In modern digital circuits the total power attributed to wires is increasing. Reducing the power consumption in wires play a major role in low power design. Coupling transitions contribute to significant energy loss in deep sub-micron buses. Earlier schemes using the switching activity minimization based upon the substrate capacitances are not valid in these buses. Hence, a new low energy bus-e...

In deep-submicron technologies the primary component of delay is shifting from logic gates to the interconnect network. Buses can no longer be considered as a set of independent lines that don’t interact. A more appropriate model would treat the bus as a distributed system, where a transition on a line would affect adjacent lines as well. However, the transitions on the buses can be grouped int...

This paper presents the conception, design, implementation and testing of innovative software architectures and software development processes for rapid prototyping of automated transit buses. Our work is motivated by demonstrations of automated transit bus technology in the context of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) systems. Mission handling and safety issues are handled via a three-layer hierarchical...

The paper proposes a novel multi-area state estimator based on wide area measurements where only boundary buses are considered in the coordination level. The power injection measurements are not used during the coordination level reducing the number of states and therefore size of the problem. Instead, a set of pseudo-measurements are included whenever a power injection measurement is available...

This paper examines some computational aspects of diierent arrays enhanced with optical pipelined buses. The array processors with optical pipelined buses (APPB) are shown to be extremely exible, as demonstrated by their ability to eeciently simulate diierent variants of PRAMs and bounded degree networks. A model of computation is introduced, the array with reconngurable optical buses (AROB), w...

A heuristic procedure is developed to assign buses to transit centers (garages) in such a way that all the buses on a particular route are assigned to a single transit center. This research builds on an optimal mixed integer programming location/allocation model that splits the bus assignments when capacity limitations were reached at a transit center. The heuristic procedure adopts a two-step ...

Assisted living environments involve a wide range of different devices. Most of them are commercially available, but typically associated to standard domotics buses not compatible with each other. Besides, in many cases it is desirable to integrate new devices to a system that might not support the installed bus protocol. Interconnection between devices is far from simple, specially because dom...

In literature, economic power dispatch problems are generally categorized as convex and non-convex optimization problems. In this study, incremental artificial bee colony (IABC) and incremental artificial bee colony with local search (IABC-LS) have been used for the solution of the economic dispatch problem with valve point effect. In these kind of problems, fuel cost curve increases as sinusoi...