This paper develops the idea of min-max robust experiment design for dynamic system identification. The idea of min-max experiment design has been explored in the statistics literature. However, the technique is virtually unknown by the engineering community and, accordingly, there has been little prior work on examining its properties when applied to dynamic system identification. This paper i...

SUMMARY In this article we present Typed Feature Structures as an extension of Prolog, and show how to come up with a compilation scheme and an abstract machine using a design methodology based on partial evaluation. First we define the transformations used by our partial evaluator. Then we present the design methodology which we will use later. Next, we clarify the notion of Typed Feature Stru...

Jury Yong CHEN, Directeur de Recherches, ENS Paris Rapporteur Christophe GORECKI , Directeur de Recherches, FEMTO-ST Besançon Rapporteur Yamin LEPRINCE, Professeur, UPEMLV, Marne-la-Vallée Examinateur Bassam SAADANY, Chef du département MEMS, Si-Ware-Systems Examinateur Tarik BOUROUINA, Professeur, ESIEE Paris Examinateur Ai-Qun LIU, Professeur, Nanyang Technological University, Singapour Exami...

An early step in the drug discovery involves screening through numerous chemical compounds to find molecules that have a specified biological or biochemical effect. This screening process is costly, thus any modifications to make the screen more efficient would reduce the total cost of drug discovery. Current high-throughput screening methods test each compound from a library of compounds indiv...

Preface These course notes cover a lecture on algorithm engineering for the basic toolbox that Peter Sanders is reading at Universität Karlsruhe since 2004. The text is compiled from slides, scientific papers and other manuscripts. Most of this material is in English so that this language was adopted as the main language. However, some parts are in German. The primal sources of our material are...

We study experiment design to infer link loss rates from end-to-end losses on selected paths using network tomography. Since the inverse Fisher information matrix (FIM) establishes a lower bound on the error of any unbiased estimator, we formulate the problem as the design of probabilities in selecting probing paths to minimize an objective function based on the FIM. We consider two widely-adop...

Heat exchangers are one of the most important devices of mechanical systems in modernsociety. Most industrial processes involve the transfer of heat and more often they requirethe heat transfer process to be controlled. A heat exchanger is the heat exchanged betweentwo media, one being cold and the other being hot. There are different types of heatexchanger, but the type which is widely used in...

in this paper we introduce a new scheme of censoring and study it under the weibull distribution. this scheme is a mixture of progressive type ii censoring and self relocating design which was first introduced by srivastava [8]. we show the superiority of this censoring scheme (psrd) relative to the classical schemes with respect to “asymptotic variance”. comparisons are also made with respect ...