{"title":"Computer organization teaching: a create your own workbook approach","authors":"A. Das","doi":"10.1109/SECON.2000.845467","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.2000.845467","url":null,"abstract":"An approach to teaching computer architecture and organization is illustrated, where students are made aware of their college computing environment at an early stage of the course. Students are required to create a workbook of their own, which forms a solid basis to understanding of their own environment. This approach reduces cultural difficulties, usually observed in students with nontraditional background, and in students who are more prone to hands-on learning, or technology learning.","PeriodicalId":206022,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the IEEE SoutheastCon 2000. 'Preparing for The New Millennium' (Cat. No.00CH37105)","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128808794","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":"Load management techniques","authors":"G. Bellarmine","doi":"10.1109/SECON.2000.845449","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.2000.845449","url":null,"abstract":"Electric power has shaped and contributed to the progress and advances of humankind over the past century. Power should be available to the customer upon demand. The power companies strive to keep the reserve capacity to meet the sudden demand to a minimum. Load management techniques help the power company to reshape the electric utility load curve and to reduce the peak demand. The United States Government has filed lawsuits against 32 electrical utility plants charging the release of massive amounts of air pollutants throughout the Midwest and East coast. Electrical utilities are responsible for 65% of sulphuric dioxide emissions in the United States. If the customers demand more power, the power companies would supply power by building more generation facilities. This concept of supply-side management has been very popular in the seventies of the twentieth century. The demand-side management techniques influence the customers to help to reshape the load demand curves. This article analyzes the load management techniques in great detail. The power company must devise incentives to help customers to modify the load-curves. The customers must change their lifestyles to help to implement the load management techniques. Load management techniques make electricity do more by using it better. The important point is that less energy is wasted. Load management techniques could force the utilities to become globally competitive and control the demand and energy consumption.","PeriodicalId":206022,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the IEEE SoutheastCon 2000. 'Preparing for The New Millennium' (Cat. No.00CH37105)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133066349","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":"JavaMonte: a new programming language for Monte Carlo simulation","authors":"R. Garcia, R. LeBlanc, M. Sadiku","doi":"10.1109/SECON.2000.845582","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.2000.845582","url":null,"abstract":"The JavaMonte language serves as a superset to the Java language developed by Sun Microsystems. A developer can code in JavaMonte taking advantage of the features of a language targeting boundary value problems while at the same time integrating an OO language with cross-platform capabilities. The major objective in the design of JavaMonte is to simplify coding using a more powerful tool in terms of having built-in types that support Monte Carlo simulation.","PeriodicalId":206022,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the IEEE SoutheastCon 2000. 'Preparing for The New Millennium' (Cat. No.00CH37105)","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130100201","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":"Noise induced from power lines in voice-frequency communications","authors":"T. Bellarmine, A.B. Asgill, M.V. Lee","doi":"10.1109/SECON.2000.845404","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.2000.845404","url":null,"abstract":"Noise voltages in communication lines usually originate from primary distribution power lines parallel to the copper communication cables. The communication industry always faces a tough challenge to resolve the noise problems associated with the local loop. The power distribution lines are generally three phase grounded wye with primary line to ground voltages of 7200 to 14400 volts. Shunt capacitor banks, for power factor correction are located in these lines at the tail end. The article analyzes the power line harmonic frequency interference within the voice-frequency spectrum of 300-3400 Hz. A discussion of noise harmonics begins with the three ingredients 'necessary' for noise to take place; (i) power influence causing hum on the telephone lines; (ii) coupling (electromagnetic) between power and telephone lines; and (iii) susceptibility (unbalance) of copper telephone cable pair or terminating equipment. The problems and possible solutions discussed in this article include the following: (i) the 60 Hz-fundamental frequency problem; (ii) the 540 Hz-9/sup th/ harmonic frequency problem; (iii) the 420/660 Hz-adjacent odd harmonics of 9/sup th/ harmonic problem; (iv) and harmonic anomalies related to specific loads. The interference of power line harmonics into communication circuits is a very complex phenomenon. It is important to have an overall perception of the interference before any remedial action is attempted. A guideline of possible inductive coordination solutions applicable to both power and telephone lines are proposed to mitigate the harmonic-frequency interference.","PeriodicalId":206022,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the IEEE SoutheastCon 2000. 'Preparing for The New Millennium' (Cat. No.00CH37105)","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128487004","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":"Web based remote security system (WRSS) model development","authors":"S. Wunnava, M. De La Cruz","doi":"10.1109/SECON.2000.845596","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.2000.845596","url":null,"abstract":"Security of homes, businesses, commercial, and industrial organizations has been of utmost importance. At Florida International University, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, a Web based remote security system (WRSS) model is being developed by the authors. Proper electronic sensors are installed to detect fire, smoke, physical break-in, and other similar security risks. In addition, proper audio and video monitoring of the property is setup. Information from all these sensors is dynamically sent to a remote security server, using the wireless and the Internet technologies. This information can be accessed by the owners of the property or their designates through the World Wide Web browsing, with proper password and other identification schemes. Irrespective of the physical location, the owners can observe their property through the Web. This will provide a method of observing the condition of their property or business any time on the Web by the owners or their agents. Also, in case of a security violation such as fire or theft, a paging signal can be sent to the owners or the designated agencies to access the Web site of the property. This instantly provides the status of the property and the law enforcement and other agencies can better react to the crisis. In this paper, the authors present the architecture of the Web based security monitoring system with hardware and software methodologies used. Also, practical case studies are presented.","PeriodicalId":206022,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the IEEE SoutheastCon 2000. 