{"title":"Object oriented approach to post-delivery syndrome","authors":"D. Dixit, V. Dixit","doi":"10.1109/WESCON.1994.403590","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WESCON.1994.403590","url":null,"abstract":"Traditionally, software is developed by using the waterfall model. It is also known as structured development. The decomposition in structured development is based on functions. The development phases, namely, analysis, design and implementation are sequential. Maintenance is not thought of until the software is delivered to the end user. It is a general scenario that by the time software is delivered the requirements have changed or the technology has advanced. The customer is in a fix; she cannot use it or throw it due to the investment made on it. This potential obsolescence and the need for immediate maintenance is called post-delivery syndrome. This report identifies the causes for post-delivery syndrome in the traditional method and then discusses how the impact of post-delivery syndrome is reduced in object-oriented development.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":136567,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of WESCON '94","volume":"355 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124481832","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Continuous interconnect in the FLEX 8000 architecture","authors":"M. S. Won, C. Lytle","doi":"10.1109/WESCON.1994.403518","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WESCON.1994.403518","url":null,"abstract":"The two major foundations of a programmable logic architecture are basic building block and interconnect. The basic building block is responsible for the implementation of logic in the architecture, while the interconnect is responsible for the subtler but no less important aspects of timing, flexibility, and ability to place a design into the device. This paper discusses the features of the FLEX 8000 interconnect structure, the FastTrack, its major differences from previous other schemes, and its overall importance in the architecture of the FLEX 8000 family of devices - a set of high-density, dual-grained programmable logic devices that can be used to implement a wide variety of logical functions.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":136567,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of WESCON '94","volume":"125 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114611359","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"DataEngine: a software tool for intelligent data analysis","authors":"J. Angstenberger, R. Weber, W. Meier","doi":"10.1109/WESCON.1994.403573","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WESCON.1994.403573","url":null,"abstract":"DataEngine is a software tool aimed at supporting the user in the solution of data analysis tasks. It provides functionality for all the phases of data analysis. In DataEngine, methods using fuzzy technologies and neural net techniques are implemented. In particular, fuzzy clustering approaches, fuzzy rule-based systems, and supervised and unsupervised neural network strategies are offered. By using DataEngine, you can choose from these methods and combine different approaches which are best suited to solve your problems.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":136567,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of WESCON '94","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124882707","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction to Mathematica in engineering","authors":"B. Friedman","doi":"10.1109/WESCON.1994.403610","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WESCON.1994.403610","url":null,"abstract":"Summary form only given. Engineers from all fields use Mathematica as an indispensable part of their engineering toolbox, calling on its numerical, symbolic, graphical, and programming capabilities throughout the course of their projects. This session will provide introductory training on using Mathematica for engineering projects, and presents examples of how it is being used in various fields of engineering.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":136567,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of WESCON '94","volume":"121 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116643682","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Results of a formal methods demonstration project","authors":"J. Kelly, R. Covington","doi":"10.1109/WESCON.1994.403627","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WESCON.1994.403627","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes the results of a cooperative study [D-11432] conducted by a team of researchers in formal methods (FM) at three NASA centers (The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Johnson Space Center (JSC), and Langley Research Center (LaRC)) to demonstrate FM techniques and to tailor them to critical NASA software systems. FM is a set of techniques and tools based on formal logic and mathematics for the purpose of specifying and verifying computer systems and software. This pilot project applied FM to an existing critical software subsystem. The Shuttle's Jet Select subsystem (Phase I of an ongoing study). The Prototype Verification System (PVS) specification language and tool developed at SRI International was used for this study. This study shows that FM can be used successfully to uncover hidden issues in a highly critical and mature Functional Subsystem Software Requirements (FSSR) specification which are very difficult to discover by traditional means.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":136567,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of WESCON '94","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129459294","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Processing of optical sensor data for tool monitoring with neural networks","authors":"W. Weis","doi":"10.1109/WESCON.1994.403572","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WESCON.1994.403572","url":null,"abstract":"The output of optical tool monitoring systems are in most cases contrasted images of tools showing the worn parts of the tools with a high resolution. However problems occur with fast and consistent evaluation of these images because multiple tool wear marks exist in various shapings. The idea of using neural networks to process optical sensor data seems to suggest itself because they are tolerant to errors and able to learn by teaching various frames. The design and optimization of a structural model based on a neural network for the evaluation of optical sensor data as an application of neural networks in manufacturing engineering is explained. Results of this application of neural networks during training phase as well as the ability to generalize are shown.