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Evolution of the Internet Topology and Traffic Dynamics of Data Packets
In recent years, the Internet has become one of the most influential media in our daily life, going beyond in its role as the basic infrastructure in... -
Granular Nested Causal Complexes
Causal reasoning occupies a central position in human reasoning. In many ways, causality is granular. This is true for: perception, commonsense... -
Using an Adapted Classification Based on Associations Algorithm in an Activity-Based Transportation System
A lot of research has been carried out in the past by using association rules to build more accurate classifiers. The idea behind these integrated... -
The Evolution of the Concept of Fuzzy Measure
Most information discovery processes need to understand the reasons of the success of the inference methods or the usability of the new information,... -
Discovering the Factors Affecting the Location Selection of FDI in China*
Since the late 1970s, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) has played an important role in the economic development of China. However, the growth of FDI... -
4. Stability of Nonlinear Switched and Impulsive Systems
In this chapter, we shall study the stability of nonlinear switched and impulsive systems of the form... -
Synchronization in Complex Networks
The study of complex systems pervades all of science, from cell biology to ecology, from computer science to meteorology. A paradigm of a complex... -
Data Traffic, Topology and Congestion
We consider the interaction between the topology of a network and the tra.c carried along its channels. The binding elements between the topology and... -
Sequential Pattern Mining*
Sequential pattern discovery has emerged as an important research topic in knowledge discovery and data mining with broad applications. Previous... -
Uncertain Knowledge Association Through Information Gain
The problem of entity association is at the core of information mining techniques. In this work we propose an approach that links the similarity of... -
6 Beamforming Combined with Multi-channel Acoustic Echo Cancellation
For audio signal acquisition, beamforming microphone arrays can be efficiently used for enhancing a desired signal while suppressing... -
4 Optimum Beamforming for Wideband Non-stationary Signals
Array processing techniques strive for extraction of maximum information from a propagating wave field using groups of sensors, which are located at... -
1. Examples and Modelling of Switched and Impulsive Systems
When you begin to read this book, you may ask: “what is a switched and impulsive system?” This is a question that may be best answered through... -
9 On Observing Contact States in Overconstrained Manipulation
Estimation of contact state is important to any multi-point interaction that involves frictional stick/slip phenomena. In particular, when there are... -
Integrated Clustering Modeling with Backpropagation Neural Network for Effcient Customer Relationship Management
The rapid progress in digital data acquisition and storage technology has lead to the fast growing tremendous and amount of data stored in databases,... -
B Experimental Setups and Acoustic Environments
In this chapter, the experimental setup and the acoustic environments are described, which are used in this work for illustrating the properties of... -
9. Switched Scalable Video Coding Systems
Scalable video coding means that a video sequence is only encoded once and the coded bitstream has the capability of sending any sub-bitstream... -
13 Haptic Interfaces: Collocation and Coherence Issues
Multi-modality, collocation and immersive VE nowadays represents the break-trough barrier of human computer interaction. Typical VE systems... -
6 Efficient and Precise Grasp Planning for Real World Objects
With the development of .exible and highly integrated dexterous grip** devices (e.g. fig.6.1) the research results on grasp and manipulation... -
4 Modelling and Controlling the Compliance of a Robotic Hand with Soft Finger-pads
Compliant pads greatly contribute to increase the robustness and the stability of grasps of robot hands, because of their conformability to the...