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Improving Parallel I/O Performance Using Multithreaded Two-Phase I/O with Processor Affinity Management
I/O has been one of the performance bottlenecks in parallel computing. Using a parallel I/O API such as MPI-IO is one effective approach to improve parallel computing performance. The most popular MPI-IO imple...
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Design and Analysis of Interactions with Museum Exhibits
The Definition of Self is a museum exhibition at 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT in 2010, intended to speculate our attributes in the contemporary world. This paper discusses design and interaction of two exhibits created ...
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Table-Top Interface Using Fingernail Images and Real Object Recognition
Many researchers have proposed the development of table-top interfaces in the last decade. In a table-top system, for user satisfaction, they must be able to operate digital and analog media seamlessly. In thi...
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Research on the Role of the Sketch in Design Idea Generation
The purpose of this research is to solve the function achieved in the design idea generation of idea sketches. We conducted the comparative-analysis experiment on the relation between the sketch and an idea ge...
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MOSIR: Image and Segment-Based Retrieval for Mobile Phones
This paper proposes a novel image retrieval system called MOSIR, developed for mobile phones. This system enables the user to find similar images and information related to the photos taken with the user’s mob...
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Subjective Difficulty Estimation for Interactive Learning by Sensing Vibration Sound on Desk Panel
In this paper, we propose a method which estimates the student’s subjective difficulty with a vibration sound on a desk obtained by a microphone on the back of the desk panel. First, it classifies the student’...
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Building a Customizable User Interface Framework Using Hyperlinks for Smart Devices
A new customizable user interface for smart devices based on hyperlink associability is presented. Although mobile devices should be easy to use, many current devices have complex and widely varying interfaces...
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Stochastic Modeling of Composite Web Services for Closed-Form Analysis of Their Performance and Reliability Bottlenecks
Web services providers often commit service-level agreements (SLAs) with their customers for guaranteeing the quality of the services. These SLAs are related not just to functional attributes of the services b...
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Syntactic Validation of Web Services Security Policies
The Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) makes application development flexible in such a way that services are composed in a highly distributed manner. However, because of the flexibility, it is often hard for...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Making Middleware Secure on Embedded Terminals
Recently more embedded terminals have begun to use a general-purpose OS such as Linux. These terminals can perform various functions, such as downloading applications. Since these applications maybe malicious,...
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HyMPI – A MPI Implementation for Heterogeneous High Performance Systems
This paper presents the HyMPI, a runtime system to integrate several MPI implementations, used to develop Heterogeneous High Performance Applications. This means that a single image system can be composed by m...
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Performance Improvement by Data Management Layer in a Grid RPC System
A grid RPC system provides a useful and intuitive programming interface for master-worker type applications in a grid environment. In many grid applications, such as parameter search programs, both master and ...
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EnhancedTable: An Augmented Table System for Supporting Face-to-Face Meeting in Ubiquitous Environment
This paper describes our design and implementation of an augmented table system for face-to-face meetings. The system was designed to be used by multiple users in the ubiquitous environment, where people do no...
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Logical Communication Model and Real-Time Data Transmission Protocols for Embedded Systems with Controller Area Network
Embedded real-time systems are deployed in a wide range of application domains such as transportation systems, automated manufacturing, home appliances and telecommunications. Originally developed for use in a...
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Inhambu: Data Mining Using Idle Cycles in Clusters of PCs
In this paper we present and evaluate Inhambu, a distributed object-oriented system that relies on dynamic monitoring to collect information about the availability of computational resources, providing the nec...
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Vision-Based Face Tracking System for Large Displays
In this paper, we present a stereo-based face tracking system which can track the 3D position and orientation of a user in real-time, and the system’s application for interaction with a large display. Our trac...
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Performance Modeling of Layered-Data Delivery for Mobile Users through Broadcast/On-Demand Hybrid Communication
We have proposed an efficient layered-data delivery system through multiple heterogeneous networks, which are on-demand and broadcast [1]. It is considered that layered data, such as map data, are composed of (1)...