A hierarchical version of the particle swarm optimization method called H-PSO is introduced. In H-PSO the particles are arranged in a dynamic hierarchy that is used to define a neighborhood structure. Depending on the...
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A hierarchical version of the particle swarm optimization method called H-PSO is introduced. In H-PSO the particles are arranged in a dynamic hierarchy that is used to define a neighborhood structure. Depending on the quality of their so far best found solution the particles move up or down the hierarchy so that good particles have a higher influence on the swarm. Moreover, the hierarchy is used to define different search properties for the particles. Several variants of H-PSO are compared experimentally with variants of the standard PSO.
When a mobile user using wireless devices tries to access to a Service Provider (SP) connected to wire-lined network such as the Internet, security risks experienced by SP as well as the wireless and wire-lined networ...
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Aboard current ships, such as the DDG 51, engineering control and damage control activities are manpower intensive. It is anticipated that, for future combatants, the workload demand arising from operation of systems ...
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Aboard current ships, such as the DDG 51, engineering control and damage control activities are manpower intensive. It is anticipated that, for future combatants, the workload demand arising from operation of systems under conditions of normal steaming and during casualty response will need to be markedly reduced via automated monitoring, autonomous control, and other technology initiatives. Current DDG 51 class ships can be considered as a manpower baseline and under Condition III typical engineering control involves seven to eight watchstanders at manned stations in the Central Control Station, the engine rooms and other machinery spaces. In contrast to this manning level, initiatives such as DD 21 and the integrated engineering plant (IEP) envision a partnership between the operator and the automation system, with more and more of the operator's functions being shifted to the automation system as manning levels decrease. This paper describes some human systems integration studies of workload demand reduction and, consequently, manning reduction that can be achieved due to application of several advanced technology concepts. Advanced system concept studies in relation to workload demand are described and reviewed including. Piecemeal applications of diverse automation and remote control technology concepts to selected high driver tasks in current DDG 51 activities. Development of the reduced ship's crew by virtual presence system that will provide automated monitoring and display to operators of machinery health, compartment conditions, and personnel health. The IEP envisions the machinery control system as a provider of resources that are used by various consumers around the ship. Resource needs and consumer priorities are at all times dependent upon the ship's current mission and the availability of equipment pawnbrokers.
We present the design, implementation, and evaluation of single assignment data structures and of a software controlled cache in an existing multi-threaded architecture platform – the Efficient architecture for Runni...
We present the design, implementation, and evaluation of single assignment data structures and of a software controlled cache in an existing multi-threaded architecture platform – the Efficient architecture for Running Threads (EARTH). The I-Structure Software-Controlled Cache (ISSC) exploits temporal and spatial locality of EARTH split-phased memory transactions for single-assignment memory references. Our experimental evaluation indicates that the caching mechanism for single-assignment storage makes the EARTH memory system more robust to variations in the latency of memory operations. As a consequence the system can be ported to a wider range of machine platforms and deliver speedup for both regular and irregular application.
This paper presents a Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol for broadband wireless LANs based on the ATM transfer mode, together with the evaluation of its performance in terms of throughput and access delay. Important...
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This paper presents a Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol for broadband wireless LANs based on the ATM transfer mode, together with the evaluation of its performance in terms of throughput and access delay. Important characteristics of the MAC protocol are the way information between the Mobile Stations (MSs) and the Base Station (BS) is exchanged and the algorithm used to allocate the bandwidth in order to support the service categories. A detailed analytical evaluation, both on cell level and packet level, leads to an assessment of the efficiency and the access delay of the system.
A heuristic algorithm that maps data processing tasks onto heterogeneous resources (i.e. processors and links of various capacities) is presented. The algorithm tries to achieve a good throughput of the whole data pro...
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A heuristic algorithm that maps data processing tasks onto heterogeneous resources (i.e. processors and links of various capacities) is presented. The algorithm tries to achieve a good throughput of the whole data processing pipeline, taking both parallelism (load balance) and communication volume (locality) into account. It performs well both under computationally intensive and communication-intensive conditions. When all tasks/processors are of the same size and communication is negligible, it quickly distributes the computation load over the processors and finds the optimal mapping. As communication becomes significant and reveals a bottleneck, it trades parallelism for reduction of communication traffic. Experimental results using a topology generator that models the Internet show that it performs significantly better than communication-ignorant schedulers.
Using a distributed database system as part of a distributed web server architecture has obvious advantages. It is shown that a first phase distributed database system can be build by extending an existing object orie...
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One of the key issues in designing new simulation models for parallel execution, or in the migration of existing models to parallel platforms, is the mapping of the application architecture to the parallel system arch...
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Web caching has been considered as a powerful solution to deal with the growth of Web traffic. Several studies have shown that caching documents throughout the Internet can save network bandwidth and reduce document a...
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Web caching has been considered as a powerful solution to deal with the growth of Web traffic. Several studies have shown that caching documents throughout the Internet can save network bandwidth and reduce document access latency. However, this technique has introduced new problems such as maintaining the document coherency and selecting the next document to be removed. With the continuous increase in demand for documents, the Web cache servers are becoming the new bottleneck. A need for better resource management is becoming urgent in order to reduce the overhead sustained by Web cache servers. In this paper, a number of Web replacement policies are discussed and compared on the basis of trace-driven simulations. The impact of the Web cache server configuration is pointed out through a set of experiments that use the cache size as a tuning parameter.
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