This review provides an overview of new strategies to address the current challenges automotive battery systems: Intelligent Battery Systems. They have potential make systems more performant and future-proof for coming generations electric vehicles. The essential features Systems are accurate robust determination cell individual states ability control each by reconfiguration. enable high-level ...

We study controllable self-shifting Bloch modes in anisotropic hexagonal photonic lattices. The shifting results from a deformed band structure due to deformation of the index distribution in each unit cell. By reconfiguration of the index profile of the unit cell, the direction in which the Bloch modes move can be controlled. Our theoretical predictions are experimentally demonstrated in hexag...

Embedded systems normally involve a combination of hardware and software resources designed to perform dedicated tasks. Such systems have widely crept into industrial control, automotive, networking, and consumer products. These systems require efficient devices that occupy small area and consume low power. The device area can be minimized by reusing the same hardware for different applications...

Mating success in plants depends largely on the efficiency of pollen dispersal. For hermaphrodite plants, self-pollination, either within or among flowers, can reduce mating opportunities because of pollen and ovule discounting and inbreeding depression. Self-pollination may be particularly detrimental in plants such as orchids and asclepiads that package each flower's pollen into one or more p...

The Hidra Membership Monitor (HMM) is a distributed service that maintains the current set of active nodes in a cluster of machines. This protocol allows the detection of multiple machine joins or failures in a unique reconfiguration, using a low amount of messages (with a cost that is linear on the number of nodes). These membership services are needed to detect cluster changes as soon as poss...

Global vision consensus on the next generation of wireless mobile communications, broadly termed 4G, sketches a heterogeneous infrastructure, comprising different wireless access systems in a complementary manner and vested with reconfiguration capabilities that will facilitate a more flexible and dynamic adaptation of the wireless network infrastructure to better meet the ever-changing service...

A hardware mechanism has been proposed to reconfigure an interleaved memory system. The reconfiguration scheme is such that, at any instant, all fault-free memory banks in the memory system can be utilized in an interleaved manner. The design of the hardware that enables the reconfiguration is discussed. The reconfiguration scheme proposed in this paper is analyzed for a number of distinct benc...

In this paper, we describe DyRecT (Dynamic Reconfiguration Toolkit) a software library that allows programmers to develop adaptively parallel message-passing MPI programs for clusters of workstations. DyRecT provides a high-level API that can be used for writing adaptive parallel HPF-like programs while hiding most of the details of the dynamic reconfiguration from the programmer. In addition, ...

The dynamic reconfiguration of the interconnection network is an advanced feature of some multicomputers to reduce the communication overhead. In this paper we present an algorithm for the dynamic reconfiguration of the network. Reconfiguration is limited, preserving the original topology. Long distance message passing is minimized by positioning communication partners close to each other. That...