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Machine scheduling has long been a focus of engineering research. To stay competitive,industry recognized early that by streamlining their manufacturing processes, andautomating scheduling, they could reduce costs dramatically. ...

We report on a novel method of acoustic wear analysis using spectral classification based on a model of mammalian audition. This approach uses biologically-inspired pre-processing filters that give a multi- resolution ...

Building on the receding horizon approach by Hernandez-Lerma andLasserre in solving Markov decision processes (MDPs),this paper first analyzes the performance of the (approximate) receding horizon approach in terms of ...

With the advent of polymers micro fabrication methods for micro-fluidic devices, there has developed the need to investigate various forms of sealing such devices for practical applications. This research documents work ...

A real-time in-situ sampling system has been implemented for chemical sensing in tungsten chemical vapor deposition process (W-CVD) using mass spectrometry. Sensor integration was realized to allow synchronous capture of ...

A conventional Zernike filter measures wavefront phase by superimposing the aberrated input beam with a phase-shifted version of its zero-orderspectral component. The Fourier-domain phase-shifting is performed by afixed ...

This work introduces a discrete time model for a simplified TCP network with RED control. It is argued that by sampling the state space at certain instants, the dynamics of the system can be described explicitly as a ...

In this thesis, risk-sensitive estimation for Hidden Markov Models isstudied from a dynamical systems point of view. We show that risk-sensitive estimators belong to a broaderclass of product estimators in which risk-sensitivity ...

In the near future, existing terrestrial radio networks are envisioned to integrate with satellite systems to provide global coverage. In order to enable communication for both non-hand-held and hand-held User Terminals ...

In this paper, we consider the rate control problem for multipath sessionswith the objective ofmaximizing the total user (session) utility. This problem provides a frameworkin which flow control and routing are jointly ...