Termination or halting is an important system requirement that many systems should satisfy and can be expressed in linear temporal logic as eventual properties. We devised a divide-and-conquer approach to eventual model checking in order to reduce th...
With the rapid advancement of radiation hard imaging technology, space-based remote sensing instruments are becoming not only more sophisticated but are also generating substantially more amounts of data for rapid processing. For applications that re...
A temporal model describes processes as a sequence of observable events characterised by distinguishable actions in time. Conformance checking allows these models to determine whether any sequence of temporally ordered and fully-observable events com...
A cyclic redundancy check (CRC) is a widely used technique in data communication for detecting data transmission errors. However, existing FPGA-based parallel CRC hardware implementation schemes often face problems of excessive resource utilization a...
The architecture of Integrated Modular Avionics (IMA) provides airborne software with a robust temporal partitioning mechanism, which achieves the reliable fault containment between avionics applications. However, the partition scheduling of an IMA s...
Diffraction-based velocity analysis is a key data interpretation technique in geophysical exploration, typically relying on the geometric characteristics, energy distribution, or propagation paths of diffraction waves. The hyperbola-based method is a...
This paper describes MEM and MEM4PP as new Stata tools and commands. They support the automatic reporting and selection of the best regression and classification models by adding supplemental performance metrics based on statistical post-estimation a...
Background: Oral health misinformation has increasingly proliferated across social media platforms in China, prompting rising concerns about the accuracy of health-related content. Fact-checking intent has been identified as a key strategy for mitiga...
Lamport’s Bakery algorithm (LBA) represents a general and elegant solution to the mutual exclusion (ME) problem posed by Dijkstra in 1965. Its correctness is usually based on intuitive reasoning. LBA rests on an unbounded number of tickets, whi...
This study describes our thorough experience of formal modeling and exhaustive verification of concurrent systems, particularly mutual exclusion algorithms. The experience focuses on Lycklama and Hadzilacos’s (LH) mutual exclusion algorithm. LH...
Dekker’s algorithm for mutual exclusion of two processes is the well-known first developed correct solution based only on software mechanisms. The algorithm served as the starting point for researchers to create subsequent safe solutions both f...
An effective way of improving decoding performance of an LDPC code is to extend the single-decoder decoding method to a parallel decoding method with multiple sub-decoders. To this end, this paper proposes a parallel decoding method for the LDPC code...
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It is of great significance to understand the dynamics and risk level of pedestrians at the multi-exit inspection points, since they are the bottlenecks of pedestrian flow leaving public places, such as subway and railway stations. Microscopic simula...
In order to meet the low latency and high throughput requirements of data transmission in 5th generation (5G) New Radio (NR), it is necessary to minimize the low power encoding hardware latency on transmitter and achieve lower base station power cons...
It is well known that network-based parallel data processing algorithms are well suited to implementation in reconfigurable hardware recurring to either Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) or Programmable Systems-on-Chip (PSoC). The intrinsic paral...
A hardware-efficient implementation of a Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC) decoder is presented in this paper. The proposed decoder design is based on the Hybrid Offset Min-Sum (HOMS) algorithm. In the check node processing of this decoder, only the fi...
Check dams play an irreplaceable role in soil and water conservation in the Chinese Loess Plateau region. However, there are few analyses on the connection between check dams and the downstream channel and the impact on structural connectivity and se...
Cable-driven parallel manipulators (CDPM) have parallel structures that consist of moving platforms connected to the fixed platform through many flexible cables. The moving platform is driven by many winches, and because of the unidirectional propert...
Quasi-cyclic low-density parity-check (QC–LDPC) codes are introduced as a physical channel coding solution for data channels in 5G new radio (5G NR). Depending on the use case scenario, this standard proposes the usage of a wide variety of codes, whi...
ARINC 653 Part 1 Supplement 5 (ARINC 653P1-5) provides temporal partitioning capabilities for real-time applications running on the multicore processors in Integrated Modular Avionics (IMAs) systems. However, it is difficult to schedule a set of ARIN...
Currently, the bike frame quality check (QC) mostly relies on human operation in industry. However, some drawbacks such as it being time-consuming, having low accuracy and involving non-computerized processes are still unavoidable. Apart from these p...
Purpose: To evaluate the dosimetric characteristics of a two-dimensional (2D) diode array detector irradiated with passively scattered proton beams. Materials and Methods: A diode array detector, MapCHECK (Model 1175, Sun Nuclear, Melbourne, FL, USA)...
The Hamming code is a well-known error correction code and can correct a single error in an input vector of size n bits by adding logn parity checks. A new parallel implementation of the code is presented, using a hierarchical structure of n processo...
Background: several strategies are used to assess adherence to ketogenic dietary therapies (KDTs), the most commonly used being ketonemia or ketonuria, despite their limitations. The purpose of this article is to carry out an exploratory and confirma...
We use a theoretical model to set up the conditions for a country to attain monetary stability by allowing for two freely tradable currencies to circulate in parallel. For this parallel system to function properly, confidence in the good behavior of...
