Abstract: A system that includes a first device and a second device. The first device is configured to send correlithm objects having a first bit having a first bit string length and to send a test correlithm object having the first bit string length to the second device. The second device is configured to receive the test correlithm object, to determine a distance between the test correlithm object and a reference correlithm object, and to send the switch command to the first device in response to determining the distance between the test correlithm object and the reference correlithm object exceeds a distance threshold value. The first device is further configured to receive a switch command, and to send correlithm objects having a second bit string length that is greater than the first bit string length to the second device in response to receiving the switch command.

Abstract: Managing oilfield operations include obtaining a subsurface model including a fracture design model having an fracture property with an uncertain value. A set of representative values that represent uncertainty in the fracture property is obtained and used to solve an oilfield optimization problem with a control variable to obtain a solution. The solution includes an optimal value for the control variable. Based on the solution, an oilfield design is generated and stored.

Abstract: Prediction methods and systems including a central processing unit including a data acquisition unit configured to acquire experimental data of a parameter characterizing the time-dependent phenomenon, a data acquisition unit configured to acquire digital data of the parameter characterizing the phenomenon, and a data processing unit configured to combine the experimental data and the digital data, by using a proper orthogonal decomposition POD that makes it possible to obtain an effective prediction of the time-dependent phenomenon, combining the advantages of the experimental data (accuracy) and those of the digital data (spatial resolution).

Abstract: Systems or methods for anatomy warping a garment are provided. Anatomy warping is any deliberate manipulation of a garment's seams, pockets, and/or other construction lines and/or details in order to change the perceived shape of a wearer of the garment toward a desired appearance. Additionally, the garments that result from use of these systems and methods for anatomy warping are also provided.

Abstract: A method for the simulation of a telecommunications network, starting from a series t of test scenarios, each test scenario including at least one base station, from a series s of sets of parameters of a simulation scheduler including: A/ for each test scenario tk: a/ producing an emulation of the test scenario tk utilizing all the base stations of the test scenario, a base station of the network of the test scenario tk, to obtain a series Ietk of indicators, b/ for each set of scheduling parameters sj of the series of sets of parameters s, producing a simulation of the test tk by the simulation scheduler with the set of parameter s j, to obtain a series Isjtk of indicators, B/ calibrating the scheduling parameters so of the scheduler with the set of parameters sjmin which minimizes the overall error, obtained from the indicators obtained by emulation and simulation.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a computer accessible storage medium stores a plurality of instructions which, when executed: group a set of reconstructed three dimensional (3D) points derived from image data into a plurality of groups based on one or more attributes of the 3D points; select one or more groups from the plurality of groups; and sample data from the selected groups, wherein the sampled data is input to a consensus estimator to generate a model that describes a 3D model of a scene captured by the image data. Other embodiments may bias sampling into a consensus estimator for any data set, based on relative quality of the data set.

Abstract: A method for generating a simulation model to evaluate a flight control system including determining at least one high level requirement for an aircraft flight system during a non-automated engineering process; generating at least one specification of the high level requirement; generating a model computer-readable program code based on the at least one specification; executing the model computer-readable program code to generate a model code unit; executing the model code unit to generate a procedure document; executing the model code unit to perform a simulation method to generate a bench test computer-readable program code: executing the bench test computer-readable program code on a bench test computing device to generate a simulation output; and comparing the simulation output to the at least one specification of the high level requirement to generate a pass or fail result.

Abstract: A method for selecting drilling parameters for drilling a borehole penetrating the earth with a drill string includes: varying a frequency of an excitation force applied to the drill string using an excitation device controlled by a drill string controller and measuring vibration-related amplitudes of the drill string due to the applied excitation force using a vibration sensor to provide amplitude measurements. The method further includes determining one or more modal properties comprising one or more eigenfrequencies of the drill string using the amplitude measurements and selecting drilling parameters that apply an excitation force at a frequency that avoids a selected range of frequencies that bound the one or more eigenfrequencies.

Abstract: An abnormality of a system is caused by a failure or aged deterioration is determined. A monitoring apparatus includes a model storage unit, a model generation unit, and a determination unit. The model storage unit stores a monitoring model that is a model for one point in time. The model indicates a relationship among a plurality of metrics of a system. The model generation unit generates a comparison model that is the model for a point in time at which the relationship among the plurality of metrics does not conform to the monitoring model. The determination unit determines that the relationship among metrics in the system has changed in a case where the comparison model indicates the relationship among metrics among which the monitoring model indicates the relationship, and outputs a result of the determination.

Abstract: Systems and methods for designing and customizing tangible products are disclosed. Examples may include apparel, such as footwear, shirts, or sporting goods, athletic equipment and/or electronic devices, including but not limited to activity monitoring devices or media devices. Aspects relate to customizing products based on visual and tactile properties of the materials to be utilized in the design and construction of the product. Both the visual and tactile property selections may be displayed to the consumer to on an exemplary graphical representation of the product. Embodiments allow a user to select and review both visual and tactile properties of the product, thus the consumer is able to visualize and touch the materials of a customized product.

