{"title":"Image Query Based Search Engine Using Image Content Retrieval","authors":"Divya Venkata Ragatha, Divakar Yadav","doi":"10.1109/UKSim.2012.48","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/UKSim.2012.48","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we put forward a model for a search engine where an image can be uploaded from the local database of the user to retrieve information about it from the internet. This is similar to the traditional keyword search used by most of the search engines with the only difference being that here an image is uploaded as a query rather than textual keywords. The fact that the image being used as query makes the search ever more complicated as the content of the image needs to be analysed and matched to find the information corresponding to the uploaded image. This is most apt for searching information about images of historical monuments, places or any specific place or thing that is identifiable.","PeriodicalId":405479,"journal":{"name":"2012 UKSim 14th International Conference on Computer Modelling and Simulation","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131222680","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}
D. Sandaruwan, N. Kodikara, C. Keppitiyagama, R. Rosa, M. Jayawardena, P. Samarasinghe
{"title":"User Perception of the Physical & Behavioral Realism of a Maritime Virtual Reality Environment","authors":"D. Sandaruwan, N. Kodikara, C. Keppitiyagama, R. Rosa, M. Jayawardena, P. Samarasinghe","doi":"10.1109/UKSim.2012.32","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/UKSim.2012.32","url":null,"abstract":"Perception enhanced real-time Virtual Reality (VR) applications are used in various fields such as education and entertainment. The physical and behavioral realism of such applications are important in different perspectives. We have developed a perception enhanced real-time VR solution for maritime applications such as naval training, water way designs and simulate military scenes. In this paper, we present brief description of a six degrees of freedom (6-DOF) real-time mathematical ship motion simulation model and validation techniques for physical/ behavioral realism of a perception enhanced maritime VR environment. The user perceived physical and behavioral realism of the VR solution is investigated with user tests and preliminary results are presented.","PeriodicalId":405479,"journal":{"name":"2012 UKSim 14th International Conference on Computer Modelling and Simulation","volume":"128 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123214568","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":"Applying SAQ-Learning Algorithm for Trading Agents in Bilateral Bargaining","authors":"S. Jamali, K. Faez","doi":"10.1109/UKSim.2012.39","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/UKSim.2012.39","url":null,"abstract":"In this research we use a learning method called SAQ-Learning to use for agents in a single-issue bargaining process. SAQ-Learning algorithm is an improved version of Q-Learning algorithm that benefits from the Metropolis criterion of Simulated Annealing (SA) algorithm to overcome the challenge of finding a balance between exploration and exploitation. Q-Learning is one the most important types of Reinforcement Learning (RL) because of the fact that it does not need the transition model of the environment. Artificial Intelligence (AI) approaches have attracted interest in solving bargaining problem. This is because Game Theory (GT) needs some unrealistic assumptions to solve bargaining problem. Presence of perfectly rational agents is an example of these assumptions. Therefore by designing SAQ-Learning agents to bargain with each other over price, we gained higher performance in case of settlement rate, average payoff, and the time an agent needs to find his optimal policy. This learning method can be a suitable learning algorithm for automated online bargaining agents in e-commerce.","PeriodicalId":405479,"journal":{"name":"2012 UKSim 14th International Conference on Computer Modelling and Simulation","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123961577","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":"Identification of Cardiac Ischemia Using Spectral Domain Analysis of Electrocardiogram","authors":"R. Valupadasu, B. R. Chunduri","doi":"10.1109/UKSim.2012.22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/UKSim.2012.22","url":null,"abstract":"India has highest incidence of heart related diseases in the world. If no initiative is taken to check the disease the most predictable and preventable among all chronic diseases, India will have 62 million heart patients by 2015. Myocardial ischemia (also known as angina) is a heart condition caused by a temporary lack of oxygen-rich blood to the heart. Cardiac ischemia (CI) is a heart disease that covers heart issues caused by narrowing of the arteries which makes less oxygenated blood to reach the heart muscle. This may lead to heart attack with no prior warning. This paper introduces the work that has been done to distinguish the Electrocardiogram (ECG) of a normal healthy human from that of an ischemia patient. Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) on ECG Signal was used to extract information and providing the basis with which a signal suggesting predisposition of the patient who suffers from Cardiac ischemia. The main aim is to design algorithm that enable the doctors to diagnose cardiac ischemia on the basis of spectral analysis of an ECG signal. 4 min. of ECG of any patient is enough to detect possibility of ischemia. Normal Sinus Rhythm Data is obtained from MIT-BIH NSR Database. Ischemia data is obtained from European ST-T Database. The data is taken for duration of 1 hour. The algorithm was tested on MIT-BIH database and European ST-T Database and the verification of results using MATLAB is done. This concept can be utilized to analyze ECG signals to identify other heart diseases.","PeriodicalId":405479,"journal":{"name":"2012 UKSim 14th International Conference on Computer Modelling and Simulation","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124150076","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}
H. Soleimani, A. Ahmadi, Mohammad Bavandpour, A. Amirsoleimani, Mark Zwolinski
{"title":"A Large Scale Digital Simulation of Spiking Neural Networks (SNN) on Fast SystemC Simulator","authors":"H. Soleimani, A. Ahmadi, Mohammad Bavandpour, A. Amirsoleimani, Mark Zwolinski","doi":"10.1109/UKSIM.2012.105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/UKSIM.2012.105","url":null,"abstract":"Since biological neural systems contain big number of neurons working in parallel, simulation of such dynamic system is a real challenge. The main objective of this paper is to speed up the simulation performance of SystemC designs at the RTL abstraction level using the high degree of parallelism afforded by graphics processors (GPUs) for large scale SNN with proposed structure in pattern classification field. Simulation results show 100 times speedup for the proposed SNN structure on the GPU compared with the CPU version. In addition, CPU memory has problems when trained for more than 120K cells but GPU can simulate up to 40 million neurons.","PeriodicalId":405479,"journal":{"name":"2012 UKSim 14th International Conference on Computer Modelling and Simulation","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125105212","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}
Krishna Doddapaneni, E. Ever, O. Gemikonakli, I. Malavolta, L. Mostarda, H. Muccini
{"title":"Path Loss Effect on Energy Consumption in a WSN","authors":"Krishna Doddapaneni, E. Ever, O. Gemikonakli, I. Malavolta, L. Mostarda, H. Muccini","doi":"10.1109/UKSim.2012.87","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/UKSim.2012.87","url":null,"abstract":"Energy consumption of nodes is a crucial factor that constrains the networks life time for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). WSNs are composed of small sensors equipped with low-power devices, and have limited battery power supply. The main concern in existing architectural and optimisation studies is to prolong the network lifetime. The lifetime of the sensor nodes is affected by different components such as the microprocessor, the sensing module and the wireless transmitter/receiver. The existing works mainly consider these components to decide on best deployment, topology, protocols and so on. Recent studies have also considered the monitoring and evaluation of the path loss caused by environmental factors. Path loss is always considered in isolation from the higher layers such as application and network. It is necessary to combine path loss computations used in physical layer, with information from upper layers such as application layer for a more realistic evaluation. In this paper, a simulation-based study is presented that uses path-loss model and application layer information in order to predict the network lifetime. Physical environment is considered as well. We show that when path-loss is introduced, increasing the transmission power is needed to reduce the amount of packets lost. This presents a tradeoff between the residual energy and the successful transmission rate when more realistic settings are employed for simulation. It is a challenging task to optimise the transmission power of WSNs, in presence of path loss, because although increasing the transmission power reduces the residual energy, it also reduces the number of retransmissions required.","PeriodicalId":405479,"journal":{"name":"2012 UKSim 14th International Conference on Computer Modelling and Simulation","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128570246","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 Novel Algorithm for Linear Programming","authors":"K. Eswaran","doi":"10.1109/UKSim.2012.54","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/UKSim.2012.54","url":null,"abstract":"The problem of optimizing a linear objective function, given a number of linear constraints has been a long standing