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A Host Architecture for Automobile License Plate Recognition
Automobile license plate recognition (ALPR) is becoming increasingly important to homeland security and law enforcement. There are a number of commercial vendors with tag recognition hardware and software in the ALPR market. Many of these vendors have developed open tag recognition solutions that run on laptop PCs with commodity video-capture devices as peripherals. Such PC-based solutions are quite conducive to an open architecture for data transmission and sharing between applications. In this paper, we present an architecture that supports such a commodity tag recognition solution as its centerpiece. We then discuss a recent pilot project where this architecture was implemented and tested.
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CARE: An Automobile Crash Data Analysis Tool
The Critical Analysis Reporting Environment provides an efficient tool for transportation safer engineers and policymakers to use in analyzing the categorical crash data typically obtained from police reports. CAPE has proven successful in the traffic safety community for two reasons: its simplicity and its efficiency. It is currently being used in several states.
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Experience in Teaching a Management-Oriented Capstone Software Engineering Course
Many computer science departments teach a capstone software engineering course involving the design and implementation of a large-scale project. Such a course is normally taught with students working together in teams; consequently, students must face a number of problems related to project management and team dynamics. Our experience has been that students frequently fail to adequately cope with these organizational problems, and consequently fail to complete their projects at an acceptable level of quality. To prepare students to better face these problems, we have modified our capstone software engineering course to provide equal emphasis in both management and technical areas. Our approach to management topics is formal rather than anecdotal, stressing general principles applied to organizational problems arising specifically from situations that occur frequently in technical organizations. This paper reports on the structure of this course, and provides insight into our initial experience in teaching it.
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Identities for the exponential integral and the complementary error transforms
Abstract In the present paper the authors introduce the exponential integral transform and the complementary error transform, then it is shown that the third iterate of the Laplace transform is the exponential integral transform and a modified third iterate of the Laplace transform is the complementary error transform. Some identities involving these new transforms, the Laplace transform and the Stieltjes transform are given. Using the identities, Parseval–Goldstein type results involving these transforms are proved. Some illustrative examples are also given.
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Understanding user behaviour and its metrics
We are pleased to bring together such a great group of people to speak about various aspects of user behaviour and trends, an important topic for us all. We are sometimes guilty of assuming we know what users want. Those assumptions have been challenged in recent years by sophisticated evidence-based studies, the impact of which has been further heightened by digital systems that are responding to the new and changing needs of researchers operating on the front lines of science. To start the programme, two such scientists will provide accounts of how they respond to the information challenges they face in their respective fields. During the day we will learn about the background motivations for, and situations in which, researchers increasingly operate. The challenge is to interpret what this means in terms of our own organisations. This is a timely issue for the British Library as it revisits its science, technology and medical strategy to meet its own changing needs as well as the needs of new generations of researchers. This will require adaptations to our information and knowledge services and policies, something I suspect applies to all ICSTI members here engaged in service provision. A relevant example of this is the British Library’s recent launch of the UK PubMed Central, a US–UK collaboration with the support of research funding agencies and driven by the Wellcome Trust. We are pleased that representatives of those organisations are here today. Participants from 12 countries are among us, making this a truly international gathering. I am delighted to welcome you all here today.
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A Case Study of Software Process Improvement During Development
We present a case study of the use of a software process improvement method which is based on the analysis of defect data. The first step of the method is the classification of software defects using attributes which relate defects to specific process activities. Such classification captures the semantics of the defects in a fashion which is useful for process correction. The second step utilizes a machine-assisted approach to data exploration which allows a project team to discover such knowledge from defect data as is useful for process correction. We show that such analysis of defect data can readily lead a project team to improve their process during development. >
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The Virtualization Reality
A number of important challenges are associated with the deployment and configuration of contemporary computing infrastructure. Given the variety of operating systems and their many versions—including the often-specific configurations required to accommodate the wide range of popular applications—it has become quite a conundrum to establish and manage such systems.
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Is there a problem matching real and model CV(ISI)?
Abstract Previous studies have claimed that (a) an exact balance between numbers of randomly timed EPSPs and IPSPs and (b) high numbers of such inputs are necessary in single neuron models to obtain a coefficient of variation of interspike intervals in the physiological range (i.e. between 0.5 and 1). We show here that these are not necessary. For the perfect integrate-and-fire model, 0.5 r 0.5 whenever the ratio between the number of inhibitory and excitatory inputs, r , exceeds 0.27 for a total Poisson EPSP input rate of 10,000 Hz.