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2016

Natural guide-star processing for wide-field laser-assisted AO systems

Authors
Correia, CM; Neichel, B; Conan, JM; Petit, C; Sauvage, JF; Fusco, T; Vernet, JDR; Thatte, N;

Publication
ADAPTIVE OPTICS SYSTEMS V

Abstract
Sky-coverage in laser-Assisted AO observations largely depends on the system's capability to guide on the faintest natural guide-stars possible. Here we give an up-To-date status of our natural guide-star processing tailored to the European-ELT's visible and near-infrared (0.47 to 2.45 µm) integral field spectrograph-Harmoni. We tour the processing of both the isoplanatic and anisoplanatic tilt modes using the spatio-Angular approach whereby the wavefront is estimated directly in the pupil plane avoiding a cumbersome explicit layered estimation on the 35-layer profiles we're currently using. Taking the case of Harmoni, we cover the choice of wave-front sensors, the number and field location of guide-stars, the optimised algorithms to beat down angular anisoplanatism and the performance obtained with different temporal controllers under split high-order/low-order tomography or joint tomography. We consider both atmospheric and far greater telescope wind buffeting disturbances. In addition we provide the sky-coverage estimates thus obtained.

2016

Morse Code Translator Using the Arduino Platform: Crafting the Future of Microcontrollers

Authors
Silva, S; Valente, A; Soares, S; Reis, MJCS; Paiva, J; Bartolomeu, P;

Publication
Proceedings of the 2016 SAI Computing Conference (SAI)

Abstract
The ability of the Arduino platform to enhance student interest and performance in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) courses, while fostering skills that are important prerequisites for future IT careers, has been proven more than once in the past years. But can the future be crafted without the past? We believe that many past inventions crave the future, so their understanding is a bridge of knowledge that must be passed to students. According to Grand View Research website the microcontroller market will rise from the 20 billion units in 2015 to an amazing 39 billion units in 2020. Therefore, an increase on IT careers is also expected. The Morse code and the telegraph revolutionized long-distance communication in the past and laid the groundwork for the communications revolution. In fact, although developed in the 1830s and 1840s by Samuel Morse (1791-1872) and other inventors, only in 1844 the first telegraph message, from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore, Maryland, was sent. To provide the means to students to start learning this technology we have developed four experiences that introduce them to the fundamentals of communications, including the Li-Fi technology. This new technology is based on the Morse code, and can spark again the communications revolution by using tiny, imperceptible flickering lights can provide a new way of sending data to computers and mobile devices. Therefore, we decided to revitalize the almost forgotten Morse code by implementing it with an Arduino in order to lay again the foundations to this new revolution that is coming. This paper presents the implementation model of two Morse code translators, how they work, their implementation, and some results. We also present a VLC (Visible Light Communication) system based on the same principles of the Morse code building this way the foundation for students to proceed with this course of the investigation.

2016

Evaluation of B2C website based on the usability factors by using fuzzy AHP & hierarchical fuzzy TOPSIS

Authors
Masudin, I; Saputro, TE;

Publication
2ND INTERNATIONAL MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING CONFERENCE AND 3RD ASIA-PACIFIC CONFERENCE ON MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS (IMEC-APCOMS 2015)

Abstract
In today's technology, electronic trading transaction via internet has been utilized properly with rapid growth. This paper intends to evaluate related to B2C e-commerce website in order to find out the one which meets the usability factors better than another. The influential factors to B2C e-commerce website are determined for two big retailer websites. The factors are investigated based on the consideration of several studies and conformed to the website characteristics. The evaluation is conducted by using different methods namely fuzzy AHP and hierarchical fuzzy TOPSIS so that the final evaluation can be compared. Fuzzy triangular number is adopted to deal with imprecise judgment under fuzzy environment.

2016

The IMBPC HVAC system: A complete MBPC solution for existing HVAC systems

Authors
Ruano, AE; Pesteh, S; Silva, S; Duarte, H; Mestre, G; Ferreira, PM; Khosravani, HR; Horta, R;

Publication
ENERGY AND BUILDINGS

Abstract
This paper introduces the Intelligent MBPC (IMBPC) HVAC system, a complete solution to enable Model Based Predictive Control (MBPC) of existing HVAC installations in a building. The IMPBC HVAC minimizes the economic cost needed to maintain controlled rooms in thermal comfort during the periods of occupation. The hardware and software components of the IMBPC system are described, with a focus on the MBPC algorithm employed. The installation of IMBPC HVAC solution in a University building is described, and the results obtained in terms of economical savings and thermal comfort obtained are compared with standard, temperature regulated control.

2016

Design of an RDMA Communication Middleware for Asynchronous Shuffling in Analytical Processing

Authors
Goncalves, RC; Pereira, J; Jimenez Peris, R;

Publication
PROCEEDINGS OF THE 6TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CLOUD COMPUTING AND SERVICES SCIENCE, VOL 1 (CLOSER)

Abstract
A key component in a distributed parallel analytical processing engine is shuffling, the distribution of data to multiple nodes such that the computation can be done in parallel. In this paper we describe the initial design of a communication middleware to support asynchronous shuffling of data among multiple processes on a distributed memory environment. The proposed middleware relies on RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access) operations to transfer data, and provides basic operations to send and queue data on remote machines, and to retrieve this queued data. Preliminary results show that the RDMA-based middleware can provide a 75% reduction on communication costs, when compared with a traditional sockets implementation.

2016

Semantic Measures: How Similar? How Related?

Authors
Costa, T; Leal, JP;

Publication
WEB ENGINEERING (ICWE 2016)

Abstract
There are two main types of semantic measures (SM): similarity and relatedness. There are also two main types of datasets, those intended for similarity evaluations and those intended for relatedness. Although they are clearly distinct, they are similar enough to generate some misconceptions. Is there a confusion between similarity and relatedness among the semantic measure community, both the designers of SMs and the creators of benchmarks? This is the question that the research presented in this paper tries to answer. Authors performed a survey of both the SMs and datasets and executed a cross evaluation of those measures and datasets. The results show different consistency of measures with datasets of the same type. This research enabled us to conclude not only that there is indeed some confusion but also to pinpoint the SMs and benchmarks less consistent with their intended type.

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