The physical structure of the lab is shown in Figure 3. The plug-and-supply interfaces to which resources can be connected are marked in green. Starting from the feed-in, the ring connects a solar photovoltaics (PV) simulator shown in blue. It consists of a commercially available inverter and a solar panel emulated by a controllable electronic amplifier. Loads are shown in yellow. A single fami...

Some important developments have occurred since April 2014, when I first submitted this article for publication. Because the two-volume set of Festschrift contributions in which this article was recently published is not available online, I have decided (with permission of those involved in the Festschrift) to have my own article posted on the website of the University of Kansas Law School (www...

End-to-end automated application design and deployment poses a significant technical challenge. With increasing scale and complexity of IT systems and the manual handling of existing scripts and configuration files for application deployment that makes them increasingly error-prone and brittle, this problem has become more acute. Even though design tools have been used to automated system desig...

Training is one of the most rapidly expanding areas of application of the technology of Virtual Reality (VR) with virtual training being developed in industry, commerce, the military, medical and other areas of education and in a variety of types of rehabilitation. In all cases such training rests upon the assumption that what is learned in the virtual environment transfers to the equivalent re...

This study proposes a scheme to map the operand stack of the Java Virtual Machine to hardware registers and evaluates the performance beneets of the proposed scheme. Using the technique of register renaming while mapping the stack to registers , we are able to exploit the inherent parallelism in the instruction stream. The simulation results conducted show an improvement of about 15%-26% for th...

The stack model of execution uses a stack to hold temporary results during evaluation of a program. Systems such as Java virtual machines that use this model can be implemented so that they have more efficient access to the stack than to local variables. Thus, converting local variable accesses into stack accesses can improve the performance of stack-based programs, as suggested by the experime...

Purpose – The aim of this paper was to explore the use of objective fabric parameters in 3-D virtual garment simulation. Design Method – Two methods (FAST and Browzwear’s fabric testing kit) of obtaining objective fabric measurements and the derived parameters for virtual garment simulation were studied. Three parameters (extension, shear and bend) were investigated to establish if the selected...

Purpose – The aim of this paper was to explore the use of objective fabric parameters in 3-D virtual garment simulation. Design Method – Two methods (FAST and Browzwear’s fabric testing kit) of obtaining objective fabric measurements and the derived parameters for virtual garment simulation were studied. Three parameters (extension, shear and bend) were investigated to establish if the selected...

Industrial adoption of PKMs may be eased by availability of methodologies and integrated tools able to analyze in a short time PKMs of any architecture, providing the key data needed to design the machine. The proposed Virtual Prototyping Environment for PKM Analysis answers to these requirements, quickly estimating not only the reachable workspace, the Jacobian conditioning, but also the actua...

Efficient and fair use of buffer space in ATM switch is essential to gain high throughput and low cell-loss performance from the network. A shared buffer architecture associated with threshold based virtual partition among output ports is proposed. Thresholds are updated based on trajfic characteristics on each outgoing link, so as to adapt to traf$c loads. System behavior under varying trafJic...