Integrating multiple heterogeneous data sources into applications is a time-consuming, costly and error-prone engineering task. Relatively mature technologies exist that make integration tractable from an engineering perspective. These technologies, however, have many limitations, and hence present opportunities for breakthrough research. This paper briefly describes some of these limitations, ...

Collecting chemical data for site characterization and remediation at former manufactured gas plant (MGP) sites can be time consuming and costly, with sufficient data acquired at only a few sites. In response, EPRI has developed chemical analysis methods for utility use in generating data quickly and cost-effectively. This report presents results from a laboratory demonstration of sample prepar...

In computer vision field, Image resolution enhancement has become the most current research area. Improving image resolution by applying costly hardware is expensive and time-consuming. In this paper we have discussed different methods to improve the resolution of the single image and we have given a comparison of different Super resolution algorithms for standard images based on PSNR and SSIM ...

Security assessments are costly and time consuming and cannot be carried out from scratch each time a system is updated or modified. This motivates the need for specific methodology addressing the maintenance of assessment results, in particular, and a componentoriented approach to security assessment in general. This paper presents such a methodology in the setting of model-based security asse...

As supply chains become more and more dynamic, the problem of rapidly integrating the data sources of new suppliers i s becoming increasingly important. This paper describes the Ariadne system, which can be used to quickly provide access to data sources of new supplier and requires only that the data of the suppliers is available on the Web. Our approach does not require reengineering the indiv...

Resin injection such as resin transfer molding (RTM) is commonly applied in industry for serial production of composite components. RTM process simulation enables prediction of process parameters that are essential for component and tool design. As for all simulations where material behavior is modeled, validated material properties are indispensable for realistic simulations. Currently, materi...

Determining the genomic locations of transposable elements is a common experimental goal. When mapping large collections of transposon insertions, individualized amplification and sequencing is both time consuming and costly. We describe an approach in which large numbers of insertion lines can be simultaneously mapped in a single DNA sequencing reaction by using digital error-correcting codes ...

The low-frequency methods used by most utilities nowadays for measuring the resistance of transmission line ground electrodes are inaccurate or cannot be applied when overhead groundwires are connected to the towers. Moreover, many of them are costly and time consuming. This paper proposes and compares two new methods for evaluating the transient impedance of transmission line towers. Both meth...

• the systems cannot evolve to provide new functionalities required by the organisation • they run on obsolete hardware which is expensive to maintain and reduces productivity due to the low speed of the old hardware • maintenance is expensive, tracing failures is costly and time consuming due to the lack of documentation and a general lack of understanding of the internal workings • integratio...

Training a high-accuracy dependency parser requires a large treebank. However, these are costly and time-consuming to build. We propose a learning method that needs less data, based on the observation that there are underlying shared structures across languages. We exploit cues from a different source language in order to guide the learning process. Our model saves at least half of the annotati...