conclusions this study indicates that low-load rt results in greater accumulations in vl compared to high-load rt over the course of 8 weeks of training. results after adjusting for the pre-test scores, there was a significant difference between the two intervention groups on post-intervention total vl with a very large effect size (f (1, 15) = 16.598, p = .001, ηp2 = .525). there was a signifi...

Deregulation of electricity industries often poses enormous risk for retailers who must purchase electricity from spot markets at volatile prices and sell it to end-use consumers at stable retail rates. Absent any demand-side response, one recourse available to retailers in order to hedge against this exposure is to offer interruptible load (IL) contracts. These financial instruments enable the...

Mobile robots should perform a growing number of tasks and react to time-critical events. Thus, the ability to interrupt a task and resume it later is crucial. While interleaved execution occurs often in robotics, existing approaches do not consider the fact that interrupting a task and resuming an interrupted task often requires intermediate steps. In this paper we present an approach to inter...

In this paper we address the problem of designing an interruptible system in a setting in which n problem instances, all equally important, must be solved. The system involves scheduling executions of contract algorithms (which offer a tradeoff between allowable computation time and quality of the solution) in m identical parallel processors. When an interruption occurs, the system must report ...

Since the nineties decade, many electric utilities world-wide have been restructuring their systems from vertically integrated functioning to deregulated open-market ones. In the erstwhile vertically integrated utilities, the system operator sought to maximize the social welfare with distributional equity (meeting the load at all time) as the main criteria, for the system as a whole. The operat...

This paper describes how a superscalar in-order processor must be modified to support Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT) such that time-predictability is preserved for hard real-time applications. For superscalar in-order architectures the calculation of the Worst Case Execution Time (WCET) is much easier and tighter than for out-of-order architectures. By a careful enhancement that completely i...

The paper discusses a layered design for a discrete event simulation framework based on the Beta programming language. A description of goals and motivation of simulation modelling is followed by a brief characterization of Beta and its suitability for work this area. After some general comments on the history and state of simulation programming the design of the BetaSIM framework is illustrate...