Bandwidth allocation based on real time calculations using the convolution approach

This paper focuses on one of the methods for bandwidth allocation in an ATM network: the convolution approach. The convolution approach permits an accurate study of the system load in statistical terms by accumulated calculations, since probabilistic results of the bandwidth allocation can be obtained. Nevertheless, the convolution approach has a high cost in terms of calculation and storage requirements. This aspect makes real-time calculations difficult, so many authors do not consider this approach. With the aim of reducing the cost we propose to use the multinomial distribution function: the enhanced convolution approach (ECA). This permits direct computation of the associated probabilities of the instantaneous bandwidth requirements and makes a simple deconvolution process possible. The ECA is used in connection acceptance control, and some results are presented

The Coherence of the European Foreign Policy: A Real Barrier or an Academic Term?

The purpose of the present study is to break down, in a general and summarised way, the concept of the coherence of the European Foreign Policy, in order to analyse its meaning, its scope and its implications. This focus on coherence will be specifically dealt with upon the analysis of the impact of this phenomenon on single institutional framework, as defined by the Treaty on European Union.

A distributed environment for virtual and/or real experiments for underwater robots

This paper presents the distributed environment for virtual and/or real experiments for underwater robots (DEVRE). This environment is composed of a set of processes running on a local area network composed of three sites: 1) the onboard AUV computer; 2) a surface computer used as human-machine interface (HMI); and 3) a computer used for simulating the vehicle dynamics and representing the virtual world. The HMI can be transparently linked to the real sensors and actuators dealing with a real mission. It can also be linked with virtual sensors and virtual actuators, dealing with a virtual mission. The aim of DEVRE is to assist engineers during the software development and testing in the lab prior to real experiments

Localització i control en temps real de PDA's basades en Windows Mobile mitjançant el sistema GPS

Desenvolupament d'un sistema consistent en un software per la recopilació de dades GPS per a Windows Mobile, un servidor de comunicacions, un server web i una plana web de consulta de les posicions en temps real de les PDA's.

Linux com a sistema operatiu de temps real

Avaluació de les capacitats d'assolir requeriments de temps real de la línia principal de nucli de Linux.

How did the Financial Crisis affect the Real Interest Rate Dynamics in Europe?

We investigate the effects of the financial crisis on the stationarity of real interest rates in the Euro Area. We use a new unit root test developed by Peseran et al. (2013) that allows for multiple unobserved factors in a panel set up. Our results suggest that while short-term and long-term real interest rates were stationary before the financial crisis, they became nonstationary during the crisis period likely due to persistent risk that characterized financial markets during that time. JEL codes: E43, C23. Keywords: Real interest rates, Euro Area, financial crisis, panel unit root tests, cross-sectional dependence.

Probabilistically analysable real-time systems (PROARTIS)

Critical real-time ebedded (CRTE) Systems require safe and tight worst-case execution time (WCET) estimations to provide required safety levels and keep costs low. However, CRTE Systems require increasing performance to satisfy performance needs of existing and new features. Such performance can be only achieved by means of more agressive hardware architectures, which are much harder to analyze from a WCET perspective. The main features considered include cache memòries and multi-core processors.Thus, althoug such features provide higher performance, corrent WCET analysis methods are unable to provide tight WCET estimations. In fact, WCET estimations become worse than for simple rand less powerful hardware. The main reason is the fact that hardware behavior is deterministic but unknown and, therefore, the worst-case behavior must be assumed most of the time, leading to large WCET estimations. The purpose of this project is developing new hardware designs together with WCET analysis tools able to provide tight and safe WCET estimations. In order to do so, those pieces of hardware whose behavior is not easily analyzable due to lack of accurate information during WCET analysis will be enhanced to produce a probabilistically analyzable behavior. Thus, even if the worst-case behavior cannot be removed, its probabilty can be bounded, and hence, a safe and tight WCET can be provided for a particular safety level in line with the safety levels of the remaining components of the system. During the first year the project we have developed molt of the evaluation infraestructure as well as the techniques hardware techniques to analyze cache memories. During the second year those techniques have been evaluated, and new purely-softwar techniques have been developed.

Market rewards to patterns on increasing earnings: do cash flow patterns, accruals manipulation and real activities manipulation matter?

This study explores whether firms have differential price-earnings multiples associated with their means of achieving a sequential pattern of increasing positive earnings. Our main findings show that market participants assign higher price-earnings multiples to firms when their pattern of increasing earnings is supported by the same pattern of increasing cash flows. Market participants assign lower price-earnings multiples to firms suspect of having engaged in accrual-based earnings management, sales manipulation, and overproduction to achieve the earnings pattern. We find, however, that market participants do not penalize firms suspect of having achieved the earnings pattern through the opportunistic reduction of discretionary expenses.

