Computers & Electrical Engineering, Volume 39

Volume 39, Number 1, January 2013

Special issue on Recent Advanced Technologies and Theories for Grid and Cloud Computing

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  Taeshik Shon, Ching-Hsien Hsu, Isaac Woungang:
  Introduction to Special issue on Recent Advanced Technologies and Theories for Grid and Cloud Computing. 1-2
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  Lizhe Wang, Dan Chen, Yangyang Hu, Yan Ma, Jian Wang:
  Towards enabling Cyberinfrastructure as a Service in Clouds. 3-14
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  Young-Sik Jeong, Jong Hyuk Park:
  High availability and efficient energy consumption for cloud computing service with grid infrastructure. 15-23
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  Tie Qiu, Lin Feng, He Jiang, Weifeng Sun:
  Queueing model analysis and scheduling strategy for embedded multi-core SoC based on task priority. 24-33
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  Dongyoung Koo, Junbeom Hur, Hyunsoo Yoon:
  Secure and efficient data retrieval over encrypted data using attribute-based encryption in cloud storage. 34-46
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  Chunming Rong, Son Thanh Nguyen, Martin Gilje Jaatun:
  Beyond lightning: A survey on security challenges in cloud computing. 47-54
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  Deokho Kim, Karam Park, Won Woo Ro:
  Exploiting SIMD parallelism on dynamically partitioned parallel network coding for P2P systems. 55-66
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  Jianqun Cui, Naixue Xiong, Jong Hyuk Park, Keming Jia, Libing Wu:
  A novel and efficient source-path discovery and maintenance method for application layer multicast. 67-75

Special issue on Bio-engineering

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  Yi Wan:
  Introduction to the Special Issue on Bio-engineering. 77-78
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  Sundararajan Dhanalakshmi, Subramanian Baskar, Subramanian Kannan, Krishnan Mahadevan:
  Generation Scheduling problem by Intelligent Genetic Algorithm. 79-88
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  Jun Feng, Jian-Zhou Zhang, Bin Zhou:
  A novel kernel-based limited-view computerized tomography reconstruction via anisotropic diffusion. 89-102
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  Younhee Choi, Qiao Zhang, Seok-Bum Ko:
  Noninvasive cuffless blood pressure estimation using pulse transit time and Hilbert-Huang transform. 103-111
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  Indrajit Pan, Ritwik Mukherjee, Hafizur Rahaman, Tuhina Samanta, Parthasarathi Dasgupta:
  Optimization algorithms for the design of digital microfluidic biochips: A survey. 112-121
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  Jing Zhang, Jiayin Zhou, Weimin Huang, Jing Qin, Tao Yang, Jimmy Liu, Yi Su, Chee-Kong Chui, Stephen K. Y. Chang:
  GPU-friendly gallbladder modeling in laparoscopic cholecystectomy surgical training system. 122-129
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  Ranjeet Kumar, Anil Kumar, Rajesh K. Pandey:
  Beta wavelet based ECG signal compression using lossless encoding with modified thresholding. 130-140
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  Ching-Sung Wang:
  A new AC-coupled amplifier for portable ECG without reference electrode. 141-149

