An audience driven philosophy for web site design takes the different target audiences as an explicit starting point, and organizes the basic navigation structure accordingly. However, for the designer it is not always easy, or sometimes even impossible, to assess the different requirements of the different target audiences correctly. In this paper, we show how to correct for such possible flaw...

The number of factories, service providers, retailers, and final users that create networks and establish collaborations for increasing their productivity and competitiveness is constantly growing, especially by effect of the globalization and outsourcing of industrial activities. This trend introduces new complexities in the value supply chain, not last the need for secure and private data sha...

Historically, phase II trials in oncology generally had a single-arm design, constructed to distinguish between a tumor response rate felt to indicate a lack of promise (often 5%) and a rate that would indicate potential benefit (often 20%), with a one-sided type I error rate of 5% to 10% and a type II error rate of 10% to 20%. The dominant use of this design was based on the premise that an ag...

In some experimental investigations each experimental unit has a critical stimulus level that cannot be observed directly. The distribution of these critical levels (or thresholds) over test specimens is of primary interest. In pyrotechnics applications the stimulus (or stress) level, denoted by x, may be the drop height of an explosive, or the pressure on a pile of ammunition, and the response...

In this paper a novel Modified Simulated Annealing Algorithm (MSAA) is used as global optimization technique to find the solution of combinatorial optimization problem which is usually difficult to tackle. MSAA combines good methodologies like global minimum converging property of Simulated Annealing algorithm and fast convergence rate of Hamming scan algorithm. Orthogonal Netted Radar System (...

We designed a metallic programmable mirror for optical wavelengths made up of a large number of discrete steps which can be moved independently by actuators. The device is able to easily reshape an incident beam, imprinting on it an optical vortex with tunable topological charge and orbital angular momentum (OAM). Furthermore it is possible to generate almost arbitrary field profiles which can ...

Sequences with good autocorrelation Properties are useful for radar and communication applications. In this paper One Twenty Phase sequences are synthesized using Modified Genetic Algorithm (MGA). MGA is used as a statistical technique for obtaining approximate solutions to combinatorial optimization problems. This algorithm combines the good methodologies of the two algorithms like global mini...

The need for two-phase logic design is driven by marketing requirements to provide the most silicon efficient implementation of digital VLSI circuits. This has led to an industry wide development of more area efficient techniques that represent a departure from the traditional edgetriggered state machine methodology. In the past these techniques have been largely adhoc. However, we have develop...

A phase diagram, defined by the amplitude square and phase of scattering coefficients for absorption cross-section in each individual channel, is introduced as a universal map on the electromagnetic properties for passive scatterers. General physical bounds are naturally revealed based on the intrinsic power conservation in a passive scattering system, entailing power competitions among scatter...