In the field of scientific computing, Basic, C, and Fortran are widely used all over the world. Lots of beginners and students, however, suffer problems in making simulation programs due to inexperienced and complicat...
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In the field of scientific computing, Basic, C, and Fortran are widely used all over the world. Lots of beginners and students, however, suffer problems in making simulation programs due to inexperienced and complicated computer programming rules. Under such circumstances, some practical examples solved by using the spreadsheet software like Excel have been reported recently [1-3], where just by using equations written in each cell, calculations are performed without making any program. In the Excel analysis, writing and debugging are visually conducted by simply making use of worksheet analysis, and iterative calculations are carried out automatically until the prescribed convergence criterion is satisfied. Concerning calculated results, numerical values shown in the computational domain are immediately visualized using the chart wizard. Therefore, by using the spreadsheet software like Excel, even the students and younger researchers who have just started to study numerical analysis can perform calculations easily and quickly without studying any special knowledge about the computer language, and in addition without writing lengthy computer programs. In this study, for the purpose of introducing the abovementioned useful method to thermal analysis of electrical apparatus, electronic equipment and so on, the calculation process by thermal network method has been shown by using the concrete example of a compact fluorescent lamp.
We propose adding users' Media Access Control (MAC) addresses to standard X.509 certificates to provide more secure authentication. Recent patents demonstrate efforts on a X.509 certificate by adding security feat...
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In this study, a multistage scenario-based inexact fuzzy-stochastic chance-constrained programming (MSIFSCCP) is proposed for water resources management under uncertainty. The developed a hybrid inexact optimization a...
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In this study, a multistage scenario-based inexact fuzzy-stochastic chance-constrained programming (MSIFSCCP) is proposed for water resources management under uncertainty. The developed a hybrid inexact optimization approach integrates multistage scenario-based interval-stochastic programming (MSISP), chance-constrained programming (CCP) and fuzzy-stochastic linear programming (FSLP) within a general optimization framework. It can directly incorporated and reflect uncertainties presented as both interval numbers and probability distributions. Using semi-infinite analysis can be incorporated into the modeling framework to deal with infinite α-cuts to the membership functions of fuzzy parameters. This model could be used for water authorities and thus it provides useful decision under various social environmental system conditions.
This classical way to manage product development processes for massive production seems to be changing: high pressure for cost reduction, higher quality standards, markets reaching for innovation lead to the necessity...
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This classical way to manage product development processes for massive production seems to be changing: high pressure for cost reduction, higher quality standards, markets reaching for innovation lead to the necessity of new tools for development control. Into this, and learning from the automotive and aerospace industries factories from other segments are starting to understand and apply manufacturing and assembly oriented projects to ease the task of generate goods and from this obtain at least a part of the expected results. This paper is intended to demonstrate the applicability of the concepts of Concurrent engineering and DFM/DFA (Design for Manufacturing and Assembly) in the development of products and parts for the White Goods industry in Brazil (major appliances as refrigerators, cookers and washing machines), showing one case concerning the development and releasing of a component. Finally is demonstrated in a short term how was reached a solution that could provide cost savings and reduction on the time to delivery using those techniques.
The Partnership, Pathway, and Pipeline for engineering Education (P 3E2) Project is an exploratory collaboration between ASU engineering faculty and Santan Junior High School teachers from a broad range of subjects an...
