THE DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF EXPERIMENTS. By Oscar Kempthorne. New York, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1952. 631 pp. $8.50. This book by a teacher of statistics (as well as a consultant for \"experimenters\") is a comprehensive study of the philosophical background for the statistical design of experiment. It is necessary to have some facility with algebraic notation and manipulation to be able to use the volume intelligently. The problems are presented from the theoretical point of view, without such practical examples as would be helpful for those not acquainted with mathematics. The mathematical justification for the techniques is given. As a somewhat advanced treatment of the design and analysis of experiments, this volume will be interesting and helpful for many who approach statistics theoretically as well as practically. With emphasis on the \"why,\" and with description given broadly, the author relates the subject matter to the general theory of statistics and to the general problem of experimental inference. MARGARET J. ROBERTSON

The Design and Analysis of Experiments

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Using Mpi Portable Parallel Programming With The Message Passing Interface

More particularly, calculations are developed and examined to reduce the entire quantity of Wireless access points as well as their locations in almost any given atmosphere while with the throughput needs and the necessity to ensure every place in the area can achieve a minimum of k APs. This paper concentrates on using Wireless for interacting with and localizing the robot. We've carried out thorough studies of Wireless signal propagation qualities both in indoor and outside conditions, which forms the foundation for Wireless AP deployment and communication to be able to augment how human operators communicate with this atmosphere, a mobile automatic platform is developed. Gas and oil refineries could be a harmful atmosphere for various reasons, including heat, toxic gasses, and unpredicted catastrophic failures. When multiple Wireless APs are close together, there's a possible for interference. A graph-coloring heuristic can be used to find out AP funnel allocation. Additionally, Wireless fingerprinting based localization is developed. All of the calculations implemented are examined in real life situations using the robot developed and answers are promising. For example, within the gas and oil industry, during inspection, maintenance, or repair of facilities inside a refinery, people might be uncovered to seriously high temps to have a long time, to toxic gasses including methane and H2S, and also to unpredicted catastrophic failures.

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Internet of Vehicles: From Intelligent Grid to Autonomous Cars and Vehicular Clouds

It represents a universally applicable attitude and skill set everyone, not just computer scientists, would be eager to learn and use.

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Computational Thinking 計算論的思考

The high availability of multiprocessor clusters for computer science seems to be very attractive to the engineer because,at a first level, such computers aggregate high performances. Nevertheless, obtaining peak performances on irregular applications such as computer algebra problems remains a challenging problem. The delay to access memory is non uniform and the irregularity of computations requires to use scheduling algorithms in order to automatically balance the workload among the processors.This paper focuses on the runtime support implementation to exploit with great efficiency the computation resources of a multiprocessor cluster. The originality of our approach relies on the implementation of an efficient work-stealing algorithm for a macro data flow computation based on minor extension of POSIX thread interface.

KAAPI: A thread scheduling runtime system for data flow computations on cluster of multi-processors

In order to achieve practical efficient execution on a parallel architecture, a knowledge of the data dependencies related to the application appears as the key point for building an efficient schedule. By restricting accesses in shared memory, we show that such a data dependency graph can be computed on-line on a distributed architecture. The overhead introduced is bounded with respect to the parallelism expressed by the user: each basic computation corresponds to a user-defined task, each data-dependency to a user-defined data structure. We introduce a language named Athapascan-1 that allows to build a graph of dependencies from a strong typing of shared memory accesses. We detail compilation and implementation of the language. Besides, the performance of a code (parallel time, communication and arithmetic works, memory space) are defined from a cost model without the need of a machine model. We exhibit efficient scheduling with respect to these costs on theoretical machine models.

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Athapascan-1: On-line building data flow graph in a parallel language

ISAM is a proposal directed to supporting physical and logical mobility, context-awareness, dynamic adaptation and the execution of large-scale distributed applications. In order to achieve its goals, ISAM uses, as strategy, an integrated environment that provides: a a programming language; b an execution environment; c a context recognition server. The integration is accomplished through an adaptation process that uses a multilevel collaborative model, in which both the system and the application contribute for that. In this paper we discuss the main components used to implement the ISAM features, and we also present a distributed application that explores some of this features.

Towards Merging Context-Aware, Mobile and Grid Computing

ISAM, Joining Context-Awareness and Mobility to Building Pervasive Applications.

The dynamic, multi-organization nature of large-scale grid computing introduces security issues that must be addressed before grid systems can become widely popular. This paper proposes P2PSLF (Peer-to-Peer Security Layer Framework), a flexible security framework for peer-to-peer based grid computing. P2PSLF provides a wide range of security mechanisms (e.g., authentication, confidentiality, integrity, authorization, and audit), and allows the creation of new ones. It is independent of the overlying application, which enables new systems to be implemented without having to deal with security issues within the application. In addition, the framework is modular and reconfigurable. The set of security requirements to be satisfied in communications is determined per peer, and can be changed without recompiling the application. The framework is exercised using OurGrid, a P2P-based middleware that enables the creation of a multi-organization grid computing environment for the execution of bag-of-tasks applications.

Towards a flexible security framework for peer-to-peer based grid computing

Applications of the cellular Potts model to investigate cellular structures are becoming widely spread in the scientific literature. Despite its realism and generality, the standard Monte Carlo algorithm used to evolve this model in the scientific literature lacks computational efficiency. As an alternative we introduce the Random Walker algorithm that is a modified Monte Carlo procedure of simpler parallelization. We test it in cell sorting and foam coarsening simulations obtaining velocity increase factors of 10 and 3 times, respectively, in relation to the standard algorithm. The results obtained with these simulations are equivalent to those obtained with the standard algorithm.

Gerson Geraldo H. Cavalheiro

Papers

Athapascan-1: On-line building data flow graph in a parallel language

Towards Merging Context-Aware, Mobile and Grid Computing

ISAM, Joining Context-Awareness and Mobility to Building Pervasive Applications.

Towards a flexible security framework for peer-to-peer based grid computing

An efficient parallel algorithm to evolve simulations of the cellular potts model