PubMed on Tap is a testbed system that supports search of and retrieval from the National Library of Medicine's MEDLINE/spl reg/ database from a PDA. The goal of the PubMed on Tap project is to discover and implem...
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PubMed on Tap is a testbed system that supports search of and retrieval from the National Library of Medicine's MEDLINE/spl reg/ database from a PDA. The goal of the PubMed on Tap project is to discover and implement design principles for point-of-care delivery of clinical support information. The project explores user interface issues, information content and organization, and system performance. Here we present our progress in these areas.
Safety-critical applications are now common where both digital and mechanical components are deployed, as in the automotive fields. The analysis of the dependability of such systems is a particularly complex task that...
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Safety-critical applications are now common where both digital and mechanical components are deployed, as in the automotive fields. The analysis of the dependability of such systems is a particularly complex task that mandates modeling capabilities in both the discrete and in the continuous domains. To tackle this problem a multi-level approach is presented here, which is based on abstract functional models to capture the behavior of the whole system, and on detailed structural models to cope with the details of system components. In this paper, we describe how the interaction between the two levels of abstraction is managed to provide accurate analysis of the dependability of the whole system. In particular, the proposed technique is shown to be able to identify faults affecting the CAN network whose effects are most likely to be critical for vehicle's dynamic. Exploiting the information about the effects of these faults, they can then be further analyzed at the higher level of details.
A computational approach to understanding comprehensively the behavior of infants and children, which is required in clarification of the dynamics of a system that includes behavior-related accidents, is needed. The p...
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A computational approach to understanding comprehensively the behavior of infants and children, which is required in clarification of the dynamics of a system that includes behavior-related accidents, is needed. The present paper describes a method for simulating infant behavior in a virtual environment. The determinant factors of infant behavior are classified into internal factors, such as the physical and cognitive capabilities estimated from the age of the infant, and external factors, such as visual stimuli from surrounding objects. An infant behavior simulator is developed herein by modeling these internal and external factors. The present paper reports the effectiveness of the newly developed simulator. This simulator enables analysis of infant accidents at home from an engineering point of view and supports the design of rooms and houses that are safer for infants.
This publication focuses on the following subjects; understanding and modeling of collaborative work situations which are mediated by technical artefacts, either computational or not; developing appropriate design met...
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(纸本)1586034227;141759019X
This publication focuses on the following subjects; understanding and modeling of collaborative work situations which are mediated by technical artefacts, either computational or not; developing appropriate design methodologies for cooperative work analysis and cooperative systems design; developing new technologies supporting cooperation; evaluating and measuring the performance of cooperative systems. The COOP conferences are predicated on the conviction that cooperative systems design requires a deep understanding of the cooperative work of groups and organizations, involving both artefacts and social practices. This is the reason why contributions from all disciplines related to the field of cooperative systems design are considered as relevant, including computer and information sciences (computer-supported cooperative work, group decision support systems, knowledge engineering, human-computer interaction, distributed artificial intelligence and multi-agent systems, etc.) and social sciences (organizational and management sciences, sociology, psychology, ergonomics, linguistics, etc.). This volume puts a special emphasis on the issue of Scenario-Based design of Collaborative Systems. It discusses issues such as scenarios as means for understanding how computer systems might enhance cooperation and scenarios as a common language between users, developers and *** Press is an international science, technical and medical publisher of high-quality books for academics, scientists, and professionals in all fields. Some of the areas we publish in: -Biomedicine -Oncology -Artificial intelligence -Databases and information systems -Maritime engineering -Nanotechnology -Geoengineering -All aspects of physics -E-governance -E-commerce -The knowledge economy -Urban studies -Arms control -Understanding and responding to terrorism -Medical informatics -Computer Sciences
Integrated circuits have to be robust to manufacturing variations. This paper presents a new statistical methodology to determine the worst-case corners for a set of circuit performances. Our methodology first estimat...
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Integrated circuits have to be robust to manufacturing variations. This paper presents a new statistical methodology to determine the worst-case corners for a set of circuit performances. Our methodology first estimates response surfaces for circuit performances as quadratic functions of the process parameters with known statistical distributions. These response surface models are then used to extract the worst-case corners in the process parameter space as the points where the circuit performances are at their min/max values corresponding to a specified statistical level. Corners in the process parameter space close to each other are clustered to reduce their number, which reduces the number of simulations required for design verification. We introduce the novel concept of relaxation coefficient to ensure that the corners capture the min/max values of all the circuit performances at the desired statistical level. The corners are realistic since they track the multivariate statistical distribution of the process parameters. Expected worst-case circuit performances can thus be extracted with a small number of simulations suitable for subsequent design verifications. The methodology is demonstrated with examples showing extraction of corners from digital standard cells and also the corners for analog/RF blocks found in typical communication ICs.
