ThinkMind // International Journal On Advances in Systems and Measurements, volume 11, numbers 3 and 4, 2018

Type: journal

Notes: A free access journal featuring works submitted on an invitation basis only.

Event editions: - there are 26 editions.

ISSN: 1942-261x

Articles: there are 16 articles

FPGAs and the Cloud -- An Endless Tale of Virtualization, Elasticity and Efficiency
Oliver Knodel, Paul R. Genssler, Fredo Erxleben, and Rainer G. Spallek
keywords: Cloud Computing; Virtualization; Reconfigurable Hardware; Partial Reconfiguration

Investigating Stochastic Dependencies Between Critical Infrastructures
Sandra König and Stefan Rass
keywords: critical infrastructure; stochastic dependencies; Markov chain; risk propagation; copula

On the Design, Construction and Calibration of Dual-Probe Heat-Pulse Soil Moisture Sensor: Towards an Industrial Solution
Antonio Valente, Arata Saraiva, Nuno M. Fonseca Ferreira, and Salviano Soares
keywords: soil moisture sensor; soil thermal properties; dual-probe; heat-pulse sensor; thermal conductivity; thermal sensors.

A Flexible QoS Measurement Platform for Service-based Systems
Andreas Hausotter, Arne Koschel, Johannes Busch, and Malte Zuch
keywords: Quality of Service (QoS); Indicator Measurement; XML-Model; Service-orientation; SOA; Complex Event Processing (CEP)

An Extended Evaluation of Process Log Analysis for BPEL Test Coverage Calculation
Daniel Lübke
keywords: Test Coverage; Process Mining; BPEL; Event Log; Experiment; Performance.

The Financial Credit Risk Assessment Model: Three Perspectives
Eric Mantelaers and Martijn Zoet
keywords: Financial Credit Risk Assessment; Business Failure Prediction; Credit Risk Features; DMN Requirements Diagrams (DRD).

On the Variability Dimensions of Normalized Systems Applications: Experiences from Four Case Studies
Peter De Bruyn, Herwig Mannaert, and Philip Huysmans
keywords: evolvability, normalized systems, variability dimensions, case study

Integrating Portable Micro-CHP into a Smart Grid
Richard Pump, Arne Koschel, and Volker Ahlers
keywords: Smart Grid; pmCHP; microservices; service-orientation; layered architecture; CEP; scenario-based evaluation

A Design of Rich Environment for Teaching Meaningful Mathematics to Low-Achieving Students: Research Implications
Orit Broza and Yifat Ben-David Kolikant
keywords: low-achieving students; support-rich environment; computer games; scaffolding; computer-supported collaborative learning.

An Evaluation of Early Activity Completion Detection Algorithms for Low-Power Peripheral Devices in Embedded Systems
Daniel Moore and Alexander Dean
keywords: embedded systems; energy aware embedded computing; embedded profiling; embedded performance analysis; Dynamic Voltage Scaling (DVS); low-power; low-energy; wireless sensor node (WSN); adaptive embedded systems

Transient Analysis of a Single-stage Vapor Compression Refrigeration System Using Lumped Parameter Approaches
Guillermo Domínguez, Eloy E. Rodríguez, Luis A. Montoya, J. Hernán Pérez, and C. Alexander Nuñez
keywords: Heat exchangers; Refrigerants; Dynamic Model; Household refrigeration; Transient conditions; Control volume

Dynamics Analysis of the Rijke Tube Thermoacoustics: Mathematical Modeling using Luikov and Wave Equations with its Experimental Validation
Israel Mejia Alonso, Eloy Edmundo Rodríguez Vázquez, Carlos Alexander Núñez Martín, Luis Alvaro Montoya Santiyanes, and Helen Janeth Zuñiga Osorio
keywords: Rijke tube experiment; Luikov equations and wave equation.

Experimental and Fundamental Analysis of the Dynamical Behavior for the Thermal Distribution in a Cooling Chamber
Jesús Hernán Pérez Vázquez, Eloy Edmundo Rodriguez Vazquez, Carlos Alexander Nuñez Martín, Luis Alvaro Montoya Santiyanes, Israel Mejía Alonso, and Guillermo Dominguez LIbrado
keywords: Heat exchange;thermal diffusivity;finite volume.

Towards a Knowledge-intensive Framework for Efficient Vaccine Development
Leonard Petnga and Surangi Jayawardena
keywords: Knowledge formalisms; Systems Engineering; Semantic; Ontology; Markov Chain; Multiple Regression Model.

The Application of a Radial Basis Function Network to Supervised Terrain Classification
Tiny Du Toit and Hennie Kruger
keywords: classification; inertial measurement unit; MLP; RBFN; sensor; terrain classification.

Newly Developed Low Power Tristate Buffers for Low-power and High Performance Applications with Limited Energy Resources
Karol Niewiadomski and Dietmar Tutsch
keywords: Tristate buffer; Battery lifetime; Power reduction; Leakage suppression; Output impedance