We introduce a prototyping language for multi-agent systems with information sharing, allowing agents to act in parallel and to migrate between distributed locations according to explicit timers. While all agents have access to public information, ea...
To improve coding efficiency by exploiting the local inter-component redundancy between the luma and chroma components, the cross-component linear model (CCLM) is included in the versatile video coding (VVC) standard. In the CCLM mode, linear model p...
In deep learning (DL) frameworks, a checkpoint operation is widely used to store intermediate variable values (e.g., weights, biases, and gradients) on storage media. This operation helps to reduce the recovery time of running a machine learning (ML)...
Next point-of-interest (POI) recommendation aims to predict users’ future visitation intentions based on historical check-in trajectories. However, this task faces significant challenges, including coarse-grained user interest representation, i...
As one of the most important soil and water conservation engineering measures, the check dam plays an important role in the process of soil erosion control on the Loess Plateau of China. Combined with the hydrodynamic model, the regulation effects of...
To meet the high throughput requirement of communication systems, the design of high-throughput low-density parity-check (LDPC) decoders has attracted significant attention. This paper proposes a high-throughput GPU-based LDPC decoder, aiming at the...
This paper presents a parallel motion planner for mobile robots and autonomous vehicles based on lattices created in the sensor space of planar range finders. The planner is able to compute paths in a few milliseconds, thus allowing obstacle avoidanc...
Due to the complicated engineering operation of the check valve in a high−pressure diaphragm pump, its vibration signal tends to show non−stationary and non−linear characteristics. These leads to difficulty extracting fault features...
Gully erosion constitutes a significant global problem, as gullies are a substantial source of sediment that harms rivers, affecting aquatic fauna and water quality, altering flow regimes, and degrading soil, among other impacts. Gullies have been ex...
This paper presents a dual-mode low-density parity-check (LDPC) decoding architecture that has excellent error-correcting capability and a high parallelism design for fifth-generation (5G) new-radio (NR) applications. We adopted a high parallelism de...
This paper presents a novel parallel quasi-cyclic low-density parity-check (QC-LDPC) encoding algorithm with low complexity, which is compatible with the 5th generation (5G) new radio (NR). Basing on the algorithm, we propose a high area-efficient pa...
Queueing theory is currently a widely used method for optimizing activities not only in air transport but also in other sectors, in both production and the use of personnel. Using this theory, it is possible to simulate in advance various scenarios t...
Based on the IEEE 802.16e standard’s (672,336) LDPC code and the normalized Min-Sum decoding algorithm, this paper designs and implements an LDPC decoder that optimizes the channel information. The correction factor for check nodes is converted into...
In modern computer systems, distributed systems play an increasingly important role, and modeling and verification are crucial in their development. The specificity of many systems requires taking this into account in real time, as time dependencies...
We propose dependency reduction techniques for the performance enhancement of the Hyperledger Fabric blockchain. A dependency hazard may result from the parallelism in Hyperledger Fabric, which executes multiple transactions simultaneously in a singl...
As technology advances, electronic circuits are more vulnerable to errors. Soft errors are one among them that causes the degradation of a circuit’s reliability. In many applications, protecting critical modules is of main concern. One such mod...
Recently, bio-based electrospun nanofiber mats (ENMs) have gained substantial attention for preparing polymer-based biomaterials intended for use in cell culture. Herein, we prepared poly(ethylene-glycol 1,4-Cyclohexane dimethylene-isosorbide-terepht...
This novel research introduces a game-changing architecture design for Quasi-Cyclic Low-Density Parity-Check (QC-LDPC) decoders in Fifth-Generation New-Radio (5G-NR) wireless communications, specifically designed to meet precise specifications and le...
The article presents four equivalent methods for checking mold growth on the surface of building barriers and checking water vapor condensation on their surface. Each method applies to two parallel phenomena that may occur on a building barrier. The...
The Permeator Against Vacuum (PAV) is one of the proposed technologies for the Tritium Extraction System of the WCLL BB (Water-Cooled Lithium-Lead Breeding Blanket) of the EU DEMO reactor. In this paper, the manufacturing of the first PAV mock-up wit...
As high-speed big-data communications impose new requirements on storage latency, low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes have become a widely used technology in flash-memory channels. However, the iterative LDPC decoding algorithm faces a high decodin...
Ripple-carry adder (RCA) is among the most common type of adder. However, it is not preferred in many applications because of its high latency. In this paper, two architectures of high-speed parallel RCA (PRCA) along with fault detection and localiza...
With the growing popularity of location-based social media applications, point-of-interest (POI) recommendation has become important in recent years. Several techniques, especially the collaborative filtering (CF), Markov chain (MC), and recurrent ne...
The HTTP Alternative Services (Alt-Svc) method is defined as an application to check connectivity in HTTP/3. This method is designed based on the fact that communication with old HTTP is guaranteed and the HTTP/3 adoption rate is not necessarily domi...
Measurement of the object angular position and its change is one of the important tasks in measurement technique. Our method is based on determination of the angular position of a 2D periodical optical pattern (2D mark) at the object, captured by the...
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