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Showing 1 to 20 of 138 for “"Modeling Tool"”.
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5SGraph: A Modeling Tool for Digital Libraries
… libraries by non-experts requires a simplified modeling process and rapid generation of digital libraries. To enable rapid generation, digital libraries should be modeled with descriptive languages. A visual modeling tool would be helpful to non-experts so they may model a digital library …
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Usability Engineering Applied to an Electromagnetic Modeling Tool
… steps users take to work through the 2D forward-modeling problem, and to analyze usability errors encountered while working with the interface to gain a better understanding of how to build a more effective interface. Similar work has been conducted on interface design in other fields, such as …
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Natural language interface to a VHDL modeling tool
… a Natural Language (NL) interface to a VHDL modeling tool called the Modeler's Assistant. The primary motivation for the interface developed in this research work is to permit VLSI modelers who are not proficient in VHDL to rapidly produce correct VHDL models from manufacturer's descriptions. …
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Development and enhancement of Computer Performance Modeling Tool (CPMT)
The Computer Performance Modeling Tool (CPMT) is a queueing network simulator to be used in support of Computer Performance and Evaluation courses like CS4400. This thesis is a continuation of the CPMT development project and consists of adaptive and perfective maintenance work to modify the …
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Integrated Energy Modeling Tool for Electric and Gas Infrastructure Decision Support
This dissertation compares the total yearly cost to customers of a gas utility company fully electrifying heat with a focus on infrastructure costs versus utilizing hydrogen blending, taking into account the current cost of green hydrogen. Previous research has separately discussed implications and …
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Implementation and Demonstration of a Time Domain Modeling Tool for Floating Oscillating Water Columns
… 1.5% −37%. This error could be caused by the modeling techniques used, or it could be due to uncertainties in the experiments. The presence of smaller error values shows potential for FlOWCITSS to achieve consistently higher fidelity results as the code undergoes further developments. To …
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An Antenna Specific Site Modeling Tool for Interactive Computation of Coverage Regions for Indoor Wireless Communication
… communication measurements and crude statistical modeling of the obtained data which is time consuming and prohibitive in cost. Given the inherent variability of the indoor environment, such a method often yields poor efficiency. As an example, it is possible that more power than required or extra …
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An interactive site modeling tool for estimating coverage regions for wireless communication systems in multifloored indoor environments
For indoor wireless communication systems, RF transceivers need to be placed strategically to achieve optimum communication coverage at the lowest cost. Unfortunately, the coverage region for a transceiver depends heavily on the type of building and on the placement of walls within the building. …
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Business case assessment of unmanned systems level of autonomy
… The key innovation that will be introduced is a modeling tool that will focus on simulation/trending and sensitivity analysis to help provide some insight into what these guidelines will be. The modeling tool will quantify many of the benefits and costs of the components and features of the …
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A GPGPU implementation of the discrete element method applied to modeling the dynamic particulate environment inside a tumbling mill
… the advent of better computing, discrete element modeling (DEM) has taken on the challenge to model the dynamic particulate environment inside these devices in the search for understanding and hence improving the process of the size reduction of ore. This process represents a large percentage of …
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Design, evaluation, and validation of a naval ship structural health monitoring tool
… for US Navy vessels. This study outlines a modeling tool for structural health monitoring using nonlinear Kalman Filter methodologies such as the Extended Kalman Filter and the Ensemble Kalman Filter to identify damage within a structural model. Through the observation of structural …
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Fast Monte Carlo Cell-By-Cell Simulation of Radiation-Induced DNA Damage, Chromosome Aberrations, and Cell Death for Low-Dose-Rate Brachytherapy Sources
The development of new tools for the modeling and simulation of radiation damage to DNA and the resulting chromosome aberrations has enabled studies of cell survival characteristics to be performed via computer simulation. TOPAS, a Monte Carlo based physics modeling tool, contains models of the …
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Domain Modeling for Knowledge-Based Systems: An Approach Based on Objects, Events, and Rules
… the representation scheme, we have developed a modeling tool that could provide several levels of useful assistance--from typical clerical type of support to semantic level support such as consistency-checking and assisting in detection of semantically missing components in the model. We have …
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Development of a Thermal Management Methodology for a Front-End DPS Power Supply
… level. The use of I-deas as a computational modeling tool was explored, and comparison of the code with experimental measurements helped to explore the accuracy of I-deas as a system level thermal modeling tool.
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Assessing the Economic Impacts of Transportation Improvement Projects
… projects in the decision making process and the tools and alternatives available are here explored. Primary contributions of this document are results of a literature review, transportation professional and decision maker survey, economic modeling tool evaluation, and development of approach …
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Modeling aviation's global emissions, uncertainty analysis, and applications to policy
… significant given the uncertainty in the modeling tool.
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Covariance estimation on matrix manifolds
… Covariance matrices are an essential modeling tool in climatology, econometrics, model reduction, biostatistics, signal processing, and geostatistics, among other applications. In practice, covariances often must be estimated from samples. While the sample covariance matrix is a …
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Patches As Agents
… designed for classroom learning. This modeling tool allows students to apply their creativity and replicate real-world phenomena through game-like coding and scientific knowledge. However, the current agent-to-environment interaction is limited, with the environment(terrain) possibly …
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Virtual Reality: Locomotion, Multi-player, and External Camera Integration
… the Unity gaming engine, along with the Blender modeling tool to create the 3D models. The third area focuses on two methods to merge live webcam feeds together into a single panoramic frame to be viewed in a VR environment and hopefully lead to control of a remote mining machine.
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The mathematics of the epicycloid : a historical journey with a modern perspective
… connection, the power of the epicycloid as a modeling tool becomes clear. The epicycloid has also made some more recent appearances and these are presented as well. Of note here is the Antikythera mechanism which is an ancient device incorporating epicycloids that was fairly recently …
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