We describe a system that supports source-level integration of ML-like functional language code with ANSI C or Ada83 code. The system works by translating the functional code into type-correct, 'vanilla' C or ...
We describe a system that supports source-level integration of ML-like functional language code with ANSI C or Ada83 code. The system works by translating the functional code into type-correct, 'vanilla' C or Ada;it offers simple, efficient, type-safe inter-operation between new functional code components and 'legacy' third-generation-language components. Our translator represents a novel synthesis of techniques including user-parameterized specification of primitive types and operators;removal of polymorphism by code specialization;removal of higher-order functions using closure datatypes and interpretation;and aggressive optimization of the resulting first-order code, which can be viewed as encoding the result of a closure analysis. Programs remain fully typed at every stage of the translation process, using only simple, standard type systems. Target code runs at speeds comparable to the output of current optimizing ML compilers, even though handicapped by a conservative garbage collector.
The Farmer model is a basic model of the farming methodology that loads the component defined in the aspect-object from the PICR into the distributed object after analyzing the real world entity in various aspects and...
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The Farmer model is a basic model of the farming methodology that loads the component defined in the aspect-object from the PICR into the distributed object after analyzing the real world entity in various aspects and defining the aspect elements as the Aspect-Object. This model is a model that formalizes the concept of downloading the componentware from the PICR to the distributed entity node type that describes the abstract object, the aspect node type that describes this object, the link type that shows the relativity between the entity and the aspect, and the attribute type that shows the characteristics of the entity. In this paper, the platform independent TMN agents are designed by the diagram of the Farmer model.
Presents a methodology for data mining and knowledge discovery in large, distributed and heterogeneous databases. In order to obtain potentially interesting patterns, relationships and rules from such large and hetero...
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Presents a methodology for data mining and knowledge discovery in large, distributed and heterogeneous databases. In order to obtain potentially interesting patterns, relationships and rules from such large and heterogeneous data collections, it is essential that a methodology be developed to take advantage of the suite of existing methods and tools that are available for data mining and knowledge discovery in databases (KDD). One of the most important methodologies is an integration of diverse learning strategies that cooperatively performs a variety of discovery techniques that achieves high-quality knowledge. The KDLC (knowledge discovery life-cycle) model is an extended study of AqBC, which is a multi-strategy knowledge discovery approach that combines supervised inductive rule learning and unsupervised Bayesian classification via a constructive induction mechanism. A case study dealing with crop yields for a farm in the state of Idaho, USA is presented, and preliminary results are visualized by using the ArcView geographical information system (GIS). The significance of the multi-strategy knowledge discovery and visualization process in analyzing the classifications and learned rules has been empirically verified in KDLC.
Incremental delivery (ID) is a software development paradigm which advocates that systems be delivered to end users in usable, useful and semi-independent increments. ID differs from the traditional development paradi...
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This paper presents, for the first time, the successful integration of three rapid, low-cost, high-throughput technologies for silicon solar cell fabrication, namely: rapid thermal processing (RTP) for simultaneous di...
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This paper presents, for the first time, the successful integration of three rapid, low-cost, high-throughput technologies for silicon solar cell fabrication, namely: rapid thermal processing (RTP) for simultaneous diffusion of a phosphorus emitter and aluminum back surface field;screen printing (SP) for the front grid contact;and low-temperature plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) of SiN for antireflection coating and surface passivation. This combination has resulted in 4 cm(2) cells with efficiencies of 16.3% and 15.9% on 2 Ohm-cm FZ and Cz, respectively, as well as 15.4% efficient, 25-cm(2) FZ cells. Despite the respectable RTP/SP/PECVD efficiencies, cells formed by conventional furnace processing and photolithography (CFP/PL) give similar to 2% (absolute) greater efficiencies, Through in-depth modeling and characterization, this efficiency difference is quantified on the basis of emitter design and front surface passivation, grid shading, and quality of contacts. Detailed analysis reveals that the difference is primarily due to the requirements of screen printing and not RTP.
