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Writing Centers: A Long View, Judith Summerfield Jan 1988

Writing Centers: A Long View, Judith Summerfield

The Writing Center Journal

No abstract provided.


Review: Teaching One-On-One, Diana George Jan 1988

Review: Teaching One-On-One, Diana George

The Writing Center Journal

No abstract provided.


Collaboration And Ethics In Writing Center Pedagogy, Irene Lurkis Clark Jan 1988

Collaboration And Ethics In Writing Center Pedagogy, Irene Lurkis Clark

The Writing Center Journal

No abstract provided.


Effects Of Asphalt Composition And Compaction On The Performance Of Asphalt Pavement Mixtures: Executive Summary, Leonard E. Wood, A. G. Altschaeffl Jan 1988

Effects Of Asphalt Composition And Compaction On The Performance Of Asphalt Pavement Mixtures: Executive Summary, Leonard E. Wood, A. G. Altschaeffl

JTRP Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


An Automatic Quantitative Image Analysis System For Construction Materials, Dexiang Shi Jan 1988

An Automatic Quantitative Image Analysis System For Construction Materials, Dexiang Shi

JTRP Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


Wetlands And Drainage Inventory Of Indiana Interstate Highway Segments Using Aerial Photographs, Refat Barbour, Robert Douglas Miles Jan 1988

Wetlands And Drainage Inventory Of Indiana Interstate Highway Segments Using Aerial Photographs, Refat Barbour, Robert Douglas Miles

JTRP Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


User Guide For Stabl/Pc 5m : Informational Report, Eftychios Achilleos Jan 1988

User Guide For Stabl/Pc 5m : Informational Report, Eftychios Achilleos

JTRP Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


Self-Alignments In Words And Their Applications, Alberto Apostolico, Wojciech Szpankowski Dec 1987

Self-Alignments In Words And Their Applications, Alberto Apostolico, Wojciech Szpankowski

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


Architecture And Operation Invocation In The Clouds Kernel, Eugene H. Spafford Dec 1987

Architecture And Operation Invocation In The Clouds Kernel, Eugene H. Spafford

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


Towards Implementing Robust Geometric Computations, Christoph M. Hoffmann, John E. Hopcroft, Michael S. Karasick Dec 1987

Towards Implementing Robust Geometric Computations, Christoph M. Hoffmann, John E. Hopcroft, Michael S. Karasick

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


A Robust Distributed Termination Detection Algorithm, Niraj K. Sharma, Bharat Bhargava Dec 1987

A Robust Distributed Termination Detection Algorithm, Niraj K. Sharma, Bharat Bhargava

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


The Honeycomb Architecture: Prototype Analysis And Design, James E. Hoch Dec 1987

The Honeycomb Architecture: Prototype Analysis And Design, James E. Hoch

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technical Reports

Due to the inherent potential of parallel processing, a lot of attention has focused on massively parallel computer architecture. To a large extent, the performance of a massively parallel architecture is a function of the flexibility of its communication network. The ability to configure the topology of the machine determines the ease with which problems are mapped onto the architecture. If the machine is sufficiently flexible, the architecture can be configured to match the natural structure of a wide range of problems. There are essentially four unique types of massively parallel architectures: 1. Cellular Arrays 2. Lattice Architectures [21, 30] …


Calibration Of Wrist-Mounted Robotic Sensors By Solving Homogeneous Transform Equations Of The Form Ax=Xb, Y. C. Shiu, S. Ahmad Dec 1987

Calibration Of Wrist-Mounted Robotic Sensors By Solving Homogeneous Transform Equations Of The Form Ax=Xb, Y. C. Shiu, S. Ahmad

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technical Reports

In order to use a wrist-mounted sensor (such as a camera) for a robot task, the position, and orientation of the sensor with respect to the robot wrist frame must be known. We can find the sensor mounting position by moving the robot and observing the resulting motion of the sensor. This yields a homogeneous transform equation of the form AX=XB, where A is the change in the robot wrist position, B is the resulting sensor displacement, and X is the sensor position relative to the robot wrist. The solution to an equation of this form has one degree of …


