a recognition of appropriate soil erosion control methods along with the use of convenient alternatives in erosion control are necessary for a proper management of natural resources. run off control through polymers is one of the new methods employed in reducing soil erosion. this research was conducted to evaluate the effects of a polymer, called anionic polyacrylamide, on soil infiltarion rat...

In the last few years, Run-to-Run (R2R) control techniques have been developed and used to control various processes in industries. These techniques combine response surface, statistical process control, and feedback control techniques. The R2R controller consists of a linear regression model that relates input variables to output variables using Exponentially Weighted Moving Average (EWMA). In...

This paper introduces a run-time system that is scalable, efficient, and implements an intermediate format for hardware-independent parallel software. It is a peer-to-peer system, having no centralized functions, with peers organized into a tree-of-fully-connected-graphs. The coordination overhead (processing plus number of control messages) grows logarithmically with the number of processing n...

Most vendors of digital signal processors (DSPs) support a Harvard architecture, which has two or more memory buses, one for program and one or more for data and allow the processor to access multiple words of data from memory in a single instruction cycle. We already addressed how to efficiently assign data to multi-memory banks in our previous work. This paper reports on our recent attempt to...

We propose a new programming control structure called “multifor”, allowing to take advantage of parallelization models that were not naturally attainable with the polytope model before. In a multifor-loop, several loops whose bodies are run simultaneously can be defined. Respective iteration domains are mapped onto each other according to a run frequency – the grain – and a relative position – ...

The purpose of this study is to apply the G7 method for calibration on a four-color flexographic press. G7 controls and calibrates a press using colorimetric values rather than tone value increase. Two press runs were completed to calibrate a flexographic press. The first press run provided data for creating a control curve called Neutral Print Density Curve (NPDC) for the press run with a spec...

– Networked workstations have emerged as an increasingly popular style of computation. Spurred by advances in computational capability and network bandwidth, they offer cost–effective computation. Because of the fine–grained, loosely coupled nature of the hardware, an agent–based system to monitor program performance can be used to harness the aggregate capability of workstations efficiently, r...