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Algorithms And Data Structures For An Expanded Family Of Matroid Intersection Problems, Greg N. Frederickson, Mandayam A. Srinivas Jul 1987

Algorithms And Data Structures For An Expanded Family Of Matroid Intersection Problems, Greg N. Frederickson, Mandayam A. Srinivas

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


Drying Foods At Home, Mary K. Wagner, Mary E. Mennes, Clarence E. Johnson Jul 1987

Drying Foods At Home, Mary K. Wagner, Mary E. Mennes, Clarence E. Johnson

Historical Documents of the Purdue Cooperative Extension Service Archive

No abstract provided.


Organic Compound Effects On Swelling And Flocculation Of Upton-Montmorillonite, S. Chen, P. F. Low, J. H. Cushman, C. B. Roth Jul 1987

Organic Compound Effects On Swelling And Flocculation Of Upton-Montmorillonite, S. Chen, P. F. Low, J. H. Cushman, C. B. Roth

IWRRC Technical Reports Archive

No abstract provided.


Efficient Scheduling Algorithms For Robot Inverse Dynamics Computation On A Multiprocessor System, C. L. Chen, C. S. G. Lee, S. H. E. Hou Jul 1987

Efficient Scheduling Algorithms For Robot Inverse Dynamics Computation On A Multiprocessor System, C. L. Chen, C. S. G. Lee, S. H. E. Hou

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technical Reports

Robot manipulators are highly nonlinear systems and their motion control requires the computation of generalized forces/torques to drive all the joint motors at an adequate rate. This paper presents efficient scheduling algorithms for computing the robot inverse dynamics on a multiprocessor system. The problem of scheduling the inverse dynamics computation consisting of m computational modules to be executed on a multiprocessor system consisting of p identical homogeneous processors to achieve a minimum-scheduled length is known to be NP-complete. In order to achieve the minimum computation time, the Newton-Euler equations of motion are expressed in the homogeneous linear recurrence form which …


Physics And Modeling Of Submicron Devices, Supriyo Datta, Mark S. Lundstrom, Marc Cahay, Amitava Das, H. Rob. Frohne, Michael J. Mclennan Jul 1987

Physics And Modeling Of Submicron Devices, Supriyo Datta, Mark S. Lundstrom, Marc Cahay, Amitava Das, H. Rob. Frohne, Michael J. Mclennan

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technical Reports

The work described in this report is directed at understanding transport physics in sub-micron heterostructure devices, at developing computational techniques for modeling such devices, and at applying these techniques to investigate new device concepts. The focus of the past year’s work has been on extending our collisionless, quantum device models to treat elastic scattering processes and at applying previously-developed models to the design and study of AlGaAs/GaAs heterojunction bipolar transistors. This report describes the past year’s progress in these two areas. As a by-product of the research, several heterostructure device models have been developed, 1- and 2-D equilibrium models, 1- …


An Expert System Controlling An Adaptable Distributed Data Base System, Bharat Bhargava, John Riedl, Detlef M. Weber Jun 1987

An Expert System Controlling An Adaptable Distributed Data Base System, Bharat Bhargava, John Riedl, Detlef M. Weber

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


An Experimental Analysis Of Replicated Copy Control During Site Failure And Recovery, Bharat Bhargava, Paul Noll, Donna Sabo Jun 1987

An Experimental Analysis Of Replicated Copy Control During Site Failure And Recovery, Bharat Bhargava, Paul Noll, Donna Sabo

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


Concurrent Checkpointing And Recovery In Distributed Systems, Pei-Jyun Leu, Bharat Bhargava Jun 1987

Concurrent Checkpointing And Recovery In Distributed Systems, Pei-Jyun Leu, Bharat Bhargava

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


Piplined Iterative Methods For Shared Memory Machines, John P. Bonomo, Wayne R. Syksen Jun 1987

Piplined Iterative Methods For Shared Memory Machines, John P. Bonomo, Wayne R. Syksen

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


Optimal Burnable Absorber Assignment For Pwr Core Reload Design, Timothy R. Niggel Jun 1987

Optimal Burnable Absorber Assignment For Pwr Core Reload Design, Timothy R. Niggel

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technical Reports

A new method has been developed to assign burnable poison loadings in the optimization of Pressurized Water Reactor core reload design. The method utilizes successive linear programming to determine the desired burnable poison loading. The optimum loading is selected after the evaluation of all candidate loadings close to the desired loading. The design method was implemented as a sub-program in the nodal core analysis code SIMULATE. The technique was applied to re-design Commonwealth Edison's Zion Unit-1 cycles 9 and 10. Significant improvements were achieved in cycle length, number of BP rods required, and power peaking. The present work completely automates …


Modeling Ground-Water Flow By Means Of A Hybrid Trajectory Image, Boundary Integral Equation Method, J. S. Jean, D. I. Leap Jun 1987

Modeling Ground-Water Flow By Means Of A Hybrid Trajectory Image, Boundary Integral Equation Method, J. S. Jean, D. I. Leap

IWRRC Technical Reports Archive

No abstract provided.