2d Modeling Of Bipolar Junction Transistors, J. L. Gray, J. Egley Dec 1987

2d Modeling Of Bipolar Junction Transistors, J. L. Gray, J. Egley

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technical Reports

The purpose of this report is to summarize the progress to date on the development of a 2D computer model for bipolar junction transistors. The goals of this project, which ends December 31, 1988, can be broken into two main categories and are listed below: Code Modifications 1. Modify existing 2D solar cell simulation code to handle bipolar junction transistors. 2. Incorporate energy balance equations into the computer model. 3. Incorporate transient and small signal ac analyses. Code Applications 1. Assess performance differences between Delco small and large thin epi devices. 2. Evaluate a polysilicon modification of the thin epi …


Parallel Symmetry-Breaking In Sparse Graphs, Andrew V. Goldberg, Serge A. Plotkin, Gregory E. Shannon Dec 1987

Parallel Symmetry-Breaking In Sparse Graphs, Andrew V. Goldberg, Serge A. Plotkin, Gregory E. Shannon

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


Summary Of The Activities Of The Purdue Electric Power Center 1987, G. T. Heydt Dec 1987

Summary Of The Activities Of The Purdue Electric Power Center 1987, G. T. Heydt

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


Study Of Numeric Saturation Effects In Linear Digital Compensators, C. A. Maccarley, D. G. Meyer Dec 1987

Study Of Numeric Saturation Effects In Linear Digital Compensators, C. A. Maccarley, D. G. Meyer

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technical Reports

Saturation arithmetic is often used in finite precision digital compensators to circumvent instability due to radix overflow. The saturation limits in the digital structure lead to nonlinear behavior during large state transients. It is shown that if all recursive loops in a compensator are interrupted by at least one saturation limit, then there exists a bounded external scaling rule which assures against overflow at all nodes in the structure. Design methods are proposed based on the generalized second method of Lyapunov, which take the internal saturation limits into account to implement a robust dual-mode suboptimal control for bounded input plants. …


Nonparametric Estimation Of The Bayes Error, Keinosuke Fukunaga, Donald M. Hummels Dec 1987

Nonparametric Estimation Of The Bayes Error, Keinosuke Fukunaga, Donald M. Hummels

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technical Reports

This thesis is concerned with the performance of nonparametric classifiers and their application to the estimation of the Rayes error. Although the behavior of these classifiers as the number of preclassified design samples becomes infinite is well understood, very little is known regarding their finite sample error performance. Here, we examine the performance of Parzen and k-nearest neighbor (k-NN) classifiers, relating the expected error rates to the size of the design set and the various, design parameters (kernel size and shape, value of k, distance metric for nearest neighbor calculation, etc.). These results lead to several significant improvements in the …


Efficient Parallel Algorithms For String Editing And Related Problems, Alberto Apostolico, Mikhail J. Atallah, Lawrence L. Larmore, Scott Mcfaddin Nov 1987

Efficient Parallel Algorithms For String Editing And Related Problems, Alberto Apostolico, Mikhail J. Atallah, Lawrence L. Larmore, Scott Mcfaddin

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


Shadow Editing: A Distributed Service For Supercomputer Access, Douglas E. Comer, Jim Griffioen, Rajendra Yavatkar Nov 1987

Shadow Editing: A Distributed Service For Supercomputer Access, Douglas E. Comer, Jim Griffioen, Rajendra Yavatkar

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


Robust Set Operations On Polyhedral Solids, Christoph M. Hoffmann, John E. Hopcroft, Michael S. Karasick Nov 1987

Robust Set Operations On Polyhedral Solids, Christoph M. Hoffmann, John E. Hopcroft, Michael S. Karasick

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


Residue Arithmetic Vlsi Array Architecture For Manipulator Pseudo-Inverse Jacobian Computation, P. R. Chang, C. S. G. Lee Nov 1987

Residue Arithmetic Vlsi Array Architecture For Manipulator Pseudo-Inverse Jacobian Computation, P. R. Chang, C. S. G. Lee

