This paper deals with the problem of establishing stabilizing state-dependent switching laws in DC-DC converters operating at continuous conduction mode (CCM) and comparing their performance indexes. Firstly, the nature ...

One of the most common environment tests is the shock testing, widely used to test the mechanical integrity and to ensure the quality and reliability of products. During shock tests, data acquisition systems are normally ...

Similarity search is a core operation found in several online multimedia services. These services have to handle very large databases, while, at the same time, they must min imize the query response times observed by ...

Piecewise-Linear Programming (PLP) is an important area of Mathematical Programming and concerns the minimisation of a convex separable piecewise-linear objective function, subject to linear constraints. In this paper a ...

Piecewise-Linear Programming (PLP) is an important area of Mathematical Programming and concerns the minimisation of a convex separable piecewise-linear objective function, subject to linear constraints. In this paper a ...

The objective of this work was comparing two distinct software development paradigms, namely, the emerging Notification Oriented Paradigm (NOP) and Event-driven Paradigm (EDP). Objectives, methods and tools are presented ...

Ground Potential Rise (GPR) is an important factor for a grounding system that must be properly designed to protect people against any dangerous induced voltages and to avoid damages in equipment. In this context, several ...

Many real-world engineering problems require high computational power, especially concerning to the processing speed. Modern parallel processing techniques play an important role in reducing the processing time as a ...