In this article, the state-of-the-art multi-wave and hybrid imaging techniques in the field of nondestructive evaluation and structural health monitoring were comprehensively reviewed. A new direction for assessment and health monitoring of various structures by capitalizing the advantages of those imaging methods was discussed. Although sharing similar system configurations, the imaging physic...

Although the goals of alternative medicine and traditional medicine are the same, their ideas about what causes a disease, the nature of the disease itself, and the process used to regain health are very different. The physician learns that disease must be cured by prescribing medicine or by surgery. There is nothing inherently wrong with this approach. It often works. But why does alternative ...

Abstract Diagnostic imaging is widely used to assess, characterize, and monitor brain tumors. However, there remain several challenges in each of these categories due the heterogeneous nature This may include variations tumor biology that relate variable degrees cellular proliferation, invasion, necrosis turn have different manifestations. These created for assessment, including segmentation, s...

A robot is typical of systems that are inherently submitted to uncertainties although they should be highly reliable (i.e. for a robot used in surgical applications). The sources of uncertainties are the manufacturing tolerances of the mechanical parts constituting the robot which make the real robot always different from its theoretical model and control errors. We exhibit properties of a robo...

IP routing requires the cooperation of a large number of Autonomous Systems (ASes) via the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). Each AS applies local policies for selecting routes and propagating routes to others, with important implications for the reliability and stability of the global system. In and of itself, BGP does not ensure that every pair of hosts can communicate. In addition, routing poli...

We study the inherent robust stability properties of nonlinear discrete-time systems controlled by suboptimal model predictive control (MPC). The unique requirement to suboptimal MPC is that it does not increase the cost function with respect to a well-defined warm start, and it is therefore implementable in general nonconvex problems for which no suboptimality margins can be enforced. Because ...

Computer system batch schedulers typically require information from the user upon job submission, including a runtime estimate. Inaccuracy of these runtime estimates, relative to the actual runtime of the job, has been well documented and is a perennial problem mentioned in the job scheduling literature. Typically users provide these estimates under circumstances where their job will be killed ...

Based on the conviction that modern superscalar outof-order designs squander useful resources for little incremental gain, the BOA team embarked on a design effort to develop an architecture where computational elements dominated the design. At the same time, we wanted to preserve the ability to adapt to changing workload behavior dynamically, but without the overhead inherent in traditional ou...