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Modeling and Analyzing Adaptive User-Centric Systems in Real-Time Maude
Pervasive user-centric applications are systems which are meant to sense the
presence, mood, and intentions of users in order to optimize user comfort and
performance. Building such applications requires not only state-of-the art
techniques from artificial intelligence but also sound software engineering
methods for facilitating modular design, runtime adaptation and verification of
critical system requirements.
In this paper we focus on high-level design and analysis, and use the
algebraic rewriting language Real-Time Maude for specifying applications in a
real-time setting. We propose a generic component-based approach for modeling
pervasive user-centric systems and we show how to analyze and prove crucial
properties of the system architecture through model checking and simulation.
For proving time-dependent properties we use Metric Temporal Logic (MTL) and
present analysis algorithms for model checking two subclasses of MTL formulas:
time-bounded response and time-bounded safety MTL formulas. The underlying idea
is to extend the Real-Time Maude model with suitable clocks, to transform the
MTL formulas into LTL formulas over the extended specification, and then to use
the LTL model checker of Maude. It is shown that these analyses are sound and
complete for maximal time sampling. The approach is illustrated by a simple
adaptive advertising scenario in which an adaptive advertisement display can
react to actions of the users in front of the display.Comment: In Proceedings RTRTS 2010, arXiv:1009.398
Simplification and cost reduction of visual corona tests
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Optimal Staged Self-Assembly of General Shapes
We analyze the number of tile types , bins , and stages necessary to
assemble squares and scaled shapes in the staged tile assembly
model. For squares, we prove stages suffice and
are necessary for almost all .
For shapes with Kolmogorov complexity , we prove
stages suffice and are necessary to
assemble a scaled version of , for almost all . We obtain similarly tight
bounds when the more powerful flexible glues are permitted.Comment: Abstract version appeared in ESA 201
A New Approach for Quality Management in Pervasive Computing Environments
This paper provides an extension of MDA called Context-aware Quality Model
Driven Architecture (CQ-MDA) which can be used for quality control in pervasive
computing environments. The proposed CQ-MDA approach based on
ContextualArchRQMM (Contextual ARCHitecture Quality Requirement MetaModel),
being an extension to the MDA, allows for considering quality and
resources-awareness while conducting the design process. The contributions of
this paper are a meta-model for architecture quality control of context-aware
applications and a model driven approach to separate architecture concerns from
context and quality concerns and to configure reconfigurable software
architectures of distributed systems. To demonstrate the utility of our
approach, we use a videoconference system.Comment: 10 pages, 10 Figures, Oral Presentation in ECSA 201
The resupply interface mechanism RMS compatibility test
Spacecraft on-orbit servicing consists of exchanging components such as payloads, orbital replacement units (ORUs), and consumables. To accomplish the exchange of consumables, the receiving vehicle must mate to the supplier vehicle. Mating can be accomplished by a variety of docking procedures. However, these docking schemes are mission dependent and can vary from shuttle bay berthing to autonomous rendezvous and docking. Satisfying the many docking conditions will require use of an innovative docking device. The device must provide fluid, electrical, pneumatic and data transfer between vehicles. Also, the proper stiffness must be obtained and sustained between the vehicles. A device to accomplish this, the resupply interface mechanism (RIM), was developed. The RIM is a unique device because it grasps the mating vehicle, draws the two vehicles together, simultaneously mates all connectors, and rigidizes the mating devices. The NASA-Johnson Manipulator Development Facility was used to study how compatible the RIM is to on orbit docking and berthing. The facility contains a shuttle cargo bay mockup with a remote manipulator system (RMS). This RMS is used to prepare crew members for shuttle missions involving spacecraft berthing operations. The MDF proved to be an excellant system for testing the RIM/RMS compatibility. The elements examined during the RIM JSC test were: RIM gross and fine alignment; berthing method sequence; visual cuing aids; utility connections; and RIM overall performance. The results showed that the RIM is a good device for spacecraft berthing operations. Mating was accomplished during every test run and all test operators (crew members) felt that the RIM is an effective device. The purpose of the JSC RIM test and its results are discussed
High-voltage dc power processing thermal control and packaging techniques
The power processor operates in several modes, delivering up to 100 amperes of regulated electrical power, operating at input voltages to 375 volts with outputs controlled by an integral microprocessor. Several alternative packaging concepts are discussed and evaluated. High-voltage design applications, power stage interconnection and EMI considerations are also discussed. Preliminary thermal analyses were performed and the results presented for each conceptual approach with parametric study results given for the selected concept
Tangle and Brauer Diagram Algebras of Type Dn
A generalization of the Kauffman tangle algebra is given for Coxeter type Dn.
The tangles involve a pole or order 2. The algebra is shown to be isomorphic to
the Birman-Murakami-Wenzl algebra of the same type. This result extends the
isomorphism between the two algebras in the classical case, which in our
set-up, occurs when the Coxeter type is of type A with index n-1. The proof
involves a diagrammatic version of the Brauer algebra of type Dn in which the
Temperley-Lieb algebra of type Dn is a subalgebra.Comment: 33 page
Some Graph-Colouring Theorems with Applications to Generalized Connection Networks
With the aid of a new graph-colouring theorem, we give a simple explicit construction for generalized n-connectors with 2k - 1 stages and O( n1 + 1 / k (log n )( k - 1)/ 2 ) edges. This is asymptotically the best explicit construction known for generalized connectors
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