When grasping an object using three ngered end-e ectors, a certain geometrical entity can be created based on the grasping points and a de nition of an auxiliary point. This geometric con guration is referred to as the invariant con guration of the three ngered grasp. This paper exploits the geometric properties of such con guration using screw theory and inner product spaces. The results are s...

This paper describes a tool for validating the proper con guration of the IPSEC protocol suite including IKE. The tool validates that two hosts are able to communicate (normal ping functionality) and that this communication is occurring using the proper authentication/encryption transformations as required by IPSEC. IPSEC con guration is very complex, and administrators are often unable to dete...

Striped FPGA [1], or pipeline-recon gurable FPGA provides hardware virtualization by supporting fast run-time recon guration. In this paper we show that the performance of striped FPGA depends on the recon guration pattern, the run time scheduling of con gurations through the FPGA. We study two main con guration scheduling approachesCon guration Caching and Data Caching. We present the quantita...

The knowledge-engineering literature contains a number of approaches for constructing or selecting problem solvers. Some of these approaches are based on indexing and selecting a problem solver from a library, others are based on a knowledge acquisition process, yet others are based on search-strategies. None of these approaches sees constructing a problem solver as a con guration task that cou...

Speedups of coupled processor-FPGA systems over traditional microprocessor systems are limited by the cost of hardware reconguration. In this paper we compare several new con guration caching algorithms that reduce the latency of recon guration. We also present a cache replacement strategy for a 3-level hierarchy. Using the techniques we present, total latency for loading the con gurations is r...

ABSTRACT So‡ware Product Lines (SPLs) have many features for customization. Œis raises the challenge to €nd good performing con€gurations for an anticipated workload. As SPL con€guration spaces are huge, it is infeasible to benchmark all con€gurations to €nd an optimal one. Prior work focused on building performance models to predict and optimize SPL con€gurations; we randomly sample and recurs...

Symmetry properties of the three 10-cages on 70 vertices are investigated. Being bipartite, these graphs are Levi graphs of triangleand quadrangle-free (353) con!gurations. For each of these graphs a Hamilton cycle is given via the associated LCF notation. Furthermore, the automorphism groups of respective orders 80, 120, and 24 are computed. A special emphasis is given to the Balaban 10-cage, ...

Trajectory tracking and con guration stabilization for the VTOL aircraft (vertical take o and landing) in the literature has been only considered for the case of slight or zero input coupling. In this paper, our main contribution is to address global con guration stabilization for the VTOL aircraft with a strong input coupling using a smooth static state feedback.

Di erent con gurations have been o ered ([2],[3], [4])), using the method of optimization of an array con guration minimizing side lobes ([1]). It is supposed that the lower the level of side lobes the better restored image should be. This memo demonstrates the advantage of minimum side lobes in the quality of the restored images. The UV data were simulated (with the new AIPS task UVCON) for tw...

Multidimensional scaling (MDS) is a collection of data analytic techniques for constructing con$gurations of points from dissimilarity information about interpoint distances. Two popular measures of how well the constructed distances $t the observed dissimilarities are the raw stress and sstress criteria, each of which must be minimized by numerical optimization. Because iterative procedures fo...