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Visualizing the underlying trends of component latencies affecting service operation performance
This paper presents a technology agnostic method for extracting the underlying distinct patterns of variations in the overall performance of a service operation for changes to different application components supporting the service operation in a computer based service provider to consumer contract. This short paper advocates that visualizing these patterns would help in early projection of the operation's performance due to modification of the application components/processing catering to the operation, without the need of repetitive performance and load testing of the whole service. Lookup datasets against different component configurations are created to associate the variability of component processing impedances to the service operation's performance and best fit regression types are applied to enable trend extrapolation and interpolation
Enhanced Self-organized Dewetting of Ultrathin Polymer Films under Water-organic Solutions: Fabrication of Sub-micron Spherical Lens Arrays
Field-induced self-organized patterning in ultrathin (< 100 nm) polymer films
produces resolutions of the order of 10 {\mu}m or more because of the high
energy penalty for the surface deformations on small scales. We propose here a
very simple but versatile method to fabricate sub-micron (~100 nm) ordered and
tunable polymeric structures by self-organized room temperature dewetting of
ultrathin polystyrene films by minimizing the surface tension limitation. We
illustrate this technique by fabricating sub-micron lens arrays of tunable
curvature. This is achieved by switching to controlled room temperature
dewetting under an optimal mix of water, acetone and methyl-ethyl ketone (MEK).
Organic solvents used decrease the glass transition temperature, greatly
decrease the interfacial tension, intensify the field and increase the contact
angle/aspect ratio of the resulting tunable nano-structures, without a
concurrent solubilization of PS owing to water being the majority phase in the
outside mixture.Comment: 13 pages and 5 figure
Nanotechnology and Nanomaterials for New and Sustainable Energy Engineering
Role of nanotechnology and nanomaterials for utilization, storage and generation of hydrogen energy,
generation of environment friendly thermoelectric power, generation of geothermal energy and photovoltaic
or solar energy has been explored. Graphene nanosheet has emerged as a promising material for Platinum
catalyst support of fuel cell to enhance electrochemically active surface area and power generation.
Graphene and graphene based nanocomposites namely graphene-Polyaniline (PANI) are explored as promising
alternatives for hydrogen storage. Inorganic-organic nanocomposite electrolyte membranes comprising
of nanosize inorganic building block offers higher proton conductivity, ion exchange capacity and enhanced
power generation when applied in a fuel cell. Nanostructured thermoelectric material enhances the
power factor and figure of merit. Inorganic (bismuth telluride) βorganic (conducting polymer) nanocomposites
are explored as a new class of thermoelectric material.
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A thin film model for corotational Jeffreys fluids under strong slip
We derive a thin film model for viscoelastic liquids under strong slip which
obey the stress tensor dynamics of corotational Jeffreys fluids.Comment: 3 pages, submitted to Eur. Phys. J.
Social Percolation and the Influence of Mass Media
Mass media shift the percolative phase transition observed in the marketing
model of Solomon and Weisbuch.Comment: 6 pages including 4 figure
Synthesis, Characterization and Performance Study of Phosphosilicate Gel-Sulfonated Poly (Ether Ether Ketone) Nanocomposite Membrane for Fuel Cell Application
Phosphosilicate gel β SPEEK (Sulfonated Poly Ether Ether Ketone) hybrid nanocomposite membranes
are proposed for performance enhancement of polymer electrolyte fuel cell. The nanocomposite membranes
are synthesized and characterized at 50 and 60 weight percent of inorganic loading. Phosphosilicate gel particles
of varying size (sub micro to nanometer) are synthesized using sol gel approach followed by grinding using
planetary ball mill for different time. Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) reveals less than 10 nm
particle size for 20 hr grinding. Nano composite membrane having inorganic particles of size less than 10 nm
exhibits higher values of proton conductivity, ion exchange capacity and water uptake compared to composite
membrane comprising of larger (400 nm and above) inorganic particles. The membrane is assembled with the
electrode in the unit cell and the polarization characteristics are measured at different operating temperatures.
Performance study reveals that between 70 to 80 C the membrane offers best performance in terms of
peak power generation and of allowable load current. For the same conditions 40-50 % nano-enhancement of
peak power generation is achieved by reducing the average gel particle size from sub micro to less than
10 nm. At medium temperature (between 70 to 80 C) the nanocomposite membrane offers more than 100 enhancement
of peak power generation compared to that generated by SPEEK membrane.
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Computational processes of evolution and the gene expression messy genetic algorithm
This paper makes an effort to project the theoretical lessons of the SEARCH (Search Envisioned As Relation and Class Hierarchizing) framework introduced elsewhere (Kargupta, 1995b) in the context of natural evolution and introduce the gene expression messy genetic algorithm (GEMGA) -- a new generation of messy GAs that directly search for relations among the members of the search space. The GEMGA is an O({vert_bar}{Lambda}{vert_bar}{sup k}({ell} + k)) sample complexity algorithm for the class of order-k delineable problems (Kargupta, 1995a) (problems that can be solved by considering no higher than order-k relations) in sequence representation of length {ell} and alphabet set {Lambda}. Unlike the traditional evolutionary search algorithms, the GEMGA emphasizes the computational role of gene expression and uses a transcription operator to detect appropriate relations. Theoretical conclusions are also substantiated by experimental results for large multimodal problems with bounded inappropriateness of representation
Nanostructures of Polyaniline with Organic and Inorganic Dopants for Sensing of Ammonia
Nanostructured samples of polyaniline (PANI) doped with different dopants (organic and inorganic)
have been synthesized employing polymerization and electrodeposition. The influence of nature of dopants(
organic and inorganic) and process variation on the room temperature electrical conductivity and on
ammonia vapour sensing performance (response percentage and response time) has been investigated. The
synthesized samples have been structurally characterized by transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and
fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectra. Regardless of type of dopants, polymerization produces nanospheres
of PANI and electrodeposition leads to formation of nanorod-like structures. Among all the synthesized
samples, the organic doped electrodeposited sample exhibits highest conductivity. The conductivity of
the prepared samples ware measured as a function of time after exposure to ammonia indicating that the
polymerized samples (both for organic and inorganic dopants) exhibit fastest response (least response
time), while the electrodeposited samples show sluggish response. Thus response percentages of different
samples are found to depend on the nanostructures which vary with the nature of dopants and process of
preparation.
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