Volume 39, Number 2, February 2013

Regular papers

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  Salim Hadj Saïd, Faouzi M'Sahli, Faouzi Mimouni, Mondher Farza:
  Adaptive high gain observer based output feedback predictive controller for induction motors. 151-163
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  C. Vennila, Alok Kumar Patel, G. Lakshminarayanan, Seok-Bum Ko:
  Dynamic partial reconfigurable Viterbi decoder for wireless standards. 164-174
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  Suxia Zhu, Zhenzhou Ji, Qing Wang:
  An efficient deterministic record-replay with separate dependencies. 175-189
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  Miona Andrejevic Stosovic, Miljana Milic, Mark Zwolinski, Vanco B. Litovski:
  Oscillation-based analog diagnosis using artificial neural networks based inference mechanism. 190-201
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  Jih-Ching Chiu, Kai-Ming Yang:
  High-speed low-power multiplexer-based selector for priority policy. 202-213
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  N. Amuthan, P. Subburaj, P. Melba Mary:
  Voltage sag ride through using Improved Adaptive Internal Model Controller for doubly fed induction generator wind farms. 214-224
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  Dipak Kumar Kole, Hafizur Rahaman, Debesh K. Das, Bhargab B. Bhattacharya:
  Derivation of test set for detecting multiple missing-gate faults in reversible circuits. 225-236
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  Mahesh Kumar, Shishir Kumar:
  An approach to stabilize interdomain routing protocol after failure. 237-245
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  Hattab Guesmi, Ridha Djemal:
  Design of priority-based active queue management for a high-performance IP switch. 246-260
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  Marija Punt, Milo Tomasevic, Jovan Djordjevic:
  Evaluation and analysis of an on-line error detection monitoring technique. 261-273
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  Armando Segovia de los Ríos, Mayra Garduño Gaffare, Miguel Balcázar, Luís Ledezma:
  Automatic evaluation of solid state track detectors by artificial vision. 274-284
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  Chuan Zhou, Junwei He, Qingwei Chen:
  A robust active queue management scheme for network congestion control. 285-294
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  Hao Chen, Thomas Gaska, Yu Chen, Douglas H. Summerville:
  An optimized reconfigurable power spectral density converter for real-time shrew DDoS attacks detection. 295-308
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  Fan Zhang, Xinhong Zhang, Kui Cao, Duoyi Li, Congcong Li:
  Information theory applications in error bit rate analysis of digital image watermarking. 309-318
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  Imran Naseem, Duc-Son Pham, Svetha Venkatesh:
  A novel information theoretic approach to wavelet feature selection for texture classification. 319-325
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  Xianfu Meng, Xiaoling Chen, Yalin Ding:
  Using the complementary nature of node joining and leaving to handle churn problem in P2P networks. 326-337
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  Ian K. T. Tan, Ian Chai, Poo Kuan Hoong:
  Dynamic threshold for imbalance assessment on load balancing for multicore systems. 338-348
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  Anbazhagan Rajesh, Rangaswamy Nakkeeran:
  Contention based bandwidth request with signaling analysis in IEEE 802.16 two hop relay networks. 349-360
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  Jinglei Zhou, Mao Ye, Jian Ding, Haiyang Wang, Xue Li:
  Clothing-to-words mapping using word separation method. 361-372
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  Mohammad Aliasgari, Aliazam Abbasfar, Sied Mehdi Fakhraie:
  Coding techniques to mitigate out-of-band radiation in high data rate OFDM-based cognitive radios. 373-385
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  Sezer Gören, Ozgur Ozkurt, Abdullah Yildiz, H. Fatih Ugurdag, Rajat Subhra Chakraborty, Debdeep Mukhopadhyay:
  Partial bitstream protection for low-cost FPGAs with physical unclonable function, obfuscation, and dynamic partial self reconfiguration. 386-397
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  Ioannis Voyiatzis, Costas Efstathiou, Hera Antonopoulou, A. Milidonis:
  An effective two-pattern test generator for Arithmetic BIST. 398-409
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  Costas Efstathiou, Nikolaos Moschopoulos, Ioannis Voyiatzis, Kiamal Z. Pekmestzi:
  On the design of modulo 2ⁿ + 1 dot product and generalized multiply-add units. 410-419
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  Jixin Liu, Quan-Sen Sun:
  Fractal pursuit for compressive sensing signal recovery. 420-432
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  K. Nithiyananthan, V. Ramachandran:
  Versioning-based service-oriented model for multi-area power system online economic load dispatch. 433-440
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  Cemal Hanilçi, Figen Ertas:
  Investigation of the effect of data duration and speaker gender on text-independent speaker recognition. 441-452
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  Jih-Sheng Shen, Pao-Ann Hsiung, Chun-Hsian Huang:
  Learning-based adaptation to applications and environments in a reconfigurable network-on-chip for reducing crosstalk and dynamic power consumption. 453-464
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  Marija D. Blagojevic, Zivadin Micic:
  A web-based intelligent report e-learning system using data mining techniques. 465-474
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  Chong Yu, Qiwen Qiu, Xiong Chen:
  A hybrid two-dimensional path planning model based on frothing construction algorithm and local fast marching method. 475-487
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  Mingwei Tang, Jie Hu, Mingyu Fan, Wen Song:
  A steganalysis by adjacency pixel bits structure. 488-496
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  Tamer Ahmed Farrag, Ahmed I. Saleh, Hesham A. Ali:
  Semantic web services matchmaking: Semantic distance-based approach. 497-511
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  Yasser Shoukry, M. Watheq El-Kharashi, Sherif Hammad:
  An embedded implementation of the Generalized Predictive Control algorithm applied to automotive active suspension systems. 512-529
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  Mohammad Sabzinejad Farash, Mahmoud Ahmadian-Attari, Reza Ebrahimi Atani, Mohamadreza Jami:
  A new efficient authenticated multiple-key exchange protocol from bilinear pairings. 530-541
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  Miguel Morales-Sandoval, Claudia Feregrino Uribe, Paraskevas Kitsos, René Cumplido:
  Area/performance trade-off analysis of an FPGA digit-serial GF(2^m)GF(2m) Montgomery multiplier based on LFSR. 542-549
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  Pawan K. Ajmera, Raghunath S. Holambe:
  Fractional Fourier transform based features for speaker recognition using support vector machine. 550-557

