In this paper a novel hierarchical DfT methodology is presented which is targeted to improve the delay fault testability for external testing and scanbased BIST. After the partitioning of the design into high frequency macros, the analysis for delay fault testability already starts in parallel with the implementation at the macro level. A specification is generated for each macro that defines t...

This paper describes the conceptual design and validation of an Air Traffic Management concept and the role the safety and human factors played in this design and validation process. The Free Flight concept is characterized by being a direct route concept where the pilots, instead of the air traffic controller, are responsible for the airborne separation assurance. Moving this task to the cockp...

A macro-model is a simplified model that emulates functional characteristics of a device or circuit, and widely used in system-level simulation. In this paper, macro-model based SPICE simulation of DC/DC switching regulators is presented. Macro-models of a power switch and Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) control circuit are described. Two simulation examples are given to demonstrate the capability...

Drug addictions are often viewed as compulsive behaviors, not sensitive to the typical rules of self-discipline or market forces. Nonetheless, many governments try to discourage consumption of addictive substances through macro policy tools, such as taxation, regulation and prohibition, in an effort to reduce the harmful consequences that result from their consumption. The government's ability ...

The increasing use of advanced sensing technologies for strain measurements necessitates the development of strain-based identification methodologies. In this study, a three-step neural network strategy, called direct soft parametric identification (DSPI), is presented to identify the member stiffness and damping parameters of a truss structure directly from free vibration-induced strains. The ...

The articles [22], [14], [25], [15], [1], [20], [3], [4], [16], [26], [11], [13], [12], [5], [6], [21], [9], [8], [10], [2], [7], [18], [23], [19], [24], and [17] provide the notation and terminology for this paper. For simplicity, we adopt the following convention: x, y, X are sets, m, n are natural numbers, O is an ordinal number, and R, S are binary relations. Let D be a set, let f be a part...

A micro-level agent-based model of innovation diffusion was developed that explicitly combines (a) an individual's perception of the advantages or relative utility derived from adoption, and (b) social influence from members of the individual's social network. The micro-model was used to simulate macro-level diffusion patterns emerging from different configurations of micro-model parameters. Mi...

In agent-based social simulation, crowd models are used to generate agent behaviors that should correspond closely to human crowds. Despite significant progress in this area, many existing crowd models do not yet account for important cultural factors in crowd behavior, and even more so, for mixed-culture crowds. Moreover, evaluation of crowd models accounting for culture is particularly diffic...

INTRODUCTION Epidemiologic research involves the study of a complex set of host, environmental and causative agent factors as they interact to impact health and diseases in any population. The most advanced of these efforts have focused on micro (cellular) or macro (human) population level studies but lacked the integrative framework as presented in this article. Modeling the cumulative impact ...

In the FP7 project METIS we investigate suitable combinations of massive MIMO, joint transmission coordinated multipoint and small cells for future 5G systems. Challenging is a tight integration over small and macro layers. Straight forward is to ensure orthogonality between small and macro cell layers by allocation to different RF frequency bands like e.g. 2.6 and 3.5GHz respectively. Here wit...