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Research on Computing Science Special Issue: Advances in Computer Science and Engineering Research in Computing Science Series Editorial Board Comité Editorial de la Serie Editors-in-Chief: Associate Editors: Editores en Jefe Editores Asociados Juan Humberto Sossa Azuela (Mexico) Jesús Angulo (Frane) Gerhard Ritter (USA) Jihad El-Sana (Israel) Jean Serra (France) Jesús Figueroa (Mexico) Ulises Cortés (Spain) Alexander Gelbukh (Russia) Ioannis Kakadiaris (USA) Serguei Levachkine (Russia) Petros Maragos (Greece) Julian Padget (UK) Mateo Valero (Spain) Editorial Coordination: Formatting: Coordinación Editorial Formación Blanca Miranda Valencia Sulema Torres Ramos Yulia Ledeneva Research in Computing Science es una publicación trimestral, de circulación internacional, editada por el Centro de Investigación en Computación del IPN, para dar a conocer los avances de investigación científica y desarrollo tecnológico de la comunidad científica internacional. Volumen 29, Noviembre, 2007. Tiraje: 500 ejemplares. Certificado de Reserva de Derechos al Uso Exclusivo del Título No. 04-2004-062613250000-102, expedido por el Instituto Nacional de Derecho de Autor. Certificado de Licitud de Título No. 12897, Certificado de licitud de Contenido No. 10470, expedidos por la Comisión Calificadora de Publicaciones y Revistas Ilustradas. El contenido de los artículos es responsabilidad exclusiva de sus respectivos autores. Queda prohibida la reproducción total o parcial, por cualquier medio, sin el permiso expreso del editor, excepto para uso personal o de estudio haciendo cita explícita en la primera página de cada documento. Impreso en la Ciudad de México, en los Talleres Gráficos del IPN – Dirección de Publicaciones, Tres Guerras 27, Centro Histórico, México, D.F. Distribuida por el Centro de Investigación en Computación, Av. Juan de Dios Bátiz S/N, Esq. Av. Miguel Othón de Mendizábal, Col. Nueva Industrial Vallejo, C.P. 07738, México, D.F. Tel. 57 29 60 00, ext. 56571. Editor Responsable: Juan Humberto Sossa Azuela, RFC SOAJ560723 Research in Computing Science is published by the Center for Computing Research of IPN. Volume 29, November, 2007. Printing 500. The authors are responsible for the contents of their articles. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior permission of Centre for Computing Research. Printed in Mexico City, November, 2007, in the IPN Graphic Workshop – Publication Office. Volume 29 Volumen 29 Special Issue: Advances in Computer Science and Engineering Volume Editors: Editores del Volumen Alexander Gelbukh Sergio Suárez Guerra Hiram Calvo Castro Instituto Politécnico Nacional Centro de Investigación en Computación México 2007 ISSN: 1870-4069 Copyright © 2007 Instituto Politécnico Nacional Copyright © 2007 Instituto Politécnico Nacional Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN) Centro de Investigación en Computación (CIC) Av. Juan de Dios Bátiz s/n esq. M. Othón de Mendizábal Unidad Profesional “Adolfo López Mateos”, Zacatenco 07738, México D.F., México http://www.ipn.mx http://www.cic.ipn.mx Indexed in LATINDEX and PERIODICA Indexada en LATINDEX y PERIODICA Printing: 500 Tiraje: 500 Printed in Mexico Impreso en México Preface This volume presents 29 original research papers structured into 7 thematic fields representative of computer science and engineering: – Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and Control – Computer Vision and Image Processing – Natural Language Processing and Music Processing – Software Engineering – Networked, Mobile, and Ubiquitous Computing – Educational Applications – Computer Architecture selected by the Editorial Board of the volume out of the papers submitted for evaluation basing on rigorous international review process. We cordially thank all people involved in the preparation of this volume. In the first place these are the authors of the papers constituting it: it is the excellence of their research work that gives sense to the work of all other people involved. We thank the members of the Editorial Board of the volume and additional referees; Denis Filatov, Grigori Sidorov, Mikhail Alexandrov, Héctor Jiménez, Oscar Celma, Yulia Ledeneva, Sulema Torres were among the most active and helpful reviewers. We express our gratitude to Jaime Álvarez Gallegos, Humberto Sossa Azuela, Raquel López Alamilla, Alfredo Viniegra Islas, Oralia del Carmen Pérez Orozco, Sulema Torres, and Yulia Ledeneva for their significant contribution at various stages of preparation of the volume. The submission, reviewing, and selection process was supported for free by the EasyChair system, www.EasyChair.org. Alexander Gelbukh November 2007 Sergio Suárez Guerra Hiram Calvo Castro Table of Contents Índice Page/Pág. Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and Control Graphical Markov Model Learning with a Double-Stressed Genetic Algorithm (GML-2SGA) .............................................................................................................. 3 Elva Díaz, Eunice Ponce de León, Felipe Padilla Modeling and Simulation of a 5 DOF Robot Manipulator for Assembly Operations Using Artificial Vision ............................................................................ 15 Luis Felipe Mejia Rodriguez, Jesus Carlos Pedraza Ortega, Joaquín Santoyo Rodríguez Stabilization of the Invertid Pendulum by means of a nested saturation function ..... 25 Carlos Aguilar-Ibañez, Oscar O. Gutierrez-Frias High-Level Simulation of Chua's Circuit to Verify Frequency Scaling Behavior..... 37 R. Trejo-Guerra, E. Tlelo-Cuautle, J.M. Muñoz-Pacheco, C. Cruz- Hernández, C. Sánchez-López Computer Vision and Image Processing Using Artificial Marks for Semi-Autonomous Wheelchair Localization .................. 47 Marcel Yañez, Mireya García, Luis González, Alejandro Ramírez Wavelet Domain RM L-Filter for Image Denoising.................................................. 57 Jose Luis Varela-Benitez, Francisco Gallegos-Funes, Volodymyr Ponomaryov, Oleksiy Pogrebnyak Representing and Visualizing Vectorized Videos through the Extreme Vertices Model in the n-Dimensional Space (nD-EVM) ......................................................... 65 Ricardo Pérez-Aguila Median M-Type Radial Basis Function Neural Network for Image Classification Applications........................................................................................ 81 Jose Augusto Moreno-Escobar, Francisco Gallegos-Funes, Volodymyr Ponomaryov, Oleksiy Pogrebnyak Algorithms for Cutting Surfaces Componed by Simples Meshes.............................. 90 Luis Cruz, Luis Gerardo de la Fraga Skull Fractures Detection by Finite Element Method.............................................. 100 Victor Hugo Ortiz, Cornelio Yáñez-Márquez, Jorge Isaac Chairez Oria Knowledge Engineering Issues for Foot printing Feature Extraction...................... 110 Rosales Peña Alfaro, Eric Manuel Image Transmission over Internet ........................................................................... 120 Mireya García, Alejandro Ramírez Natural Language Processing and Music Processing Database of the Mayan Script.................................................................................. 131 Obdulia Pichardo-Lagunas, Grigori Sidorov The Digital Music Rest e-Service............................................................................ 138 Tatiana Tambouratzis Software Engineering Using Team Automata to Specify Software Architectures ...................................... 149 Mehran Sharafi, Fereidon Shams Aliee, Ali Movaghar Double Life Cycle.................................................................................................... 161 Alejandro Canales, Rubén Peredo, Ivan Peredo A Secure Electronic Election System for the Mexican Presidential Election.......... 171 López García M.L., León Chávez M.A., Rodríguez Henríquez F Resource and Precedence Constraints in a Hard Real-time System ........................ 183 Luis Gutiérrez, Raúl Jacinto, Julio Martínez, José Barrios Networked, Mobile, and Ubiquitous Computing Fast and Accurate Signature-Generator for Detecting P2P Traffic.......................... 195 Cruz Alonso Bejarano, Luis A. Villa Vargas, Marco A. Ramírez, Oscar Camacho A Platform for the Development of Parallel Applications using Java ..................... 202 Erick Pinacho Rodríguez, Darnes Vilariño Ayala Architecture for the Interoperability among Ubiquitous Components..................... 211 Anabel Pineda, Rolando Menchaca, Giovanni Guzmán Towards a Context-Aware Pervasive and Adaptive Multimodality ........................ 225 Manolo Dulva Hina, Chakib Tadj, Amar Ramdane-Cherif, Nicole Levy A Service Oriented Architecture for Context-Aware Systems ................................ 236 Moeiz Miraoui, Chakib Tadj Educational Applications Multi-Agent System for the Distribution and Location of Learning Objects .......... 247 Lluvia E. Ponce, Karla Torres, Juan C. Ramírez, Fabiola López, Darnes Vilariño Policies for a Regulated and Distributed Repository of Learning Objects .............. 257 María Erika Olivos Contreras, Fabiola López y López, Darnes Vilariño Ayala Comparative Evaluation of Free/Open Source Software to Develop Virtual Reality Systems ....................................................................................................... 268 Eduardo Islas Pérez, Ivonne Ávila Gutierrez, Ilse Leal Aulenbacher, Benjamin Zayas Pérez Computer Architecture Energy Saving Analysis for the Wavelet Transform
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