Showing papers in "Future Generation Computer Systems in 2004"

TL;DR: Experiments demonstrate that a wide set of unsymmetric linear systems can be solved and high performance is consistently achieved for large sparse unsympetric matrices from real world applications.

TL;DR: Experimental results show that the artificial immune system algorithm is an effective and efficient method for solving HFS problems.

TL;DR: Results show that the SVM performs better than maximum likelihood, univariate decision tree and backpropagation neural network classifiers, even with small training data sets, and is almost unaffected by the Hughes phenomenon.

TL;DR: A new formalization is proposed for the design of ant colony algorithms, introducing the biological notions of heterarchy and communication channels, and a heterarchical algorithm called CIAC is designed for the optimization of multiminima continuous functions.

TL;DR: This paper investigates the effectiveness of the genetic algorithm (GA) evolved neural network classifier and its application to the land cover classification of remotely sensed multispectral imagery and demonstrates that carefully designed genetic algorithm-based neural network outperforms than gradient descent- based neural network.

TL;DR: The subspace of approximants is constructed by a Jacobi-Davidson-type approach, and the arising eigenproblems of small dimension are solved by safeguarded iteration.

TL;DR: Thermal boundary conditions for a doubled-populations BGK model are introduced and numerically demonstrated and the method is used to simulate channel flows, finding satisfactory agreement for both hydrodynamic and thermal fields.

TL;DR: A three-dimensional lattice Boltzmann model is used to investigate the spreading of mesoscopic droplets on homogeneous and heterogeneous surfaces and shows that the time evolutions collapse onto a single curve as a function of a dimensionless time.

TL;DR: B-spline surfaces (by far the most common family of surfaces in surface modeling and industry) for the surface reconstruction problem is proposed instead of the Bezier scheme, and a careful analysis of the errors makes it possible to determine the number of B- Spline surface fitting control points that best fit the data points.

TL;DR: A price-directed proportional resource allocation algorithm for solving the grid task agent resource allocation problem is provided and the results of experiment show the price- directed allocation has better performance than usual Round-Robin allocation.

TL;DR: This paper conceptualizes the Social Grid, Semantic Resource Grid and Knowledge Grid, then points out the key research issues of the future interconnection environment.

TL;DR: This work discusses the operation of modules of the multi-agent transportation simulation for all of Switzerland, and focuses on improvements made to the feedback system, such as an agent "memory" that allows agents to choose among previously used routes based on their past performance.

TL;DR: A lattice Boltzmann method for two-phase immiscible fluids with large density ratios is proposed and the difficulty in the treatment of large density ratio is resolved by using the projection method.

TL;DR: An approach for building an efficient single system image (SSI) cluster operating system that implements distributed services performing global and dynamic resource management to offer high performance, high availability and ease of programming.

TL;DR: This paper aims to fill the gap by offering a historical survey on the most relevant computer graphics techniques developed during the 1980s and 1990s for realistic modeling, rendering and animation of water.

TL;DR: The paper proposes a developed Knowledge Source Network approach (KSNet-approach) to knowledge logistics and its multi-agent architecture, and describes a research prototype of the system "KSNet" based on this approach.

TL;DR: A threshold multi-proxy multi-signature scheme with shared verification that allows the group of original signers to delegate the signing capability to the designated group of proxy signers and a subset of verifiers in the designated verifier group can authenticate the proxy signature.

TL;DR: A (t, n) threshold signature with (k, l) threshold-shared verification to be used in a group-oriented cryptosystem without a shared distribution center (SDC) that is more practical in real-world applications and more efficient than its predecessors.

TL;DR: An automatic and efficient algorithm for outline capture of character images, stored as bitmap, is presented, well suited for characters of non-Roman languages like Arabic, Japanese, Urdu, Persian, etc.

TL;DR: The architecture and the computational kernels of Simulation of Crossed Molecular Beam Experiments, an Internet portal managing the simulation of elementary bimolecular processes as those occurring in crossed beam apparatuses, is discussed.

TL;DR: Delaunay triangulation and tetrahedron are applied for 3D reconstruction of geological structures with sudden changes to provide a new field of application for reconstruction of real 3D complex geological objects.

TL;DR: SGrid, a service-oriented model for the Semantic Grid, is presented, where each Grid service is a Web service with certain domain knowledge, supplemented with domain ontology and registered with aSemantic Grid Service Ontology Repository using a Semantic Services Register.

TL;DR: This paper uses the concept of flow reduction to characterize the stent efficiency, based on a lattice Boltzmann modeling of blood flow, and shows how the various parameters play a role and help to understand the phenomena.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that the lattice Boltzmann method can be an alternative robust computational fluid dynamics technique for such kind of applications as surgical planning and is fully adaptive to interactively changing geometry.

TL;DR: The simple TIN b-rep structures may be extended using formal Euler Operators to add simple CAD functionality while guaranteeing the connectivity required for terrain modelling, and is believed to provide a simple and reliable extension that is sufficient for many applications.

TL;DR: This paper shows that a lip print is sufficiently used by the measurements of biometric systems and proposes a new method using multi-resolution architecture to recognize a lip Print from pattern kernels.

TL;DR: The design, implementation, and performance of a new parallel sparse Cholesky factorization code that outperforms two state-of-the-art message-passing codes and implies that recursive schedules, blocked data layouts, and dynamic scheduling are effective in the implementation of sparse factorization codes.

TL;DR: Simulations of intrusion of a non-wetting liquid into pores of varying shape and size based on the lattice-Boltzmann method and the Shan-Chen multiphase model found the liquid-solid contact angle for pores with circular cross-section was found to be consistent.

TL;DR: A Grid-based Virtual Molecular Science Laboratory (VMSLab-G) based on both human (meter scale) and molecular (nanometer scale) virtual reality aimed at facilitating ubiquitous laboratory practice and stimulate insight in scientific research is illustrated.

TL;DR: This paper proves how to apply sticker in the sticker-based model to construct solution space of DNA in the set-splitting problem and how to applies DNA operations in the Adleman-Lipton model to solve that problem from the solutionspace of sticker.