In this paper we test the robustness of a nonlinear boundary feedback control for a flexible beam with respect to perturbation. We show that additional dynamics of perturbation at one of the ends of the beam, as long as they are strictly passive, will not destabilize the controlled beam.

The paper discusses the asymptotic depth of a reversible circuit consisting of NOT, CNOT and 2-CNOT gates. Reversible circuit depth function $D(n, q)$ for a circuit implementing a transformation $f\colon \mathbb Z_2^n \to \mathbb Z_2^n$ is introduced as a function of $n$ and the number of additional inputs $q$. It is proved that for the case of implementing a permutation from $A(\mathbb Z_2^n)$...

Agro-Engineering Center, Valencian Institute for Agricultural Research (IVIA), Ctra. de Moncada a Náquera km. 4.5; Moncada 46113, Valencia, Spain † Entomology Associated Unit IVIA/CIB CSIC, Plant Protection and Biotechnology Center, Valencian Institute for Agricultural Research (IVIA), Ctra. de Moncada a Náquera km. 4.5; Moncada 46113, Valencia, Spain †† Martinavarro S.A., Avda. al Grao, 12, Al...

We present GENSEM, a tool for generating input semantic representations for two sentence generators based on the same reversible Tree Adjoining Grammar. We then show how GENSEM can be used to produced large and controlled benchmarks and test the relative performance of these generators.

We clarify the connections between the erasure scheme of probabilistic CNOT gate implementation recently proposed by Pittman, Jacobs and Franson [Phys. Rev. A 64, 062311 (2001)] and quantum teleportation.

We relate burstiness (or indifference) curves for stochastic traffic flows to the quality they experience under the allocation of the resources of bandwidth and buffer space. We use this relation to explore the quality experienced by merged flows under various rules for allocating resources to them, including one motivated by the Controlled Load service specification. We show how cost structure...

The Kinematic Models for Design Digital Library (KMODDL) exemplifies digital collections in which groups of objects are versions of the same resource and which resources are related to one another taxonomically. Other objects in the collection are supplementary materials that explicitly cite the primary KMODDL resources. To manage the complex relationships among KMODDL objects while maintaining...