We report an experiment to evaluate a method, known as component based reliability estimation (CBRE), for the estimation of reliability of a software system using reliabilities of its components. CBRE involves computi...
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We report an experiment to evaluate a method, known as component based reliability estimation (CBRE), for the estimation of reliability of a software system using reliabilities of its components. CBRE involves computing path reliability estimates based on the sequence of components executed for each test input. Path reliability estimates are averaged over all test runs to obtain an estimate of the system reliability. In the experiment reported, three components of a Unix utility were seeded with errors and the reliability of each component was measured. The faulty components were then introduced systematically into the utility, in various combinations, to produce several faulty versions of the utility. For each faulty version, test cases were drawn from an operational profile to measure the component-based reliability. The true reliability of the faulty version was estimated using the frequency count approach. The goodness of CBRE was assessed in terms of the accuracy and efficiency of the estimates with respect to the true reliability. Results from this experiment suggest that CBRE yields reasonably accurate results at an efficient rate. However, the accuracy and efficiency of CBRE is sensitive to the dependency among successive calls to a component.
A detailed study was conducted on aluminum and phosphorus gettering in HEM mc-Si and defect passivation by PECVD SiN in EFG mc-Si to achieve high efficiency solar cells on these promising photovoltaic materials. Solar...
A detailed study was conducted on aluminum and phosphorus gettering in HEM mc-Si and defect passivation by PECVD SiN in EFG mc-Si to achieve high efficiency solar cells on these promising photovoltaic materials. Solar cells with efficiencies as high as 18.6% ( 1 cm2 area) were achieved on multicrystalline silicon (mc-Si) grown by the heat exchanger method (HEM) by a process which implements impurity gettering, an effective back surface field, front surface passivation, and forming gas annealing. This represents the highest reported solar cell efficiency on mc-Si to date. PCD analysis revealed that the bulk lifetime in certain HEM samples after phosphorus gettering can be as high as 135 μs. By incorporating a deeper aluminum back surface field (Al-BSF), the back surface recombination velocity (Sb) for 0.65 Ω-cm HEM mc-Si solar cells was lowered from 10,000 cm/s to 2,000 cm/s resulting in the 18.6% efficient device. It was also observed that a screen-printed/RTP alloyed Al-BSF process could raise the efficiency of both float zone and relatively defect-free mc-Si solar cells by lowering Sb. However, this process was found to increase the electrical activity of extended defects so that mc-Si devices with a significant defect density showed an overall degradation in performance. In the case of EFG mc-Si, neural network modeling in conjunction with a study of post deposition annealing was used to provide guidelines for effective defect passivation by PECVD SiN films. Appropriate deposition and annealing conditions resulted in a 45% increase in cell efficiency due to AR coating and another 25–30% increase due to defect passivation by atomic hydrogen.
Crystalline silicon is the dominant photovoltaic (PV) material today. Although laboratory cell efficiencies have reached 24%, production cell efficiencies are still in the range of 11–15% at a market price of −$4/wat...
Crystalline silicon is the dominant photovoltaic (PV) material today. Although laboratory cell efficiencies have reached 24%, production cell efficiencies are still in the range of 11–15% at a market price of −$4/watt for modules. The real challenge is how to incorporate high efficiency features in the industrial cells in a cost-effective manner. This paper highlights the key high efficiency attributes that can bridge the gap between laboratory and industrial cells. It summarizes some of the recent developments and emerging technologies that have the potential of reaching the cost and efficiency targets simultaneously. Further development of these technologies, along with the push to increase the market size towards 500 MW/yr can lead to next generation silicon cells that can reduce the silicon PV module cost down to $1–2/watt.
Digital image registration is very important in many applications, such as medical imagery, robotics, visual inspection, and remotely sensed data processing. NASA s Mission To Planet Earth (MTPE) program will be produ...
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