We present a new, system-level approach for the synthesis of multi-task hard real-time applications off-the-shelf processors. The goal is to select a set of processors with minimal cost while satisfying timing constraints. In our approach there are three design phases: resource allocation, assignment (partitioning), and scheduling. With the observation that the resource allocation is a search f...

The social context of eating has a profound effect on consumption choices. Social modeling, that involves using others’ behavior as guide for appropriate consumption, been well documented food intake, but less is known about modeling Moreover, mainly studied in laboratory settings. We conducted an observational study self-service canteen to examine whether the choices individual were influenced...

Despite the significant progress that has been achieved over the past 15 years, a notable fact in the history of OT [1] is that the discovery and solution of various OT puzzles (i.e., correctness problems in previous OT algorithms) has been a main driver of research. However, the existence of OT puzzles can be largely attributed to the lack of a suitable theoretical framework for guiding the de...

The identification and classification of weeds are of major technical and economical importance in the agricultural industry. To automate these activities, like in shape, color and texture, weed control system is feasible. The goal of this paper is to build a real-time, machine vision weed control system that can detect weed locations. In order to accomplish this objective, a real-time robotic ...

Male-specific coliphages are often used as indicators of contamination by enteric viruses. These phages can be detected in water samples by plaque assays and by polymerase chain reaction. In this study, the M13 coliphage was used to develop a real-time PCR assay for the detection of male-specific DNA coliphages. The real-time PCR was found to have a reaction efficiency of 1.45 and detection lim...

This paper presents a system level approach for the synthesis of hard real-time multitask application specific systems. The algorithm takes into account task precedence constraints among multiple hard real-time tasks and targets a multiprocessor system consisting of a set of heterogeneous off-the-shelf processors. The optimization goal is to select a minimal cost multi-subset of processors whil...

This paper describes Hume: a novel domain-specific language whose purpose is to explore the expressibility/costability spectrum in resource-constrained systems, such as real-time embedded or control systems. Hume provides a number of high level features including higherorder functions, polymorphic types, arbitrary but sized user-defined data structures, asynchronous processes, lightweight excep...