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Latest Developments at the 11th Annual IEEE ECCE: Advances in Energy Conversion Systems and Applications

With a record attendance of more than 1,800 practicing engineers, researchers, professionals, and students from around the world, the 11th annual IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE) in Baltimore, Maryland, from 29 September to 3 October 2019, offered a diverse program comprising 1,069 technical papers, 18 tutorials, 18 special sessions, and 28 poster sessions spread over five days. Among the oral sessions, there were four memorial sessions dedicated to the three mentors who passed away this year: Prof. Bob Lorenz, Prof. Manfred Depenbrock, and Dr. Milan M. Jovanovic. In addition, it also included an exhibition of state-of-the-art products and tools from roughly 40 vendors, ranging from passive components and semiconductor device manufacturers to test and measurement instruments and simulation tool suppliers. The exhibition floor also demonstrated emerging technology research projects from students of various universities in the United States and Asia. Sponsored by the IEEE Power Electronics Society and IEEE Industry Applications Society, ECCE 2019?s professional program started on Sunday, 29 September, with 18 tutorials covering the practical implementation of gallium nitride (GaN) and silicon carbide (SiC) power devices to energy harvesting for the Industrial Internet of Things and artificial intelligence applications in power electronics.

Brightest Minds to Converge at the 11th IEEE ECCE [Society News

Brightest Minds to Converge at the 11th IEEE ECCE [Society News

Summary of the 1st IEEE Workshop on the Next Level of Test Automation (NEXTA 2018)

NEXTA is a new workshop on test automation that provides a meeting point for academic researchers and industry practitioners. While test automation already is an established practice in industry, the concept needs to evolve to go beyond its current state to support the ever faster release cycles of tomorrow's software engineering. NEXTA implications for research and practice will include test case generation, automated test result analysis, test suite assessment and maintenance, and infrastructure for the future of test automation. The rst instance of NEXTA was co-located with the 11th IEEE Conference on Software Testing, Veri cation and Validation (ICST 2018) in Vasteras, Sweden on April 9, 2018. NEXTA 2018 o ered an interactive setting with a keynote and paper presentations, stimulated by two novel awards to incentivize interaction and dissemination: a Best Questions Award and a Most Viral Tweet Award. The workshop attracted 15 paper submissions and about 50 participants. Based on the positive feedback, we plan to organize the workshop again next year.

Summary of the 1st IEEE Workshop on the Next Level of Test Automation (NEXTA 2018)

NEXTA is a new workshop on test automation that provides a meeting point for academic researchers and industry practitioners. While test automation already is an established practice in industry, the concept needs to evolve to go beyond its current state to support the ever faster release cycles of tomorrow's software engineering. NEXTA implications for research and practice will include test case generation, automated test result analysis, test suite assessment and maintenance, and infrastructure for the future of test automation. The first instance of NEXTA was co-located with the 11th IEEE Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST 2018) in Vasterfias, Sweden on April 9, 2018. NEXTA 2018 offered an interactive setting with a keynote and paper presentations, stimulated by two novel awards to incentivize interaction and dissemination: a Best Questions Award and a Most Viral Tweet Award. The workshop attracted 15 paper submissions and about 50 participants. Based on the positive feedback, we plan to organize the workshop again next year.

Report on the 11th IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE2019)

Report on the 11th IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE2019)

Программирование мобильных веб-систем для адаптивного тестирования

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11th?IEEE UAE Student Day Hosted by Al Ain University [Around the Globe

Presents information on the 11th IEEE UAE Student Day.

GbLN-PSO and Model-Based Particle Filter Approach for Tracking Human Movements in Large View Cases

Camera tracking systems have become a common requirement in today’s society. The availability of high-quality and inexpensive video cameras and the increasing need for automated video analysis have generated a great deal of interest in numerous fields.In general, it is not easy to track human behavior in an environment with a large view. This paper aims to address four problems associated with large view in camera tracking system: 1) multiple targets in nonlinear motion; 2) relative size of the targeted object; 3) occlusion; and 4) processing time. This paper presents a new method of tracking human movements using global best local neighborhood oriented particle swarm optimization and model-based particle filter to address the above problems. The proposed method has been tested with an experimental module using several sets of video data provided by the 11th IEEE International Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Tracking and Surveillance and two other video streams of University of British Columbia (UBC) hockey and Malaysian football games. The experiment has shown that the accuracy of tracking performance has increased up to 25% compared with other reported works in the scientific literature.

