Observing the Earth radiation budget (ERB) from satellites is crucial for monitoring and understanding Earth’s climate. One of major challenges ERB observations, particularly reflected shortwave radiation, conversion measured radiance to more energetically relevant quantity radiative flux, or irradiance. This depends on solar-viewing geometry scene composition associated with each instantaneous...

This paper evaluates the performance of coordinated control across advanced distribution management systems (ADMS), distributed energy resources (DERs), and resource (DERMS) using an hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) platform. platform provides a realistic laboratory testing environment, including accurate dynamic modeling real-world system from utility partner, real controllers (ADMS DERMS), physical...

The next generation of earth radiation budget satellite instruments will routinely merge estimates of global top-of-atmosphere radiative fluxes with cloud properties. This information will offer many new opportunities for validating radiative transfer models and cloud parameterizations in climate models. In this study, five months of Polarization and Directionality of the Earth’s Reflectances 6...

Adaptation in multimedia systems is usually restricted to defensive, reactive media adaptation (often called stream-level adaptation). We argue that offensive, proactive, system-level adaptation deserves not less attention. If a distributed multimedia system cares for overall, end-to-end quality of service then it should provide a meaningful combination of both. We introduce an adaptive multime...

Optical Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) rings are being deployed to support SONET/SDH self-healing rings. The cost of such a system is dominated by the SONET Add/Drop Multiplexers (ADMs). To minimize the system cost, algorithms must be developed to assign wavelengths to lightpaths in the system so that the number of ADMs required is minimized. This problem of optimal wavelength assignmen...

SONET add-drop multiplexers (ADMs) are the dominant cost factor in SONET /WDM rings. The number of SONET ADMs required by a set of traffic streams is determined by the routing and wavelength assignment of the traffic streams. Following previous work, we consider the problem where the route of each traffic stream is given as input, and we need to assign wavelengths so as to minimize the total nu...

Tra c Grooming and Wavelength Assignment in SONET/WDM Rings1 Xijun Zhang and Chunming Qiao Abstract|In high-speed SONET rings with point-to-point WDM links, the cost of SONET Add-Drop Multiplexers (SADMs) can be dominantly high. However, by grooming tra c (i.e. multiplexing lower rate streams) appropriately and using wavelength ADMs (WADMs), the number of SADMs can be dramatically reduced. In t...

The goal of the ADMS project is to create a framework for caching materialized views, access paths, and experience obtained during query execution. The rationale behind this project is to amortize database access cost over an extended time period and adapt execution strategies based on experience. ADMS demonstrates the versatility of the views and their role in performance, data warehousing, ma...

Considering the high biodiversity and conservation concerns of the tropical dry forest, this study aim is to predict and evaluate the potential and current distributions of twelve species of endemic birds which distribute along the western slope of Mexico. The main goal is to evaluate altogether different methods for predicting actual species distribution models (ADMs) of the twelve species inc...