In this paper, a simplified model with a lower order is first developed for a nuclear steam generator system and verified against some realistic environments. Based on this simplified model, a hybrid multi-input and multi-out (MrMO) control system, consisting of feedforward control (FFC) and feedback control (FBC), is designed for wide range conditions by using the genetic algorithm (GA) techni...

Micropayment schemes usually do not provide fairness, which means that either the payer or the payee, or both, can cheat the other and gain a financial advantage by misbehaving in the protocols. The authors propose an extension to a family of micropayment schemes that removes the financial incentive to cheat. The proposed extension does not provide true fairness, but it renders misbehaving prac...

Colorectal polyps are precursor lesions of colorectal cancer; hence, early detection and dysplasia grading essential for determining cancer risk, the possibility developing subsequent polyps, follow-up recommendations. The significant contribution this study is development an enhanced deep-learning model called Fast Fourier Convolutional ResNet (FFC-ResNet) to classify grades polyps. It based o...

It is known that in the early stages of osteoarthritis (OA) the concentration of glycan proteins decreases in articular cartilage. This phenomenon is under active research to develop a means to characterise OA accurately in the early stages of the disease, when still reversible. However, no method of quantification has yet shown clear success in this area. In this paper we propose a novel appro...

Resources co-funded by several agents must be exploited in such a way that three kinds of constraints are met: (1) physical problem (hard) constraints; (2) efficiency constraints, aiming at maximizing the satisfaction of each agent; (3) a fairness constraint, which is ideally satisfied when each agent receives an amount of the resource exactly proportional to its financial contribution. This pa...

Abstruct-Formation flying is defined as a set of more than one spacecraft whose states are coupled through a common control law. This paper provides a comprehensive survey of spacecraft formation flying control (FFC), which encompasses design techniques and stability results for these coupled-state control laws. We divide the FFC literature into five FFC architectures: (i) Multiple-Input Multip...

This paper designs and implements a hardware-based evolutionary digital filter (EDF). The EDF is an adaptive digital filter which is controlled by adaptive algorithm based on evolutionary computation. The hardware-based EDF consists of two submodules, that is, a filtering and fitness calculation (FFC) module and a reproduction and selection (RS) module. The FFC module has high computational abi...

Mit dem im Task Trainer (TT) integrierten Funktions-FragmentChecker (FFC) wurde für die C#-Programmierausbildung eine computergestützte Übungsumgebung geschaffen, in der der Lernende durch die eigenständige Auswahl von unterschiedlich komplexen Übungsaufgaben aus einem Pool verschiedener Aufgabentypen seinen Lernund Übungsprozess aktiv und selbstgesteuert gestalten kann. Unter Üben wird das Kon...

This work proposes a floating-point to fixed-point conversion (FFC) methodology for digital VLSI signal processing systems. The past techniques used to facilitate FFC are first reviewed, followed by a description based on a statistical approach and global optimization which allows a high degree of automation.