Abstract: A digital emulation of an analog device with tolerance modeling is disclosed. In operation, a model of an analog circuit is provided. The model includes the location of each individual element in the analog circuit. The model also includes a working value for each individual element as well as a tolerance range for each individual element. A randomized working value is then generated for one or more of each individual element based on the tolerance range and the working value. A digital emulation of the analog circuit is performed. The digital emulation uses the randomized working value for one or more of the each individual element and the working value for any remaining of each individual element. The digital emulation is then provided to a user for use in a digital environment.

Abstract: A set of reservoir production results are obtained by simulation of hydrocarbons flow in a heterogeneous reservoir based on the values of heterogeneity blocks transport matrices. The transport matrices of the heterogeneity blocks are calculated from a reservoir block hierarchy. The simulation is initiated by a set of foundation blocks transport matrices calculated by evaluating a fluid transport law in the blocks being in the lowest rank of the hierarchy.

Abstract: A system and method for characterizing subsurface hydrocarbon reservoirs, such as through fault modeling in low order continuous scale simulation of real world subsurface hydrocarbon reservoirs having discontinuities and improving an accuracy and speed of the characterizations.

Abstract: A method includes positioning a downhole acquisition tool in a well-logging device in a wellbore in a geological formation, where the wellbore or the geological formation, or both contain a reservoir fluid. The method includes performing downhole fluid analysis using a downhole acquisition tool in the wellbore to determine a plurality of fluid properties associated with the reservoir fluid. The method includes generating a nonlinear predictive control model representative of the plurality of fluid properties based at least in part on the downhole fluid analysis. The method includes adjusting the nonlinear predictive control model based at least in part on an output representative of a pump flow control sequence at a first time interval and the plurality of fluid properties.

Abstract: A system and method is provided for restoring a 3D tomographic model of the Earth's subsurface geology from the present-day to a past restoration time. Whereas at the present time all faults represent active discontinuities, at a past restoration time some faults have not yet formed. Accordingly, the restored model divides the fault network into ?-active faults (discontinuous surfaces for faults that intersect the layer deposited at the past restoration time) and ?-inactive faults (continuous surfaces for faults that do not intersect the layer deposited at the past restoration time). A new 3D restoration transformation is also provided that uses linear geological constraints to process the restoration model in less time and generate more accurate geological images.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for updating a physical properties model of a subsurface region in an iterative inversion of seismic data using a gradient of a cost function that compares the seismic data to model-simulated data, said method comprising: obtaining a contrast model of a subsurface physical parameter that is sensitive to data dynamics and a kinematic model of a subsurface physical parameter; determining a gradient of a cost function using the contrast model and the kinematic model, wherein the cost function compares seismic data to model-simulated data; updating the kinematic model using a search direction derived from the gradient; adapting the contrast model according to an update to the kinematic model performed in the updating step; iteratively repeating the determining, updating, and adapting steps until a predetermined stopping criteria is reached, and generating a subsurface image from a finally updated kinematic model; and using the subsurface image to prospect for hydrocarbons.

Abstract: User interface systems and methods for roof estimation are described. Example embodiments include a roof estimation system that provides a user interface configured to facilitate roof model generation based on one or more aerial images of a building roof. In one embodiment, roof model generation includes image registration, image lean correction, roof section pitch determination, wire frame model construction, and/or roof model review. The described user interface provides user interface controls that may be manipulated by an operator to perform at least some of the functions of roof model generation. In one embodiment, the user interface provides user interface controls that facilitate the determination of pitch of one or more sections of a building roof. This abstract is provided to comply with rules requiring an abstract, and it is submitted with the intention that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims.

Abstract: A method of verifying and analyzing energy efficiency ratio (EER) of an HVAC chiller unit in accordance with the present invention provides verification and analysis of HVAC chiller units to build daily steady-state data and non-steady state data out of field dynamic EER values and provides analysis of the steady-state data, based on selected integer temperatures and tenfold load factors in the annual scale that are subject to the dynamic changes in temperatures and load factors along with chiller seasonal operation to build monthly or seasonal running EER trend, and to determine-management index values for a period of time and to determine whether energy consumption meets specified criteria, as a basis of comparison of calculations, and resulting amplitude ratios between before and after the energy-saving improvement and of totally saved energy.

Abstract: The invention is a method for exploitation of a sedimentary basin containing hydrocarbons, including optimized scaling of the geological model. Based on categorical property measurements, a first meshed representation of a formation is constructed reflecting the categorical property measurements. At least one second meshed representation having a lower resolution is constructed by assigning a categorical property value to each mesh of the second representation corresponding to a group of meshes of the first representation and storing parameters for changing from the second representation to the first representation with those change parameters enabling reconstitution of the first representation.

Abstract: A three-dimensional (3D) modeling application is configured to generate a graphical user interface (GUI) that notifies a user whether a 3D model represents a stable, marginally stable, or unstable object. The 3D modeling application includes a stability module that determines the stability of the object based upon the 3D model. Advantageously, the user may ensure that an object will be stable, before printing the object with a 3D printer.