A short-term scheduling problem for crude oil operations is highly challenging. There lack efficient techniques and software tools for its solution. Our prior research shows that it may be solved in a hierarchical way...
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Exchange protocols are an important theoretic basis to make secure electronic commerce and electronic business transactions possible, in which the fairness is a crucial property. To ensure and verify the property, a s...
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A sequential quadratic programming (SQP) method is pro posed to solve the distributed beamforming problem in multiple relay networks. The problem is formulated as the minimization of the total relay transmit power, su...
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A sequential quadratic programming (SQP) method is pro posed to solve the distributed beamforming problem in multiple relay networks. The problem is formulated as the minimization of the total relay transmit power, subject to individual signal-to-interference-and-noise ratio constraints at each receiver, which is a nonconvex quadratic constraint quadratic programming. Rather than solving its semi-definite programming (SDP) relaxation, we apply the SQP method to solve its tightened form to replace its inequality constraints with equalities. Its global convergence is guaranteed. Simulations show that it not only runs much faster, but also performs as good as SDP for calculation results.
Deadlock control is an important research issue in automated manufacturing systems that have a high degree of resource sharing and concurrency. Since minimal siphons are closely tied with deadlocks in Petri net models...
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Scale-invariant feature transform (SIFT) has been well studied in recent years. Most related research efforts focused on designing and learning effective descriptors to characterize a local interest point. However, ho...
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Recent large-scale hierarchical classification tasks typically have tens of thousands of classes as well as a large number of samples, for which the dominant solution is the top-down method due to computational comple...
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Spectral clustering is an elegant and powerful approach for clustering. However, the underlying eigen-decomposition takes cubic time and quadratic space w.r.t. the data set size. These can be reduced by the Nystrm met...
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we present a new flexible alignment method to align two or more similar images, especially biological images. By minimizing an energy functional measuring the difference of the initial image and target image, an L...
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we present a new flexible alignment method to align two or more similar images, especially biological images. By minimizing an energy functional measuring the difference of the initial image and target image, an L2 -gradient flow is derived. The flow is integrated by a finite element method in the spatial direction and an explicit Euler scheme in the temporal direction. Multi-resolution representations are used for achieving efficient multi-scale alignment The experimental results on 2D images show that the proposed method is efficient, effective, robust and capable of capturing the variation of the initial and target images, from large to small scale.
This work presents a method to detect the size and location of tumor in soft tissues using ultrasound. Quantitative ultrasound is utilized to allow an ultrasound signal to be sent from a transmitter to multiple receiv...
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This work presents a method to detect the size and location of tumor in soft tissues using ultrasound. Quantitative ultrasound is utilized to allow an ultrasound signal to be sent from a transmitter to multiple receivers. This received signal is analyzed for echogenic and echolucent tumors to differentiate between the two along with non-tumor sample and also studied for the delay to determine the size/location of the tumor. The proposed system utilizes Low Transient Pulse (LTP) technique and is implemented using Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) and Digital Signal Processor (DSP) technologies. In this co-design architecture, DSP carries out the analysis of received demodulated signal at a lower speed while FPGA runs at a higher one to generate LTP signal and demodulate bandpass ultrasonic signal. This work elaborates the implementation of Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM) receiver on FPGA for the received signal from an ultrasound detector. LTP is applied to the tumor samples through the transmitter and the received signal at an ultrasonic receiver is passed through QAM to obtain different maxima that are then further used to compute the location and the size of the tumor using DSP. This dual platform co-design demonstrates a good application of a FPGA/DSP platform for the LTP generation and received signal processing.
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