Papers of the Special Issue on Recent Developments in Computing and Communications

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  Sabu M. Thampi:
  Introduction to the special issue on Recent Developments in Computing and Communications. 558-559
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  Ankit Chaudhary, Jagdish Lal Raheja:
  Bent fingers' angle calculation using supervised ANN to control electro-mechanical robotic hand. 560-570
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  Abdelaali Chaoub, Elhassane Ibn-Elhaj:
  Cross layer design for equal and unequal loss protection frameworks in cognitive radio networks. 571-581
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  V. Geetha, Niladhuri Sreenath:
  Preventing deadlocks and starvation in distributed object oriented systems. 582-595
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  Xiaowen Chen, Zhonghai Lu, Axel Jantsch, Shuming Chen, Shenggang Chen, Huitao Gu:
  Reducing Virtual-to-Physical address translation overhead in Distributed Shared Memory based multi-core Network-on-Chips according to data property. 596-612
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  Punam Bedi, Anjali Thukral, Hema Banati:
  Focused crawling of tagged web resources using ontology. 613-628
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  Huaizhou Shi, R. Venkatesha Prasad, Ignas G. Niemegeers, Ming Xu:
  A distributed lifetime guaranteed mechanism in cooperative personal networks. 629-639
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  Punam Bedi, Roli Bansal, Priti Sehgal:
  Using PSO in a spatial domain based image hiding scheme with distortion tolerance. 640-654
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  Sunil Kumar Kopparapu, Kiran Kumar Bhuvanagiri:
  Recognition of subsampled speech using a modified Mel filter bank. 655-662
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  Madhu S. Nair, P. M. Ameera Mol:
  Direction based adaptive weighted switching median filter for removing high density impulse noise. 663-689
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  A. Neela Madheswari, R. S. D. Wahida Banu:
  Static and dynamic job scheduling with communication aware policy in cluster computing. 690-696
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  Lei Zhang, Emma E. Regentova, Xianfang Tan:
  Packet switching optical network-on-chip architectures. 697-714

