Performance uncertainty is a barrier to implementation of innovative technologies. This research investigates the potential of flexible design - one that enables future change - to improve the economic performance of ...
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(纸本)089553178X
Performance uncertainty is a barrier to implementation of innovative technologies. This research investigates the potential of flexible design - one that enables future change - to improve the economic performance of a naturally ventilated building. The flexible design of the naturally ventilated building enables future installation of a mechanical cooling system by including features such as space for pipes and chillers. The benefits of the flexible design are energy savings, delay of capital costs and capability of mitigating the risk of a failed building (by installing the mechanical cooling system). To evaluate the flexible design, building energy simulation is conducted over a multi-year time period with stochastic outdoor temperature variables. One result is a probability distribution of the time when the maximum allowable indoor temperature under natural ventilation is exceeded, which may be "never." Probability distributions are also obtained for energy savings and cost savings as compared to a mechanically cooled building. Together, these results allow decision-makers to evaluate the long-term performance risks and opportunities afforded by a flexible implementation strategy for natural ventilation. It is shown that the likelihood of future installation of mechanical cooling is most sensitive to design parameters. The impact of increased climate variability depends on the local climate. The probability of installing the mechanical system also depends on the comfort criteria. The results show that capital costs for cooling equipment are much greater than the present value of 10 years of cooling energy costs. This result motivates consideration of flexible design as opposed to hybrid cooling designs (which have immediate installation of mechanical cooling). Future work will study the impact of uncertain energy prices on investment attractiveness of naturally ventilated buildings. Other applications of the framework presented herein include replacing the build
It is well known that space and time complexity is one of the main bottlenecks of supervisor synthesis. The model of a large system is usually too big to be explicitly expressed, owing to composition of local componen...
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It is well known that space and time complexity is one of the main bottlenecks of supervisor synthesis. The model of a large system is usually too big to be explicitly expressed, owing to composition of local components' models, making supervisor synthesis difficult, if still possible. In this paper, we propose a distributed supervisor synthesis approach, where instead of computing a model of the entire system, a local abstraction of the system with respect to each local component is computed based on weak bisimulation. Then a local supervisor for each component is computed based on the component model and the abstract system model, by using well developed centralized supervisor synthesis approaches. The collection of all resulting local supervisors forms a distributed supervisor
A reconfigurable system-on-chip (rSoC) architecture incorporating embedded uClinux operating system and multiple co-processing nodes has been reported (Williams and Bergmann, 2004). Our paper extends this platform to ...
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A reconfigurable system-on-chip (rSoC) architecture incorporating embedded uClinux operating system and multiple co-processing nodes has been reported (Williams and Bergmann, 2004). Our paper extends this platform to incorporate transparent management of reconfigurable hardware resources. This provides a convenient and flexible means for rapid application development of rSoC systems. The co-processor allocation and task management system is described. Details of the implementation are also included
National Institute of Information and Communications technology of Japan (NICT) completed a project on new-generation mobile communications networks for beyond 3G or 4G in March 2006. This paper presents our vision of...
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National Institute of Information and Communications technology of Japan (NICT) completed a project on new-generation mobile communications networks for beyond 3G or 4G in March 2006. This paper presents our vision of new-generation mobile communications networks from networking perspective and their capabilities to be offered: fast and large-capacity handover, cross-network handover, cross-device handover, and interworking between real and cyber worlds. Then, Metro Mobile Ring network technology for the first capability, MIRAI architecture for the second and third capabilities, and other works are presented.
The GCA (Global Cellular Automata) model is a very interesting and flexible model which can be used to implement all kind of parallel algorithms. The GCA model consists of a field of cells similar the Cellular Automat...