Design and Implementation of a Thrust-Vectored Unmanned Tail-Sitter with Reconfigurable Wings

In this paper, we present the development of a reconfigurable hybrid unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV): U-Lion [Ang et al., 11th IEEE Int. Conf. Control Automation (ICCA), pp. 750–755]. U-Lion is a small-scale UAV that is capable of vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) and fixed-wing Cruise modes through its unique mechanical design. Mainly built with carbon fiber and expanded polyolefin (EPO) foam, U-Lion is equipped with an array of avionic components which enable stable control of the UAV both in VTOL and Cruise modes. It was employed by the National University of Singapore (NUS) Unmanned System Research Group to participate in the 2013 UAV Grand Prix (UAVGP) competition held in Beijing, China. Its design adopts a reconfigurable wing and a tail-sitter structure, which combines the advantages of a fixed-wing plane and a rotor helicopter effectively. U-Lion could transit from vertical takeoff to a hovering stage before flying in Cruise mode to realize efficient long duration flight. The propulsion of U-Lion comes from a self-fabricated contra-rotating motor fixed on a gimbal mechanism which can change the direction of the motor for the required thrust. This thrust-vectored propulsion system primarily provides control in the VTOL mode but also enhances flight capabilities in Cruise mode. The maximum thrust provided by the motor can be as high as 40 N and it provides six degree of motion controls in VTOL mode. U-Lion has a few special internal designs to empower its capabilities: (1) Reconfigurable wings allow the U-Lion to adapt to different flying modes. (2) Adaptive center of gravity (CG) by adjusting the battery position to fulfill the different requirements of CG for VTOL mode and Cruise mode. (3) Unique contra-rotating thrust-vectored propulsion system. The detailed design and implementation procedure have been presented in this paper along with our computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation results, real flight tests and competition performance.

Invited: Electron Flow in GC8 DNA Strand

DNA molecules are quasi one-dimensional structures consisting of two strands in a double helix form. Each strand consists of four building blocks, Adenine (A), Thymine (T), Cytosine (C) and Guanine (G). The diameter of the DNA molecule is approximately 2 nm. These nanoscale building blocks can be reproducibly engineered in arbitrary sequences of A, T, C and G, and chemists have for long studied sequence dependent charge transfer in DNA [1]. The distinct energy levels and ionization potentials of the building blocks provides a framework to construct DNA sequences with interesting device properties. One can think of quantum wells and barriers constructed from DNA having resonances akin to double barrier resonant tunneling diodes and superlattices [2]. Of great interest are also recent experiments which show the potential to detect diseases [3] and sequence DNA [4], by measuring the electrical conductance of a single DNA molecule. These studies demonstrate potential for an all-electrical method for disease detection. In this talk, we present our understanding of how electrons flow in DNA at room temperature. We will first discuss results from phase coherent calculations, which reveal that the conductance without decoherence is orders of magnitude smaller than the experimental values of conductance [5]. The floppy nature of DNA molecules, electromagnetic fluctuations, and, the movement of water molecules and counter-ions in the case of wet DNA, creates an effective mechanism for decoherence, which facilitates electron flow [5]. While modeling the nature of these fluctuations from ab initio methods is insightful, they have so far not been applied to explain experiments where electrons flow between two metal contacts - a very challenging problem. Rather than apply brute force ab initio molecular dynamics, we explore the applicability of a simple model for decoherence based on Buttiker probes, which when applied to the case of DNA helps understand the magnitude of conductance seen in experiments and capture the sequence dependence in some cases.[1] E. Meggers, M. E. Michel-Beyerle, and B. Giese, Sequence dependent long range hole transport in DNA. J. Am. Chem. Soc., vol. 120, p. 12950 (1998)[2] Ch. Adessi, S. Walch and M. P. Anantram, Environment and structure influence on DNA conduction, Phys. Rev. B, vol. 67, p. 81405(RC) (2003); J. Qi, M. G. Rabbani, S. Edirisinghe, and M. P. Anantram, Transport of charge in DNA heterostructures, 11th IEEE Conference on Nanotechnology (IEEE-NANO), pp. 487-491, 2011; H. Mehrez and M. P. Anantram, Inter-base electronic coupling for transport through DNA, Phys. Rev. B, vol. 71, p. 115405 (2005)[3] J. Hihath, S. Guo, P. Zhang, and N. Tao, Effect of cytosine methylation on DNA charge transport, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter, vol. 24, 164204 (2012)[4] M. Tsutsui, K. Matsubara, T. Ohshiro, M. Furuhashi, M. Taniguchi, and T. Kawai, Electrical Detection of Single Methylcytosines in a DNA Oligomer, J. Am. Chem. Soc., vol. 133, p. 9124 (2011)[5] J. Qi, N. Edirisinghe, M. G. Rabbani, and M. P. Anantram, Unified model for conductance through DNA with the Landauer-Buttiker formalism, Physical Review B, vol. 87, p. 085404 (2013)[6] A.K.Mahapatro, K. J. Jeong, G. U. Lee, and D. B. Janes, Sequence specific electronic conduction through polyion-stabilized double-stranded DNA in nanoscale break junctions, Nanotechnology, vol. 18, 195202 (2007)

