There is an emergent need for portable, inexpensive, reusable, and reliable sensors of environmental contaminants for both military and civilian uses. The development and study of such sensors is crucial for many applications. Among others, we mention measuring groundwater and waste water contamination, monitoring processes for agricultural and food products, and detecting soil contamination. In addition, such a technology is key to many medical procedures. The use of these sensors may be...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Bestavros, Azer, TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIV MA, *DATA PROCESSING, *WASTE WATER, *GROUND...
Whether teaching in a classroom or a Massive Online Open Course it is crucial to present the material in a way that benefits the audience as a whole. We identify two important tasks to solve towards this objective; (1) group students so that they can maximally benefit from peer interaction and (2) find an optimal schedule of the educational material for each group. Thus, in this paper we solve the problem of team formation and content scheduling for education. Given a time frame "d,"...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Scheduling, Time Factors (Learning),...
Predictability- the ability to foretell that an implementation will not violate a set of specified reliability and timeliness requirements is a crucial, highly desirable property of responsive embedded systems. This paper overviews a development methodology for responsive systems, which enhances predictability by eliminating potential hazards resulting from physically-unsound specifications. The backbone of our methodology is the Time-constrained Reactive Automaton (TRA) formalism, which adopts...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Bestavros, Azer, BOSTON UNIV MA DEPT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE, *STRUCTURAL RESPONSE,...
