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Following the Service-Oriented Architecture, a large number of diversified Cloud services are exposed as Web APIs (Application Program Interface), which serve as the contracts between the service providers and service consumers. Due to their massive and broad applications, any flaw in the cloud APIs may lead to serious consequences. API testing is thus necessary to ensure the availability, reliability,...
This paper is using artificial neural network (ANN) to predict oxygen content in the water for the fish farm, so that decrease times of starts of oxygen suppliers. In Southern Taiwan, aquaculture is one of major economic industries. Especially, the important issue is how to effectively monitor the oxygen content in the water, so that the fish will not die and start the oxygen suppliers for the minimum...
Wind-flow around a long-span bridge, as a bluff body, will generate an aerodynamic force that interacts with the flow, causing vibration to the bridge deck. This phenomenon can lead to structural fatigue or worst, the bridge collapse. A continuous and comprehensive measurement system is needed for early detection and maintenance reference of a long-span bridge. Another benefit this system is aiming...
High quality requirements are set for automated production systems (aPS) as malfunctions can harm humans or cause severe financial loss. These malfunctions can be caused by faults in the control software of the aPS or its inability to correctly identify and handle unintended situations and errors in the technical process or hardware behavior. To achieve more dependable control software, software testing...
We present single event transient (SET) and total ionizing dose (TID) data for the single channel voltage supervisor fabricated in a 0.35μm triple-well, mixed-signal CMOS process.
Total dose test results are presented for the Maxim 1257/1258 multi-channel ADC/DAC, and the Linear Technology LTC2378-20 low power SAR ADC. The paper discusses radiation testing challenges of complex mixed signal circuits.
This article proposes an approach to generate test cases from BPMN models, for automated testing of Web applications implemented with the support of BPM suites. The work is primarily focused on functional testing and has the following objectives: (i) identify execution paths from the flow analysis in the BPMN model and (ii) generate the initial code of test scripts to be run on a given Web application...
Developing a virtualized network service does not only involve the implementation and configuration of the network functions it is composed of but also its integration and test with management solutions that will control the service in its production environment. These integration tasks require testbeds that offer the needed network function virtualization infrastructure (NFVI), like OpenStack, introducing...
Justified and complete verification for hardware designs is a critical step as industrial hardware designs becomes more and more complex. Moreover, one of the most important aspects of verification is coverage which monitors during simulation which design specification, features and also RTL code area is being covered. Following how important coverage is, most hardware verification tools provide different...
Post hemiparetic stroke an individual may face difficulty performing bimanual tasks due to an asymmetry in their arms' strengths. Here, we determined whether participants with a strength asymmetry were impaired bi-directionally when matching torques between arms (i.e., paretic arm matches non-paretic arm, non-paretic arm matches paretic arm). Six participants with chronic hemiparetic stroke and four...
The problem of evaluating reliability of telecommunication systems in general, and their components is considered. The method of forecasting the reliability of a telecommunications system designed according to the results of stress testing is proposed. The essence of the proposed method is to use the emissions of a random process as a diagnostic parameter that displays the trajectory of a monitored...
This paper is based on two decades of experience with continuous monitoring of Partial Discharge (PD) in medium voltage equipment including Rotating Machines. The technology uses multiple sensors distributed along monitored objects and 1 – 20 MHz frequency range. It allows for additional noise reduction and for localizing of PD activity sources. The importance of continuous PD monitoring vs. periodic...
Outages within the paper industry lead to significant costs to operators. To reduce unplanned outage and losses condition monitoring (CM) techniques can be implemented to determine asset health and help target maintenance where it is most required. The challenges faced by the paper industry to implement condition based maintenance (CBM) on their medium voltage (MV) and high voltage (HV) networks and...
Accurate training on electronic measurements can be obtained while experimenting with real sensors, electronic circuits and equipments. The paper presents an experimental system that allows the study and testing for two ultrasonic sensors, the remote programming for one of them and the monitoring of switching output for each sensor. A programmable logic controller performs the sensor remote programming...
Identifying anomalous events in the network is one of the vital functions in enterprises, ISPs, and datacenters to protect the internal resources. With its importance, there has been a substantial body of work for network anomaly detection using supervised and unsupervised machine learning techniques with their own strengths and weaknesses. In this work, we take advantage of the both worlds of unsupervised...
Ratings, construction, and testing of dead-front control switchboards containing, but not limited to, devices such as switches, control devices, instrumentation, metering, monitoring, alarms, annunciators, protective and auxiliary relays, and regulating devices and accessories are covered in this standard. It includes, but is not specifically limited to, switchboards for the control and protection...
Hajj is defined as a yearly Islamic pilgrimage to the holy place, Makkah. It is a religious obligation for Muslims who are financially and physically capable to perform. Hajj is one of the five pillars of Islam. The gathering of people during Hajj can be considered as the largest yearly gathering in the world. Every year, thousands of Muslims from all over the world will gather at the holy place during...
The article deals with the condition estimation of 6-10 kV cable lines (CL) with impregnated paper insulation (IPI) taking into account their length and operational reliability measures according to failure statistics. The subject under study is urgent because of the lack of reasonable insulation diagnostics of CL. The article theoretically justifies the CL diagnostics with non-destructive methods...
Boolean network tomography is a powerful tool to infer the state (working/failed) of individual nodes from path-level measurements obtained by egde-nodes. We consider the problem of optimizing the capability of identifying network failures through the design of monitoring schemes. Finding an optimal solution is NP-hard and a large body of work has been devoted to heuristic approaches providing lower...
The objective of this paper is to extend the applicability of the GLR method to a wide range of practical systems. Most real systems are nonlinear, multivariate, and are best represented by input-output type of models. Kernel partial least squares (KPLS) models have been widely used to represent such systems. Therefore, in this paper, kernel PLS-based GLR method will be utilized in practice to improve...
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