In this paper, a new intelligent cruise control (ICC) system is designed to provide better transient performance than existing ones during traffic disturbances. Stability properties are established for a general variable time headway. Simulations with validated nonlinear vehicle model are conducted to demonstrate our analytical results. It is demonstrated that vehicles with the proposed ICC sys...

Mixed Multi-Unit Combinatorial Auctions extend and generalise all the preceding types of combinatorial auctions. In this paper, we try to make headway on the practical application of MMUCAs by: (1) providing an algorithm to generate artificial data that is representative of the sort of scenarios a winner determination algorithm is likely to encounter; and (2) subsequently assessing the performa...

The archaeology of slave settlements is a recent development within historical archaeology but has gained substantial headway during the last few years. Most of the excavations have been in coastal areas of the Southeastern United States, principally in Georgia and South Carolina. Substantive questions about housing, diet, and lifestyle have been examined. Some comparison between planters. over...

Cognitive science is, more than anything else, a pursuit of cognitive mechanisms. To make headway towards a mechanistic account of any particular cognitive phenomenon, a researcher must choose among the many architectures available to guide and constrain the account. It is thus fitting that this volume on contemporary debates in cognitive science includes two issues of architecture, each articu...

Despite many advances during the last decade in both infra-red sensor and solid state camera technology, until now little headway has been made in the production of cost-effective semiconductor sensor arrays capable of operating far into the infra-red. Old ideas, renewed by the capabilities offered by the latest micromachine technology, may change all this. Reviews the problems associated with ...

The Intelligent Vehicle Initiative (IVI) provides vehicle-based tools that could assist drivers in reacting both more rapidly and effectively to a range of external stimuli. Intelligent or adaptive cruise control systems (ICC or ACC), for example, attempt to assist drivers in better maintaining a safe headway under normal driving conditions. In addition, automatic braking systems may provide ad...

Comment citer ce document : Bailly, J. S., Biarnes, A., Lagacherie, P. (2008). Spatial simulation of agricultural practices using a robust extension of randomized classification tree algorithms. In: Headway in Spatial Data Handling (p. 91-108). Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography, 15. Presented at 13. International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling, Montpellier, FRA (2008-07-23 200...

Empirical studies—formal research that uses respected, validated methods for establishing the truth of an assertion—have started to make headway within software engineering. The good news is that these studies have finally become recognized as an important component of the discipline. One sees more and more empirical studies and experiments in the literature to confirm or reject the effectivene...

Determining the precise subunit composition of AMPARs in situ has been an enduring challenge. In this issue of Neuron, Lu et al. make significant headway into this pesky problem by using a clever single-cell genetic knockout approach. In a Herculean effort, they provide the field with the completeness of a pie chart outlining the contribution of each AMPAR subunit to basal synaptic transmission...

This paper presents experimental results, analytical findings, and simulation evaluations pertaining to the longitudinal dynamics and headway performance of strings of vehicles with and without adaptive cruise control (ACC) systems. It focuses on the amplification of speed disturbances along a string of vehicles, i.e., the stability of string behavior. The work describes measurement, analysis, ...