Engineering education in fluidics means to convey the physical principles behind pneumatic or hydraulic building blocks such as valves or cylinders. Up to now fluidic hardware plays an important role in this connection: Education laboratories with semi-professional components are used to build up small circuits and to perform experiments respecting hydraulic and pneumatic laws of nature. Based ...

The objectives of the research as planned in the original proposal were to perform a pilot study leading to the development of off-line predictive soft-computing based models for three different building types. The rationale behind the research was to see to what extent the soft-computing methodology is suited to each of these building types and to possibly formulate more detailed research prop...

Grid is one of the first data structure introduced at the very beginning of computer graphics. Grids are used in several applications of computer graphics, especially in rendering algorithms. Lately, in ray tracing dynamic scenes, grid has received attention for its appealing linear time building time. In this paper, we aim to survey several aspects behind the use of grids in ray tracing. In pa...

Building quality software systems has been the focus of many in the field of software engineering. One of the most desirable quality attributes, yet hardest to achieve, is stability [2, 8]. A stable basis provides a foundation for building quality software. The Software Stability approach addresses this issue [6, 7]. The key contribution of this paper is to show how the concepts behind software...

Context awareness can help build dynamic networks by enabling them to automatically adapt to the user’s activities, computational environment, and network conditions. Our approach in building context-aware networks uses flow context: information about the intrinsic and low-level characteristics of flows, as well as the nature of the applications, devices, and the activities, intentions, prefere...

In this paper, we present an admission control scheme which provides per-flow delay and bandwidth guarantees based solely upon simple class-based strict priority queue-ing. We derive basic properties of the worst-case behaviour in strict priority queueing systems using network calculus. Building upon these properties the flow admission control scheme is devised. The rationale behind this work i...

The Sr lattice atomic clock in Jun Ye’s group has been experiencing frequency shifts due to the interaction between the Sr atoms in the optical trap. One possible solution is to change the optical trap in the system such that the Sr atom density, and therefore the interaction between the atoms, is reduced. For this project a test system is necessary to test the vacuum chamber viewports, which i...