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(纸本)0769523129
The GCA (Global Cellular Automata) model is a very interesting and flexible model which can be used to implement all kind of parallel algorithms. The GCA model consists of a field of cells similar the Cellular Automata model. Each cell has links to a set of remote cells which can be dynamically changed from generation to generation. A cell reads the remote neighbors' states and then changes its own state according to a local rule. The model is massively parallel because all cells can change their states independently and in parallel. We have investigated how the GCA model can be implemented efficiently in hardware using a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) prototyping platform. We have implemented a fully parallel architecture where all cells operate fully in parallel and other architectures where the cells are stored in memories in order to handle a large number of cells. We are showing that in the fully parallel architecture a speed-up of around 190 is realistic on a modern FPGA platform compared to a software implementation on a PC. In the partially parallel architecture based on memories the speed-up will be lower but the number of cells is only restricted by the capacity of the memories.
The GCA (global cellular automata) model is a very interesting and flexible model which can be used to implement all kind of parallel algorithms. The GCA model consists of afield of cells similar the cellular automata...
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The GCA (global cellular automata) model is a very interesting and flexible model which can be used to implement all kind of parallel algorithms. The GCA model consists of afield of cells similar the cellular automata model. Each cell has links to a set of remote cells which can be dynamically changed from generation to generation. A cell reads the remote neighbors' states and then changes its own state according to a local rule. The model is massively parallel because all cells can change their states independently and in parallel. We have investigated how the GCA model can be implemented efficiently in hardware using a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) prototyping platform. We have implemented a fully parallel architecture where all cells operate fully in parallel and other architectures where the cells are stored in memories in order to handle a large number of cells. We are showing that in the fully parallel architecture a speed-up of around 190 is realistic on a modern FPGA platform compared to a software implementation on a PC. In the partially parallel architecture based on memories the speed-up will be lower but the number of cells is only restricted by the capacity of the memories.
In distributed diagnosis it may be useful to achieve local consistency among local estimates. For that purpose the Computational Procedure for Local Consistency (CPLC) was proposed to achieve the supremal local suppor...
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In distributed diagnosis it may be useful to achieve local consistency among local estimates. For that purpose the Computational Procedure for Local Consistency (CPLC) was proposed to achieve the supremal local support, which represents one type of local consistency. It has been shown that if CPLC terminates then the result is in fact the supremal local support. However, in this paper it is shown that, even if all initial estimates are regular languages, the termination of CPLC is undecidable. Moreover, these difficulties are not confined to this specific procedure: it is undecidable whether the supremal local support corresponding to an arbitrary collection of regular initial languages is componentwise empty; consequently, the supremal local support is effectively uncomputable.
This paper studies the effect that HOL (Head-of-Line) blocking in the packet injection queue has on the performance of bidirectional k-ary ncubes, for values of k over a certain threshold (around 20). The HOL blocking...
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This work presents a novel technique to identify functionally untestable transition faults in latch based designs with multiple clock domains, bringing to light unaddressed issues related to untestable fault identific...
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This work presents a novel technique to identify functionally untestable transition faults in latch based designs with multiple clock domains, bringing to light unaddressed issues related to untestable fault identification in such design environments. We also introduce and provide a solution to a new variant of un-testability analysis wherein "architectural constraints'' are absorbed during the analysis. We give our tool the capability of handling transition faults resulting from defects of varying sizes, and evaluate our tool for various industrial circuits. The proposed algorithm is compared with a state-of-the-art sequential ATPG tool, and our method has shown much better performance both in the context of scan ATPG and functional test development. Results indicate that the proposed technique identifies considerably more untestable transition faults than those that can be deduced from the knowledge of untestable stuck-at faults. Additional insights from our results point to a greater need to eliminate untestable transition faults as compared to stuck-at faults, for more efficient test pattern generation and accurate coverage computation.
The disk sanitization practices are studied. computer systems used by people with varying authorization levels typically employ authentication, access control lists, and a privileged operating system to maintain infor...
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The disk sanitization practices are studied. computer systems used by people with varying authorization levels typically employ authentication, access control lists, and a privileged operating system to maintain information privacy. The study indicates that the secondary hard-disk market is almost certainly awash in information that is both sensitive and confidential. If sanitization practices are not significantly improved, it is only a matter of time before the confidential information on repurposed hard drives is exploited by individuals and organizations that would do us harm.
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