Hierarchical WWW cache formation which provides both higher hit rates and saves overall bandwidth consumption through fetching WWW objects and periodically redistributing them among member caches is proposed as an app...
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Software systems composed of highly reliable components may experience few, if any, failures while undergoing heavy testing or field usage. L.M. Kaufman et al. (1997, 1998) applied "statistics of the extremes&quo...
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Software systems composed of highly reliable components may experience few, if any, failures while undergoing heavy testing or field usage. L.M. Kaufman et al. (1997, 1998) applied "statistics of the extremes" to software reliability analysis for failure as an infrequent, unlikely occurrence /sub -/ /sub a/ so-called rare event. This paper combines (i) software failure as a rare event with (ii) a finite-state, discrete-parameter recurrent Markov chain that models both the failures (as transitions to a rare fail state) and the software usage probabilities (as transitions among usage states not involving the fail state). When conditions for rare events are met, reliability analysis in greater detail, with fewer assumptions, may be possible, and there may be additional justification for using the popular Poisson and exponential distributions for certain random variables. We describe how the Markov chain and the "Poisson law of small numbers", which has a central role in the study of rare events and extreme values, yield (a) an explicit error bound on a Poisson approximation for counts of failures as rare events in long realizations of the chain, and (b) an approximate exponential distribution for the interoccurrence time of failures as rare events. We compute both the Poisson error bound and /spl chi//sup 2/ goodness-of-fit tests for samples and the approximate distributions for a small Markov chain. A typical application of these results would be in the analysis of software reliability for systems of high-quality COTS components.
This paper proposes an interactive architecture compiler for SC multirate circuits, here applied to the design of multistage IIR SC decimators with large decimating factors M. This methodology is implemented based on ...
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This paper proposes a computer-automated synthesis of SC decimators with a high decimating factor based on the statistical approach of the program (ISCMRATE). This methodology is implemented based on multi-decimation ...
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This paper proposes a computer-automated synthesis of SC decimators with a high decimating factor based on the statistical approach of the program (ISCMRATE). This methodology is implemented based on multi-decimation building blocks, such as externally cascaded, internally cascaded or ladder structures and polyphase input networks. The design criteria are given to obtain and evaluate the performance of the corresponding resulting circuits. A design example of a 7/sup th/ order SC lowpass elliptic decimator with M=10 is given to illustrate the above proposed methodology.
This paper proposes an interactive architecture compiler for SC multirate circuits, here applied to the design of multistage IIR SC decimators with large decimating factors M. This methodology is implemented based on ...
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This paper proposes an interactive architecture compiler for SC multirate circuits, here applied to the design of multistage IIR SC decimators with large decimating factors M. This methodology is implemented based on multi-decimation building blocks such as externally cascaded, internally cascaded or ladder building blocks. A computer-based design is carried out to synthesize and evaluate the performances of the corresponding resulting circuits, in order to achieve the required anti-aliasing amplitude responses, to relax the speed requirements of the operational amplifiers, and also to reduce the capacitance spread and total capacitor area. A design example of a 6th order SC elliptic decimator with M=10 is given to illustrate the above methodology.
We developed an alternate method for density-based load estimation and applied it to estimate hip joint load distributions for two femora. Two-dimensional finite element models were constructed from single energy quan...
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Roos, CHCarl H. Roos:is a Senior Engineer with Logicon-Syscon. A graduate of the University of Pittsburgh with a BSEE degree
he has over 35 years experience in functional operational combat system fire control interface and computer program design. As technology changed and the combat system was upgraded Mr. Roos maintained his level of technical expertise by taking graduate-level courses in computer science modelling & structured analysis networking & fiber optics. He has worked in various capacities on the LHD LHA DDG 993 DD 963 LPD 17 LCC LPD 13 CGN 38 CGN 9 CG 26 and the DDG Class Combat Systems. In recent years Mr. Roos has been responsible for managing directing and performing engineering design and analysis efforts associated with Battle Management Organization (BMO) functional analysis and operational analysis. These efforts were used in defining combat system operational requirements shipboard space requirements and integration requirements. His paper “Configuration Management of Digital Programs” was published at the 1972 IEEE Southeastern Conrence.
NAVSEA 03K41 is responsible for generating Combat System Rattle Management Organizations (BMO) and Functional Flow Diagrams (FFD). Several years ago, NAVSEA provided the resources to conduct a functional analysis that...
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NAVSEA 03K41 is responsible for generating Combat System Rattle Management Organizations (BMO) and Functional Flow Diagrams (FFD). Several years ago, NAVSEA provided the resources to conduct a functional analysis that would support the development and validation of the BMOs and FFDs. The major obstacle in performing the analysis was obtaining a consensus on how the functional hierarchy was to be structured. The non-optimum organization of the hierarchy was selected;as a result, the functions were difficult to define, find, use, and validate. Recognizing the shortcomings of this effort, research was conducted to evaluate state-of-the-art structured modelling techniques, concepts, and methodologies. Two modelling concepts by James Martin were found to be applicable for the combat system functional analysis: Enterprise Modelling Concept and Functional Decomposition Modelling Concept. The Structure Modelling definitions of Whitten, Bently, and Barlow provided the guidelines for using the Martin concepts. During the ensuing BMO and FFD development efforts, a Ship's Combat System (SCS) Modelling concept evolved and a SCS Model was developed. This paper addresses how the modelling concepts and tools are used in the BMO and FFD development and validation process. Data from the SCS Model provides the basis for defining combat system requirements (e.g., software, data display, database, networking, etc.).
Pascal's long and successful run at West Point illustrated Winston Churchill's dictum that, "The absence of alternatives clears the mind wonderfully." However, by the mid-90s, the United States Milit...
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Pascal's long and successful run at West Point illustrated Winston Churchill's dictum that, "The absence of alternatives clears the mind wonderfully." However, by the mid-90s, the United States Military Academy was finding that Pascal, long the educational workhorse, was no longer the clear choice for serious computerscience education. The decision was taken to evaluate alternatives to Pascal. The criteria selected for programming language evaluation were student learning outcomes based on course goals and objectives. The controlled educational environment of a service academy provides an excellent opportunity to conduct research using control groups and experimental groups. We conducted a side by side comparison of the use of Pascal, which was specifically designed for instructional purposes, and Ada in an introductory course. The experiment demonstrated that students were much more successful in Ada than in Pascal, and led to the revision of the Academy core curriculum to use Ada 95 in our introductory computerscience class. This paper discusses the details of our comparison, citing specific examples to illustrate a rational basis for evaluating programming language features against course objectives.
Oculomotor control is the foundation of most biological visual systems, as well as an important component in the entire perceptual-motor system. We review some of the most basic principles of biological oculomotor sys...
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Oculomotor control is the foundation of most biological visual systems, as well as an important component in the entire perceptual-motor system. We review some of the most basic principles of biological oculomotor systems, and explore their usefulness from both the biological and computational point of view. As an example of biomimetic oculomotor control, we present the state of our implementations and experimental results using the vestibulo-ocular-reflex and opto-kinetic-reflex paradigm.
This paper presents an accurate estimation formula for the minimum filter length of optimum (the minimax criterion-based) FIR low-pass digital filters. The authors have proposed an accurate estimation formula for the ...
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This paper presents an accurate estimation formula for the minimum filter length of optimum (the minimax criterion-based) FIR low-pass digital filters. The authors have proposed an accurate estimation formula for the particular case that the passband and stopband ripples are identical. Now we expand the formula for the general case. The accuracy of the proposed formula is evaluated in comparison with that of the conventional formulae. We also describe how to apply the proposed formula for the design of other types of filters.
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