There will be four tutorial tracks on the first day of the 2003 International Symposium on Quality Electronics Design. The tutorials included in these tracks are selected among the most popular topics in today's electronics industry. The IEEE Computer Society TTTC Test Technology Educational Program continues to support ISQED with tutorials on test topics. TTTC will be organizing the tutorial t...

One of the most important factors influencing the track maintenance is the transitions between parts of the track with different vertical stiffness. The dynamic...

in this paper, we have studied the electrical properties of the randomly distributed metallic (co and fe) nano/ micro wires on silicon substrate. deposition was carried out potentiostatically into the pores of the track-etch polycarbonate membrane spin coated onto the si substrate. spin coated films were irradiated with 150mev ni (+11) ions at a fluence of 8e7 ions/cm2, followed by uv irradiati...

The design and construction of the trackbed support structure is extremely important for controlling track settlement, dynamic deflection, and the overall quality of the trackbed. These factors largely influence the long-term performance of the track relative to maintaining adequate geometric features for efficient and safe train operations. Performance-based design methods provide design crite...

high speed trains are an indispensable part of rapid transportation systems in many countries. as the fastest means of transport on the ground, these trains are extremely sensitive to the terrain and track conditions. geometrical irregularities and mechanical characteristics of the track, together with inconsistencies in the lane (including bridges that support the track) are considered importa...

Qualified software engineers are often in charge of system architecture design, system software design and many hardware-related issues, especially for embedded systems. Nowadays, embedded systems are equipped with fully-functional operating systems, multi-media applications, communication protocols, and so on. Since the portion of software is getting larger and larger than hardware, it is natu...

In this paper, we introduce a Petri net based methodology for the design of a track-vehicle system. The main motivation for the introduction of this methodology is to provide a rm theoretic model to be applied in the development of a systen for design automation. We exemplify our presentation by deening the objects for the design of a distributed track vehicle system controller.

Cities are main drivers for climate change mitigation and emission reduction today. However, in many cases they lack reliable baselines of emissions to validate current developments over time, assess the impact of their projects, and prioritize investments and actions. They also need better data on a small geospatial and temporal scale to really understand local emissions. This paper describes ...

As evaluation is an important but difficult part of information retrieval system design and experimentation, evaluation questions have been the subject of much research. An “evaluation study” is an investigation into some aspect of evaluation. These types of studies typically experiment on ranked results from actual retrieval systems, most often those that were submitted to TREC tracks. We argu...