problem ever since the times of Kantorovich, Dantzig and John von Neumann. These developments have been followed by a different approach pioneered by Khachiyan and Karmarkar. In this paper we attempt a new approach for solving an old optimization problem in a novel manner, in the sense that we devise a method that reduces the dimension of the problem step by step and interestingly is recursive. The method can be extended to other types of optimization problems in convex space, e.g. for solving a linear optimization problem subject to nonlinear constraints in a convex region.","PeriodicalId":405479,"journal":{"name":"2012 UKSim 14th International Conference on Computer Modelling and Simulation","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128691963","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":"Comparison of Different Artificial Neural Networks for Brain Tumour Classification via Magnetic Resonance Images","authors":"Yawar Rehman, C. F. Azim","doi":"10.1109/UKSim.2012.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/UKSim.2012.13","url":null,"abstract":"Artificial Neural Network algorithms has been tested for the classification of patterns and best among them was implemented for the application of brain tumour classification as specified by World Health Organization standards via 2D MR images. The technique of Rajasekaran and Pai (sBAM) was found to give most successful results of classifying tumour into their correct classes. The computation time taken by sBAM was also less as compared with other algorithms. sBAM technique wasn't tested on brain tumour MR images before but when it is subjected to test, it provided prominent results. The success rate of sBAM was also relatively high with its counterparts.","PeriodicalId":405479,"journal":{"name":"2012 UKSim 14th International Conference on Computer Modelling and Simulation","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131660198","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}
Zhandos Yessenbayev, Muslima Karabalayeva, A. Sharipbayev
{"title":"Formant Analysis and Mathematical Model of Kazakh Vowels","authors":"Zhandos Yessenbayev, Muslima Karabalayeva, A. Sharipbayev","doi":"10.1109/UKSim.2012.66","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/UKSim.2012.66","url":null,"abstract":"The traditional classification of Kazakh vowels, the most complicated objects in Kazakh phonetics, is somewhat inadequate in that it does not uniquely identify each vowel. Moreover, the formant structure of the vowels has not been investigated yet, which would potentially be useful in many applications regarding speech processing. In this work a formant analysis of Kazakh vowels is performed. This analysis suggests a new natural classification system which precisely describes each vowel. The proposed classification is supported by the membership function introduced and by the geometric interpretation derived from the constructed vowel space. Further, from this mathematical model some linguistic statements are inferred, which are related to the real phonological processes.","PeriodicalId":405479,"journal":{"name":"2012 UKSim 14th International Conference on Computer Modelling and Simulation","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131715099","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":"Improving Settling and Rise Times of Controllers via Intelligent Algorithms","authors":"D. Pelusi","doi":"10.1109/UKSim.2012.34","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/UKSim.2012.34","url":null,"abstract":"Generally, conventional controllers are characterized by too longs settling and rise times. In order to solve this problem, suitable fuzzy logic controllers have been designed. However, some intelligent techniques can be added during the controllers designing phase. In the literature, the employed methods are Genetic Algorithms and Neural Networks. The first ones are good search methods whereas the others ones have the capability to learn from data. In this paper, an optimized genetic-neuro-fuzzy controller is proposed. This controller works in according with a real-time optimization algorithm which optimally combines the features of Fuzzy Logic, Genetic Algorithms and Neural Networks. The genetic procedures search the optimal membership functions whereas the neural methods optimize the fuzzy rules. The target is to reduce the settling time and rise time with overshoot equal to zero. The novelty of this approach is that the optimization procedures occur at the same time and not separately. The results show that the settling time and the rise time are reduced by comparing them with the same quantities of optimized PD and PID controllers. Moreover, the designed controller improves the timing performance of conventional and intelligent controllers.","PeriodicalId":405479,"journal":{"name":"2012 UKSim 14th International Conference on Computer Modelling and Simulation","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131803802","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}