{"title":"Safety analysis in real-time system using constraint logic programming","authors":"F. Jin, P. Girodias, E. Cerny","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.1997.608242","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.1997.608242","url":null,"abstract":"The paper is concerned with the verification of the timing safety properties of real time systems. Using CLP (BNR) Prolog, we show how constraint logic programming based on relational interval arithmetic can provide a much simpler analysis technique than some previous graph theoretic approaches to the problem of verifying a timing property with respect to a system specification. Both the property and the system to verify are specified by formulas in subsets of real time logic. In particular, our new approach will allow more complex timing behaviours, such as delay correlation, to be considered in the timing models.","PeriodicalId":359446,"journal":{"name":"CCECE '97. Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering. Engineering Innovation: Voyage of Discovery. Conference Proceedings","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126120776","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":"User-interface for relative performance evaluation of compression techniques","authors":"S. Padhy, O. Hage, S. Panchanathan","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.1997.614869","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.1997.614869","url":null,"abstract":"Several techniques for video compression have appeared in literature namely JPEG, MPEG, H.263, wavelet, vector quantization, sub-bands, etc. In this paper, we present a user interface design which allows subjective comparison by simultaneous display of the encoded sequences (along with the original) at a variety of compression ratios in a synchronized manner. The proposed interface is extremely useful for relative performance evaluation of various compression techniques and can be easily extended to incorporate evaluation of new compression techniques.","PeriodicalId":359446,"journal":{"name":"CCECE '97. Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering. Engineering Innovation: Voyage of Discovery. Conference Proceedings","volume":"83 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127468682","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":"Techniques to facilitate development of safety critical software systems","authors":"S. Madan","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.1997.614836","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.1997.614836","url":null,"abstract":"Safety critical systems must perform as desired and should never fail. The need for dependability arises from the fact that the consequences of failure are extremely high, usually a threat to human life. To build software with these features is a hard task. Formal methods and software process models have been deployed to make them safe but they are not foolproof. The paper suggests how a combination of techniques may facilitate safety critical software system development.","PeriodicalId":359446,"journal":{"name":"CCECE '97. Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering. Engineering Innovation: Voyage of Discovery. Conference Proceedings","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129052210","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":"A method for optimal pricing of electric supply including transmission system considerations","authors":"M. Muchayi, M. El-Hawary","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.1997.614847","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.1997.614847","url":null,"abstract":"Determining real-time electricity rate structures is currently receiving a great deal of attention. In this paper, a strategy for pricing electricity supply is formulated and evaluated. Unlike other methods, which use only the variation of fuel cost for generation to estimate the rate structures, the proposed pricing algorithm incorporates the optimal allocation of transmission system operating costs based on time-of-use pricing. The transmission costs are obtained by assigning a price to each unit of power flow in the network. The assignment does not discriminate between participants located at differing parts of the network. The real-time pricing reflects the instantaneous cost of production and functions as a load management tool because this interacts with consumer behavior. The demand for power flows and transmission on an electricity supply system, like the demand for any bundle of economic goods, depends upon the assigned transmission prices, together with the economic benefit to the consumer. It is assumed that there are no privately owned generating plants and that all plants and transmission lines are operated by the utility. The modeling scheme is applied to the IEEE standard 5, 14, 30 and 57 bus power systems and involves solving a modified optimal power flow problem iteratively using the MINOS package. It is concluded that the method has wide potential application in electricity supply pricing.","PeriodicalId":359446,"journal":{"name":"CCECE '97. Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering. Engineering Innovation: Voyage of Discovery. Conference Proceedings","volume":"353 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132305264","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":"Rate control of foveated MPEG video","authors":"T. H. Reeves, J. Robinson","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.1997.614868","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.1997.614868","url":null,"abstract":"Adaptive foveated coding provides user-adjustable video quality at very flexible bit rates by prioritizing image regions. While viewing the video, the user can adjust the relative image fidelity in the high priority fovea region compared to the low priority periphery. We present a bit rate adaption system that reacts to user input to tradeoff foveal spatial resolution against peripheral spatial resolution appropriately, while controlling the output video's bit rate. The rate adaptor relies on a mathematical model of the bit rates required to support the different foveal spatial resolution/peripheral spatial resolution combinations.","PeriodicalId":359446,"journal":{"name":"CCECE '97. Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering. Engineering Innovation: Voyage of Discovery. Conference Proceedings","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130480292","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":"An efficient algorithm to solve the E-TSP","authors":"M. Al-Mulhem, T. Al-Maghrabi","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.1997.614841","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.1997.614841","url":null,"abstract":"The paper describes a hybrid algorithm that combines an adaptive type neural network algorithm and a non deterministic iterative algorithm to solve the Euclidean Traveling Salesman Problem (E-TSP). It begins with a brief introduction to TSP and E-TSP. Then, it presents the proposed algorithm with its two major components: the convex elastic net (CEN) algorithm and the non deterministic iterative improvement (NII) algorithm. These two algorithms are combined into an algorithm called Efficient Convex-Elastic Net (ECEN) algorithm. Experimental results are given to show that the proposed algorithm can find the nearly optimal solution for the E-TSP that outperform many similar algorithms reported in the literature. The paper concludes with the advantages of the new algorithm and possible extensions.","PeriodicalId":359446,"journal":{"name":"CCECE '97. Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering. Engineering Innovation: Voyage of Discovery. Conference Proceedings","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116925012","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":"Link design and capacity comparison of burst transmission methods for ATM cells and AAL PDUs over broadband satellites","authors":"Brian Lo, V. Leung","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.1997.608327","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.1997.608327","url":null,"abstract":"This paper evaluates coding methods to meet the quality of service requirements of various services to be offered over broadband satellite networks, transported by ATM cells or AAL PDUs. A partially-concatenated coding method is proposed for ATM cell transport to optimize bandwidth. Analyses and comparisons of channel capacities for services under different alternatives are presented.","PeriodicalId":359446,"journal":{"name":"CCECE '97. Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering. Engineering Innovation: Voyage of Discovery. Conference Proceedings","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131081564","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":"Evaluation of various FFT methods for single tone detection and frequency estimation","authors":"Y. Chan, Q. Ma, H. C. So, R. Inkol","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.1997.614827","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.1997.614827","url":null,"abstract":"The periodogram, implemented using the fast Fourier transform (FFT), is widely used for the detection and frequency measurement of single tones. This paper evaluates the detection and frequency estimation performance of the periodogram and its variants, such as the Welch and Bartlett methods and the polyphase-FFT. Performance results for the detection and frequency estimation performance of the periodogram and its variants are presented and compared. The standard periodogram generally gives the best detection performance and the minimum mean square frequency error for a fixed length of signal data. However, if the FFT length is fixed the Welch method gives the best performance.","PeriodicalId":359446,"journal":{"name":"CCECE '97. Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering. Engineering Innovation: Voyage of Discovery. Conference Proceedings","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131180116","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":"Designing distributed multimedia applications over ATM networks","authors":"V. Groza, D. Ionescu, N. Georganas","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.1997.614806","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.1997.614806","url":null,"abstract":"Based on developments in the domain of distributed object oriented software, several experiments on distributed multimedia over ATM networks have been conducted at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Ottawa. The design of a distributed CORBA like-architecture for a multimedia application is presented. The implementations of two mechanisms for communication over the ATM networks are discussed: first a multimedia application using IP protocols (TCP and UDP), then a communication mechanism using the ATM adaptation layer.","PeriodicalId":359446,"journal":{"name":"CCECE '97. Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering. Engineering Innovation: Voyage of Discovery. Conference Proceedings","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132099890","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":"Low cost broadband ultrasonic transducers","authors":"D. Anspach, J. E. Salt","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.1997.608323","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.1997.608323","url":null,"abstract":"The design of a broadband wetted transducer involves stacking a piezoelectric device in layers of adhesives, electrodes and protective coatings. The frequency response of the transducer is heavily influenced by the electrodes, adhesives and protective coatings. A relatively new piezoelectric material, polyvinylidene fluoride, has a very flat linear phase response over a broad frequency band. This paper suggests specific materials for the backing and protective coating to maintain a flat response. Results of modeling, construction, and testing of transducers are reported. The transducer is designed to be used in a water flow meter.","PeriodicalId":359446,"journal":{"name":"CCECE '97. Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering. Engineering Innovation: Voyage of Discovery. Conference Proceedings","volume":"11 17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134245830","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}