S. Isaza, Ernst Houtgast, Friman Sánchez, Alex Ramírez, G. Gaydadjiev
{"title":"Scaling HMMER Performance on Multicore Architectures","authors":"S. Isaza, Ernst Houtgast, Friman Sánchez, Alex Ramírez, G. Gaydadjiev","doi":"10.1109/CISIS.2011.102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CISIS.2011.102","url":null,"abstract":"In bioinformatics, protein sequence alignment is one of the fundamental tasks that scientists perform. Since the growth of biological data is exponential, there is an ever-increasing demand for computational power. While current processor technology is shifting towards the use of multicores, the mapping and parallelization of applications has become a critical issue. In order to keep up with the processing demands, applications' bottlenecks to performance need to be found and properly addressed. In this paper we study the parallelism and performance scalability of HMMER, a bioinformatics application to perform sequence alignment. After our study of the bottlenecks in a HMMER version ported to the Cell processor, we present two optimized versions to improve scalability in a larger multicore architecture. We use a simulator that allows us to model a system with up to 512 processors and study the performance of the three parallel versions of HMMER. Results show that removing the I/O bottleneck improves performance by 3X and 2.4X for a short and a long HMM query respectively. Additionally, by offloading the sequence pre-formatting to the worker cores, larger speedups of up to 27X and 7X are achieved. Compared to using a single worker processor, up to 156X speedup is obtained when using 256 cores.","PeriodicalId":203206,"journal":{"name":"2011 International Conference on Complex, Intelligent, and Software Intensive Systems","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127663083","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Approximations for Electric Field Distributions along Random Rough Surface","authors":"J. Honda, K. Uchida","doi":"10.1109/CISIS.2011.71","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CISIS.2011.71","url":null,"abstract":"This paper is concerned with approximations for electric field distributions along random rough surfaces (RRSs). RRSs are generated by the convolution method, and spectrum density function of rough surface is assumed to be Gaussian. Electric field distributions are numerically calculated by the DRTM which has been proposed by authors. Also, the estimation formula of radio communication distance is introduced. In the estimation method, we use two parameters, that is, ƒ¿ and ƒÀ. ƒ¿ is the correction value of field intensity and ƒÀ is the order of distance for propagation. These two parameters are strongly related to RRS's parameters, correlation length (cl) and deviation of surface's height (h). In this paper, we propose an approximate expressions for ƒ¿ and ƒÀ using cl and h. By the proposed approximations, we can easily obtain the field intensity above RRSs and omit the complicated calculation for electromagnetic field. Distance estimation of radio communication between transmitter and receiver located on RRS is shown as numerical examples by using the proposed approximations.","PeriodicalId":203206,"journal":{"name":"2011 International Conference on Complex, Intelligent, and Software Intensive Systems","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121834537","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Intelligent Estimation Method for the Force Inputs Determination of a Cantilever Beam Structural System","authors":"Ming-Hui Lee","doi":"10.1109/CISIS.2011.28","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CISIS.2011.28","url":null,"abstract":"An intelligent fuzzy weighted input estimation method is used to estimate the force inputs of a cantilever beam structural system in this study. The Kalman filter without the input term and the adaptive weighted recursive least square estimator are two main portions of this method. In the estimation method, the efficient estimator is weighted by the fuzzy weighting factor proposed based on the fuzzy logic inference system. By directly synthesizing the Kalman filter with the estimator, this work presents an efficient robust forgetting zone, which is capable of providing a reasonable tradeoff between the tracking capability and the flexibility against noises. The input forces of structure system can be estimated by this method to promote the analysis reliability of the dynamic performance. The simulation results are compared by alternating between the constant and adaptive weighting factors. The results demonstrate that the application of the presented method is successful in coping with the dynamic system of cantilever beam.","PeriodicalId":203206,"journal":{"name":"2011 International Conference on Complex, Intelligent, and Software Intensive Systems","volume":"92 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116213686","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Modular Framework for Versatile Conversational Agent Building","authors":"A. Augello, M. Scriminaci, S. Gaglio, G. Pilato","doi":"10.1109/CISIS.2011.95","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CISIS.2011.95","url":null,"abstract":"This