The plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV), utilizing more battery power, has become the next-generation HEV with great promise of higher fuel economy. Global optimization charge-depletion power management would be desirable. However, this has so far been hampered due the a priori nature of the trip information and the almost prohibitive computational cost of global optimization techniques such...

Current experimental investigation deals with the effects of asymmetrical rolling parameters on the inhomogeneity, microstructure, mechanical, and geometrical properties of rolled brass wire. Toward this end, a roll machine with three different roll radii ratios was set up. The asymmetrical conditions are arranged using three different sets of rolls with different diameters that result into dif...

This study investigates replication strategies for reducing latency to desired content in a vehicular peer-to-peer network. We provide a general constrained optimization formulation for efficient replication and study it via analysis and simulations employing a discrete random walk mobility model for the vehicles. Our solution space comprises of a family of popularity based replication schemes ...

The hours of service regulations of the department of transportation severely restrict the set of feasible driver schedules. So much so that establishing whether a sequence of full truckload transportation requests, each with a dispatch window at the origin, can feasibly be executed by a driver is no longer a matter of simple forward simulation. We consider this problem and prove that the feasi...

The Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) conference is the main European event in the field of Computer Aided Design (CAD) and testing. This outstanding event brings together researchers, users and vendors, as well as specialists in the design, test and manufacturing of electronic circuits and systems. DATE is a unification of the main conferences in the field and was built on the succes...

E d i t o r s : A n d y H u n t a n d D a v e T h o m a s I T h e P r a g m a t i c P r o g r a m m e r s a n d y @ p r a g m a t i c p r o g r a m m e r. c o m I d a v e @ p r a g m a t i c p r o g r a m m e r. c o m A guiding principle behind agile software development is the idea of keeping things simple. The Agile Manifesto defines it this way: " Simplicity—the art of maximizing the amount ...