The most important models and results of the manufacturing flow line literature are described. These include the major classes of models (asynchronous, synchronous, and continuous); the major features (blocking, processing times, failures and repairs); the major properties (conservation of flow, flow rate-idle time, reversibility, and others); and the relationships among different models. Exact...

A full tactile sensing suite for the nger segments and palm of the Utah/MIT Dextrous Hand is presented. The rubber-based sensors employ capaci-tance sensing and oating electrodes in the top layer, and contain local electronics for excitation, ltering, analog-to-digital conversion, and serial communication. Experimental results on static, dynamic, and spatial properties are presented. Use of the...

1. The new definitions of jitter In the last few years, more and more serial link standards adopted the concept of separating jitter into deterministic jitter (DJ), periodic jitter (PJ) and random jitter (RJ). The old concept of histogram based peak-to-peak jitter has been replaced by the concept of total jitter (TJ), which is associated with a certain bit-error-rate for the serial link (typica...

This article studies the growing bacterial population. Each bacterium is distinguished by its degree of maturity and its maturation velocity. To complete the study in [3], we describe the bacterial profile of this population by proving that the generated semigroup possesses an asynchronous exponential growth property.

The purpose of the microprocessor – based controller described in the present study is to enable the measurements by means of EL-11D ellipsometer system to be carried in automatic mode. The geometry of optic components of the ellipsometer system can be changed in MANUAL and AUTOMATIC modes by means of the controller. Three keys incorporated on the front panel are used for setting of the ellipso...

In this paper I’m proposing a novel idea for designing and developing an embedded system which gives a solution for testing various serial communication interfaces of target board. This work reduces total system debugging time since it creates an independent platform, which helps the testing engineers to check their board before the entire completion i.e. it provides the developers an environme...

In this paper, an experiment was conducted to assess the impact of online deliberation on citizens’ attitudes. Specifically, this research compared pre and post deliberation opinions of participants who deliberated online via an asynchronous platform regarding the issue of political opinion polls. Results indicate that online deliberation had a positive effect on citizens’ attitudes since it wa...

We consider the problem of estimating vector-valued variables from noisy “relative” measurements. The measurement model can be expressed in terms of a graph, whose nodes correspond to the variables being estimated and the edges to noisy measurements of the difference between the two variables. This type of measurement model appears in several sensor network problems, such as sensor localization...

Content: 1. Clocks and Logic. 2. Turing Machines and the distinction between Hardware and Software 3. Simulating Turing Machines by Clocks. 4. Finite representations in Physics and in Metamathematics. 5. Mathematics as an open system. 6. Interactive, asynchronous and distributed computing. 7. Plasticity and the wet brain. 8. Implicit Mathematics APPENDIX: More on the proofs of unprovable propos...

1 Abstract The 3-slot asynchronous communication mechanism (ACM) has existed for a long time, but has always been regarded as an inferior solution, especially to the 4-slot ACM, primarily because of questions about its behaviour when individual control variable statements are regarded as non-atomic. With the publication of ACM solutions using mutex elements to deal with metastability, however, ...