Volume 39, Number 3, April 2013

Special issue on Image and Video Processing

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  Ferat Sahin, Ryan Bowen:
  Introduction to Special Issue on Image and Video Processing. 715-716
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  Cheng-Fan Li, Jing-Yuan Yin:
  Variational Bayesian independent component analysis-support vector machine for remote sensing classification. 717-726
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  Saeed Meshgini, Ali Aghagolzadeh, Hadi Seyedarabi:
  Face recognition using Gabor-based direct linear discriminant analysis and support vector machine. 727-745
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  Xiangyang Wang, Hong-Ying Yang, Dong-Ming Li:
  A new content-based image retrieval technique using color and texture information. 746-761
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  M. Subrahmanyam, Q. M. Jonathan Wu, R. P. Maheshwari, R. Balasubramanian:
  Modified color motif co-occurrence matrix for image indexing and retrieval. 762-774
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  Laura Pozueco, Xabiel García Pañeda, Roberto García, David Melendi, Sergio Cabrero:
  Adaptable system based on Scalable Video Coding for high-quality video service. 775-789
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  Engin Mendi, Hélio B. Clemente, Coskun Bayrak:
  Sports video summarization based on motion analysis. 790-796
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  Chunsheng Guo, Jian Yu:
  Steering kernel-based video moving objects detection with local background texture dictionaries. 797-808
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  M. Alarmel Mangai, N. Ammasai Gounden:
  Subspace-based clustering and retrieval of 3-D objects. 809-817
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  Jie Yuan, Renshu Gu, Ting Feng, Yu Zhou, Yao Yu, Sidan Du:
  Live three-dimensional reconstruction system with stereo vision display. 818-833
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  Mahmood Ashoori Lalimi, Sedigheh Ghofrani, Desmond C. McLernon:
  A vehicle license plate detection method using region and edge based methods. 834-845
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  Bing-Fei Wu, Hao-Yu Huang, Chao-Jung Chen, Ying-Han Chen, Chia-Wei Chang, Yen-Lin Chen:
  A vision-based blind spot warning system for daytime and nighttime driver assistance. 846-862
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  Songan Mao, Mao Ye, Xue Li, Feng Pang, Jinglei Zhou:
  Rapid vehicle logo region detection based on information theory. 863-872
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  Li Fan, Tiegang Gao, Yanjun Cao:
  Improving the embedding efficiency of weight matrix-based steganography for grayscale images. 873-881
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  Guang-tao Ge, Lu Yu:
  Extrema points coding based on empirical mode decomposition: An improved image sub-band coding method. 882-892
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  Hong-Ying Yang, Xiangyang Wang, Chunpeng Wang:
  A robust digital watermarking algorithm in undecimated discrete wavelet transform domain. 893-906
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  Intan Aidha Yusoff, Nor Ashidi Mat Isa, Khairunnisa Hasikin:
  Automated two-dimensional K-means clustering algorithm for unsupervised image segmentation. 907-917
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  Abdenour Hacine-Gharbi, Mohamed A. Deriche, Philippe Ravier, Rachid Harba, Tayeb Mohamadi:
  A new histogram-based estimation technique of entropy and mutual information using mean squared error minimization. 918-933
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  Xiaobo Zhang, Xiang-Chu Feng, Weiwei Wang, Shunli Zhang, Qunfeng Dong:
  Gradient-based Wiener filter for image denoising. 934-944
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  Xiao Ke, Shaozi Li, Guolong Chen:
  Real web community based automatic image annotation. 945-956
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  Yi-Leh Wu, Cheng-Yuan Tang, Yuan-Ming Yeh, Wei-Chih Hung:
  Using Hilbert scan on statistical color space partitioning. 957-969