Guest Editorial—Special Issue on Selected Papers From the 11th IEEE Sensors Conference 2012

The 24 papers in this special issue are selected from those presented at the 11th IEEE Sensors Conference, held in Taipei, Taiwan during October 28-31, 2012. The selected topics are categorized into i) bio/chemical gas, flow, and humidity sensors; ii) physical, mechanical, and optical sensors and actuators; iii) sensing systems and signal processing; and iv) wireless sensor networks.

Guest Editorial

This Special Issue collects three contributions that are substantially revised versions of the papers that appear in the conference proceedings of SCAM 2011 - The 11th IEEE International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation. The aim of the Source Code Analysis and Manipulation conference series is to bring together researchers and practitioners working on theory, techniques and applications which concern analysis and/or manipulation of the source code of computer systems. While much attention in the wider software engineering community is properly directed towards other aspects of systems development and evolution, such as specification, design and requirements engineering, it is the source code that contains the only precise description of the behaviour of the system. The analysis and manipulation of source code thus remains a pressing concern and is the focus of this conference series.

Guest editorial: special selection on commerce and enterprise computing

The 11th IEEE Conference on Commerce and Enterprise Computing (CEC’09) was held in Vienna, Austria from July 20th to 23rd 2009. This conference is the result of a merger of the two annual flagship conferences of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on E-Commerce: the IEEE Conference on E-Commerce Technology (CEC) and the IEEE Conference on Enterprise Computing, E-Commerce, and E-Services (EEE). Given its new title, the conference provides a platform for researchers and practitioners interested in theory and practice of technologies to be used in E-Commerce and Enterprise Computing. CEC covers diverse research areas including Commerce and Business Systems Architecture, Electronic Commerce Technologies, Business Process Management, Business Intelligence, Business Services, Semantic Web and Ontological Engineering, Security and Trust, Mobile Business Applications, Social Networks, E-Government, and Human Computer Interaction. Researchers presented and discussed key technical and economic problems, challenges, trends and requirements in the E-Commerce and Enterprise Computing fields. This special issue of the SOCA journal can be regarded as an extended forum for the CEC conference. CEC’09 had 115 submissions of which 22 regular papers were accepted. The best paper nominees were invited to submit an extended version of their conference papers. All submissions have gone through an additional review cycle by reviewers of the SOCA journal. Out of these submissions, five papers were selected and are presented in this special issue. The first article, titled “The Design and Implementation of Service Process Reconfiguration with End-to-End QoS

Conference Report : The 11th IEEE International Workshop on Advanced Motion Control (AMC2010-Nagaoka) March 21 - 24, 2010, Nagaoka, Japan

Conference Report : The 11th IEEE International Workshop on Advanced Motion Control (AMC2010-Nagaoka) March 21 - 24, 2010, Nagaoka, Japan

An accurate and efficient numerical method for solving Black-Scholes equation in option pricing

An efficient and accurate numerical method for solving the well-known Black-Scholes equation in option pricing is presented in this article. The method can be used for cases in which the coefficients in the Black-Scholes equation are time-dependent and no analytic solutions are available. It is an extension to the method by Liao, W. and Zhu, J. (2008 'A new method for solving convection-diffusion equations', Paper presented in the Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, CA, USA, pp.107-114) for solving 1D convection-diffusion equations with constant diffusion and convection coefficients using the fourth-order Pade approximation on a 3-point stencil. The new method can handle equations with variable diffusion and convection coefficients that depend on x² and x, respectively, where x is the independent variable. Numerical examples are presented in the article to demonstrate the accuracy and efficiency of the method.

