In this paper, we consider a repetitive routing problem which we find on a printed circuit board assembly line. There are m different printed circuit boards to be processed. As an automated manipulator embeds electronic parts in a printed circuit board from above, n identical pins from underneath protect it against overbending. A dedicated pin configuration is designed for each printed circuit ...

IONS CONFIGURATION STEFANIA MONTANI,1 ALESSIO BOTTRIGHI,1 GIORGIO LEONARDI,2 AND LUIGI PORTINALE1 1Università del Piemonte Orientale, Alessandria, Italy 2Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy In the hemodialysis domain, we are implementing a case-based, closed-loop architecture aimed at configuring temporal abstractions (TA), which will be applied to time series data. The advantage of a case-based ...

In this paper, the proposal of electromagnetic acoustic transducer (EMAT) in dual coil configuration with consequent application of signal de-noising algorithm is presented in detail. Dual EMAT contains two operated coils in a single housing. Both coils transmit and receive the ultrasonic signal. Based on the proposed coil configuration, two signals characterizing material structure at the same...

Several studies on photovoltaic systems focused on how it operates and energy required in operating it. Little attention is paid on its configurations, modeling of mean time to system failure, availability, cost benefit and comparisons of parallel and series–parallel designs. In this research work, four system configurations were studied. Configuration I consists of two sub-components arranged ...

The Apache Hadoop data processing software is immersed in a complex environment composed of huge machine clusters, large data sets, and several processing jobs. Managing a Hadoop environment is time consuming, toilsome and requires expert users. Thus, lack of knowledge may entail misconfigurations degrading the cluster performance. Indeed, users spend a lot of time tuning the system instead of ...

Subarray configuration is not a trivial problem in array signal processing. A proper subarray configuration is important to improve the detectability of an array. A new searching algorithm, which is based on Genetic Algorithms (GA), for the optimum subarray configuration is proposed in this paper. Our preliminary application to a seismic array has indicated that the new algorithm can search a p...

The XScale processor family provides user-controllable independent scaling configuration of CPU, bus, and memory frequencies. This feature introduces another handle for the code optimization with respect to energy consumption or runtime performance. We quantify the effect of frequency configurations on both performance and energy for three signal processing transforms: DFT, FIR filters, and WHT...

To correctly perceive biological actions, the movement pattern generated in the course of the action has to be linked to the configuration of the actor. Recently, we showed that in humans, motion and configuration cues are processed separately in occipito-temporal cortex, and that both cues are integrated in the extrastriate (EBA) and fusiform (FBA) body areas (Jastorff and Orban, 2009). Using ...

Non-projectivity is an important theoretical and computational concept that has been investigated extensively in the dependency grammar/parsing paradigms. However, from a human sentence processing perspective, non-projectivity has received very little attention. In this paper, we look at existing work and propose new factors related to processing non-projective configuration. We argue that (a) ...

New reconfigurable computing platforms [1] are being introduced to overcome some of the deficiencies of microprocessor-based architectures and fine-grained reconfigurable devices (e.g., FPGAs). One of the new promising architectures is the eXtreme Processing Platform (XPP) [2][3]. It was designed to provide high-performance for stream-based computations and for a broad range of applications exh...