The foundational concept for our research, which is largely shared by statisticians and ecologists, is that biodiversity is one of the most important indicators for environmental assessment. Because this indicator decreases in relation to ecosystem stressors, its measurement is essential for predicting future biological impacts of environmental damages. Although many indices have been proposed,...

The fractal geometry is the most appropriate mathematical instrument to describe the irregularity of a natural scene, by means of few effective and reliable parameters. Therefore, fractal concepts can be used to model and to identify geometrical changes occurred in areas hit by disasters. An overall framework employing fractal based models, algorithms and tools to support identification of natu...

The report provides a short description of the grid monitoring architecture and existing event services. It deals with five monitoring tools that can be used in a grid environment, namely NetLogger, Globus HeartBeat Monitor, Network Weather Service, Autopilot with Virtue and a prototype implementation of the grid monitoring architecture at NASA. The comparison of the tools is based on the requi...

This paper proposes the use of monitoring tools to record data in support of digital forensic investigations. The collection of live system data requires integrity checks and data validation to be performed as the data is collected and stored. Combining system monitoring and digital forensic functionality in a single system reduces the cost and complexity of administration and maintenance, whil...

istration’s process analytical technology (PAT) initiative is to encourage pharmaceutical manufacturers to improve their operations to reduce the cost of pharmaceuticals. Before the PAT initiative, there was not much emphasis on changing ongoing pharmaceutical operations—repeatability, not innovation, was the order of the day. Now that the regulatory climate has changed, how can pharmaceutical ...

An optoelectronic method for in situ monitoring of the flank wear of cutting tools is presented. The method is based on real time vision technology in which the tool is illuminated by the beam of a laser and the wear zone is visualized using a Vidicon camera. The image is converted into digital pixel data and processed, to detect the wear land width. Detailed aspects of the image processing pro...

This paper describes two procedures for automatic monitoring of control loop performance. The first is a procedure for detecting oscillations in control loops, and the second a procedure for detecting sluggish control loops. The focus of the paper is the industrial application of the procedures, and the various implementations possible and available.

Runtime Monitoring is performed during the execution of software to detect anomalies in them. Currently several tools are available that help in developing the monitors. We analyze the prominent monitoring tools available for Java applications based on two features, the properties that can be monitored using these tools and the specification language used to specify the monitorable properties. ...