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7 Efficient Real-Time Realization of an Acoustic Human/Machine Front-End
In the previous chapters, we discussed options for data-dependent optimum beamforming for acoustic human/machine front-ends on cost-sensitive... -
2 Space-Time Signals
In single-channel techniques for hands-free acoustic human/machine interfaces, we deal with waveforms which are functions of the continuous time. The... -
5. Impulsive Synchronization of Chaotic Systems
In this chapter, less conservative conditions on the stability of impulsive systems are first derived. These results are then used to study the... -
8. Relative Differentiated Quality of Service of the Internet
In this chapter, the feedback cyclic control policy is first extended to the case that the arrival rates are not known in advance. The policy is then... -
7. Scheduling of Switched Server Systems
In this chapter, we shall present an interesting and practical application of the stability results obtained in Chapter 2. Specifically, the... -
1 Introduction
With a continuously increasing desire for natural and comfortable human/machine interaction, the acoustic interface of any terminal for multimedia or... -
Evidence Based Telemedicine
This chapter focuses on evidence based telemedicine and its various applications. Evidence based medicine is the integration of best research... -
Virtual Communities in Health Care
A virtual community is a social entity involving several individuals who relate to one another by the use of a specific communication technology that... -
Macroscopic Dynamics in Large-Scale Data Networks
Modern society grows increasingly reliant on the Internet, a network of global reach that supports many services and clients. However, in such a... -
Chaos-Based Generation of Arti.cial Self-Similar Traffic
The exploitation of the unique features of chaotic dynamics for performance improvement recently became a widely followed path in several field of... -
Nonlinear Dynamics of TCP and its Implications to Network Performance
TCP flows continuously intertwine in the Internet competing with each other for service capacity and buffer space in bottleneck routers. The window... -
Modelling the Complex Internet Topology
Internet is one of the most impressive creatures of our civilization; it has literally changed the ways we do business, communication, education,... -
15 Effects of Grip** and Translational Forces on Teleoperation
For minimally invasive surgical teleoperation systems, it is often impractical to provide the same number of degrees of freedom (dof) for position... -
2 Does Torque Minimization Yield a Stable Human Grasp?
In this chapter, we present a study of the human grasp conducted with a mathematical formalism that has been developed in robotics during the last... -
11 Evaluation of Multipoint Contact Interfaces in Haptic Perception of Shapes
This chapter presents the evaluation of a multicontact point interface for the shape recognition of objects. A set-up constituted of an Haptic... -
12 Contact Location Trajectory on the Fingertip as a Sufficient Requisite for Illusory Perception of Haptic Shape and Effect of Multiple Contacts
This chapter seeks to demonstrate that haptic curvature perception can result solely from the trajectory of the deformed region of the fingertip due... -
Dynamic Complexity in the Internet Traffic
The Internet is one of the most enormous autonomously distributed network systems created by human being. There is no central control in the Internet... -
Dynamical Properties of Externally Driven TCP traffic
One of the most influential achievements of the last sanctuary was the emergence of a decentralized, highly heterogenous, global communication... -
Small-World Synchronized Computing Networks for Scalable Parallel Discrete-Event Simulations
We study the scalability of parallel discrete-event simulations for arbitrary short-range interacting systems with asynchronous dynamics. When the... -
A Tractable Complex Network Model Based on the Stochastic Mean-Field Model of Distance
Much recent research activity has been devoted to empirical study and theoretical models of complex networks (random graphs) possessing three...