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technical Reports

Most Cartesian-based control strategies require the computation of the manipulator inverse Jacobian in real time at every sampling period. In some cases, the Jacobian matrix is not of full column or row rank due to singularity or redundant robot configuration. This requires the computation of the manipulator pseudo-inverse Jacobian in real time. The calculation of the pseudo-inverse Jacobian may become extremely sensitive to small perturbation in the data and numerical instabilities, when the Jacobian matrix is not of full column or row rank. Even if the Jacobian matrix is of full rank, the ill-conditioned problem may still plague the computation …


Pseiki: A Production System Environment For Integrating Knowledge With Images, K. M. Andress, A. C. Kak Oct 1987

Pseiki: A Production System Environment For Integrating Knowledge With Images, K. M. Andress, A. C. Kak

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technical Reports

A description of work-in-progress on PSEIKI is presented. PSEIKI is a computer vision system designed to use multiple sources of knowledge to aid in the image understanding task. In this report we describe the concepts used in PSEIKI and how the incorporation of world knowledge is used to make PSEIKI expectation driven. The world knowledge in the system is represented as a line drawing of the expected scene. The system is implemented as a 2 panel / 6 level blackboard and uses the Dempster-Shafer formalism to accomplish inexact reasoning in a hierarchical space


Destination Tag Routing Techniques Based On A State Model For The Iadm Network, Darwen Rau, Jose A. B. Fortes, Howard Jay Siegel Oct 1987

Destination Tag Routing Techniques Based On A State Model For The Iadm Network, Darwen Rau, Jose A. B. Fortes, Howard Jay Siegel

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technical Reports

A "state model" is proposed for solving the problem of routing and rerouting messages in the Inverse Augmented Data Manipulator (IADM) network. Using this model, necessary and sufficient conditions for the reroutability of messages are established, and then destination tag schemes are derived. These schemes are simpler, more efficient and require less complex hardware than previously proposed routing schemes. Two destination tag schemes are proposed. For one of the schemes, rerouting is totally transparent to the sender of the message and any blocked link of a given type can be avoided. Compared with previous works that deal with the same …


Preliminary Report On High-Performance Computational Structures For Robot Control, Mahibur Rahman, David G. Meyer Oct 1987

Preliminary Report On High-Performance Computational Structures For Robot Control, Mahibur Rahman, David G. Meyer

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technical Reports

In this report we present some initial results of our work completed thus far on "Computational Structures for Robot Control". A SIMD architecture with the crossbar interprocessor network which achieves the parallel processing execution time lower bound of o( [a1n ]), where a1 is a constant and n is the number of manipulator joints, for the computation of the inverse dynamics problem, is discussed. A novel SIMD task scheduling algorithm that optimizes the parallel processing performance on the indicated architecture is also delineated. Simulations performed on this architecture show speedup factor of 3.4 over previous related work completed for the …


Parallel Construction Of A Suffix Tree With Applications, A. Apostolico, C. Iliopoulos, G. M. Landau, B. Schieber, U. Vishkin Sep 1987

Parallel Construction Of A Suffix Tree With Applications, A. Apostolico, C. Iliopoulos, G. M. Landau, B. Schieber, U. Vishkin

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


Mathematical Aspects Of Scientific Software, John R. Rice Sep 1987

Mathematical Aspects Of Scientific Software, John R. Rice

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


A Dynamic Majority Determination Algorithm For Reconfiguration Of Network Partitions, Bharat Bhargava, Peter Lei Ng Sep 1987

A Dynamic Majority Determination Algorithm For Reconfiguration Of Network Partitions, Bharat Bhargava, Peter Lei Ng

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


Partitioning The Process Of Interaction: An Implementation, Balachander Krishnamurthy Sep 1987

Partitioning The Process Of Interaction: An Implementation, Balachander Krishnamurthy

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


Partitioning The Process Of Interaction: An Abstract View, Balachander Krishnamurthy Sep 1987

Partitioning The Process Of Interaction: An Abstract View, Balachander Krishnamurthy

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.