Software testability is becoming an important factor to be considered during software development and assessment, especially for critical software. We give software testability, previously defined by Voas, a new model...
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(纸本)081868271X
Software testability is becoming an important factor to be considered during software development and assessment, especially for critical software. We give software testability, previously defined by Voas, a new model and measurement which is done before random black-box testing with respect to a particular input distribution. We also compare our measurement results with the results simulated according to Voas's model. It showed that our rough testability estimate provides enough information and will be used as guidelines for software development.
Neural networks are applied to the problem of mesh placement for the finite-element method. When the finite-element method is used to numerically solve a partial differential equation with boundary conditions over a d...
A new initialization scheme for the Remez exchange algorithm is proposed. More specifically, the solution of the well known "don't care" filter design method is proposed as a new efficient initialization...
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A new initialization scheme for the Remez exchange algorithm is proposed. More specifically, the solution of the well known "don't care" filter design method is proposed as a new efficient initialization scheme for the Remez algorithm. Our proposal is motivated by the fact that the "don't care" least squares optimum solution satisfies one of the two basic conditions that are sufficient for obtaining the L/sub /spl infin// optimal solution according to the alternation theorem and at the same time it adequately approximates the second one. Because of these properties we have a significant speed up of the convergence of the Remez exchange algorithm to the L/sub /spl infin// optimum solution.
Constrained optimization of the receiver's output variance has been proposed as a relatively simple method for designing blind multiuser detectors for DS-CDMA systems. A single constraint is sufficient to avoid si...
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Constrained optimization of the receiver's output variance has been proposed as a relatively simple method for designing blind multiuser detectors for DS-CDMA systems. A single constraint is sufficient to avoid signal cancellation in the AWGN case, while multiple constraints should be used in a multipath environment. A max/min approach for optimizing the constraint is proposed, resulting in blind solutions with improved performance. It is shown that the performance of the proposed method approaches that of the MMSE receiver at high SNR, while the constraint parameters converge to the multipath channel parameters. The proposed method does not require knowledge of the interfering users' codes and timing. Simulation results support those performance claims.
In the present paper, a new synthesis approach is developed for associative memories based on the perceptron learning algorithm. The design (synthesis) problem of feedback neural networks for associative memories is f...
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(纸本)0780341228
In the present paper, a new synthesis approach is developed for associative memories based on the perceptron learning algorithm. The design (synthesis) problem of feedback neural networks for associative memories is formulated as a set of linear inequalities such that the use of perceptron learning is evident. The perceptron learning in the synthesis algorithms is guaranteed to converge. To demonstrate the applicability of the present results, a specific example is considered.
Speeding up logic simulation is important to reduce design time of complex systems. Hardware emulation through reconfigurable systems (RS) built using FPGA's offer an cheap and efficient method to achieve the requ...
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Speeding up logic simulation is important to reduce design time of complex systems. Hardware emulation through reconfigurable systems (RS) built using FPGA's offer an cheap and efficient method to achieve the required speed-up. Emulation through RS poses some unique problems because of the limited circuit and I/O resources. A preparatory step for emulation using RS is to partition the circuit into as few parts as possible satisfying the resource constraints. This paper presents multi-objective search based optimal and approximate algorithms for circuit partitioning for this purpose.
In several applications, there is the need to reason about spatial relations using multiple local frames of reference that are hierarchically organized. This paper focuses on hierarchical reasoning about direction rel...
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In several applications, there is the need to reason about spatial relations using multiple local frames of reference that are hierarchically organized. This paper focuses on hierarchical reasoning about direction relations, a special class of spatial relations that describe order in space (e.g., north or northeast). We assume a spatial database of points and regions. Points belong to regions, which may recursively be parts of larger regions. The direction relations between points in the same region are explicitly represented (and not calculated from coordinates). Inference mechanisms are applied to extract direction relations between points located in different regions and to detect inconsistencies. We study two complementary types of inference. The first one derives the direction relation between points from the relations of their ancestor regions. The second type derives the relation through chains of common points using path consistency. We present algorithms for both types of inference and discuss their computational complexity.
Screen-printed Al and rapid thermal alloying have been combined in order to achieve an Al back surface field (Al-BSF) which lowers the effective back surface recombination velocity to 200 cm/s on 2.3 /spl Omega/cm Si....
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Screen-printed Al and rapid thermal alloying have been combined in order to achieve an Al back surface field (Al-BSF) which lowers the effective back surface recombination velocity to 200 cm/s on 2.3 /spl Omega/cm Si. This Al-BSF process has been integrated into a high-efficiency, laboratory fabrication sequence as well as a high-throughput, industrial-type process in order to achieve solar cell efficiencies in excess of 19.0% and 17.0%, respectively, on 2.3 /spl Omega/cm FZ Si. For both process sequences, the efficiency values are 1-2 absolute percentage points higher than cells made with unoptimized Al-BSFs. The critical process requirements for optimal Al-BSF formation are: (1) the use of a fast ramp rate to reach the alloying temperature; and (2) thick film Al deposition prior to alloying.
Essential Lahey FORTRAN 90 (Elf90) is a FORTRAN 90 compiler specifically designed from a pedagogical viewpoint to provide a FORTRAN teaching/learning environment that is user-friendly without damaging the power of the...
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Essential Lahey FORTRAN 90 (Elf90) is a FORTRAN 90 compiler specifically designed from a pedagogical viewpoint to provide a FORTRAN teaching/learning environment that is user-friendly without damaging the power of the language. This paper introduces the language and its design criteria. It also explores the question of what language to teach as a first programming language.
We consider the problem of transformations of logic programs without function symbols (database logic programs) into a special subclass, namely linear logic programs. Linear logic programs are defined to be the progra...
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