We consider preemptive scheduling on parallel machines where processing times of jobs are i.i.d. but jobs may already have received distinct amounts of service. We show that when processing times are increasing in lik...
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In this paper we present fast parallel algorithms for finding the cutpoints and bridges of an undirected graph G = (V, E) having n vertices. We start with the notion of partitioning a graph in a set of (mutually disjo...
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The military services are being moved in the direction of performance-based specifications and standards. They are being steered against dictating ''how to'' produce an item since such action foreclose...
The military services are being moved in the direction of performance-based specifications and standards. They are being steered against dictating ''how to'' produce an item since such action forecloses on the ability to gain access to components or technology that may have a commercial equivalent. Why should the engineering community embrace the new approach? Aside from the obvious weight of it being approved policy, therefore currently mandated, it warrants examination because it is the correct approach at this time when applied to appropriate products. Military specifications and standards are to be displaced then, by acceptable alternative contractor design solutions. Industry bidders will be allowed to propose the particular design details, permitting procurement flexibility by contractually citing only system level or interface requirements, both physical and functional. Hopefully, this can broaden the industrial base and increase competition with reduced costs to follow. Conceptually, the approach appears both performance-sensible and cost-attractive (there are, of course, consequent risks) but how does implementation proceed? Is it possible to pursue the goals envisioned along paths that are not in themselves experimental? Can the American postulate, minimal loss of life and limb to U.S. military people, continue to be honored? Experience and track record elsewhere imply encouraging possibilities in select situations-useful prospects are identified and discussed in practical terms.
The Manhattan channel routing problem of providing a one-to-one rectilinear wire connection (horizontal segments on one layer, while vertical segments are on the other) between two sets of terminals which lie on two h...
The Manhattan channel routing problem of providing a one-to-one rectilinear wire connection (horizontal segments on one layer, while vertical segments are on the other) between two sets of terminals which lie on two horizontal lines, with the smallest width, is NP-hard. In this paper, it is studied for m consecutive shift-right-one nets, and a near-optimal router which produces a layout with width at most 2 more than the theoretical lower bound given in [1] is presented.
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TUCK, EFPATTERSON, DPSTUART, JRLAWRENCE, MHCalling Communications Corporation. 1900 West Garvey Ave
South. Suite 200 West Covina CA 91790 USA. Chairman of Calling Communications Corporation. He is also the Managing Director of Kinship Venture Management
Inc. the general partner of Kinship Partners 11 and a General Partner of Boundary the general partner of The Boundary Fund. As a venture capitalist he has founded or participated in founding several telecommunications companies including Calling Communications Corporation Magellan Systems Corporation
manufactures of Global Positioning System receivers Applied Digital Access
manufacturer of DS-3 test access and network performance monitoring equipment Endgate Technology Corporation
specialists in satellite phased array antennas and Poynting Systems Corporation. now a division of Reliance Corporation
manufacturers of fibre optic transport equipment. He was a founder of Kebby Microwave Corporation where he invented the first solid-state. frequency-modulated commercial microwave link system. The company was acquired by ITT Corporation where he rose to the position of V.P. and Technical Director of ITT North America Telecommunications Inc. Subsequently he was V.P. of Marketing and Engineering at American Telecommunications Inc. (ATC). He was founding Director of American Telecom Inc. a joint venture between ATC and Fujitsu and has served on more than 20 boards of directors including those of three public companies. He has authored articles on microwave engineering and telephone signalling and was a contributor to Reference Data For Radio Engineers. He is a graduate of the University of Missouri at Rolla where he was later awarded an honorary Professional degree and serves on its Academy of Electrical Engineering. Mr Tuck is a Senior Member of the IEEE a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers (Australia) a Professional Member of the AIAA and a registered professional engineer in three states. More than 25 years of experience in the telecommunications industry where he has been responsibl
There is a very large demand for basic telephone service in developing nations, and remote parts of industrialized nations, which cannot be met by conventional wireline and cellular systems. This is the world's la...
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There is a very large demand for basic telephone service in developing nations, and remote parts of industrialized nations, which cannot be met by conventional wireline and cellular systems. This is the world's largest unserved market. We describe a system which uses recent advances in active phased arrays, fast-packet switching technology, adaptive routeing, and light spacecraft technology, in part based on the work of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and on recently-declassified work done on the Strategic Defense Initiative, to make it possible to address this market with a global telephone network based on a large low-Earth-orbit constellation of identical satellites. A telephone utility can use such a network to provide the same modern basic and enhanced telephone services offered by telephone utilities in the urban centres of fully-industrialized nations. Economies of scale permit capital and operating costs per subscriber low enough to provide a service to all subscribers, regardless of location, at prices comparable to the same services in urban areas of industrialized nations, while generating operating profits great enough to attract the capital needed for its construction. The bandwidth needed to support the capacity needed to gain these economies of scale requires that the system use K(alpha)-band frequencies. This choice of frequencies places unusual constraints on the network design, and in particular forces the use of a large number of satellites. Global demand for basic and enhanced telephone service is great enough to support at least three networks of the size described herein. The volume of advanced components, and services such as launch services, required to construct and replace these networks is sufficient to propel certain industries to market leadership positions in the early 21st Century.
A global algorithm for reconstructing shape from shading is described. This algorithm incorporates an earlier local algorithm that has been shown to be capable of fast, robust surface reconstruction for general surfac...
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A global algorithm for reconstructing shape from shading is described. This algorithm incorporates an earlier local algorithm that has been shown to be capable of fast, robust surface reconstruction for general surfaces if a small amount of information on the surface is provided. The new algorithm is capable of determining this information automatically, and thus can reconstruct a general surface from shading with no a priori information on the surface. In experimental tests on complex synthetic images, this algorithm has produced good surface reconstructions over most of the image. For 128 /spl times/ 128 images, the reconstruction took less than 30 s on a DECstation 5000. The algorithm appears noise resistant, giving good reconstructions even with an added pixel noise of /spl plusmn/10%.< >
This paper presents a systematic theory for the construction of morphological operators on graphs. Graph morphology extracts structural information from graphs using predefined test probes called structuring graphs. S...
This paper presents a systematic theory for the construction of morphological operators on graphs. Graph morphology extracts structural information from graphs using predefined test probes called structuring graphs. Structuring graphs have a simple structure and are relatively small compared to the graph that is to be transformed. A neighborhood function on the set of vertices of a graph is constructed by relating individual vertices to each other whenever they belong to a local instantiation of the structuring graph. This function is used to construct dilations and erosions. The concept of the structuring graph is also used to define openings and closings. The resulting morphological operators are invariant under symmetries of the graph. Graph morphology resembles classical morphology (which uses structuring elements to obtain translation-invariant operators) to a large extent. However, not all results from classical morphology have analogues in graph morphology because the local graph structure may be different at different vertices.
An approach to shape-from-shading that is based on a connection with a calculus of variations/optimal control problem is proposed. An explicit representation corresponding to a shaded image is given for the surface;un...
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We analyze the distribution of the running time of Mulmuley’s randomized algorithm for computing the intersections of n given segments in the plane. Its expectation has been known to be O(n log n + k), where k is the...
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