paper illustrates a web-based infrastructure of an architecture for conversational agents equipped with a modular knowledge base. This solution has the advantage to allow the building of specific modules that deal with particular features of a conversation (ranging from its topic to the manner of reasoning of the chatbot). This enhances the agent interaction capabilities. The approach simplifies the chatbot knowledge base design process: extending, generalizing or even restricting the chatbot knowledge base in order to suit it to manage specific dialoguing tasks as much as possible.","PeriodicalId":203206,"journal":{"name":"2011 International Conference on Complex, Intelligent, and Software Intensive Systems","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127355069","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Study on the Effect of Mutation in Genetic Algorithms for Mesh Router Placement Problem in Wireless Mesh Networks","authors":"Admir Barolli, F. Xhafa, C. Sánchez, M. Takizawa","doi":"10.1109/CISIS.2011.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CISIS.2011.15","url":null,"abstract":"With the emergence of wireless networking paradigm, several optimization problems are appearing in such networks. Such problem are related to optimizing network connectivity, coverage and stability. The resolution of these problems turns out to be crucial for optimized network performance. In the case of Wireless Mesh Networks, such problems include computing placement of mesh router nodes so that network performance is optimized. However, as these optimization problems are known to be computationally hard to solve, Genetic Algorithms (GAs) have been recently investigated as effective resolution methods. Mutation operator is one of the GA ingredients. Unlike crossover operators, which achieve to transmit genetic information from parents to off springs, mutation operators usually make some small local perturbation of the individuals, having thus less impact on individuals. Moreover, crossover is “a must†operator in GA and is usually applied with high probability, while mutation operators when implemented, are applied with small probability. Due to this, mutation operator is usually considered as a secondary operator. However, many studies in the literature have shown that mutation when effectively combined with selection operators can improve the performance of GAs. In this work we present the results of an experimental study on the effect of mutation and selection operators in GA for mesh router nodes placement problem. The study aims to identify the mutation and selection types that work best for instances of different characteristics.","PeriodicalId":203206,"journal":{"name":"2011 International Conference on Complex, Intelligent, and Software Intensive Systems","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132363265","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Software-based Business Applications/Tools to Assess Complex SOA Investments - The Cross-Vendor Comparative Analysis","authors":"L. Auer, N. Kryvinska, C. Strauss, E. Belov","doi":"10.1109/CISIS.2011.64","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CISIS.2011.64","url":null,"abstract":"Numerous conceptual frameworks, different tools and methodologies on service-oriented architecture (SOA) business value figuring have been developed to estimate the IT/SOA investments effectively, but most of them substantially lack an accuracy. Conventional investment valuation methods need to be combined with other modern techniques to reflect SOA's long-term strategic investment nature, the inherent uncertainty and the managerial discretion. Thus, in this paper, we perform a comparative analysis of industrial, software-based SOA value assessment applications/tools developed by selected leading IT vendors. We expose their similarities and potential strengths/weaknesses. The goal is achieved through a systematic examination of available SOA/IT \"business value\" assessment tools provided by key IT-vendors. We also present a consolidated view of alternatives in form featured matrixes.","PeriodicalId":203206,"journal":{"name":"2011 International Conference on Complex, Intelligent, and Software Intensive Systems","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132898938","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Keita Saito, Yutaka Sasaki, Noriki Uchida, Y. Shibata
