British Columbia Institute of Technology

About: British Columbia Institute of Technology is a education organization based out in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Smart grid & Belief revision. The organization has 458 authors who have published 785 publications receiving 16140 citations.

Method and device for accurately measuring the incident flux of ambient particles in a high or ultra-high vacuum environment

Abstract: An apparatus and method that can measure flux density in-situ under high vacuum conditions includes a means for confining a collection of identical, elemental sensor particles to a volume of space by initial cooling by laser or another method, then confinement in a sensor volume using externally applied magnetic and/or optical fields.

Trust-sensitive belief revision

Abstract: Belief revision is concerned with incorporating new information into a pre-existing set of beliefs. When the new information comes from another agent, we must first determine if that agent should be trusted. In this paper, we define trust as a pre-processing step before revision. We emphasize that trust in an agent is often restricted to a particular domain of expertise. We demonstrate that this form of trust can be captured by associating a state partition with each agent, then relativizing all reports to this partition before revising. We position the resulting family of trust-sensitive revision operators within the class of selective revision operators of Ferme and Hansson, and we examine its properties. In particular, we show how trust-sensitive revision is manipulable, in the sense that agents can sometimes have incentive to pass on misleading information. When multiple reporting agents are involved, we use a distance function over states to represent differing degrees of trust; this ensures that the most trusted reports will be believed.

Analysis of time synchronization based on current measurement for Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE)

Abstract: In this paper, we analyze different options to use hardware-based current measurement for time synchronization of Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) devices. The BLE devices have a specific current draw pattern based on the status of their radio. Using appropriate circuit, the changes in the current pattern can be detected. Based on this principle, we propose several different ways to tackle the time synchronization among BLE devices in a wireless network. All different schemes presented in this paper would be under the umbrella of using an electronic circuit that detects and analyzes the current consumption pattern. The result of our experiments demonstrates that the proposed methods can be used as a means of time synchronization in BLE platform.