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We propose a Map Reduce based stream processing system, called SSS, which is capable of processing stream along with large scale static data. Unlike the existing stream processing systems that can work only on the relatively small on-memory data-set, SSS can process incoming streamed data consulting the stored data. SSS processes streamed data with continuous Mappers and Reducers, which are periodically...
Numerically well-conditioned state-space realisations for all-pass systems, such as Padé approximations to exp(-s), are derived that can be computed using exact integer arithmetic. This is then applied to the a series of functions of exp(-s). It is also shown that the H-infinity norm of the transfer function from the input to the state of a balanced realisation of the Padé approximation of exp(-s)...
This paper presents a new approach for observer design for a class of nonlinear singular systems which can be transformed into a special normal form. The interest of the proposed form is to facilitate the observer synthesis for the studied nonlinear singular systems. Necessary and sufficient geometrical conditions are deduced in order to guarantee the existence of a diffeomorphism which transforms...
Testpoint erosion, the continuously increasing loss of physical net/node access at the In-Circuit Test process step is putting board test strategies at risk [1]. In response, the International Electronics Manufacturing Industry (iNEMI) [2] 2009 road map and gap analysis [3] efforts launched a Technology Integration Group (TIG) ‘Built-in Self-Test Project’ or ‘BIST projecty’ [4] to drive a new test...
The recent advances in Grid and Cloud computing make new types of applications possible. At the same time, they require an infrastructure to implement heterogeneous computing resources time and cost-savely. Here, approaches that utilize design patterns, i.e., proven solutions to existing problems, seem to provide a good approach to enable these kind of applications. In this paper, we investigated...
Currently, the engineering community faces shortages. These shortages can be conceptualized as both literal shortages of numbers, particularly females, and a more conceptual shortage of engineers who are trained and qualified to handle the transitioning global context of the profession. With its rapid growth, high female involvement, and global vision, Engineers Without Borders-USA (EWB-USA) stands...
The goal of this workshop is to introduce participants to tools that can help them manage teams in their classes effectively and efficiently. We review some of the factors that instructors may wish to consider when administering self- and peer-evaluations and how they might improve the quality of those evaluations using rater training. Attendees with wireless-network-capable laptop computers will...
Early drop out and poor retention rates are a major challenge to engineering education, which in many institutions have prompted a focus on improved first-year experiences. Retention and contributing learning challenges persists into the middle years, particularly when students confront the first engineering science courses in their major field. Students often perceive these courses as too abstract,...
A goal of the philosophy of engineering and engineering education is to more clearly distinguish engineering and engineering education from science and science education. This paper advances the suggestion that one distinction between the activities of science and engineering is the role of abstract thinking. Engineering and science both engage in abstract thinking, but the direction of the abstraction...
On behalf of the Technical Program Committee of GCCE 2012, I would like to welcome you to the 1st Global Conference on Consumer Electronics. Just like International CES + ICCE, GCCE 2012 held with CEATEC, one of the biggest Consumer Electronics Show in the world, has many interesting keynotes, symposium, and of course paper/poster presentations!
Enterprise software developers must regularly communicate with one another to obtain information and coordinate changes to legacy code, but find it cumbersome and complicated to determine the most relevant and expedient person to contact. This becomes especially difficult when the relevant person has transferred teams or changed their personal contact information since contributing to the project...
Social networking applications have become a very popular means of communication and interaction in recent times and user participation has increased tremendously. It has become a norm that personal information is constantly shared with other social network users. The types of data uploaded and shared on user profiles also include sensitive information that one would rather it was accessible to a...
Advanced signal operations offer practitioners an opportunity to reduce delay at their intersections at minimal cost by using features already included in their signal control software. One advanced operations technique is phase reservice and its associated feature conditional reservice. This research examines the impact of applying these techniques to the left turn at Hall Blvd. on 99W in Tigard,...
Following the frame semantics paradigm, we present a novel strategy for solving null-instantiated arguments. Our method learns probability distributions of semantic types for each Frame Element from explicit corpus annotations. These distributions are used to select the most probable missing implicit arguments together with its most probable fillers. We empirically demonstrate that our method outperforms...
Modeling is one of the major research areas in social network analysis whose goal is to study networks structure and its evolution?. ?Motivated by the intuition that members in social networks behave selfishly?, ?network creation games have been introduced for modeling social networks?. ?In this paper?, ?our aim is to measure how much the output graphs of a given network creation game are compatible...
New technologies allow to store vast amount of data about users interaction. From those data the social network can be created. Additionally, because usually also time and dates of this activities are stored, the dynamic of such network can be analyzed by splitting it into many timeframes representing the state of the network during specific period of time. One of the most interesting issue is group...
Logical dependencies refer to implicit relationships established among software artifacts that make them frequently change together throughout the software development process. Research in global software development has shown that such dependencies influence the quality of software systems and the coordination needs among developers and teams in software development. Properly identifying logical...
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