Special issue on Recent Trends in Communications and Signal Processing

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  Srinivasan Rajavelu, G. Radhamani, Raja Kumar Murugesan:
  Introduction to Special Issue on Recent Trends in Communications and Signal Processing. 971-972
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  M. M. Hafizur Rahman, Yukinori Sato, Yasushi Inoguchi:
  High and stable performance under adverse traffic patterns of tori-connected torus network. 973-983
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  K. S. Vishvaksenan, R. Seshasayanan, Yuvaraj Krishnamoorthy:
  Performance of joint transmit scheme assisted multiple-input multiple-output multi-carrier IDMA system. 984-995
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  Shruthi Ravichandran, Prabagarane Nagaradjane, Selvam Paranche Damodaran, Sriram Ravichandran, Nithin Srinivasan:
  Performance of transmitter preprocessing aided cooperative relaying with fixed infrastructure relays. 996-1005
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  Sakthi Vignesh Radhakrishnan, Sudharssun Subramanian:
  An analytical approach to s-box generation. 1006-1015
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  Prabagarane Nagaradjane, Prasaanth Muralidharan, Sabarish Karthik Vivek Sarathy, Yuvika Ashwina Rajan, Shriram Swaminathan:
  Multi-user transmitter preprocessing assisted uplink multi-cell multiple-input multiple-output system with base station cooperation over frequency-selective channels. 1016-1025
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  R. Jothi Chitra, V. Nagarajan:
  Double L-slot microstrip patch antenna array for WiMAX and WLAN applications. 1026-1041

Volume 39, Number 4, May 2013

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  Seung-Eun Lee, Kyungwon Min, Taeweon Suh:
  Accelerating Histograms of Oriented Gradients descriptor extraction for pedestrian recognition. 1043-1048
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  Keisuke Murakami:
  Formulation and heuristic algorithms for multi-chip module substrate testing. 1049-1060
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  Xiaojun Chen, Jing Zhang, Wei Wei, Junhuai Li, Xiang Li:
  Integration technology of collaborative computing system over multiple virtual machines oriented for finite element analysis. 1061-1076
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  Jimson Mathew, Saraju P. Mohanty, Shibaji Banerjee, Dhiraj K. Pradhan, Abusaleh M. Jabir:
  Attack tolerant cryptographic hardware design by combining error correction and uniform switching activity. 1077-1087
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  Zijian Tian, Liya Zhang, Wei Chen:
  Improved algorithm for navigation of rescue robots in underground mines. 1088-1094
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  Yunfei Du, Yuhua Tang, Xinwei Xie:
  A new parallel recomputing code design methodology for fast failure recovery. 1095-1113
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  Hafiz Imtiaz, Shaikh Anowarul Fattah:
  A histogram-based dominant wavelet domain feature selection algorithm for palm-print recognition. 1114-1128
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  Jih-Ching Chiu, Kai-Ming Yang, Yu-Liang Chou, Chih-Kang Wu:
  A relation-exchanging buffering mechanism for instruction and data streaming. 1129-1141
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  Jiang Bian, Remzi Seker:
  The Jigsaw secure distributed file system. 1142-1152
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  Sesham Srinu, Samrat L. Sabat:
  Effective cooperative wideband sensing using energy detection under suspicious Cognitive Radio Network. 1153-1163
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  Hongjun Liu, Da Lin, Abdurahman Kadir:
  A novel data hiding method based on deoxyribonucleic acid coding. 1164-1173
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  G. P. Sajeev, M. P. Sebastian:
  Building semi-intelligent web cache systems with lightweight machine learning techniques. 1174-1191
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  Dora M. Ballesteros L., Juan M. Moreno A:
  Real-time, speech-in-speech hiding scheme based on least significant bit substitution and adaptive key. 1192-1203
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  Amin Farshidi, Logan M. Rakai, Bardia Samimi, Laleh Behjat, David T. Westwick:
  A new a priori net length estimation technique for integrated circuits using radial basis functions. 1204-1218
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  M. Jayabharata Reddy, D. Venkata Rajesh, D. K. Mohanta:
  Robust transmission line fault classification using wavelet multi-resolution analysis. 1219-1247
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  Tianshuang Qiu, Li Li:
  A novel joint parameter estimation method based on fractional ambiguity function in bistatic multiple-input multiple-output radar system. 1248-1259
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  Fotis Foukalas, George T. Karetsos:
  On the performance of adaptive modulation in cognitive radio networks. 1260-1275
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  Chong Yu, Xiong Chen:
  Home monitoring system based on indoor service robot and wireless sensor network. 1276-1287
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  Ahmet Rizaner:
  Radial basis function network assisted single-user channel estimation by using a linear minimum mean square error detector under impulsive noise. 1288-1299
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  Dora M. Ballesteros L., Juan M. Moreno A:
  Wavelet-denoising on hardware devices with Perfect Reconstruction, low latency and adaptive thresholding. 1300-1311
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  Hamit Soyel, Peter W. McOwan:
  Towards an affect sensitive interactive companion. 1312-1319
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  Tahereh Boroomandnezhad, Mohammad Abdollahi Azgomi:
  An efficient control-flow checking technique for the detection of soft-errors in embedded software. 1320-1332
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  Abu Asaduzzaman, Vidya R. Suryanarayana, Fadi N. Sibai:
  On level-1 cache locking for high-performance low-power real-time multicore systems. 1333-1345
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  Jie Jia, Qiusi Lin, Jian Chen, Chunyu Li, Xingwei Wang:
  Congestion aware channel allocation with route scheduling in wireless cognitive radio mesh network. 1346-1357
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  Nuha A. S. Alwan:
  Systolic parallel architecture for brute-force autoregressive signal modeling. 1358-1366
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  Marco A. Moreno-Armendáriz, Nareli Cruz Cortés, Carlos A. Duchanoy, Alejandro León-Javier, Rolando Quintero:
  Hardware implementation of the elitist compact Genetic Algorithm using Cellular Automata pseudo-random number generator. 1367-1379