Middleware for automatic dynamic reconfiguration of context-driven services

In the emerging ubiquitous Internet scenario users require to access services and contents from anywhere, at anytime and with any device. Service and content provisioning platforms have to address several ubiquity challenges such as mobility, multimodality, context-awareness and content adaptation. However, current solutions fail to comprehensively face ubiquity challenges as they lack a unified approach and provide only limited sets of features. We claim that an integrated ubiquity support can stem from a simplicity principle: our middleware approach pushes the logic to face ubiquity issues outside the core layer, by keeping only management and coordination responsibilities. That succeeds in making the middleware design clearer and neater. This article 1 This article extends paper “Middleware for automatic dynamic reconfiguration of context-driven services”, presented at the 11th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC’06), Pula, Italy, June 2006. 1 presents the key architectural aspects of our platform for ubiquitous dynamic context-driven service provisioning and reconfiguration. To practically show the viability of our approach, we also provide implementation details and description of typical use cases.

Bayesian rational exchange

The notion of rational exchange introduced by Syverson (Proceedings of the 11th IEEE Computer Society Foundations Workshop, pp. 2–13, 1998) is a particularly interesting alternative when an efficient scheme for fair exchange is required but the use of a trusted third party is not allowed. A rational exchange protocol cannot provide fairness, but it ensures that rational (i.e., self-interested) parties would have no reason to deviate from the protocol. Buttyan et al. (J. Comput. Security 12(3/4), 551–588, 2004) have recently pointed out how rationality in exchange protocols can be formalized and studied within the framework provided by Game Theory. In particular, Buttyan’s formal model was used to analyze Syverson’s rational exchange protocol. In this paper, we identify a series of drawbacks in Buttyan’s model which make it somewhat restrictive and unrealistic. We propose an extension to the model which enables us to consider different classes of protocol parties (e.g., honest and dishonest parties), as well as modeling attributes such as reputation or any other participant beliefs that could have an effect on the protocol outcome. The resulting new model enables us to reason rational exchange protocols from the point of view of Bayesian rationality, a notion that may be in some scenarios more appropriate than that defined in terms of Nash equilibrium.

11th IEEE international conference on emerging technologies and factory automation [call for papers

11th IEEE international conference on emerging technologies and factory automation [call for papers

A parallel 3D particle-in-cell code with dynamic load balancing

A parallel 3D electrostatic Particle-In-Cell (PIC) code including an algorithm for modelling Space Charge Limited (SCL) emission [E. Gjonaj, T. Weiland, 3D-modeling of space-charge-limited electron emission. A charge conserving algorithm, Proceedings of the 11th Biennial IEEE Conference on Electromagnetic Field Computation, 2004] is presented. A domain decomposition technique based on orthogonal recursive bisection is used to parallelize the computation on a distributed memory environment of clustered workstations. For problems with a highly nonuniform and time dependent distribution of particles, e.g., bunch dynamics, a dynamic load balancing between the processes is needed to preserve the parallel performance. The algorithm for the detection of a load imbalance and the redistribution of the tasks among the processes is based on a weight function criterion, where the weight of a cell measures the computational load associated with it. The algorithm is studied with two examples. In the first example, multiple electron bunches as occurring in the S-DALINAC [A. Richter, Operational experience at the S-DALINAC, Proceedings of the Fifth European Particle Accelerator Conference, 1996] accelerator are simulated in the absence of space charge fields. In the second example, the SCL emission and electron trajectories in an electron gun are simulated.

RTES demo system2004

The RTES Demo System 2004 is a prototype for reliable, fault-adaptive infrastructure applicable to commodity-based dedicated application computer farms, such as the Level 2/3 trigger for the proposed BTeV high energy physics project. This paper describes the prototype, and its demonstration at the 11th IEEE Real Time and Embedded Technology Applications Symposium, RTAS 2005.