displacement coefficient method (dcm) stipulated in the asce 41-06 standard is becoming the preferred method for seismic rehabilitation of buildings in many high-seismic-hazard countries. applications of the method for non-building constructions such as bridges are beyond the scope of this standard. thus its application to this kind of structure should be approached with care. target displaceme...

Optimistic replication lets multiple users update local replicas of shared data independently. These replicas may diverge and must be reconciled. In this paper, we present a general-purpose reconciliation system for mobile transactions. The basic reconciliation engine treats reconciliation as an optimization problem. To direct the search, it relies on semantic information and user intents expre...

Dynamic changes of physiological bioprocess parameters, e.g. a change in the specific growth rate μ, are frequently observed during industrial manufacturing as well as bioprocess development. A quantitative description of these variations is of great interest, since it can bring elucidation to the physiological state of the culture. The goal of this contribution was to show limitations and issu...

This paper presents a nonlinear approach for data reconciliation. The advantages of this approach over the conventional extended Kalman filtering (EKF) are namely, less linearization errors are generated in the process, and secondly the choice of the objective function is flexible. In this work, two probability density functions, namely the Logistic and Lorentz distribution are proposed as the ...

This demonstration illustrates how a comprehensive database reconciliation tool can provide the ability to characterize data-quality and data-reconciliation issues in complex real-world applications. Telcordia’s data reconciliation and data quality analysis tool includes rapid generation of appropriate pre-processing and matching rules applied to a training set created from samples of the data....

This work demonstrates the usefulness of non-linear data reconciliation to evaluate available measurements and estimate unmeasured variables for a full-scale partial nitritation (SHARON) reactor for the treatment of wastewater with high ammonium concentrations. Despite a lack of measured data, the bilinear approach of formulating system constraints allowed to satisfy the requirements for data r...

planning robot trajectory is a complex task that plays a significant role in design and application of robots in task space. the problem is formulated as a trajectory optimization problem which is fundamentally a constrained nonlinear optimization problem. open-loop optimal control method is proposed as an approach for trajectory optimization of cable parallel manipulator for a given two-end-po...