5,695 research outputs found
Evaluation of perceived spatial quality of 5-channel microphone techniques by using selected spatial attributes
22th Int. Audio Convention 2002, Hannover, GermanyOPAQU
Systematic evaluation of perceived spatial quality
The evaluation of perceived spatial quality calls for a method that is sensitive to changes in the constituent dimensions of that quality. In order to devise a method accounting for these changes, several processes have to be performed. This paper shows the development of scales by elicitation and structuring of verbal data, followed by validation of the resulting attribute scales
A proof of Wright's conjecture
Wright's conjecture states that the origin is the global attractor for the
delay differential equation for all
. This has been proven to be true for a subset
of parameter values . We extend the result to the full parameter range
, and thus prove Wright's conjecture to be true.
Our approach relies on a careful investigation of the neighborhood of the Hopf
bifurcation occurring at . This analysis fills the gap
left by complementary work on Wright's conjecture, which covers parameter
values further away from the bifurcation point. Furthermore, we show that the
branch of (slowly oscillating) periodic orbits originating from this Hopf
bifurcation does not have any subsequent bifurcations (and in particular no
folds) for .
When combined with other results, this proves that the branch of slowly
oscillating solutions that originates from the Hopf bifurcation at
is globally parametrized by .Comment: 45 page
A comparison of two techniques for bibliometric mapping: Multidimensional scaling and VOS
VOS is a new mapping technique that can serve as an alternative to the
well-known technique of multidimensional scaling. We present an extensive
comparison between the use of multidimensional scaling and the use of VOS for
constructing bibliometric maps. In our theoretical analysis, we show the
mathematical relation between the two techniques. In our experimental analysis,
we use the techniques for constructing maps of authors, journals, and keywords.
Two commonly used approaches to bibliometric mapping, both based on
multidimensional scaling, turn out to produce maps that suffer from artifacts.
Maps constructed using VOS turn out not to have this problem. We conclude that
in general maps constructed using VOS provide a more satisfactory
representation of a data set than maps constructed using well-known
multidimensional scaling approaches
Towards Optimality in Parallel Scheduling
To keep pace with Moore's law, chip designers have focused on increasing the
number of cores per chip rather than single core performance. In turn, modern
jobs are often designed to run on any number of cores. However, to effectively
leverage these multi-core chips, one must address the question of how many
cores to assign to each job. Given that jobs receive sublinear speedups from
additional cores, there is an obvious tradeoff: allocating more cores to an
individual job reduces the job's runtime, but in turn decreases the efficiency
of the overall system. We ask how the system should schedule jobs across cores
so as to minimize the mean response time over a stream of incoming jobs.
To answer this question, we develop an analytical model of jobs running on a
multi-core machine. We prove that EQUI, a policy which continuously divides
cores evenly across jobs, is optimal when all jobs follow a single speedup
curve and have exponentially distributed sizes. EQUI requires jobs to change
their level of parallelization while they run. Since this is not possible for
all workloads, we consider a class of "fixed-width" policies, which choose a
single level of parallelization, k, to use for all jobs. We prove that,
surprisingly, it is possible to achieve EQUI's performance without requiring
jobs to change their levels of parallelization by using the optimal fixed level
of parallelization, k*. We also show how to analytically derive the optimal k*
as a function of the system load, the speedup curve, and the job size
distribution.
In the case where jobs may follow different speedup curves, finding a good
scheduling policy is even more challenging. We find that policies like EQUI
which performed well in the case of a single speedup function now perform
poorly. We propose a very simple policy, GREEDY*, which performs near-optimally
when compared to the numerically-derived optimal policy
The parameterization method for center manifolds
In this paper, we present a generalization of the parameterization method,
introduced by Cabr\'{e}, Fontich and De la Llave, to center manifolds
associated to non-hyperbolic fixed points of discrete dynamical systems. As a
byproduct, we find a new proof for the existence and regularity of center
manifolds. However, in contrast to the classical center manifold theorem, our
parameterization method will simultaneously obtain the center manifold and its
conjugate center dynamical system. Furthermore, we will provide bounds on the
error between approximations of the center manifold and the actual center
manifold, as well as bounds for the error in the conjugate dynamical system
Energy from streaming current and potential
It is investigated how much energy can be delivered by a streaming current source. A streaming current and subsequent streaming potential originate when double layer charge is transported by hydrodynamic flow. Theory and a network model of such a source is presented and initial experimental results are given, showing a supplied power of 20 nW obtained by a pressure difference of 1 atm over a glass porous plug, using a 1-mM KCl solution. It is indicated how the rather low mechanical-to-electrical energy conversion efficiency can be increased
- …