{"title":"Transportation Services Costs Allocation for the Delivery System","authors":"Konrad Lewczuk, M. Wasiak","doi":"10.1109/ICSEng.2011.84","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSEng.2011.84","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a method of allocation transportation services costs to the carrier's clients. Method is based on determining replacement costs for two cost-driven elements: amount of pallet-kilometers and time consumed for services realization in purpose of using it to weight real costs for finding actual share of clients in total costs.","PeriodicalId":387483,"journal":{"name":"2011 21st International Conference on Systems Engineering","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116144085","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":"Interpretation of Resistivity Sounding Data for Multi-Layer Vertical Earth Model","authors":"Fouad Hasnaoui-Slaoui, S. Georges, F. Erchiqui","doi":"10.1109/ICSEng.2011.21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSEng.2011.21","url":null,"abstract":"Soil resistivity plays a key role in designing grounding systems for high-voltage power transmission lines and substations. The objectives of this paper consist of computing the best estimated value of the apparent resistivity and the electrode grounding resistance of a vertical N-layer soil. Then, earth parameters are precisely calculated by applying an inversion method. The inversion method is useful to estimate soil parameters from Schlumberger measurements. Four theoretical models are selected in order to validate and test the inversion scheme of the method.","PeriodicalId":387483,"journal":{"name":"2011 21st International Conference on Systems Engineering","volume":"163 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123745966","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 Cognitive Approach for Congestion Control in High Traffic Networks","authors":"E. Sharifahmadian, S. Latifi","doi":"10.1109/ICSEng.2011.54","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSEng.2011.54","url":null,"abstract":"Network congestion is one of challenging tasks in communication networks and leads to queuing delay, packet loss or the blocking of new connections. Here, a cognitive method is proposed to deal with network congestion. Unlike previous methods for congestion control, the proposed method is an intelligent approach for congestion control when the link capacity and information inquiries are unknown or variable. Based on simulation results, the cognitive method is capable of optimally adjusting the available bandwidth, to provide optimal communication services in network.","PeriodicalId":387483,"journal":{"name":"2011 21st International Conference on Systems Engineering","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128090664","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":"Program Comprehension and Implications of Human Navigational Approaches","authors":"Senthilrajan Moorthy, M. Samadzadeh","doi":"10.1109/ICSEng.2011.41","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSEng.2011.41","url":null,"abstract":"Cognitive scientists, psychologists, and other researchers have endeavored over the past three decades to identify the cognitive functions underpinning human navigation and its possible correlations with other characteristics. The answer to the basic question of how/why some people are good at following directions and some people are not, is yet to be determined conclusively. The scope of this research work included both theoretical and empirical studies of human direction sensitivity and the cognitive tests that attempt to test hypotheses about individual differences in spatial/temporal attention spans as well as a set of program comprehension questionnaire-based tests about the debugging/testing of computer programs and program comprehension. This work was done in the context of the relevant cognitive-based perceptual and spatial tests. The test results obtained suggest that programmers' directional detection skills appear to have some correlations with their program comprehension abilities.","PeriodicalId":387483,"journal":{"name":"2011 21st International Conference on Systems Engineering","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124936714","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":"Architectural Design of Distributed Control Systems for Aero Gas Turbine Engines Using Genetic Algorithms","authors":"Duncan Bourne, R. Dixon, A. Horne","doi":"10.1109/ICSENG.2011.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSENG.2011.9","url":null,"abstract":"This work presents a method for the design of distributed control systems for large civil jet engines using a genetic algorithm. The algorithm evaluates solutions based on three evaluation functions designed to ensure the proposed systems are both technically and commercially viable.","PeriodicalId":387483,"journal":{"name":"2011 21st International Conference on Systems Engineering","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125020396","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":"Building Palm Vein Capturing System for Extraction","authors":"Jing-Wein Wang, Tzu-Hsiung Chen","doi":"10.1109/ICSEng.2011.61","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSEng.2011.61","url":null,"abstract":"The palm vein pattern is unique to individuality which pattern does not change over time apart from size. This feature makes it suitable for one-to-many matching, for which fingerprint and face recognition may not be robust. In this paper, we set up a creatively vein-image capturing system and present a novel framework, composed of image enhancement, feature extraction, noise removal, thinning, skeletonization, and