We present the case of quantal transmission through a smooth, single-piece exponential potential, V (x) = −V0e x/a, in contrast to the piece-wise continuous potentials, as a pedagogic model to demonstrate the analytic extraction of transmission (reflection) co-efficient. The Schrödinger transmission through a one-dimensional potential well/barrier constitutes an essential topic in the courses a...

Programs are bloated. Our study shows that only 5% of libc is used on average across Ubuntu Desktop environment (>2200 programs); the heaviest user, vlc media player, only used 18%. This is striking because bloating presents a vulnerable attack surface for software exploitation and imposes undue burden on defenses (e.g., CFI defenses). In this paper: (1) We present a debloating framework built ...

In this paper we propose a novel classification algorithm that fits models of different complexity on separate regions of the input space. Our goal is to achieve a balance between global and local learning strategies by decomposing the classification task into simpler subproblems; each task narrows the learning problem to a local region of high example density over the input space. Specifically...

The problem of defining appropriate segment similarity measures for picture segmentation is examined. In agglomerative hierarchical segmentation, two segments are compared and merged if found similar. The proposed Hierarchical Step-Wise Optimization (HSWO) algorithm finds and then merges the two most similar segments, on a step-by-step basis. By considering picture segmentation as a piece-wise ...

(1) Background: This paper proposes a strategy coupling Demand Response Program with Dynamic Thermal Rating to ensure transformer reserve for the load connection. solution is an alternative expensive grid reinforcements. (2) Methods: The proposed methodology firstly considers N-1 mode under strict assumptions on and ambient temperature then identifies critical periods of year when constraints a...

We consider the problem of topological linearization of smooth (C or C) control systems, i.e. of their local equivalence to a linear controllable system via point-wise transformations on the state and the control (static feedback transformations) that are topological but not necessarily differentiable. We prove that local topological linearization implies local smooth linearization, at generic ...