{"title":"Temporal and Spacial Image Presentation on Web GIS by DTN","authors":"Keita Saito, Yutaka Sasaki, Noriki Uchida, Y. Shibata","doi":"10.1109/CISIS.2011.18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CISIS.2011.18","url":null,"abstract":"So far, the disaster information has been offered based on a text and an image conventionally. With the substantiality of the recent information infrastructure, a disaster prevention system can offer disaster information on top of Web-GIS a lot. Because information of the stricken area is not considered as the form which takes care of temporal occasion in the existing system, the time change of the disaster cannot be adequately identified. In this paper, we established a domain called the seek bar which can make change disaster information in Web-GIS seamlessly with an axis in time and offered unified operations by chronological order. Thus, using seek bar operations, the disaster information combining with Web-GIS functions can be shown to observe in the temporal and special expressions to easily understand the tendency of disaster in elapsed time.","PeriodicalId":203206,"journal":{"name":"2011 International Conference on Complex, Intelligent, and Software Intensive Systems","volume":"231 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132005899","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Methods for Protein Subcellular Localization Prediction","authors":"Eric Y. T. Juan, J. Chang, C. H. Li, B. Y. Chen","doi":"10.1109/CISIS.2011.91","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CISIS.2011.91","url":null,"abstract":"Large-scale protein analysis and reliable annotations are particularly helpful for scholars in biology and medicine community. Understanding the functional characterizations of protein sequences has been a major challenge in recent years. Extensive computer based prediction systems have been developed to support the need since many proteins¡¦ sub cellular localizations are still unknown. In this work, numerous protein description methods and three common classifiers are used in our experiments. These protein description methods are classified into two categories: protein composition based and position-specific scoring matrix based. A better prediction is achieved upon widely used data sets. Through these experiments, it is expected to give a comparison between protein description methods for protein sub cellular localization and their classification characteristics.","PeriodicalId":203206,"journal":{"name":"2011 International Conference on Complex, Intelligent, and Software Intensive Systems","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123034041","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Combinational Approach for Trust Establishment in Cognitive Radio Networks","authors":"S. Parvin, Song Han, F. Hussain, B. Tian","doi":"10.1109/CISIS.2011.40","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CISIS.2011.40","url":null,"abstract":"Cognitive Radio is considered as a promising and demanding technology to examine whether a particular radio spectrum band is currently in use or not and to switch into the temporarily unoccupied spectrum band in order to improve the usage of the radio electromagnetic spectrum without creating interference to the transmissions of other users. Because of the dynamic properties of CRNs, the issue of supporting secure communication in CRNs becomes more critical than that of other conventional wireless networks. In this paper, we propose a combination of certificate-based trust with a behavior-based trust which will benefit both by representing the trust as certificates in the the predeployment trust relation and by providing a continuous behaviour-based evalution of trust.","PeriodicalId":203206,"journal":{"name":"2011 International Conference on Complex, Intelligent, and Software Intensive Systems","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115953693","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Touch Screen Interface Design with Tactile Feedback","authors":"Hiroaki Nishino, R. Goto, Yuki Fukakusa, Jiaqing Lin, Tsuneo Kagawa, Kazuyuki Yoshida, K. Utsumiya, Junji Hirooka, Toshihiko Osada, Nobuhiro Nagatomo, Eiji Aoki","doi":"10.1504/IJSSC.2013.051974","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJSSC.2013.051974","url":null,"abstract":"Various information displays are becoming available for implementing new kinds of human computer interaction (HCI) methods. Touch screen devices become the most popular choice among many types and models. They have been used in wide range of applications and are proven to be a useful infrastructure for creating intuitive HCI. In spite of their popularity, there are some weak points. The most serious drawback is their hardness for operation especially for the weak in information technology such as elderly and blind users. A tactile feedback function has a potential ability for enabling them to make full use of the devices. We consider the tactile interaction as communication modality for complementing other channels such as visual and auditory senses and improving intuitiveness for various operations. To make the tactile interface a practical communication channel, a design principle for implementing mutually discriminable tactile stimuli is required. The principle should define multiple stimulus patterns giving users distinctive tactile impressions. Our goal is to empirically work out the principle through developing an experiment system for checking varied tactile effects and discovering good solutions. In this paper, we elaborate the system implemented by using a type of touch screen tactile display and some experiments conducted for exploring the principle.","PeriodicalId":203206,"journal":{"name":"2011 International Conference on Complex, Intelligent, and Software Intensive Systems","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114148912","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}