The list of semiconductor materials with spectroscopically fingerprinted self-interstitials is very short. M-center in 4H-SiC, a bistable defect responsible for family electron traps, has been deprived model which could unveil its real importance almost two decades. Using advanced first-principles calculations and junction spectroscopy, we demonstrate that the properties M, including bistabilit...

Sustainability should be supported by modern software engineering methods to guarantee reliability of the running systems. Dynamic reconfiguration is an important technology implementing the sustainability goal. However, building dynamic reconfigurable software system cost-effectively and in a predictable manner is a major engineering challenge. Aiming at solving this problem, this paper combin...

This paper provides a tutorial introduction to reconfigurable control and surveys recent advances on this topic. Control reconfiguration is an important method of fault-tolerant control that uses the results of a fault diagnosis component to restructure the control loop and to adapt the controller to the faulty plant. This paper describes recent approaches that are suitable for on-line applicat...

This paper proposes a vehicular control system architecture that supports selfconfiguration. The architecture is based on dynamic mapping of processes and services to resources to meet the challenges of future demanding use-scenarios in which systems must be flexible to exhibit context-aware behaviour and to permit customization. The architecture comprises a number of low-level services that wi...

Fig. 6 One-step reconfiguration by copying the states and doing structural modifications13 Fig. 7 Activity diagram of the RM for the one-step reconfiguration from mode 1 to 2, when the GSC does a synchronous reconfiguration.. Fig. 8 Activity diagram of the RM for the one-step reconfiguration from mode 2 to 1, when the GSC does a asynchronous reconfiguration .. Fig. 9 Activity diagram of the RM ...

Increasingly, applications need to dynamically self-reconfigure as new environmental conditions arise at run time. In order to selfreconfigure, an adaptive system must determine which target system configuration will yield the desired behavior based on current execution conditions. However, it may be impractical to evaluate all potential system configurations in a reasonable time frame. This pa...

Support for multimedia quality of service (QoS) is critical and necessary requirement for next generation wireless networks. Wireless Mesh Networking is envisioned as an economically viable paradigm and a promising technology for supporting multimedia QoS. To maximize the aggregate utilization of traffic flows in a multi-hop wireless network, with constraints imposed both due to self-interferen...

Network reconfiguration is an operation to modify the network topology. The implementation of network reconfiguration has many advantages such as loss minimization, increasing system security and others. In this paper, two topics about the network reconfiguration in distribution system are briefly described. The first topic summarizes its impacts while the second explains some heuristic optimiz...

− − We have been developing a self-reconfigurable modular robotic system (M-TRAN) which can make various 3-D configurations and motions. In the second prototype (M-TRAN II), various improvements are integrated in order to realize complicated reconfigurations and versatile whole body motions. Those are a reliable connection/detachment mechanism, on-board multi-computers, high speed inter-module ...