{"title":"Simulation of agent behavior in a goal finding application","authors":"Sharad Sharma, Supriya Lohgaonkar","doi":"10.1109/SECON.2010.5453811","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.2010.5453811","url":null,"abstract":"There has been increasing interest in simulation of agent behavior in the context of agent based modeling. This paper concentrates on the use of fuzzy logic in simulating agent based behavior. Our approach is decomposed into two levels. The higher level addresses the agent's goal finding behavior and lower level addresses collision detection and avoidance behavior. Our approach focuses on modeling individual behavior as well as group behavior. Individuals constantly adjust their behavior according to the dynamic factors in the environment. We hypothesize that people with similar characteristics such as race, age, and gender are more likely to collaborate with each other in order to reach a goal. This paper describes an agent based system implementation for crowd behavior. The simulation evaluates different evacuation and damage control decision making strategies beforehand, which allows the execution of the most effective evacuation scheme during real-time emergency scenario.","PeriodicalId":286940,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the IEEE SoutheastCon 2010 (SoutheastCon)","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117188323","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":"Time synchronization in wireless sensor networks: A survey","authors":"Sami M. Lasassmeh, J. Conrad","doi":"10.1109/SECON.2010.5453878","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.2010.5453878","url":null,"abstract":"Wireless sensor networks consist of small devices distributed over geographical area. Each one of these devices has sensing, computing, and communicating components. Wireless sensor networks are used in many applications where partial or full time synchronization in the network is required. Time synchronization aims at equalizing the local times for all nodes in the network, if necessary. Since wireless sensor networks are limited in energy resources, computation capability, storage capacity, and bandwidth, traditional time synchronization algorithms like Network Time Protocol (NTP) and Global Positioning System (GPS) are impractical to synchronize the network. This paper explains the time synchronization problem in wireless sensor networks and details the basic algorithms proposed in this area.","PeriodicalId":286940,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the IEEE SoutheastCon 2010 (SoutheastCon)","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117225785","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":"Using aspects for testing nonfunctional requirements in object-oriented systems","authors":"S. Farhat, G. Simco, F. Mitropoulos","doi":"10.1109/SECON.2010.5453852","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.2010.5453852","url":null,"abstract":"Software testing is one of the most time consuming activities in the software development cycle. Current research suggests that aspect-oriented programming (AOP) can enhance testing and has the potential to be more effective than macros or test interfaces. There are two major weaknesses when using aspects which are the inability of aspect code to be woven at all execution points and the lack of direct support for interweaving aspects with other aspects. In this paper we address the two major weaknesses and provide a means to overcome them. In addition, current research has focused only on using aspects to test functional requirements (FRs) and paid little attention to nonfunctional requirements (NFRs). In this paper we perform a feasibility study of using aspects to test NFRs which is based on two categorizations of NFRs. The first categorization splits NFRs into four types namely functionally restrictive, additive restrictive, policy restrictive, and architecturally restrictive and the second categorization splits the NFRs into two types: operational and nonoperational. These categorizations would serve as an initial point for developing frameworks or methodologies for testing NFRs with aspects.","PeriodicalId":286940,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the IEEE SoutheastCon 2010 (SoutheastCon)","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114279048","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":"Linewidth enhancement factor simplified","authors":"Weiguo Yang","doi":"10.1109/SECON.2010.5453864","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.2010.5453864","url":null,"abstract":"The dependence of laser linewidth on the laser power without taking into considerations of the laser AM-FM coupling effects, namely the Schawlow-Townes linewidth, can be derived by taking the laser as a self-consistent feedback system. Without employing a full quantum statistical analysis of the semiconductor laser noises, we extend this intuitive approach to include the effects of the laser AM-FM coupling on the laser amplitude noise as well as the laser phase noise. Then by using Fourier transform arguments, we arrive at the laser linewidth and the linewidth enhancement factor which agree with the results from the authoritative quantum statistics theory. This fully classic presentation simplifies the derivation of the laser linewidth enhancement factor and is suitable for undergraduate teaching of laser electronics.","PeriodicalId":286940,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the IEEE SoutheastCon 2010 (SoutheastCon)","volume":"238 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131032339","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":"Background service QoS in a UMTS network","authors":"Ira Weissberger, I. Kostanic, C. Otero","doi":"10.1109/SECON.2010.5453883","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.2010.5453883","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a methodology for evaluating the quality of service provided by a cellular network