A fiber-connected ultra-wideband (UWB) sensor network for high-resolution localization which consists of a central station and several sensor nodes is proposed and demonstrated. To make the central station easily identify the received UWB pulses from different sensor nodes, optical time-division multiplexing (OTDM), realized by inserting a certain length of optical fiber between every two senso...

Number: 002-0266 Title of the Paper: CAS-SIM: Complex Adaptive Supply Network Simulator, A Scenario Analysis Tool For Analyzing Supply Networks Name of the Conference: Second World Conference on POM and 15th Annual POM Conference, Cancun, Mexico, April 30 May 3, 2004. Surya D Pathak Management of Technology Program Vanderbilt University Box 1518, Station B, Nashville, TN-37235, U.S.A. Surya.d.P...

Department of Physics, Moscow State Pedagogical University (MSPU), 119992 Moscow, Russian Federation Institute of Photonics and Quantum Electronics (IPEQ), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Station 3, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland Istituto di Fotonica e Nanotecnologie (IFN), CNR, via Cineto Romano 42, 00156 Rome, Italy Institute of Complex Matter Physics (IPMC), Ecole Polytechniq...

The software package which allows to automate the visual monitoring of the spacecraft docking approach with the international space station is being considered. The initial data for this complex is the video signal received from the TV-camera, mounted on the spacecraft board. The offered algorithms of this video signal processing in real time allow to restore the basic characteristics of the sp...

Smart Dust sensor networks – consisting of cubic millimeter scale sensor nodes capable of limited computation, sensing, and passive optical communication with a base station – are envisioned to fulfill complex large scale monitoring tasks in a wide variety of application areas. In many potential Smart Dust applications such as object detection and tracking, fine-grained node localization plays ...

Fault diagnosis is a central aspect of network fault management. Since faults are unavoidable in communication systems, their quick detection and isolation is essential for the robustness, reliability, and accessibility of a system. In large and complex communication networks, automating fault diagnosis is critical. Traditionally, fault localization has been performed manually by experts but, a...

Aims and method To investigate medical students' performance at and perceptions of the mental state examination (MSE) at a medical school with a modern integrated curriculum. We undertook an evaluative case study comprising a survey and analysis of performance data. The study is presented in two parts: part 2 reports the students' performance data as assessed by integrated structured clinical e...

The waste intermodal station of Clyde, in the city of Sydney, Australia, is in the heart of a complex network of terminals connected by road and rail to transport urban waste from its first collection to its final disposal. The amount of waste the network is projected to handle in 2015 will increase from about 340,000 tonnes/year in 2006 up to about 1.5 million tonnes/year, following population...

Consider a (robotic) explorer starting an exploration of an unknown terrain from its base station. As the explorer has only limited communication radius, it is necessary to maintain a line of robotic relay stations following the explorer, so that consecutive stations are within the communication radius of each other. This line has to start in the base station and to end at the explorer. In the ...

In this paper we examine the use of hypotheticals as a heuristic device to assist a case-based reasoner test the strengths, weaknesses, and ramifications of an analysis or argument by exploring and augmenting the space of known cases and indirectly, the at tendant spaces of doctrine and argument. Our program, HYPO, works in the task domain of the law, particularly, the area of trade secret prot...