From the EIC: Smart and Autonomous Systems

From the EIC: Manufacturing test woes

WITH THE MANUFACTURING CAPACITY of thousands of wafers per week, and thousands of dies per wafer, today's silicon comes out of fab really fast—and furious—sporting device I/Os in the gigabit-per-second range. But it is increasingly going into high-volume and low-cost consumer electronic parts, exhausting the available time and money to test these parts. Little wonder that the 2003 International...

Smart Fluid Systems: The Advent of Autonomous Liquid Robotics

Organic, inorganic or hybrid devices in the liquid state, kept in a fixed volume by surface tension or by a confining membrane that protects them from a harsh environment, could be used as biologically inspired autonomous robotic systems with unique capabilities. They could change shape according to a specific exogenous command or by means of a fully integrated adaptive system, and provide an i...

From RHIC to EIC: Nuclear Structure Functions

We study the nuclear structure function FA 2 and its logarithmic derivative in the high energy limit (small x region) using the Color Glass Condensate formalism. In this limit the structure function F2 depends on the quark anti-quark dipole-target scattering cross section NF (xbj , rt, bt). The same dipole cross section appears in single hadron and hadron-photon production cross sections in the...

Smart Executives for Autonomous

Cooperating Autonomous Smart Devices

Pervasive and ambient intelligence will involve interaction coordination and cooperation among more and more smart devices. Research in Multi-agent systems addresses the issues of interaction and autonomy and thus provides interesting technologies to design pervasive and ambient computing environments. In this article, we explore various approaches to interconnect the physical and material worl...