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The Partnership, Pathway, and Pipeline for engineering Education (P 3E2) Project is an exploratory collaboration between ASU engineering faculty and Santan Junior High School teachers from a broad range of subjects and local community members aimed at engaging middle school students in real world and grade-relevant engineering activities as a way of enriching the value of their STEM education as it relates to STEM careers and their broad societal relevance. Central to the P3E2 project is the introduction of engineering design across the curricula via the implementation of the engineering design process through engineering service-learning projects that are intended to facilitate integrated learning of science, math, social studies and language arts. Such STEM-based integrated activities have been co-developed in partnership with middle school teachers and are designed to engage students and captivate their interest while promoting problem-solving and entrepreneurial skills by addressing real world needs in their local communities. This one-year pilot project consisted of four key phases that were implemented in nearly equal quarters, i.e., (a) the creation of a vibrant partnership to assess, motivate and inform teachers and counselors about engineering and its societal connections, workforce barriers, and curricular relevance, (b) the development of a viable education pathway to successfully engage 8th grade students in the full spectra of STEM-based learning that captivate their interest through integrated activities that span across science, mathematics, language arts and social studies, (c) the implementation of semester-long science and engineering fair projects chosen by students who were mentored by ASU engineering undergraduate and graduate students and (d) the evaluation of the P3E2 program effectiveness using designated assessment tools that were developed and administered to the teachers and students at the middle school. The major findings and the lessons
The content distribution services via the Internet have become popular. However, these services have some problems that prevent users from getting a file efficiently and there still remains much room for improving the...
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The content distribution services via the Internet have become popular. However, these services have some problems that prevent users from getting a file efficiently and there still remains much room for improving the performance. In this paper, we focus on representative hybrid P2P network application, BitTorrent, and try to resolve these problems. Because the content files are divided into pieces and finely handled at the piece level, BitTorrent allows users to exchange data efficiently in massively parallel transmission manner. However, there exist some problems with BitTorrent two of which are mainly focused on this paper. The first problem is that BitTorrent has a possibility to lack the nodes who has a entire file. The second one is that some nodes can't receive data for some unfair reason because of the limit on connected nodes. Therefore, in this paper, we propose the method for placing transfer support nodes by service providers to allow users to get contents efficiently and evaluates the proposed method by using computer simulation.
We propose HyperShield, which is a hypervisor that can be inserted into and removed from a running operating system, for improving security. While many existing security-oriented hypervisors require modifying or reboo...
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In recent years, program evolution algorithms based on the estimation of distribution algorithm (EDA) have been proposed to improve search ability of genetic programming (GP) and to overcome GP-hard problems. One such...
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In recent years, program evolution algorithms based on the estimation of distribution algorithm (EDA) have been proposed to improve search ability of genetic programming (GP) and to overcome GP-hard problems. One such method is the probabilistic prototype tree (PPT) based algorithm. The PPT based method explores the optimal tree structure by using the full tree whose number of child nodes is maximum among possible trees. This algorithm, however, suffers from problems arising from function nodes having different number of child nodes. These function nodes cause intron nodes, which do not affect the fitness function. Moreover, the function nodes having many child nodes increase the search space and the number of samples necessary for properly constructing the probabilistic model. In order to solve this problem, we propose binary encoding for PPT. In this article, we convert each function node to a subtree of binary nodes where the converted tree is correct in grammar. Our method reduces ineffectual search space, and the binary encoded tree is able to express the same tree structures as the original method. The effectiveness of the proposed method is demonstrated through the use of two computational experiments.
The use of systems architecture, following a set of integrated descriptions from an architecture framework, has been well codified in department of Defense acquisition and systemsengineering. However, in the Space Sc...
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The use of systems architecture, following a set of integrated descriptions from an architecture framework, has been well codified in department of Defense acquisition and systemsengineering. However, in the Space Science and Technology (S&T) community, this guidance and practice receives much less attention. This paper outlines an approach to embrace the new focus of DoD Architecture Framework 2.0 (DoDAF2.0), with an emphasis on data and support to acquisition decision analysis. After decomposing the Space S&T lifecycle into phases, design milestones and activities using process models, we then propose a set of lifecycle-matured models and Fit-for-Purpose views. Our approach makes DoDAF2.0 more relevant and integrated with S&T missions, as well as facilitates reuse with existing documentation.
In this paper, we propose a new service platform which provides stable QoS by allocating components dynamically with considering fault-tolerance. We assume that many kinds of components are running on component server...
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