'Preparing for The New Millennium' (Cat. No.00CH37105)","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114463143","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":"Design of a composite arithmetic unit for rational numbers","authors":"T. Pinkiewicz, N. Holmes, T. Jamil","doi":"10.1109/SECON.2000.845571","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.2000.845571","url":null,"abstract":"As we advance into the new century, computers of the future will require techniques for arithmetic operations that take advantage of the modern technology and yield accurate results. Floating-point arithmetic has been in use for nearly forty years but is plagued with inaccuracies and limitations which necessitates introduction of a new concept in computer arithmetic called composite arithmetic. This paper describes composite arithmetic and design of an arithmetic unit based on this concept.","PeriodicalId":206022,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the IEEE SoutheastCon 2000. 'Preparing for The New Millennium' (Cat. No.00CH37105)","volume":"105 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116148915","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":"Z-module reasoning and proving the commutativity of rings of exponent n/spl ges/2","authors":"B. Sawyer, A. Esterline","doi":"10.1109/SECON.2000.845585","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.2000.845585","url":null,"abstract":"We address a well-known problem in the field of automated reasoning that has been used to test the effectiveness of reasoning systems. The problem is the following: for a given integer e greater than two, if a ring R has exponent e, then must R be commutative?.","PeriodicalId":206022,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the IEEE SoutheastCon 2000. 'Preparing for The New Millennium' (Cat. No.00CH37105)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122244478","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":"Promoting polynomial predictive filtering on the Internet","authors":"J. Martikainen, S. Ovaska","doi":"10.1109/SECON.2000.845595","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.2000.845595","url":null,"abstract":"Polynomial predictive filtering (PPF) is a powerful tool for modern digital signal processing. Still, not as widely known as it should be. To make the new techniques easier to approach, we have established an Internet site, which, at the moment contains illustrative documentation for the recursive linear smoothed Newton (RLSN) and the Heinonen-Neuvo (H-N) finite impulse response (FIR) predictors. Two MATLAB-based easy-to-use filter designers for both the RLSN and the H-N predictors are also available. With the help of these automatic designers, users are offered a convenient way to get to know what polynomial predictive filtering is all about by easily experimenting themselves. The Internet, and the World-Wide Web (WWW) especially, offer a flexible, easily maintainable and popular platform for promoting these ideas and techniques.","PeriodicalId":206022,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the IEEE SoutheastCon 2000. 'Preparing for The New Millennium' (Cat. No.00CH37105)","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125069006","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":"Application to enhance the teaching and understanding of basic image processing techniques","authors":"D. S. Sohi, S. Devgan","doi":"10.1109/SECON.2000.845603","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.2000.845603","url":null,"abstract":"Scientific visualization is the representation of data graphically as a means of gaining understanding and insight into the data. An excellent place to start learning scientific visualization is in the field of image processing, since it involves algorithms that help convert data into images. In today's technology-oriented world, the term 'image processing' generally refers to the processing of a two-dimensional data set using a computer. This was the main reason that the initial research was completed in the implementation of image processing techniques using a software called Advanced Visual Systems Express (AVS Express). There is a definite need to show how that would benefit instruction as a teaching aid, and also how it helps optimize the time taken to implement these different techniques using this software. It also increases user understanding of these techniques. It is possible to fully implement many of the different image processing techniques such as edge extraction, gradient operators, convolution, compression and extraction, as well as many others in a relatively short time. In comparison to previous attempts with other popular software such as MATLAB, the time difference proved to be immense. The main advantage of AVS software is that it provides a visual programming environment which allows the user to see the flow of information of the different algorithms as they are being implemented. Since no time is spent writing and correcting code, the understanding of the image processing techniques becomes much clearer in a shorter period of time, and thus in depth study is possible. We have developed a number of techniques and are in the process of integrating AVS Express into the curriculum for the Digital Image Processing (EE523) course at Tennessee State University as a teaching and study aid.","PeriodicalId":206022,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the IEEE SoutheastCon 2000. 'Preparing for The New Millennium' (Cat. No.00CH37105)","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122737032","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":"Applying the Calderbank-Mazo algorithm to space-time trellis coding","authors":"R. Gozali, B. D. Woerner","doi":"10.1109/SECON.2000.845583","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.2000.845583","url":null,"abstract":"A space-time trellis code combines the channel code design with the use of multiple transmit antennas for improving the data rate and/or reliability of wireless communications. We present a systematic approach of translating the trellis diagrams of space-time trellis codes (STTC) to closed analytic forms. These closed analytic forms are generated by applying the Calderbank-Mazo (1984) algorithm which was originally proposed for trellis coded modulation (TCM). The closed analytic form can be used to create the generator matrix of the STTC as well as the block diagram structure of the space-time trellis encoder. This form also combines the encoding procedure and the symbol mapping procedure into one composite operation and simplifies calculations of the rank and determinant criteria of STTC.","PeriodicalId":206022,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the IEEE SoutheastCon 2000. 'Preparing for The New Millennium' (Cat. No.00CH37105)","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122792742","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}