Product configuration software tools are commonly available as stand-alone products or as part of standard enterprise software. The application of product configurators generally addresses three goals: Product configuration tools support sales activities, they support different tasks of process planning, e.g. automated generation of Bills Of Material and they preserve engineering knowledge by s...

As networks continue to grow in size, speed and complexity, as well as in the diversification of their services, they require many ad-hoc configuration changes. Such changes may lead to potential configuration errors, policy violations, inefficiencies, and vulnerable states. The current Network Management landscape is in a dire need for an automated process to prioritize and manage risk, audit ...

Configuration management tools have become quite adept at representing target configurations at a point in time. While a point-in-time model helps with system configuration tasks, it cannot represent the complete scope of configuration tasks needed to manage a complex environment over time. In this paper, we introduce a mechanism for representing changes over time in target configurations and s...

The tandem loop with multiple vehicles (TLMV) configuration is proposed as a new and effective alternative for automated guided vehicle systems. The TLMV configuration is useful for a large scale manufacturing environment since it can easily accommodate expansion or upgrade while still being less sensitive to vehicle failure than the tandem loop (single vehicle) configuration. Simulation result...

Georgia Tech, as part of DARPA's Tactical Mobile Robotics (TMR) Program, is developing a wide range of mission speciication capabilities for the urban warrghter. These include the development of a range of easily conngurable mission-speciic robot behaviors suitable for various battleeeld and special forces scenarios; communications planning and connguration capabilities for small teams of robot...

The time it takes to reconfigure FPGAs can be a significant overhead for reconfigurable computing. In this paper we develop new compression algorithms for FPGA configurations that can significantly reduce this overhead. By using runlength and other compression techniques, files can be compressed by a factor of 3.6 times. Bus transfer mechanisms and decompression hardware are also discussed. Thi...

Manipulating and defining content of configuration files is one of the central tasks of configuration management tools. This is important to ensure a desired and correct behavior of computer systems. However, often considered very simple, this task can turn out to be very challenging. Configuration management tools provide different strategies for content manipulation of files, hence an adminis...

Cedalion is our algorithm for automatically configuring sequential planning portfolios. Given a parametrized planner and a set of training instances, it iteratively selects the pair of planner configuration and time slice that improves the current portfolio the most per time spent. At the end of each iteration all instances for which the current portfolio finds the best solution are removed fro...

high spin states in the neutron rich nucleus 191os has been populated for the first time using the82se+192os deep-inelastic reaction at 460 mev beam energy using the alpi accelerators at the laboratorynazionali di legnaro, italy. high fold γ-γ coincidences were acquired with the 4π spectrometer gaspdetector array, consisting of 40 compton-suppressed, large-volume germanium detectors with an inn...