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WCE
2007
15 years 8 months ago
High energy white beam x-ray diffraction studies of residual strains in engineering components
— In order to predict the durability of engineering components and improve performance, it is mandatory to understand residual stresses. The last decade has witnessed a significa...
Shu Yan Zhang, Willem J. J. Vorster, Tea-Sung Jun,...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Crosslingual location search
Address geocoding, the process of finding the map location for a structured postal address, is a relatively well-studied problem. In this paper we consider the more general proble...
Tanuja Joshi, Joseph Joy, Tobias Kellner, Udayan K...
CDC
2008
IEEE
143views Control Systems» more  CDC 2008»
16 years 1 months ago
A nonlinear, control-oriented model for ionic polymer-metal composite actuators
Ionic polymer-metal composites (IPMCs) form an important category of electroactive polymers and have many potential applications in biomedical, robotic and micro/nano manipulation ...
Zheng Chen, Dawn R. Hedgepeth, Xiaobo Tan
ICAC
2008
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
Digital Evolution of Behavioral Models for Autonomic Systems
We describe an automated method to generating models of an autonomic system. Specifically, we generate UML state diagrams for a set of interacting objects, including the extensio...
Heather Goldsby, Betty H. C. Cheng, Philip K. McKi...
IPPS
2000
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
A Parallel Co-evolutionary Metaheuristic
In order to show that the parallel co-evolution of di erent heuristic methods may lead to an e cient search strategy, we have hybridized three heuristic agents of complementary beh...
Vincent Bachelet, El-Ghazali Talbi