In the basement of the house is a fuse box, where the main electricity supply is distributed over ten separately fused groups. Each fuse protects a number of the—more than fifty— power outlets in and around the house. For reasons that need not concern us here, the mapping from outlet to fuse group is rather haphazard. Unfortunately, the previous owner had lost the group chart that lists for eve...

We show that depending on the disorder, a small noise added to the threshold distribution of the fuse network may or may not completely change the subsequent breakdown process. When the threshold distribution has a lower cutoff at a finite value and a power law dependence towards large thresholds with an exponent which is less than 0.16 ± 0.03, the network is not sensitive to the added noise, o...

Many systems are partially stochastic in nature. We have derived datadriven approaches for extracting stochastic state machines (Markov models) directly from observed data. This chapter provides an overview of our approach with numerous practical applications. We have used this approach for inferring shipping patterns, exploiting computer system side-channel information, and detecting botnet ac...

In this paper, we propose a scheme for 3D model construction by fusing heterogeneous sensor data. The proposed scheme is intended for use in an environment where multiple, heterogeneous sensors operate asynchronously. Surface depth, orientation, and curvature measurements obtained from multiple sensors and vantage points are incorporated to construct a computer description of the imaged object....

With the development of technology, the size of files handled by smart devices is increasing. This phenomenon can cause the storage to be the biggest bottleneck of smart devices. There is a study that presents a major factor in this phenomenon is overhead in user level filesystem (FUSE). And it proposed buffered FUSE (bFUSE) and increased size of FUSE I/O as a solution of this problem. In this ...

Based on the definition of IEC 60282-1, backup-fuses have to interrupt currents higher than the minimal breaking current. Full-range fuses have to interrupt all currents, which are able to melt the fusing element. Severe circumstances like reduced heat-transfer or external heating might trip the fuse when the actual operating current is below the minimum breaking current or the melting current....

FUSE is a lightweight failure notification service for building distributed systems. Distributed systems built with FUSE are guaranteed that failure notifications never fail. Whenever a failure notification is triggered, all live members of the FUSE group will hear a notification within a bounded period of time, irrespective of node or communication failures. In contrast to previous work on fai...

The objective of the present study was to test the hypothesis that, in the in vivo awake goat model, perturbation/lesion in the pontine respiratory group (PRG) would decrease the sensitivity to hypercapnia and hypoxia. The study reported herein was part of two larger studies in which cholinergic modulation in the PRG was attenuated by microdialysis of atropine and subsequently ibotenic acid inj...