in this paper, we introduce the concept of dynamical distance on a nuclear con-guration space. we partition the nuclear conguration space into disjoint classes. this clas-sication coincides with the classical partitioning of molecular systems via the concept ofconjugacy of dynamical systems. it gives a quantitative criterion to distinguish dierentmolecular structures.

Lagrangian control systems that are di erentially at with at outputs that only depend on con guration variables are said to be con guration at We provide a complete characterisation of con guration atness for systems with n degrees of freedom and n controls whose range of con trol forces only depends on con guration and whose Lagrangian has the form of kinetic energy minus potential The method ...

Existing FPGAs have fairly simple and ine cient con guration mechanisms due to the relative infrequency of recon guration. However a large class of dynamically con gurable architectures for DSP and communications can bene t from special-purpose con guration mechanisms which allow signi cant savings in con guration speed, power and memory. Light weight con guration mechanisms allow much ner grai...

We use the compression theorem (cf [7; section 6]) to prove results for equivariant con guration spaces analogous to the well-known non-equivariant results of May, Milgram and Segal [5,6,8]. AMS Classi cation 55P91, 55P35, 55P40; 57R91, 55P45, 55P47

Con guration problems are a thriving application area for declarative knowledge representation that experiences a constant increase in size and complexity of knowledge bases. However, today's con gurators are designed for solving local con guration problems not providing any distributed con guration problem solving functionality. Consequently the challenges for the construction of con guration ...

The development and maintenance of product con®guration systems is faced with increasing challenges caused by the growing complexity of the underlying knowledge bases. Effective knowledge acquisition is needed since the product and the corresponding con®guration system have to be developed in parallel. In this paper, we show how to employ a standard design language (Uni®ed Modeling Language, UM...

Tra c engineering involves tuning a network's path-selection, link-scheduling, and bu ermanagement policies to the prevailing tra c demands and performance requirements. E ective tra c engineering requires an accurate, network-wide view of the con guration of the routers. However, network operators have limited tools to aid in con guring large backbone networks. Con guring IP routers is extreme...

A method for managing recon gurable designs, which supports run-time con guration transformation, is proposed. This method involves structuring the recon guration manager into three components: a monitor, a loader, and a con guration store. Di erent trade-o s can be achieved in con guration time, optimality of the con gured circuits, and the complexity of the recon guration manager, depending o...

Distributed con guration management is intended to support the activities of projects that span multiple sites NUCM is a testbed that we are developing to help us explore the issues of distributed con guration man agement NUCM separates con guration management repositories i e the stores for versions of artifacts from con guration management policies i e the pro cedures by which the versions ar...

In this paper we present an overview of a project concerned with the con guration of telecommunication systems. The long term goal of this project is a elded knowledge-based con guration system to support the work of consultants of the Deutsche Telekom AG. In this paper we analyze how and why the con guration of telecommunication systems di ers from the con guration of other technical systems l...