-We evaluated the ability of path analysis to characterize direct and indirect interactions in a natural ecological system. Based on previous experimental work, we constructed a path diagram reflecting presumed relationships between kangaroo rats (Dipodomys spp.) and two other small rodent species. The technique was applied to examine the direct effects of competition and indirect effects media...

Program activity graphs (PAGs) can be constructed from timestamped traces of appropriate execution events. Information about the activities on the k longest execution paths is useful in the analysis of parallel program performance. In this paper, four algorithms for finding the near–critical paths of PAGs are compared, including a best–first search (BFS) algorithm that is worst–case asymptotica...

Wireless sensor networks demand energy efficient and application specific medium access control protocol when deployed in critical areas which are not frequently accessible. In such areas, the residual energy of nodes also become important along with the efficient data delivery. Many techniques using adaptive duty cycle approach are suggested by researchers to improve the data delivery performa...

We present an equation-based transistor size optimizer that minimizes delay of custom circuits. Our method uses static timing analysis to find the critical paths and numerical methods to optimize transistor sizes continuously without using simulation. Consequently, it is faster than simulation-based optimizers, and more general than standard cell optimizers. We demonstrate its efficacy and accu...

This paper presents an approach to extracting the separation surfaces from periodic 2D time-dependent vector fields based on a recently introduced path line oriented topology. This topology is based on critical path lines which repeat the same spatial cycle per time period. Around those path lines there are areas of similar asymptotic flow behavior (basins) which are captured by a 2D Poincaré m...

The classical PERT approach uses the path with the largest expected duration as the critical path to estimate the probability of completing a network by a given deadline. However, in general, such a path is not the most critical path (MCP) and does not have the smallest estimate for the probability of completion time. The main idea of this paper is derived from the domination structure between ...

Workload characterization of digital circuits using industry standard benchmarks gives an insight into the performance and energy characteristics of processor designs. Aging studies of digital circuits due to BTI, HCI is gaining importance since a higher impact on the performance of circuits can be observed as we scale down gate dimensions. For embedded system applications, the workload may ver...