Development Of An Expert System For The Analysis Of Urban Drainage Using Swmm (Storm Water Management Model), C. Baffaut, S. Benabdallah, D. Wood, J. Delleur, M. Houck, J. Wright Jun 1987

Development Of An Expert System For The Analysis Of Urban Drainage Using Swmm (Storm Water Management Model), C. Baffaut, S. Benabdallah, D. Wood, J. Delleur, M. Houck, J. Wright

IWRRC Technical Reports Archive

No abstract provided.


In-Duct Measurement Of Turbocharger Noise, William L. Krasson, J Stuart Bolton Jun 1987

In-Duct Measurement Of Turbocharger Noise, William L. Krasson, J Stuart Bolton

Publications of the Ray W. Herrick Laboratories

As yet there appear to have been no turbocharger noise measurements reported in the open literature. Described here is the development and verification of a procedure for in-duct measurement of the noise generated by the turbine side of a turbocharger typical of those used on large diesel engines.


Compiler-Driven Cache Policy (Known Reference String), Chi Hung Chi, Henry G. Dietz Jun 1987

Compiler-Driven Cache Policy (Known Reference String), Chi Hung Chi, Henry G. Dietz

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technical Reports

Increasing cache hit-ratios has proved to be instrumental in improving performance of cache-based computers. This is particularly true for computers which have a high cache-miss/cache-hit memory reference delay ratio. Although software policies are often used for main vs. secondary memory "caching", the speed required for an implementation of a CPU vs. main memory cache policy has prompted only investigation of policies which can be implemented directly in hardware. Based on compile-time analysis, it is possible to predict program behavior, thereby increasing the hit-ratio beyond the capability of pure run-time (hardware) techniques. In this report, compiler-driven techniques for this kind of …


The Parse Programming Paradigm. Part I: Software Development Methodology. Part Ii: Software Development Support Tools, T. L. Casavant, Henry G. Dietz, P. C.-Y. Sheu, H. J. Siegel Jun 1987

The Parse Programming Paradigm. Part I: Software Development Methodology. Part Ii: Software Development Support Tools, T. L. Casavant, Henry G. Dietz, P. C.-Y. Sheu, H. J. Siegel

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technical Reports

The programming methodology of PARSE (parallel software environment), a software environment being developed for reconfigurable non-shared memory parallel computers, is described. This environment will consist of an integrated collection of language interfaces, automatic and semi-automatic debugging and analysis tools, and operating system —all of which are made more flexible by the use of a knowledge-based implementation for the tools that make up PARSE. The programming paradigm supports the user freely choosing among three basic approaches /abstractions for programming a parallel machine: logic-based descriptive, sequential-control procedural, and parallel-control procedural programming. All of these result in efficient parallel execution. The current work …


A Decomposition Approach For Balancing Large-Scale Acyclic Data Flow Graphs, P. R. Chang, C. S. G. Lee Jun 1987

A Decomposition Approach For Balancing Large-Scale Acyclic Data Flow Graphs, P. R. Chang, C. S. G. Lee

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technical Reports

In designing VLSI architectures for a complex computational task, the functional decomposition of the task into a set of computational modules can be represented as a directed task graph, and the inclusion of input data modifies the task graph to an acyclic data flow graph (ADFG). Due to different paths of traveling and computation time of each computational module, operands may arrive at multi-input modules at different arrival times, causing a longer pipelined time. Delay buffers may be inserted along various paths to balance the ADFG to achieve maximum pipelining. This paper presents an efficient decomposition technique which provides a …


Designing Networks With Compact Routing Tables Available In A Journal, Greg N. Frederickson, Ravi Janardan May 1987

Designing Networks With Compact Routing Tables Available In A Journal, Greg N. Frederickson, Ravi Janardan

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


A Model For Adaptable Concurrency Control, Bharat Bhargava, John Riedl May 1987

A Model For Adaptable Concurrency Control, Bharat Bhargava, John Riedl

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


Reachability Graphs And Invariants For Stochastic High Level Petri Nets, Jing Dong, Dan C. Marinescu, Chuang Lin May 1987

Reachability Graphs And Invariants For Stochastic High Level Petri Nets, Jing Dong, Dan C. Marinescu, Chuang Lin

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


An M/Sm/1 View Of A Token Ring Queue, Vernon J. Rego, Wojciech Szpankowski May 1987

An M/Sm/1 View Of A Token Ring Queue, Vernon J. Rego, Wojciech Szpankowski

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


Algebraic Curves, Christoph M. Hoffmann May 1987

Algebraic Curves, Christoph M. Hoffmann

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


Non Homogeneous Parallel Computations I. Synchronization Analysis Of Parallel Algorithms, Dan C. Marinescu, John R. Rice May 1987

Non Homogeneous Parallel Computations I. Synchronization Analysis Of Parallel Algorithms, Dan C. Marinescu, John R. Rice

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


A Face Area Evaluation Algorithm For Solids In Csg Representation, Muh-Cherng Wu, Chanderjit Bajaj, C. R. Liu May 1987

