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ERSA
2006
150views Hardware» more  ERSA 2006»
13 years 10 months ago
An Area Time Efficient Field Programmable Mersenne Twister Uniform Random Number Generator
Reconfigurable computing offers an attractive solution to accelerating infrared scene simulations. In infrared scene simulations, the modeling of a number of atmospheric and optic...
Vinay Sriram, David Kearney
WSC
2004
13 years 10 months ago
On Using Monte Carlo Methods for Scheduling
Monte Carlo techniques have long been used (since Buffon's experiment to approximate the value of by tossing a needle onto striped paper) to analyze phenomena which, due to ...
Samarn Chantaravarapan, Ali K. Gunal, Edward J. Wi...
CDC
2010
IEEE
123views Control Systems» more  CDC 2010»
13 years 4 months ago
Implicit learning for explicit discount targeting in Online Social networks
Online Social networks are increasingly being seen as a means of obtaining awareness of user preferences. Such awareness could be used to target goods and services at them. We cons...
Srinivas Shakkottai, Lei Ying, Sankalp Sah
ICCV
2005
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
A Study of Detecting Social Interaction with Sensors in a Nursing Home Environment
Social interaction plays an important role in our daily lives. It is one of the most important indicators of physical or mental diseases of aging patients. In this paper, we presen...
Datong Chen, Jie Yang, Howard D. Wactlar
CMSB
2007
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Expressive Models for Synaptic Plasticity
We explore some presynaptic mechanisms of the calyx of Held synapse through a stochastic model. The model, drawn from a kinetic approach developed in literature, exploits process c...
Andrea Bracciali, Marcello Brunelli, Enrico Catald...