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The BRICS component model: a model-based development paradigm for complex robotics software systems
(2013)
Updating a shared data structure in a parallel program is usually done with some sort of high-level synchronization operation to ensure correctness and consistency. However, underlying synchronization instructions in a processor architecture are costly and rather limited in their scalability on larger multi-core/multi-processors systems. In this paper, we examine work queue operations where such costly atomic update operations are replaced with non-atomic modifiers (simple read+write). In this approach, we trade the exact amount of work with atomic operations against doing more and redundant work but without atomic operations and without violating the correctness of the algorithm. We show results for the application of this idea to the concrete scenario of parallel Breadth First Search (BFS) algorithms for undirected graphs on two large NUMA shared memory system with up to 64 cores.
Information reliability and automatic computation are two important aspects that are continuously pushing the Web to be more semantic. Information uploaded to the Web should be reusable and extractable automatically to other applications, platforms, etc. Several tools exist to explicitly markup Web content. The Web services may also have a positive role on the automatic processing of Web contents, especially when they act as flexible and agile agents. However, Web services themselves should be developed with semantics in mind. They should include and provide structured information to facilitate their use, reuse, composition, query, etc. In this chapter, the authors focus on evaluating state-of-the-art semantic aspects and approaches in Web services. Ultimately, this contributes to the goal of Web knowledge management, execution, and transfer.
People have dreamed of machines, which would free them from unpleasant, dull, dirty and dangerous tasks and work for them as servants, for centuries if not millennia. Service robots seem to finally let these dreams come true. But where are all these robots that eventually serve us all day long, day for day? A few service robots have entered the market: domestic and professional cleaning robots, lawnmowers, milking robots, or entertainment robots. Some of these robots look more like toys or gadgets rather than real robots. But where is the rest? This is a question, which is asked not only by customers, but also by service providers, care organizations, politicians, and funding agencies. The answer is not very satisfying. Today’s service robots have their problems operating in everyday environments. This is by far more challenging than operating an industrial robot behind a fence. There is a comprehensive list of technical and scientific problems, which still need to be solved. To advance the state of the art in service robotics towards robots, which are capable of operating in an everyday environment, was the major objective of the DESIRE project (Deutsche Service Robotik Initiative – Germany Service Robotics Initiative) funded by the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) under grant no. 01IME01A. This book offers a sample of the results achieved in DESIRE.
Open Source ERP-Systeme
(2012)
Mit Free and Open Source Software können die IT-Kosten in erheblichem Umfang gesenkt werden. Wegen ihres hohen Durchdringungsgrades in Unternehmen und des damit verbundenen Kostenblocks gilt dies insbesondere für Free and Open Source (FOS-) ERP-Systeme. Zwar sind die Verbreitung und die Akzeptanz von FOS-ERP-Systemen in den letzten Jahren schon stark angewachsen, durch eine verbesserte Markttransparenz lassen sich aber noch weitere Potenziale erschließen. Bestehende Marktübersichten für FOS-ERP-Systeme sind jedoch wenig umfassend. Vor diesem Hintergrund wurde ein Marktspiegel mit detaillierten Angaben zu den verschiedenen FOS-ERP-Systemen erstellt.
ERP systems are being used throughout the whole enterprise and are therefore responsible for a high percentage of IT expenses. The use of Free and Open Source ERP systems (FOS ERP systems) can help to reduce these IT costs. Though the acceptance of FOS ERP systems has increased enormously in the last years, even more entreprises would use FOS ERP systems to support their order processing, if the FOS ERP market was more transparent. Existing market surveys are less comprehensive. Therefore, a detailed market guide was developed.
We present our approach to extend a Virtual Reality software framework towards the use for Augmented Reality applications. Although VR and AR applications have very similar requirements in terms of abstract components (like 6DOF input, stereoscopic output, simulation engines), the requirements in terms of hardware and software vary considerably. In this article we would like to share the experience gained from adapting our VR software framework for AR applications. We will address design issues for this task. The result is a VR/AR basic software that allows us to implement interactive applications without fixing their type (VR or AR) beforehand. Switching from VR to AR is a matter of changing the configuration file of the application. We also give an example of the use of the extended framework: Augmenting the magnetic field of bar magnets in physics classes. We describe the setup of the system and the real-time calculation of the magnetic field, using a GPU.
Using virtual environment systems for road safety education requires a realistic simulation of road traffic. Current traffic simulations are either too restricted in their complexity of agent behavior or focus on aspects not important in virtual environments. More importantly, none of them are concerned with modeling misbehavior of traffic participants which is part of every-day traffic and should therefore not be neglected in this context. We present a concept for a traffic simulation that addresses the need for more realistic agent behavior with regard to road safety education. The two major components of this concept are a simulation of persistent agents which minimizes computational overhead and a model of cognitive processes of human drivers combined with psychological personality profiles to allow for individual behavior and misbehavior.
This paper compares the memory allocation of two Java virtual machines, namely Oracle Java HotSpot VM 32-bit (OJVM) and Jamaica JamaicaVM (JJVM). The basic difference of the architectures in both machines is that the JamaicaVM uses fixed-size blocks for allocating objects on the heap. The basic difference of the architectures is that the JJVM uses fixed size block allocation on the heap. This means that objects have to be split into several connected blocks if they are bigger than the specified block-size. On the other hand, for small objects a full block must be allocated. The paper contains both theoretical and experimental analysis on the memory-overhead. The theoretical analysis is based on specifications of the two virtual machines. The experimental analysis is done with a modified JVMTI Agent together with the SPECjvm2008 Benchmark.