Signal integrity (SI) analysis of printed circuit boards for high-speed digitaldesign requires information on the per-unit-length R, L, G, C parameters of the transmission lines. However, these are not always availab...
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Signal integrity (SI) analysis of printed circuit boards for high-speed digitaldesign requires information on the per-unit-length R, L, G, C parameters of the transmission lines. However, these are not always available when the property of the dielectric medium used in the board is unknown. A method to extract R, L, G, and C parameters from parallel-plate and strip transmission line geometries is proposed. It is based on measured scattering parameters and analytical modeling. A genetic algorithm (GA) is used to optimize the extraction by minimizing the frequency domain discrepancy between an objective function, which is the measured scattering matrix parameter, |S21|, and a GA model based on transmission line theory. The extracted R, L, G, and C parameters are then used in a SPICE model for simulation. Good agreement has been achieved in the reported results.
Efficient and accurate generative models are of great importance for the design and performance evaluation of wireless communication protocols as well as error control schemes. In this paper, deterministic processes a...
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Efficient and accurate generative models are of great importance for the design and performance evaluation of wireless communication protocols as well as error control schemes. In this paper, deterministic processes are utilized to derive a new generative model for the simulation of bursty error sequences encountered in digital mobile fading channels. The proposed deterministic process based generative model (DPBGM) is simply a properly parameterized and sampled deterministic process followed by a threshold detector and two parallel mappers. The target error sequence is generated by a computer simulation of a frequency hopping (FH) convolutionally coded Gaussian minimum shift keying (GMSK) transmission system with Rayleigh fading. Simulation results show that this generative model enables us to match very closely any given gap distribution (GD), error-free run distribution (EFRD), error cluster distribution (ECD), error burst distribution (EBD), error-free burst distribution (EFBD), block error probability distribution (BEPD), and bit error correlation function (BECF) of the underlying descriptive model.
An adaptive antenna impedance matching system for mobile communication terminals is proposed. The system adaptively controls two varactors of the pi-network matching circuit detecting the change in the refection coeff...
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An adaptive antenna impedance matching system for mobile communication terminals is proposed. The system adaptively controls two varactors of the pi-network matching circuit detecting the change in the refection coefficient between the antenna combined with the matching circuit and the RF front end of a transceiver. This system consists mainly of analog circuits and employs only a simple algorithm for convergence, therefore does not need any complicated mathematical formulation for modeling of the system itself as well as its nonlinear control elements. Also the proposed system utilizes only simple digital circuits for timing generation. In this paper, the performance of the adaptive impedance matching system is investigated by simulation. The input impedance of the antenna is alternated assuming the change of the environment due to a human head or a hand, and etc. In addition, a better performance is obtained in terms of the input power to the antenna by holding the adaptive control when the reflection is smaller than a certain threshold value. As a result, it is found that the input power to the antenna for transmission can be increased by about 2dB per second compared with a fixed capacitance matching system.
An adaptive antenna impedance matching system for mobile communication terminals is proposed. The system adaptively controls two varactors of the pi-network matching circuit detecting the change in the refection coeff...
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An adaptive antenna impedance matching system for mobile communication terminals is proposed. The system adaptively controls two varactors of the pi-network matching circuit detecting the change in the refection coefficient between the antenna combined with the matching circuit and the RF front end of a transceiver. This system consists mainly of analog circuits and employs only a simple algorithm for convergence, therefore does not need any complicated mathematical formulation for modeling of the system itself as well as its nonlinear control elements. Also the proposed system utilizes only simple digital circuits for timing generation. The performance of the adaptive impedance matching system is investigated by simulation. The input impedance of the antenna is alternated assuming the change of the environment due to a human head or a hand, and etc. In addition, a better performance is obtained in terms of the input power to the antenna by holding the adaptive control when the reflection is smaller than a certain threshold value. As a result, it is found that the input power to the antenna for transmission can be increased by about 2dB per second compared with a fixed capacitance matching system.
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