The roots of success: industrial growth in Italy reconsidered, 1911- 1951

This article reconsiders the growth of Italian industry from the First World War to the eve of the economic miracle, with the aid of sector-specific new value-added series, at three different price-bases. The new estimates reduce growth during the First World War, making the Italian case comparable to the other belligerent countries, while improving the performance of the 1920s. The 1929 crisis looks more profound than before, while the recovery after 1933 is now stronger. During the 1920s and the 1930s, a significant shift from traditional to more advanced activities took place: when confronted with the rest of Europe, the interwar period was a relative success, which laid the ground for the following economic boom.

Experiències amb interacció de cos sencer generades en temps real amb entorns d’aigua virtual

L’objectiu d’aquest projecte ha estat la realització de dues aplicacions independents entre elles la interacció de les quals és a temps real i a cos sencer. En una aplicació l’usuari se li dona la possibilitat de, mitjançant el seu propi cos, transformar gotes que cauen en forma de plujavirtual en diferents flocs de neu. En la segona aplicació l’usuari pot generar onades en una superfície “aquosa”.Les dues aplicacions s’han creat amb la finalitat que puguin ser instal·lades i exposades en el centre de visitants de l’Expo2008 a Saragossa. Aquest fet ha estat fonamental per la tria de la temàtica de les aplicacions.Per assolir aquest objectiu, des del punt de vista del projectista, diferents estudis s’han hagut de portar terme. S’han realitzat estudis per tal de saber el funcionament del sistema de càmeres i del seu calibratge i de com es capta la informació referent a l’usuari. Aquestes parts són fonamentals per tal de poder gestionar bé la interacció i, sense les quals, no seria possible eldesenvolupament de les experiències. Un altre tipus d’estudi és el de la interacció, que és el que condueix l’eix principal del projecte, i el de la generació d’efectes visuals gràfics.

SIIMTA, Sistema Integrat d’Interacció de cos sencer generada en temps real i MusicoTeràpia per a persones amb discapacitats com l’Autisme

L’objectiu d’aquest Projecte Final de Carrera és el poder desenvolupar una nova eina de treball, segons el paradigme de l’interacció a cos sencer, per als terapeutes de la Fundació Tekhnikós, per a poder afavorir nous processos d’expressió, comunicació i interactivitat entre elpacient i el terapeuta en les sessions de Musicoteràpia.El Projecte tracta d’un sistema d’interacció a cos sencer per a pacients amb diferentspatologies o síndromes de conducta. Mitjançant un sistema de captura que treballa en el camp dels infrarojos, el pacient és capaç d’interactuar amb els elements de l’aplicació a través de lagesticulació. El moviment d’aquestes partícules (vegis el Glossari de termes en l’Annexe)generarà diferents sons segons posició i direcció en l’espai de la pantalla motivant al pacient a explorar el comportament el sistema de diferents maneres. Aquests estímuls sonors estan basatsen l’experiència prèvia de la Fundació amb les seves sessions de Musitoràpia, basades enl’observació de les reaccions del pacient davant estímuls sonors. Aquesta eina permetràexperimentat tot un món nou d’estímuls per al pacient, tant sonors, com visuals gràcies a la possibilitat de configuració de molts dels paràmetres del sistema. Gràcies al sistema de visió artifical s’aconsegueix una interacció màquina / pacient a cos sencer no intrusiu, molt interessant tenint en compte que l’aplicació està destinada a un gran espectre de patologies o síndromes. A més tenint en compte la tipologia general del pacient s’haoptat per una estètica molt minimalista, evitant qualsevol referència icònica per tal de no sobre estimular al pacient abans de que pugui interactuar amb el sistema.

Insider Trading and Real Investment

In this paper I analyze the effects of insider trading on real investmentand the insurance role of financial markets. There is a single entrepreneurwho, at a first stage, chooses the level of investment in a risky business.At the second stage, an asset with random payoff is issued and then the entrepreneurreceives some privileged information on the likely realization of productionreturn. At the third stage, trading occurs on the asset market, where theentrepreneur faces the aggregate demand coming from a continuum of rationaluniformed traders and some noise traders. I compare the equilibrium withinsider trading (when the entrepreneur trades on her inside information in theasset market) with the equilibrium in the same market without insider trading. Ifind that permitting insider trading tends to decrease the level of realinvestment. Moreover, the asset market is thinner and the entrepreneur's netsupply of the asset and the hedge ratio are lower, although the asset priceis more informative and volatile.