pruning for vein pattern extraction. In our experiments, 25 persons of different ages above 20 including five girls and twenty boys, each has 20 images per person was acquired at different intervals, 10 images for left hand and 10 images for right hand. The performance of the accurate extraction rate is 93.4% on average, 94.8% on right hand and 91.9% on left hand, respectively.","PeriodicalId":387483,"journal":{"name":"2011 21st International Conference on Systems Engineering","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121583295","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":"Qualitative Simulation Models for Non-Autonomous Systems","authors":"Yuji Hashiura, T. Fujimoto, T. Matsuo","doi":"10.1109/ICSEng.2011.78","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSEng.2011.78","url":null,"abstract":"Qualitative simulation provides a simple and an easy-to-understanding result. Although graph-based modeling method is not expressed simply, the model can be easily developed because it consists of nodes and arcs. However, in traditional definitions, it is not easy to model an autonomous system in which the parameter is indefinite number changing by the environment and time. To solve this problem we provide a new modeling method for the flexible expression. In this paper, first, we define a modeling method on relationship and transmission of effect between nodes. We also give a definition of strength of cause and effect to analyze complex condition and situation. Then, we define a new modeling method to express a complex graph-based qualitative simulation model. This paper includes three following contributions, first, we proposed a flexible modeling method to make a qualitative simulation model, second, More precise simulation graph model can be developed, finally, using our proposed methods, non autonomous systems can be analyzed where the system is changed with time-pass.","PeriodicalId":387483,"journal":{"name":"2011 21st International Conference on Systems Engineering","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127823638","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":"Weather Adaptive Renewable Energy Based Self Correctional Dynamic Power System for 2020 and Beyond","authors":"Fadhil T. Aula, Samuel C. Lee","doi":"10.1109/ICSEng.2011.101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSEng.2011.101","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a modified model of a power grid which consists of renewable power systems and other types of traditional power systems. The rising demand of the electricity makes the ordinary fossil sources may not be adequate to accommodate this growth and the expansion of the power grid. On the other hand, these types of sources may not be interested due to their environmental impacts and economical issues. Instead, renewable sources are dramatically gained more focus due to their characteristics for providing clean and economic power. Regardless to these characteristics, since the renewable power systems depend on the weather, they suffer from irregular, intermittence, and unpredictable power that they produce. However, with adapting accurate weather forecast data to the control system, the performance, efficiency and reliability of the renewable power system are potentially improved. The implementation of the advanced forecast technology in the power systems makes the ability to predict the amount of the available power on the grid both instantaneously and for the future real. This reality can be taken as a basis for designing and developing a comprehensive future power smart grid.","PeriodicalId":387483,"journal":{"name":"2011 21st International Conference on Systems Engineering","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131421687","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":"Development of a Motion Control Fault Detector for a Series Hybrid Vehicle","authors":"V. Ersanilli, K. Burnham","doi":"10.1109/ICSEng.2011.89","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSEng.2011.89","url":null,"abstract":"Automotive manufacturers are increasingly looking to hybrid vehicle designs to meet customer demands for more efficient vehicles. The increased efficiency of the hybrid architectures comes at the expense of increased system complexity. The field of automotive diagnostics for conventional vehicles is now well developed but diagnosing complex problems of system interactions is a new challenge for hybrid vehicle designers. The objective of this paper is to demonstrate a motion control detection algorithm and explore the appropriate vehicle responses to the detected condition.","PeriodicalId":387483,"journal":{"name":"2011 21st International Conference on Systems Engineering","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132182840","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":"Ear-Slicing and Quality Triangulation","authors":"Bartosz Kajak, L. Gewali, H. Selvaraj","doi":"10.1109/ICSEng.2011.42","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSEng.2011.42","url":null,"abstract":"Most algorithms for polygon triangulation do not consider the quality of generated triangles. Such algorithms tend to generate low-quality mesh characterized by a large number of thin triangles. We present an approach for modifying the ear-cutting triangulation algorithm so that resulting mesh contains higher proportion of quality triangles. We also propose additional method of polygon decomposition that supports higher quality triangulation.","PeriodicalId":387483,"journal":{"name":"2011 21st International Conference on Systems Engineering","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127181262","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}