In this paper the propagation of information about fault states and its implementation in high-speed networks is discussed. The algebraic concept of a lattice (partial ordered set with supremum and in mum) is used to describe the necessary operation. It turns out that popular algorithms can be handled this way. Using the properties of lattices e cient implementation options can be found.

A Silicon Drift Detector Front-End and a Smart Readout System different from a trivial zerosuppression is proposed. ON-LINE pre-processing, using a Fast VLSI dedicated Fuzzy Processor, reduces significantly acquisition data volume and hardware requirements. Silicon Drift Detectors Readout and ON-LINE Data Reduction using a Fast VLSI Dedicated Fuzzy Processor 2

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We developed high-density microfluidic chips that contain plumbing networks with thousands of micromechanical valves and hundreds of individually addressable chambers. These fluidic devices are analogous to electronic integrated circuits fabricated using large-scale integration. A key component of these networks is the fluidic multiplexor, which is a combinatorial array of binary valve patterns...

A set of polygons is called c-oriented if the edges of all polygons are oriented in a constant number of previously defined directions. The intersection searching problem is studied for such objects, namely: Given a set of c-oriented polygons P and a c-oriented query polygon q, find all polygons in P that intersect q. It is shown that this problem can be solved in O(logZn + t) time with O(n log...