This paper presents a voltage control method using multiple distributed generators (DGs) based on a multi-agent system framework. The output controller of each DG is represented as a DG agent, and each voltage-monitoring device is represented as a monitoring agent. These agents cooperate to accomplish voltage regulation through a coordinating agent or moderator. The moderator uses the reactive ...

This paper describes the IBM approach to Broadcast News Transcription. Typical problems in the Broadcast News Transcription task are segmentation, clustering, acoustic modeling, language modeling and acoustic model adaptation. This paper presents new algorithms for each of these focus problems. Some key ideas include Bayesian Information Criterion (for segmentation, clustering and acoustic mode...

Understanding the properties of paper fibers and paper fiber bonds can be really significant in improving the quality of paper. The problem in gathering measurement data from individual paper fibers is the lack of reliable and efficient research instruments. Also, without automation the yield of experiments will be low and the results will depend on the skills of the operator. This paper presen...

Multihoming, the practice of connecting to multiple providers, is becoming highly popular. Due to the growth of the BGP routing tables in the Internet, the way to multihome in IPv6 is required to preserve the scalability of the interdomain routing system. A proposed method is to assign multiple provider-dependent aggregatable (PA) IPv6 prefixes to each site, instead of a single provider-indepen...

When an airliner and a Remotely Piloted Air System (RPAS) have conflicting courses that may compromise the minimum safety separation between them, how much in advance should the RPAS start the separation manoeuvre? Which is the optimal heading change that will guarantee the desired separation distance with a minimum reaction time? These same questions can be asked if it is the airliner that per...

This document is disseminated under the sponsorship of the Department of Transportation in the interest of information exchange. The United States Government assumes no liability for its contents or use thereof. 6. Abstract GPS-Squitter is a system concept that merges the capabilities of Automatic Dependent Surveillance (ADS) and the Mode S beacon radar. The result is an integrated concept for ...

The ability of factor VIIa to initiate thrombin generation and clot formation in blood from healthy donors, blood from patients with hemophilia A, and in anti–factor IX antibody–induced (“acquired”) hemophilia B blood was investigated. In normal blood, both factor VIIa–tissue factor (TF) complex and factor VIIa alone initiated thrombin generation. The efficiency of factor VIIa was about 0.0001 ...

Cyclin-dependent kinases (Cdks) are essential for the control of cell cycle transitions, and changes in activity of a single Cdk1-cyclin B complex can order the cell cycle in fission yeast. Using mathematical modelling and experiments in Xenopus egg extracts, we have shown that it is not Cdk1 activity per se , that determines the cell cycle, but the ratio of activities of Cdk1 and the Cdk1-coun...

This work considers the hypothetical viability of microbial nitrate-dependent Fe2+ oxidation (NDFO) for supporting simple life in the context of the early Mars environment. This draws on knowledge built up over several decades of remote and in situ observation, as well as recent discoveries that have shaped current understanding of early Mars. Our current understanding is that certain early mar...

Visual surveillance is an important computer vision research problem. As more and more surveillance cameras appear around us, the demand for automatic methods for video analysis is increasing. Such methods have broad applications including surveillance for safety in public transportation, public areas, and in schools and hospitals. Automatic surveillance is also essential in the fight against t...