Cloud Computing, the long-held dream of computing as a utility, has the potential to transform a large part of the IT industry, making software even more attractive as a service and shaping the way IT hardware is designed and purchased. Virtualization technology forms a key concept for new cloud computing architectures. The data centers are used to provide cloud services burdening a significant...

The Advanced Light Source (ALS) beamline (BL) 10.3.2 is an apparatus for X-ray microprobe spectroscopy and diffraction experiments, operating in the energy range 2.4-17 keV. The performance of the beamline, namely the spatial and energy resolutions of the measurements, depends significantly on the collimation quality of light incident on the monochromator. In the BL 10.3.2 end-station, the sync...

To achieve the highest level performance with computer controlled machines, the flexibility of the system must be taken into account. Feedforward methods are often the most desirable means of eliminating vibration. The fastest motions can be obtained by using the timeoptimal flexible-body command. These commands depend on the system parameters, actuator limits, and the desired motion. Input sha...

In this article, the authors introduce and study the performance of two novel parametric families of Nyquist intersymbol interference-free pulses. Using only two design parameters, the proposed pulses yield an enhanced performance compared to the sophisticated flipped-inverse hyperbolic secant (asech) filter, which was recently documented in the literature. Although the construction of parametr...

We deal with the numerical approximation of the section of a column of liquid metal shaped by an external electromagnetic eld. The bidimensional model used here leads up to solve, by a spectral method, a nonlinear boundary value problem posed on the exterior of the unit disk to nd a convenient conformal mapping. We give accurate bounds on the errors in the approximation process. We present some...

In the manufacturing industry, lots of rapid point-to-point motion is required while the residual vibration is unfavorable. Residual vibrations caused by flexible elements are limiting the performance of mechanical system, especially when the system needs to make rapid point-to-point motion. As proved in earlier studies, avoiding natural frequencies of the mechanical system reduces the residual...

Security is a critical issue in modern power system operation. With the aid of analytic tools for large-scale and hybrid systems, this paper proposes two new safety verification methods for power systems. The first method is based on barrier certificates and passivity. This method provides a general safety verification framework for power systems with the port-Hamiltonian structure. The energy ...