We discuss rate-independent engineering models for multi-dimensional behavior of ferroelectric materials. These models capture the non-linear and hysteretic behavior of such materials. We show that these models can be formulated in an energetic framework which is based on the elastic and the electric displacements as reversible variables and interior, irreversible variables like the remanent po...

The IP Multimedia Subsystem is an architectural framework for delivering multimedia services over an Internet Protocol (IP) network. Originally, it was specified for wireless networks, but has since evolved to incorporate fixed line access as well. It forms part of a Next Generation Network (NGN) which is defined as a packet-based network where the service functionality is independent of the un...

Inspired by the success of reservation systems in airlines industries, and the Connected Vehicle technology supporting vehicular communications, this paper investigated a highway reservation and developed a mathematical optimization formulation to solve the optimal trip scheduling plan for a traffic network. The performance was quantified by total monetary cost of travel time and applicable ear...

In this article I provide a review of studies that have modeled interactions between language evolution and demographic processes. The models are classified in terms of three different approaches: analytical modeling, agent-based analytical modeling, and agent-based cognitive modeling. I show that these approaches differ in the complexity of interactions that they can handle and that the agent-...

In this paper, we describe source code transformations based on sw-pipelining, loop unrolling, and loop fusion for the sparse matrix-vector multiplication and for the Conjugate Gradient algorithm that enable data prefetching and overlapping of load and FPU arithmetic instructions and improve the temporal cache locality. We develop a probabilistic model for estimation of the numbers of cache mis...

Seeking universal probability models for image representations, we employ a spectral approach where the images are decomposed using several bandpass lters, and probability models on the lter outputs (or spectral components) are imposed. We apply a (two-parameter) analytical form, introduced in [9] and called a Bessel K form, for modeling the marginal probabilities of these spectral components, ...

Analytical methods for gate delay estimation are very useful to speedup timing analysis of digital integrated circuits. This work presents a novel approach to analytically estimate the CMOS inverter delay. The proposed method considers the influence of input slope, output load and I/O coupling capacitance, as well as relevant effects such as channel length modulation and drain induced barrier l...

An analytical technique for extracting phase, visibility, and amplitude information as needed for interferometric astrometry for the Space Interferometry Mission (SIM) is presented. This model accounts for a number of physical and instrumental effects and is valid for the general case of a bandpass filter. I was able to obtain a general solution for polychromatic phasors and to address the prop...