Polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) reinforced with boron nitride nanotubes (BNNT) at weight fill factors fw of 0.2 and 0.5 wt % are characterized by terahertz time-domain spectroscopy (THz-TDS). It is known that the intro...
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By means of the availability of mechanisms such as Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling (DVFS) and heterogeneous architectures including processors with different power consumption profiles, it is possible to devise ...
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There is an emerging philosophy, called Neuro-informatics, contained in the Artificial Intelligence field, that aims to emulate how living beings do tasks such as taking a decision based on the interpretation of an im...
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There is an emerging philosophy, called Neuro-informatics, contained in the Artificial Intelligence field, that aims to emulate how living beings do tasks such as taking a decision based on the interpretation of an image by emulating spiking neurons into VLSI designs and, therefore, trying to re-create the human brain at its highest level. Address-Event-Representation (AER) is a communication protocol that has embedded part of the processing. It is intended to transfer spikes between bioinspired chips. An AER based system may consist of a hierarchical structure with several chips that transmit spikes among them in real-time, while performing some processing. There are several AER tools to help to develop and test AER based systems. These tools require the use of a computer to allow the higher level processing of the event information, reaching very high bandwidth at the AER communication level. We propose the use of an embedded platform based on a multi-task operating system to allow both, the AER communication and processing without the requirement of either a laptop or a computer. In this paper, we present and study the performance of a new philosophy of a frame-grabber AER tool based on a multi-task environment. This embedded platform is based on the Intel XScale processor which is governed by an embedded GNU/Linux system. We have connected and programmed it for processing Address-Event information from a spiking generator.
Clear imagery of retinal vessels is one of the critical shreds of evidence in specific disease diagnosis and evaluation, including sophisticated hierarchical topology and plentiful-and-intensive capillaries. In this w...
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A fast and precise prediction of the outcome of a game is essential for the design of bots that play the game;it can be used either offline as a fast way to design bot strategies or online for conserving resources and...
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This paper describes an alternative mutation control scheme for Genetic Algorithms (GAs) inspired by the Self-Organized Criticality (SOC) theory. The strategy, which mimics a SOC system known as sandpile, is able to g...
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This paper presents an innovative approach to self-adaptation of the structure of a neuro-fuzzy controller in real time. Without any off-line pretraining, the algorithm achieves very high control performance through t...
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Increasingly there is a need to process graphs that are larger than the available memory on today's *** systems have been developed with grapli representations that are efficient and compact for out-of-core proces...
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Increasingly there is a need to process graphs that are larger than the available memory on today's *** systems have been developed with grapli representations that are efficient and compact for out-of-core processing.A necessary task in these systems is memory *** paper presents a system called Cacheap which automatically and efficiently manages the available memory to maximize the speed of grapli processing,minimize the amount of disk access,and maximize the utilization of memory for graph *** has a simple interface that can be easily adopted by existing graph *** paper describes the new system,uses it in recent graph engines,and demonstrates its integer factor improvements in the speed of large-scale grapli processing.
This paper describes the results of a project that implemented modular, adaptable and reusable thermo-fluids laboratories in the undergraduate Mechanical Engineering technology (MET) Program. MARATHON (Modular, Adapta...
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This paper describes the results of a project that implemented modular, adaptable and reusable thermo-fluids laboratories in the undergraduate Mechanical Engineering technology (MET) Program. MARATHON (Modular, Adaptable and Reusable Approach to Thermal-Fluids Outwitting Norms) successfully engages students in inquiry and learning, gradually building toward intellectual and practical challenges without pre-determined outcomes. For the most part, research and discovery activities did not figure prominently in the MET curriculum. In the past, typical laboratories consisted of a set of exercises with pre-established experimental set up, and instructions. This concept did not foster critical thinking skills because it did not provide students with the opportunity to build experiments and models from scratch, experience difficulties, be resourceful, explore alternatives and make design decisions. Therefore, there was a strong pedagogical need for better practical problem solving skills in the area of thermo-fluids. MARATHON was created to facilitate development of student problem solving skills in which students become active participants in the process of discovery. To accomplish this, a cluster of interconnected laboratories in the area of thermo-fluids was reconfigured and organized in a pyramidal block-like system. These blocks were: (1) classical experiments, (2) jigsaw experiments, and (3) design of an experiment. This new laboratory structure provides an array of experiences, builds on already existing skills and knowledge, and connects them in a logical way. MARATHON was first implemented in Fall 2002 and has been used for four academic cycles. The primary benefits have been to expand the students' understanding of the complexity associated with designing and successfully performing an experiment from scratch. Each year at least one project has been featured at the University's undergraduate research colloquium. Laboratory platforms have been provided from other
We are witnessing the consolidation of the GPUs streaming paradigm in parallel computing. This paper explores stencil operations in CUDA to optimize on GPUs the Jacobi method for solving Laplace's differential equ...
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