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":136567,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of WESCON '94","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128522517","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Digital images, compression, decompression and your system","authors":"C.A. Maxwell, R. Jayavant","doi":"10.1109/WESCON.1994.403616","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WESCON.1994.403616","url":null,"abstract":"The dream system can playback whatever you ask of it and is inexpensive. The dream system plays back high resolution at full color and full speed. The simple answer to the problem of image transport, playback, recording and storage is digital compression/decompression, but that's where the simplicity ends. Digital images are the target of playback, but come at a price. The limitations of digital images are the bandwidth to transport, compress, capacity to store, decompress and bandwidth to playback and record. Standard systems can do some of the compression/decompression with standard components. First, there are the graphics subsystem, storage, software, firmware and the main CPU. Each of these components has limitations based upon bandwidth. Second, there's software decompression which provides the most flexible method for playback at a reasonable cost. The limitations of software decompression are also seen in bandwidth analysis. Software compression is harder than decompression and can require great amounts of patience. So what's the solution to these limitations? The solution for some users is image compression while others need decompression. Deciding when you need a video codec is difficult. The right digital image processing method should become clear as one type of compression and decompression find their way on enough systems to form a critical mass.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":136567,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of WESCON '94","volume":"72 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116250940","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Real world applications for field programmable gate array devices-an overview","authors":"W. Miller","doi":"10.1109/WESCON.1994.403539","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WESCON.1994.403539","url":null,"abstract":"Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) have gone mainstream. No longer are applications limited to performance and cost insensitive designs. The newest generation of FPGAs have hit performance and cost goals which allow a much wider spectrum of applications support. This paper provides an overview of these types of applications and project future performance and cost for FPGA devices.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":136567,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of WESCON '94","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121261956","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Accelerating the engineering to manufacturing transition","authors":"J. Turino","doi":"10.1109/WESCON.1994.403570","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WESCON.1994.403570","url":null,"abstract":"With today's ever increasing pressures for bringing new products to market in ever shorter periods of time, companies may neglect to consider some of the key product design attributes-often called the \"-ilities\"-that affect the manufacturing process. When this happens, time to market is often extended because of the need for product redesign in order to improve manufacturing yields and quality or to lower product costs. One of the ways to reduce the number of product design iterations, or post-prototype engineering changes, is to design both the product and the manufacturing processes simultaneously. This requires involving all of the organization's pertinent engineering disciplines, in addition to marketing and support functions, right from the start of the project. This type of team development activity is usually referred to as concurrent engineering (CE) or integrated product development (IPD).<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":136567,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of WESCON '94","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116543554","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Longitudinal control of an autonomous vehicle through a hybrid fuzzy/classical controller","authors":"Z. Zalila, P. Lezy","doi":"10.1109/WESCON.1994.403617","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WESCON.1994.403617","url":null,"abstract":"This research on the longitudinal control of a motor vehicle was carried out as part of the Autonomous Intelligent Cruise Control (AICC) project, which is itself part of the PROMETHEUS European Community program. It has two objectives: a speed regulation-the driver sets a cruising speed, the vehicle reaches that speed and keeps it; a distance control-when the AICC vehicle detects a target vehicle, it decides whether it is necessary to modify the actuator instructions so as to place itself at a safe distance behind the vehicle in front. These two operating modes are permanently active and must satisfy subjective criteria of comfort while ensuring a high robustness in control. These constraints are one reason why we had a hybrid approach in the conception of the regulator. Indeed, a classic type of control (by internal model) ensures a deceleration/acceleration regulation of the vehicle; the deceleration/acceleration instruction being generated by a controller based on fuzzy logic methods. This original hybrid control guarantees the robustness criterion even if there is a variation of the structural parameters such as mass, and if there are model errors as well. It also enables the driver to personalize the running of his vehicle by selecting a driving style (\"comfortable\", \"sportslike\", ...). With the controller thus conceived we obtain quite satisfactory results within the desired limits of use.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":136567,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of WESCON '94","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115449132","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}