Concurrent reading while writing revisited

A modification is proposed to Peterson's construction of 1-writern-reader multivalued atomic shared variableusingn+2 multivalued safe variables and some boolean atomic variables. The resulting construction is elegant and is simpler than the original one. K. Vidyasankar received B.E. (Elec. Engg.) from Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai, M. Tech. from I.I.T. Kanpur, India, and Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Waterloo, Canada. He is now an Associate Professor in Computer Science at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada. His research interests include concurrency control and recovery in database systems, concurrency in interprocess communication, design and analysis of algorithms, and graph theory.A prelininary version of this paper, under the title Improving Peterson's Construction of 1-Writern-Reader Multivalued Atomic Register, appears in the Proc. 26th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, September 1988, pp 693–700     

Development of a sequential robust–tolerance design model for a destructive quality characteristic

Robust design (RD) and tolerance design (TD) have received much attention from researchers and practitioners for more than two decades, and a number of methodologies for modeling and optimizing the RD and TD processes have been studied. However, there is ample room for improvement. Because most existing research considers RD and TD as separate research fields, the primary objective of this paper is to develop a sequential robust–tolerance design method to jointly determine the best factor settings and the closed-form solutions for the optimal specification limits. We then apply the proposed method to a destructive quality characteristic. Finally, a case study and sensitivity analyses are performed for verification purposes, and further studies are discussed.     

Metaheuristics for the dynamic stochastic dial-a-ride problem with expected return transports

The problem of transporting patients or elderly people has been widely studied in literature and is usually modeled as a dial-a-ride problem (DARP). In this paper we analyze the corresponding problem arising in the daily operation of the Austrian Red Cross. This nongovernmental organization is the largest organization performing patient transportation in Austria. The aim is to design vehicle routes to serve partially dynamic transportation requests using a fixed vehicle fleet. Each request requires transportation from a patient's home location to a hospital (outbound request) or back home from the hospital (inbound request). Some of these requests are known in advance. Some requests are dynamic in the sense that they appear during the day without any prior information. Finally, some inbound requests are stochastic. More precisely, with a certain probability each outbound request causes a corresponding inbound request on the same day. Some stochastic information about these return transports is available from historical data. The purpose of this study is to investigate, whether using this information in designing the routes has a significant positive effect on the solution quality. The problem is modeled as a dynamic stochastic dial-a-ride problem with expected return transports. We propose four different modifications of metaheuristic solution approaches for this problem. In detail, we test dynamic versions of variable neighborhood search (VNS) and stochastic VNS (S-VNS) as well as modified versions of the multiple plan approach (MPA) and the multiple scenario approach (MSA). Tests are performed using 12 sets of test instances based on a real road network. Various demand scenarios are generated based on the available real data. Results show that using the stochastic information on return transports leads to average improvements of around 15%. Moreover, improvements of up to 41% can be achieved for some test instances.     

Image edge detection based on multi-fractal spectrum analysis

In this paper, an image edge detection method based on multi-fractal spectrum analysis is presented. The coarse grain H?lder exponent of the image pixels is first computed. then, its multi-fractal spectrum is estimated by the kernel estimation method. Finally, the image edge detection is done by means of different multi-fractal spectrum values. Simulation results show that this method is efficient and has better locality compared with the traditional edge detection methods such as the Sobel method. __________ Translated from Journal of Hunan University (Natural Sciences), 2004, 31(4): 28–33     

PUX3无级变速器在浆纱机上的使用

以GA301型浆纱机的恒张力卷绕系统为例,介绍了PUX3无级变速器的主要技术参数和作用原理.针对PUX3无级变速器在浆纱机运转中经常出现的机械故障进行分析,从安装和调整两方面讨论了卷绕张力的精确控制问题.     

加劲压力钢管结构优化设计

提出了改进加劲压力钢管设计的新思想,建立了加劲压力钢管结构优化设计的数学模型,介绍了约束非线性混合离散变量最优化方法的基本原理及其工程应用,研制了加劲压力钢管结构优化设计通用程序（ＯＳＤＰＲ）。结合工程实例,对加劲压力钢管进行优化设计,经济效益显著。     

大型水电机组的无级调速技术

介绍了大型水电机组无级调速的两项先进技术,一是利用静止歇尔皮斯系统,另一是大型无换向器电机技术。     

大型风力发电场并网接入运行问题综述

指出风电场与常规能源电厂的主要区别,介绍了恒速恒频和变速恒频两种风力发电系统的运行原理及各自接入电力系统的现状和主要问题,阐述了风力发电场并网过程时电网产生冲出,风电场运行对电能质量、保护装置、电网频率和对电力系统运行成本等几方面产生的影响.