2015
Autores
Bakon, M; Papco, J; Perissin, D; Lazecky, M; Sousa, JJ; Hlavacova, I; Batorova, K; Ondrejka, P; Liscak, P; Paudits, P; Real, N;
Publicação
European Space Agency, (Special Publication) ESA SP
Abstract
Slope deformations are the most important geohazards in Slovakia which annually cause an extensive economic damage of significant influence. About 22000 slope deformations have been registered so far, covering an area of almost 2600 km2. Since 2010, 639 new slope failures have been witnessed and their activation was driven mainly by the climatic anomalies such as extraordinary rainfalls. Many of these landslides currently represent a direct threat to the lives, health and property of the residents in the affected areas. The landslide Nizna Mysla is considered to be the second most catastrophic landslide in the history of Slovakia. Damages to buildings and engineering networks had not been identified in the'90s of the last century when the first problems with the slope stability appeared. Up-tonow monitoring techniques has currently been reassessed to account for the results from satellite Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) techniques.
2015
Autores
Pinto, T; Barreto, J; Praça, I; Sousa, TM; Vale, Z; Pires, EJS;
Publicação
DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS
Abstract
The energy sector has suffered a significant restructuring that has increased the complexity in electricity market players' interactions. The complexity that these changes brought requires the creation of decision support tools to facilitate the study and understanding of these markets. The Multiagent Simulator of Competitive Electricity Markets (MASCEM) arose in this context, providing a simulation framework for deregulated electricity markets. The Adaptive Learning strategic Bidding System (ALBidS) is a multiagent system created to provide decision support to market negotiating players. Fully integrated with MASCEM, ALBidS considers several different strategic methodologies based on highly distinct approaches. Six Thinking Hats (STH) is a powerful technique used to look at decisions from different perspectives, forcing the thinker to move outside its usual way of thinking. This paper aims to complement the ALBidS strategies by combining them and taking advantage of their different perspectives through the use of the STH group decision technique. The combination of ALBidS' strategies is performed through the application of a genetic algorithm, resulting in an evolutionary learning approach.
2015
Autores
Shoker, A; Almeida, PS; Baquero, C;
Publicação
2015 IEEE 34th Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems Workshop (SRDSW)
Abstract
Strongly consistent systems supporting distributed transactions can be prone to high latency and do not tolerate partitions. The present trend of using weaker forms of consistency, to achieve high availability, poses notable challenges in writing applications due to the lack of linearizability, e.g., to ensure global invariants, or perform mutator operations on a distributed datatype. This paper addresses a specific problem: the exactly-once transfer of a "quantity" from one node to another on an unreliable network (coping with message duplication, loss, or reordering) and without any form of global synchronization. This allows preserving a global property (the sum of quantities remains unchanged) without requiring global linearizability and only through using pairwise interactions between nodes, therefore allowing partitions in the system. We present the novel quantity-transfer algorithm while focusing on a specific use-case: a redistribution protocol to keep the quantities in a set of nodes balanced; in particular, averaging a shared real number across nodes. Since this is a work in progress, we briefly discuss the correctness of the protocol, and we leave potential extensions and empirical evaluations for future work.
2015
Autores
Jorge, T; Maia, F; Matos, M; Pereira, J; Oliveira, R;
Publicação
DAIS
Abstract
Designing and implementing distributed systems is a hard endeavor, both at an abstract level when designing the system, and at a concrete level when implementing, debugging and evaluating it. This stems not only from the inherent complexity of writing and reasoning about distributed software, but also from the lack of tools for testing and evaluating it under realistic conditions. Moreover, the gap between the protocols’ specifications found on research papers and their implementations on real code is huge, leading to inconsistencies that often result in the implementation no longer following the specification. As an example, the specification of the popular Chord DHT comprises a few dozens of lines, while its Java implementation, OpenChord, is close to twenty thousand lines, excluding libraries. This makes it hard and error prone to change the implementation to reflect changes in the specification, regardless of programmers’ skill. Besides, critical behavior due to the unpredictable interleaving of operations and network uncertainty, can only be observed on a realistic setting, limiting the usefulness of simulation tools. We believe that being able to write an algorithm implementation very close to its specification, and evaluating it in a real environment is a big step in the direction of building better distributed systems. Our approach leverages the MINHA platform to offer a set of built in primitives that allows one to program very close to pseudo-code. This high level implementation can interact with off-the-shelf existing middleware and can be gradually replaced by a production-ready Java implementation. In this paper, we present the system design and showcase it using a well-known algorithm from the literature.
2015
Autores
Pires, EJS; Oliveira, PBD; Machado, JAT;
Publicação
2015 IEEE 9TH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON MULTIDIMENSIONAL (ND) SYSTEMS (NDS)
Abstract
Multidimensional systems, or n-D systems, are systems having several independent variables. Several topics, in particular stability, of n-D systems (n > 1) have attracted the interest of many researchers. The main reason, is because the extension stability theory of 1-D systems to systems with higher dimensions is not straightforward. In this paper, two adopted meta-heuristics algorithms are used for complementing the study of systems stability based on their polynomial characteristics over the variables boundaries. The two meta-heuristics are genetic algorithm and particle swarm optimization due to its popularity. Practical results of both meta-heuristics are compared and the better algorithm highlighted. The results demonstrate that meta-heuristics can be applied in studding multidimensional system stability.
2015
Autores
Xiao, XH; Peng, MF; Cardoso, JS; Tang, RJ; Zhou, YL;
Publicação
APPLIED PHYSICS A-MATERIALS SCIENCE & PROCESSING
Abstract
Micro-solder joint (MSJ) lifetime prediction methodology and failure analysis (FA) are to assess reliability by fatigue model with a series of theoretical calculations, numerical simulation and experimental method. Due to shortened time of solder joints on high-temperature, high-frequency sampling error that is not allowed in productions may exist in various models, including round-off error. Combining intermetallic compound (IMC) growth theory and the FA technology for the magnetic head in actual production, this thesis puts forward a new growth model to predict life expectancy for solder joint of the magnetic head. And the impact of IMC, generating from interface reaction between slider (magnetic head, usually be called slider) and bonding pad, on mechanical performance during aging process is analyzed in it. By further researching on FA of solder ball bonding, thesis chooses AuSn4 growth model that affects least to solder joint mechanical property to indicate that the IMC methodology is suitable to forecast the solder lifetime. And the diffusion constant under work condition 60 A degrees C is 0.015354; the solder lifetime t is 14.46 years .
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