A Face Area Evaluation Algorithm For Solids In Csg Representation, Muh-Cherng Wu, Chanderjit Bajaj, C. R. Liu

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


On The Variance Of The External Path Length In A Binary Digital Trie, Peter Kirschenhofer, Helmut Prodinger, Wojciech Szpankowski May 1987

On The Variance Of The External Path Length In A Binary Digital Trie, Peter Kirschenhofer, Helmut Prodinger, Wojciech Szpankowski

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


Behavior Of Mucks And Amorphous Peats As Embankment Foundations, Timothy Crowl, C. W. Lovell May 1987

Behavior Of Mucks And Amorphous Peats As Embankment Foundations, Timothy Crowl, C. W. Lovell

JTRP Technical Reports

The construction of highway embankments over deposits of amorphous peat and muck is made difficult by the low shear strengths, high compressibilities, and excessive amounts of creep typically associated with soils of this nature. This report begins with a review of the compression behavior of these soils, including a method for predicting embankment settlements from the results of laboratory tests. A soil testing program is then developed for the determination of parameters required for embankment design and construction. Field vane shear tests are recommended for the measurement of the undrained shear strength, and creep tests are recommended for calculation of …


Linear And Nonlinear Programming Methods For Dispatching Power In An Integrated Ac-Dc System, C. N. Lu, S. S. Chen, C. M. Ong May 1987

Linear And Nonlinear Programming Methods For Dispatching Power In An Integrated Ac-Dc System, C. N. Lu, S. S. Chen, C. M. Ong

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technical Reports

As the number of dc systems increases, it is natural to ask what other roles, aside that of bulk power transfer, that these systems could play in the operation of modern power systems. The objective of this research is to develop formulations and methods of solution to coordinate the dispatch of powers in an integrated ac-dc power system for purposes of minimizing transmission losses and production costs. In Section I we present an LP formulation and method of solution to minimize the ac and dc network transmission losses by coordinating the traditional reactive sources with the dispatch of the dc …


Efficient Parallel Algorithms And Vlsi Architectures For Manipulator Jacobian Computation, T. B. Yeung, C. S. G. Lee May 1987

Efficient Parallel Algorithms And Vlsi Architectures For Manipulator Jacobian Computation, T. B. Yeung, C. S. G. Lee

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technical Reports

Real-time computations of manipulator Jacobian are examined for executing on uniprocessor computers, parallel computers, and VLSI pipelines. The characteristics of the Jacobian equations are found to be in the form of the first-order linear recurrence. The time lower bound of computing the first-order linear recurrence, and hence the Jacobian, is of order O(N) on uniprocessor computers, and of order O(log2N) on parallel SIMD computers, where TV is the number of degrees-of-freedom of the manipulator. The Generalized-^ method, which achieves the time lower bound on uniprocessor computers, is derived to compute the Jacobian at any desired reference coordinate frame A; from …


A Non-Iterative Power Flow Study Technique Based On The Method Of Minimal Least Squares, Michael Carl Merow May 1987

A Non-Iterative Power Flow Study Technique Based On The Method Of Minimal Least Squares, Michael Carl Merow

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technical Reports

A load flow study is used to determine the state variables of a power system. Load flow studies are essential for analyzing the effects of future load growth, for planning new facilities, and for the normal daily operation of the power system. The goal of this research is to examine an alternative load flow solution to be used in connection with the power system’s data acquisition system. Three standard linear power flow models are proposed which form a redundant set of linear equations. The equations make use of system measurements to help overcome errors introduced in the linear models. The …


The Harmonic Impact Of Rectifiers Serviced By Scott And Leblanc Connected Transformers, William P. Butler May 1987

The Harmonic Impact Of Rectifiers Serviced By Scott And Leblanc Connected Transformers, William P. Butler

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technical Reports

Conventional three-phase, six-pulse rectifiers produce harmonic currents which propagate into the ac power system from which they are supplied. A two-phase, four-pulse rectifier can be operated such that there are no ac harmonic currents generated. In this connection, although there is no harmonic impact, the three-phase load current is imbalanced. The operation of a line-commutated two-phase, four-pulse rectifer [rectifier] served by the Scott and LeBlanc three-phase to two-phase transformer connections is simulated using a digital computer program in this thesis. Several different methods of rectification for a two-phase bridge are simulated and their current waveforms analyzed for harmonic content and …


Steady State Analysis Of A Brushless Dc Motor With Half Bridge Inverter, Todd J. Kazmirski May 1987

Steady State Analysis Of A Brushless Dc Motor With Half Bridge Inverter, Todd J. Kazmirski

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technical Reports

Brushless do motors have received significant attention in the fractional horsepower motor industry in recent years. The inverter drive used with this system has traditionally been of the full bridge configuration. However, it is possible to use a half bridge inverter to drive the machine. In this paper a method to analyze the brushless dc motor with half bridge inverter is developed. The method is integrated into a digital computer program to simulate the steady state response of the system. The program allows both the inverter conduction angle and the inverter firing angle to be changed. This provides an efficient …