot of attention recently to improve the performance of search engines, clustering, and classification of web documents. In this paper, we present novel algorithms for extracting templates from a large number of web documents which are generated from heterogeneous templates. We cluster the web documents based on the similarity of underlying template structures in the documents so that the template for each cluster is extracted simultaneously. We develop a novel goodness measure with its fast approximation for clustering and provide comprehensive analysis of our algorithm. Our experimental results with real-life data sets confirm the effectiveness and robustness of our algorithm compared to the state of the art for template detection algorithms

 

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