This paper reports on an on-going project undertaken within the University of Rome at Tor Vergata to automate the business processes of a class of administrative organizations. The experience gained and the lessons le...
Opus is a new programming language designed to assist in coordinating the execution of multiple, independent program modules. With the help of Opus, coarse grained task parallelism between data parallel modules can be...
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An efficient system which finds the best match between an input image and a lexicon is presented. To capture writing style of spacing between words and characters prime stroke analysis based on statistical methods is ...
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This paper describes the results of the working group investigating the issues of empirical studies for evolving systems. The groups found that there were many issues that were central to successful evolution and this...
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This paper describes the results of the working group investigating the issues of empirical studies for evolving systems. The groups found that there were many issues that were central to successful evolution and this concluded that this is a very important area within softwareengineering. Finally nine main areas were selected for consideration. For each of these areas the central issues were identified as well as success factors. In some cases success stories were also described and the critical factors accounting for the success analyzed. In some cases it was later found that a number of areas were so tightly coupled that it was important to discuss them together.
Efficient performance tuning of parallel programs is often hard. We present a performance prediction and visualization tool called VPPB. Based on a monitored uni-processor execution, VPPB shows the (predicted) behavio...
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Efficient performance tuning of parallel programs is often hard. We present a performance prediction and visualization tool called VPPB. Based on a monitored uni-processor execution, VPPB shows the (predicted) behaviour of a multithreaded program using any number of processors and the program behaviour is visualized as a graph. The first version of VPPB was unable to handle I/O operations. This version has, by an improved tracing technique, added the possibility to trace activities at the kernel level as well. Thus, VPPB is now able to trace various I/O activities, e.g., manipulation of OS internal buffers, physical disk I/O, socket I/O, and RPC. VPPB allows flexible performance tuning of parallel programs developed for shared memory multiprocessors using a standardized environment; C/C++ programs that uses the thread package in Solaris 2.X.
An efficient system which finds the best match between an input image and a lexicon is presented. To capture writing style of spacing between words and characters prime stroke analysis based on statistical methods is ...
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An efficient system which finds the best match between an input image and a lexicon is presented. To capture writing style of spacing between words and characters prime stroke analysis based on statistical methods is introduced. A method for estimating bound on number of characters without actual recognition is also presented. For system efficiency, before actual recognition, classified groups of word segments and eligible subset of lexicons are generated as hypotheses. The hypotheses are verified and ordered by a lexicon driven word recognizor. We have tested our approach in the street name recognition/interpretation for US mail stream. Experimental results and encouraging.
software parallelism is a key factor in performance of parallel systems. In this paper we discuss a parallel-instruction vector space model for workload representation and comparison. This model will be compared with ...
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software parallelism is a key factor in performance of parallel systems. In this paper we discuss a parallel-instruction vector space model for workload representation and comparison. This model will be compared with the parallelism-matrix technique, which is based on the Frobenius matrix norm. The latter compares two workloads based on identical parallel instructions only, whereas the former compares two workloads based on all parallel instructions. It will be shown that the parallel-instruction vector space method outperforms the parallelism-matrix method in time and space, as well as in accuracy. Further, it will be shown that this model provides a useful framework for the design and analysis of benchmarks. This will be demonstrated by analyzing some of the NASA/NAS Parallel Benchmark workloads and their performance measurements in the context of the model.
In most handwriting recognition systems, the processing steps of segmentation, recognition, decision making and post-processing are serially taken. These systems usually use the resources exhaustively in each stage of...
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In most handwriting recognition systems, the processing steps of segmentation, recognition, decision making and post-processing are serially taken. These systems usually use the resources exhaustively in each stage of the serial engine. Every stage is tuned to maximize global performance. However, such a paradigm is prone to miss the global optimal point because the individual stages often do not have all the information available. A more interactive model is desirable. In this paper we describe such a model extending the concepts of satisfying decision mechanisms. Our experiments show proof of validity of the proposed model.
Following Mandayam et al. (1998), we define outage events as the channel being attenuated for at least a deterministic period of time, /spl tau//sub m/. Compared with a continuous time Markov chain or discrete time Ma...
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Following Mandayam et al. (1998), we define outage events as the channel being attenuated for at least a deterministic period of time, /spl tau//sub m/. Compared with a continuous time Markov chain or discrete time Markov chain, a semi-Markov process (SMP) is general enough that it allows the sojourn time to be any distribution function. In this paper, we develop a minimum duration outage model based on an SMP. Closed-form expressions are derived for the time dependent and steady state probabilities of outage. Describing the outage event in the transient regime, our model can reflect the channel fading behavior in a dynamic way.
Rapid and potentially low-cost process techniques are analyzed and applied toward the fabrication of high-efficiency Si solar cells. First, a high quality screen-printed (SP) contact methodology is developed that resu...
Rapid and potentially low-cost process techniques are analyzed and applied toward the fabrication of high-efficiency Si solar cells. First, a high quality screen-printed (SP) contact methodology is developed that results in fill factors of 0.785-0.790 on monocrystalline Si. Next, aluminum back surface field (Al-BSF) formation is studied in detail to establish the process conditions that result in optimal BSF action. Screen-printing of Al conductor paste and rapid thermal processing (RTP) are integrated into the BSF procedure, and effective recombination velocities (Seff) as low as 200 cm/s are demonstrated on 2.3 Ω-cm Si with this RTP SP Al-BSF process. A novel passivation scheme consisting of a dielectric stack (plasma silicon nitride on top of a rapid thermal oxide) is developed to reduce the surface recombination velocity (S) to ≈10 cm/s at the 1.3 Ω-cm Si surface. The important feature of this stack passivation scheme is its ability to withstand a high-temperature anneal (700–850 °C) without degradation in S. This feature is critical for most current commercial processes that utilize SP contact firing. Finally, the individual processes are integrated to form high-efficiency, manufacturable devices. Solar cell efficiencies of 17% and >19% are achieved on FZ Si with SP and evaporated (photolithography) contacts, respectively.
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