User participation has become paramount for any successful data warehouse initiative. In this paper, we present MD2, a tool based on the dimensional data modeling approach, which facilitates the user participation in the development of a data warehouse application. MD2 assists users on identifying their analytical needs in order to help data warehouse designers to better specify business requir...

Abstract A three-dimensional model of intense bunched beams is developed for cylindrical and corrugated conducting pipes. Updated comparisons between the current limits derived from this model and experimental data from PPM focusing klystrons are presented. An electrostatic Green’s function is formulated for azimuthally symmetric slowwave structures. Analytical and numerical results are present...

Today’s geometric modeling tools are usually controlled by the mouse and keyboard. 3dmodeling operations are often constrained to planes or lines to make modeling easier. New augmented reality devices promise new classes of applications with natural 3d user interfaces. This paper deals with a new method that enables users to model 3d shapes directly with their fingers. It is implemented in Arti...

INTRODUCTION In order to reduce source/drain resistance with shallower junction, self-aligned silicide(sa1icide) process was developed and is finding more applications to MOSFETs. Now, MOSFET process simulation including salicide process is a necessity. However, there have been few reports on salicide simulation mainly because the implement of 2D model is very difficult. We have developed a 2D ...

In this paper the application of a novel CW FM Laser radar is demonstrated through the acquisition of a three dimensional model of the world famous "David" by Donatello. The steps of the acquisition procedure and the related technical solutions are reported. The scientific focus was centered on the processing pipeline simplification due to this new acquisition methodology. Detailed results are ...

A model is developed for a non-uniform piezoelectric beam suitable for analyzing energy harvesting behavior. System dynamics are projected onto a numerically developed basis to produce energy functions which are used to derive equations of motion for the system. The resulting model reproduces the experimentally observed transition to chaos while providing a conservative estimate of power output...

In this paper we present Collaborative Low-Rank Subspace Clustering. Given multiple observations of a phenomenon we learn a unified representation matrix. This unified matrix incorporates the features from all the observations, thus increasing the discriminative power compared with learning the representation matrix on each observation separately. Experimental evaluation shows that our method o...

This paper describes a new approach for modeling the human hand by considering the dynamics and the natural constraints of the motion and the shape of hands. This hand model consists of a dynamic model and a surface model. The dynamic model is used to generate the posture of a hand. We show that the natural hand posture can be generated even when only a few hand parameters are available. The su...

A new three-dimensional unit cell model has been developed for modeling three constituent phases including inclusion, interphase and matrix. The total elastic modulus of nano-composite is evaluated.  Numerical results are in good agreement with the previous proposed theoretical modeling. Higher matrix and inclusion elastic modulus both can dramatically influence the total elastic modulus.

This work presents a new framework for three-dimensional modeling of dynamic fires present in unstructured scenes. The proposed approach addresses the problem of segmenting fire regions using information from YUV and RGB color spaces. Clustering is also used to extract salient points from a pair of stereo images. These points are then used to reconstruct 3D positions in the scene. A matching st...