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Recent manufacturing advancements have allowed designers to create ceramic materials with tightly controlled microstructures and compositions. Some advantageous properties of these materials are their light weight, high ...

The recent advancement of computers, both hardware and software, has led to a rapid development of information-based manufacturing. Applications of laser technology are revolutionizing the process of product development. ...

This paper describes experiences gained in teaching a new course aimed at providing junior-level undergraduate engineering students with some of the fundamentals needed in developing new products. A six-stage engineering ...

In this paper we describe the use of behavior hierarchies based on ﲭerging two models of multi-layer architecture -- the supervenience model of [1] and the subsumption model of [4]. The behavior hierarchy approach allows ...

An acoustic sensor, the Leybold Inficon ComposerTM, was implemented downstream to a production-scale tungsten chemical vapor deposition (CVD) cluster tool for in-situ process sensing. Process gases were sampled at the ...

This paper presents results obtained for the robust control of discrete time dynamical systems. The problem is formulated and solved using dynamic programming. Both necessary and sufficient conditions in terms of (stationary ...

We present a system call which enable directing high performance data transfers with in-kernel streams. The streams are defined and run using abstract data types called Cues, formed over the Unix file subsystem. The system ...

All mechanical designs pass through a series of formal and informal redesign steps, involving the analysis of functionality, manufacturability, cost and other life-cycle factors. The speed and efficacy of these steps has ...

Since best-first search algorithms such as A* require large amounts of memory, they sometimes cannot run to completion, even on problem instances of moderate size. This problem has led to the development of limited-memory ...

We have studied two-person stochastic differential games with multiple modes. For the zero-sum game we have established the existence of optimal strategies for both players. For the non- zero sum case we have proved the ...