Volume 39, Number 5, July 2013

Regular Papers

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  Jiang Liu, Baigen Cai, Yunpeng Wang, Jian Wang:
  A lane level positioning-based cooperative vehicle conflict resolution algorithm for unsignalized intersection collisions. 1381-1398
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  Haixia Cui, Gang Wei, Gaoyong Luo, Yongcong Yu, Wenlou Li:
  Performance analysis of ARQ cooperative diversity system with multiple two-hop relays over Rayleigh fading channels. 1399-1408
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  Hung-Ming Chen, Po-Hung Chen, Cheng-Tso Lin, Jian-Hong Ciou:
  An adaptive macroblock-mean difference based sorting scheme for fast normalized partial distortion search motion estimation. 1409-1421
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  Laisen Nie, Dingde Jiang, Zhengzheng Xu:
  A compressive sensing-based reconstruction approach to network traffic. 1422-1432
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  Hamid Parvin, Behrouz Minaei-Bidgoli, Hamid Alinejad-Rokny, William F. Punch:
  Data weighing mechanisms for clustering ensembles. 1433-1450
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  H. S. Bhadauria, M. L. Dewal:
  Medical image denoising using adaptive fusion of curvelet transform and total variation. 1451-1460

Special Issue on Recent Advances in Signal Processing, Biomedical Engineering and Informatics

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  Yonghong Peng, Riyi Shi, Yong Xiang:
  Introduction to the special issue on Recent advance in signal processing, biomedical engineering and informatics. 1461-1463
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  Zhenhao Ge, Sudhendu R. Sharma, Mark J. T. Smith:
  Improving mispronunciation detection using adaptive frequency scale. 1464-1472
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  Bo Liu, Xiangzhi Bai, Fugen Zhou, Hongbin Han, Chao Hou:
  Mutual information based three-dimensional registration of rat brain magnetic resonance imaging time-series. 1473-1484
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  Shun Miao, Rui Liao, Marcus Pfister:
  Toward smart utilization of two X-ray images for 2-D/3-D registration applied to abdominal aortic aneurysm interventions. 1485-1498
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  Ugur Bilge, Selen Bozkurt, Sedat Durmaz:
  Application of data mining techniques for detecting asymptomatic carotid artery stenosis. 1499-1505
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