for background services, such as e-mail and text messaging. Data collected from drive testing were used as the means to evaluate different drive routes on a Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) network. Although one type of cellular network was tested, this methodology may be readily adapted to fit other types of cellular networks.","PeriodicalId":286940,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the IEEE SoutheastCon 2010 (SoutheastCon)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130539145","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-time MISO UWB radio testbed and waveform design","authors":"Yu Song, Zhen Hu, N. Guo, R. Qiu","doi":"10.1109/SECON.2010.5453889","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.2010.5453889","url":null,"abstract":"The paper presents the design challenges and implementation issues of a real-time multiple-input single-output (MISO) ultra-wideband (UWB) radio testbed, which involves Xinlix Virtex-5 Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) for high speed signal processing. In addition, waveform design and optimization based on the testbed is practical studied. System performance is evaluated using measured channel data in indoor environment. The transmitted MISO signals are optimized in the passband with a bandwidth up to 500MHz. Major contributions of our work include implementation of a real-time radio testbed for multiple-antenna wideband system and design of intrinsic waveform diversity based on the testbed.","PeriodicalId":286940,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the IEEE SoutheastCon 2010 (SoutheastCon)","volume":"144 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122643465","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":"Enhancing student learning in artificial intelligence using robotics","authors":"R. Stansbury","doi":"10.1109/SECON.2010.5453897","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.2010.5453897","url":null,"abstract":"Artificial intelligence (AI) techniques may be applied to a variety of real-world problems. At Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, CS 455: Artificial Intelligence was offered during the Spring 2008 semester in which students from all disciplines were invited to attend. Robot kits are incorporated into the course as a pedagogical tool to motivate and encourage learning by applying theoretically abstract algorithms to concrete real-world problems. This paper discusses the approach to incorporating robotics in the AI classroom. A set of commercial off-the-shelf robot kits are discussed and analyzed with respect to the students' work during the semester. Finally, recommendations for improvements on teaching AI to a multi-disciplinary audience with the help of robot kits will be discussed.","PeriodicalId":286940,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the IEEE SoutheastCon 2010 (SoutheastCon)","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132327863","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":"Impact of leakage and short circuit current in rush current analysis of power gated domains","authors":"V. Sreekumar, S. Ravichandran","doi":"10.1109/SECON.2010.5453925","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.2010.5453925","url":null,"abstract":"Power shut off being a key technique for power reduction in today's designs, it is critical to be able to verify circuit behavior when it is powered from an off state to an on state. The total rush current and turn-on time of the module can be impacted by the high short circuit current caused by slow signal slew rates and the leakage current of the module. In this paper, we present a study on how these effects impact the overall analysis and how they can be accounted for during a power-up analysis. The analysis has been done on ARM 968 processor based Wireless LAN IC.","PeriodicalId":286940,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the IEEE SoutheastCon 2010 (SoutheastCon)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128681800","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":"Left-handed extensions of Maxwell's equations for metamaterials","authors":"T. Weldon, R. Adams, K. Daneshvar, R. Mulagada","doi":"10.1109/SECON.2010.5453822","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.2010.5453822","url":null,"abstract":"Left-handed materials are commonly analyzed by using frequency-dependent parameters that include regions of negative permittivity and negative permeability in Maxwell's equations. An alternative approach is presented where both right-handed and left-handed behavior are supported by augmenting Maxwell's equations with additional terms. The proposed equations exhibit typical metamaterial behavior, including frequency bandgap and dispersion.","PeriodicalId":286940,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the IEEE SoutheastCon 2010 (SoutheastCon)","volume":"125 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133374107","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":"Undergraduate research experiences in power system fault analysis using Matlab Simulation tools","authors":"B. Casey, Y. Liao","doi":"10.1109/SECON.2010.5453891","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.2010.5453891","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents research experiences of an undergraduate student in areas of power system fault analysis and fault location. The student obtains valuable skills by using Matlab and SimPowerSystems software, and an in-depth understanding of short-circuit analysis theories and procedures. It is shown that research involving formula derivation, system modeling, algorithm coding, and result visualization can greatly enhance the student's interests in power system subject.","PeriodicalId":286940,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the IEEE SoutheastCon 2010 (SoutheastCon)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124077900","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}