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Pipeline Implementation of Cellular Automata for Structural Design on Message-Passing Multiprocessors
(Department of Computer Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, 2003), TR-03-28
The inherent structure of cellular automata is trivially parallelizable and can directly benefit from massively parallel machines in computationally intensive problems. This paper presents both synchronous and pipeline ...
A General Probabilistic Model of the PCR Process
(Department of Computer Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, 2004), TR-04-06
This paper rigorously derives a general probabilistic model for the PCR process; this model includes as a special case the Velikanov-Kapral model where all nucleotide reaction rates are the same. In this model the probability ...
NetEdit: A Collaborative Editor
(Department of Computer Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, 2001), TR-01-13
We present a collaborative text editor named NetEdit. NetEdit uses a replicated architecture with processing and data distributed across all clients. Due to replication, the response time for local edits is quite close to ...
Parameter Estimation for a Mathematical Model of the Cell Cycle in Frog Eggs
(Department of Computer Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, 2002-08-01), TR-02-18
Parameter values for a kinetic model of teh nuclear replication-division cycle in frog eggs are estimated by fitting solutions of the kinetic equations (nonlinear ordinary differential equations) to a suite of experimental ...
Optimization and Blending of Composite Laminates Using Genetic Algorithms with Migration
(Department of Computer Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, 2002), TR-02-04
Optimization of aircraft stiffened composite panel structures often results in manufacturing incompatibilities between adjacent panels. Using genetic algorithms to optimize local panel stacking sequences allows panel ...
Streams, Structures, Spaces, Scenarios, Societies (5S): A Formal Model for Digital Libraries
(Department of Computer Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, 2001), TR-01-12
Digital libraries (DLs) are complex information systems and therefore demand formal foundations lest development efforts diverge and interoperability suffers. In this paper, we propose the fundamental abstractions of ...
WBCSim: An Environment for Modeling Wood-Based Composites Manufacturing
(Department of Computer Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, 2002), TR-02-01
This paper describes a computing environment WBCSim that increases the productivity of wood scientists conducting research on wood-based composite materials and manufacturing processes. WBCSim integrates Fortran 90 simulation ...
Programming Environments for Multidisciplinary Grid Communities
(Department of Computer Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, 2001-07-01), TR-01-14
Rapid advances in technological infrastructure as well as the emphasis on application support systems have signaled the maturity of grid computing. Today’s grid computing environments (GCEs) extend the notion of a programming ...
Unification of Problem Solving Environment Implementation Layers with XML
(Department of Computer Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, 2005), TR-05-02
This paper describes how XML is used to unify the implementation layers of a problem solving environment WBCSim. WBCSim is a Web based simulation system designed to increase the productivity of wood scientists conducting ...
Genetic Algorithm with Memory for Optimal Design of Laminated Sandwich Composite Site Panels
(Department of Computer Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, 2002), TR-02-07
This paper is concerned with augmenting genetic algorithms (GAs) to include memory for continuous variables, and applying this to stacking sequence design of laminated sandwich composite panels that involves both discrete ...