To efficiently and appropriately integrate daylighting strategies in their projects, building designers need reliable methods to address issues such as daily and seasonal variations or the balance between sufficient i...
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(纸本)9781905254347
To efficiently and appropriately integrate daylighting strategies in their projects, building designers need reliable methods to address issues such as daily and seasonal variations or the balance between sufficient illumination with visual and thermal comfort aspects. This integration must also happen early in the design process to have a significant impact on energy savings and ultimate building performance. This paper proposes to address this need by fulfilling three major objectives: support the design process using a goal-oriented approach based on iterative design improvement suggestions;provide climate-based annual metrics in a visual and synthesized form;and relate quantitative and qualitative performance criteria thanks to a novel interface for browsing daylighting analysis data in various forms. A methodology to achieve these objectives is described here as the Lightsolve approach.
Building project delivery is beset with many long-standing problems. Often, these problems, resulting in failures of facilities and cost-time overruns, are directly related to poor design and design management practic...
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The continued increase in microprocessor clock frequency that has come from advancements in fabrication technology and reductions in feature size, creates challenges in maintaining both manufacturing yield rates and l...
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The continued increase in microprocessor clock frequency that has come from advancements in fabrication technology and reductions in feature size, creates challenges in maintaining both manufacturing yield rates and long-term reliability of devices. Methods based on defect detection and reduction may not offer a scalable solution due to cost of eliminating contaminants in the manufacturing process and increasing chip complexity. We propose to use the inherent redundancy available in existing and future chip microarchitectures to improve yield and enable graceful performance degradation in fail-in-place systems. We introduce a new yield metric called performance averaged yield (Y/sub PAV/), which accounts both for fully functional chips and those that exhibit some performance degradation. Our results indicate that at 250nm we are able to increase the Y/sub PAV/ of a uniprocessor with only redundant rows in its caches from a base value of 85% to 98% using microarchitectural redundancy. Given constant chip area, shrinking feature sizes increases fault susceptibility and reduces the base Y/sub PAV/ to 60% at 50nm, which exploiting microarchitectural redundancy then increases to 99.6%.
Cloud computing is a service level computing that provide various service to the customers in order to establish an effective customer Relationship management (CRM). This offers various services like virtual machine, ...
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We propose a method for music classification based on the use of convolutional models on symbolic pitch–time representations (i.e. piano-rolls) which we apply to composer recognition. An excerpt of a piece to be clas...
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The performance of neural networks has granted deep learning a place at the forefront of machine learning in the last decade. Although these models are computationally intensive, their advantage is recognized in a wid...
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In this article, we present some architectures to carry out the convolution computation based on carry-save adders and circular buffers implemented on FPGAs. Carry-save adders are not frequent in the implementation in...
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In this paper, the multigrid-based fuzzy system (MGFS) approach is applied for the CATS time series prediction benchmark. The MGFS architecture overcomes the problem inherent to all grid-based fuzzy systems when deali...
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In this paper, the multigrid-based fuzzy system (MGFS) approach is applied for the CATS time series prediction benchmark. The MGFS architecture overcomes the problem inherent to all grid-based fuzzy systems when dealing with high dimensional input data, thus keeping low computational cost and high performance. A greedy algorithm for MGFS structure identification allows to perform the input variable selection for the time series prediction problem, while identifying the pseudo-optimal architecture according to the provided dataset.
The goal of this paper is to achieve real time control of a monotonic system which, in general, may be non-linear and whose differential equations are unknown. We assume that there is no model of the plant available s...
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The goal of this paper is to achieve real time control of a monotonic system which, in general, may be non-linear and whose differential equations are unknown. We assume that there is no model of the plant available so there cannot be any off-line pre-training of the main controller parameters. We propose a both adaptive and self-learning algorithm capable of starting from a "void" fuzzy controller and, in real time, optimizing the fuzzy controller's rules (both antecedents and consequents) in order to translate the state of the plant to the desired value in the shortest possible time.
Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is normally identified by several behavioral symptoms often mistakenly associated to age-related concerns or stress. However correct diagnosis and monitoring of the disease requires of add...
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(纸本)9781479915194
Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is normally identified by several behavioral symptoms often mistakenly associated to age-related concerns or stress. However correct diagnosis and monitoring of the disease requires of additional resources. This paper presents a new methodology for classification of Alzheimer's disease from MR images for medical support. A large database with more than one thousand patients was used. Two different problems are tackled in this work: a first one where a classification method is developed to classify MR images as either normal or with the Alzheimer's disease and a second one for the identification and classification between normal subjects, MCI patients and AD patients. It is noteworthy that with this last study we could offer a tool to assist the early diagnosis of dementia. The outline of the methodology includes wavelet feature extraction from the MRIs, dimensionality reduction, training-test subdivision and classification using Support Vector Machines. Some concerns related to performance evaluation and dimensionality reduction are discussed.
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