Abstract: In one embodiment, the invention comprises: defining a first volume in a layer of a semiconductor device; calculating a probability of finding at least one dopant atom in the first volume, based on a dopant distribution of the layer; in the case that the calculated probability is equal to or greater than a pre-determined threshold, defining at least one additional volume in the layer substantially equal to the first volume; and in the case that the calculated probability is less than the pre-determined threshold: aggregating the first volume with a second volume adjacent the first volume, the second volume being substantially equal to the first volume; and recalculating a probability of finding at least one dopant atom in the aggregated first and second volumes, based on the dopant distribution of the layer.

Abstract: A method provides modeling a DUT and generating a simulated response. The method includes receiving a first portion of a stimulus signal generated by a signal generator, a second portion of the stimulus signal being input to the DUT; receiving a response signal output by the DUT in response to a second portion of the stimulus signal; digitizing the received first portion and the received response signal; correcting the digitized signals; measuring training input series data of the digitized first portion of the stimulus signal and training output series data of the digitized response signal; and utilizing kernel adaptive filtering for extracting a device model from the training input and output series data, and for generating simulated responses of the DUT to subsequent stimulus inputs, respectively. The kernel adaptive filtering may include a kernel least mean squares algorithm, a kernel Affine projection algorithm or a recursive least squares algorithm.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention generally relate to the modeling of building occupant behavior. An embodiment of the present invention relates to a method for generating interdependent schedules in an occupant simulation model. Within schedules generated in accordance with the present invention may be included activities that require the attendance of other occupants. Disclosed are methods for distributing multi-occupant activities among other occupants of a building. In another embodiment of the present invention, personas are used to generate simulated occupant schedules from a limited number of real-world occupant surveys. Characteristics of the real-world schedules are manipulated so as to fit desired characteristics. Multiple persona models are disclosed.

Abstract: A simulation environment benchmarks processors to determine processor performance. A benchmark program is instrumented with a microarchitecture instruction. A first clock cycle indicative of a processor before executing the benchmark program is captured. The benchmark program is executed and a processor return related to the microarchitecture instruction is intercepted. In response to the processor return, a second clock cycle indicative of the processor after executing the benchmark program is captured. The simulation environment determines the performance of the processor from the first clock cycle and the second clock cycle.

Abstract: A method can include providing compressional and shear-wave slowness data for a homogeneous, anisotropic formation at deviated borehole angles greater than 40 degrees and less than 90 degrees as defined by a vertical transverse isotropy (VTI) symmetry axis; providing a relationship for normal and tangential compliances (e.g., BN and BT); and, based on the data and the relationship, outputting a model for calculating anisotropy parameter values (e.g., ?0, ?, .?) that characterize the homogeneous, anisotropic formation (e.g., along a borehole angle of 90 degrees). Various other apparatuses, systems, methods, etc., are also disclosed.

Abstract: Methods and systems for PS-CAR photoresist simulation are described. In an embodiment, a method includes determining by simulation at least one process parameter of a lithography process using a radiation-sensitive material. In such an embodiment, the radiation-sensitive material includes: a first light wavelength activation threshold that controls the generation of acid to a first acid concentration in the radiation-sensitive material and controls generation of photosensitizer molecules in the radiation-sensitive material, and a second light wavelength activation threshold that can excite the photosensitizer molecules in the radiation-sensitive material that results in the acid comprising a second acid concentration that is greater than the first acid concentration, the second light wavelength being different from the first light wavelength. In such an embodiment, the method also includes performing a lithography process using the previously-determined at least one process parameter.

Abstract: A simulation environment benchmarks processors to determine processor performance. A benchmark program is instrumented with a microarchitecture instruction. A first clock cycle indicative of a processor before executing the benchmark program is captured. The benchmark program is executed and a processor return related to the microarchitecture instruction is intercepted. In response to the processor return, a second clock cycle indicative of the processor after executing the benchmark program is captured. The simulation environment determines the performance of the processor from the first clock cycle and the second clock cycle.

Abstract: Techniques involving modeling and analysis of operational metrics in transportation industries are disclosed. Representative methods involve defining a set of fuel consumption performance factors having a potential to impact vehicle fuel economy. Fuel consumption performance factors are received, and categorical variables are identified from at least a subset of the fuel consumption performance factors to create one or more categorical groupings. The fuel consumption performance factors associated with at least one of the categorical groupings are processed to identify a hypothetical maximum fuel economy or “baseline” for the at least one of the categorical groupings, and to identify fuel economy deduction coefficients based on the fuel consumption performance factors that adversely impact the hypothetical maximum fuel economy.

Abstract: Techniques are provided for automatic combination of sub-process simulation results with dataset selection based on a fitness under one or more specific scenarios. An exemplary method comprises obtaining an execution map for each sub-process in a sequence that stores results of a given sub-process execution. The results comprise a scenario, a distribution and a distribution fitness value. In response to a user query regarding a target feature and an initial dataset, initial dataset are combined with results selected from the execution map for a first sub-process in the sequence; each available dataset from the previous sub-processes in the sequence is combined with results selected from the execution map for the next sub-process; a probability distribution function (pdf) for the target feature is composed from a combined dataset that represents a simulation of the process and combines results of each of sub-process in the sequence; and the pdf is processed to answer the user query for the target feature.

Abstract: A system for monitoring electronic circuit configured to monitor circuit parameters of an electronic circuit is provided. The system for monitoring electronic circuit includes an observing point monitoring circuit, a system control circuit, and a signal measuring circuit. The observing point monitoring circuit includes a plurality of sensor circuits arranged in an array. The sensor circuits respectively sense the circuit parameters of a plurality of observing points in the electronic circuit. The system control circuit selects at least one of the sensor circuits to sense the circuit parameters. One of the selected sensor circuits outputs a sensing signal. The signal measuring circuit receives the sensing signal and analyzes an electrical characteristic of the sensing signal to obtain a monitoring result of the circuit parameters. A method for monitoring electronic circuit is also provided.

Abstract: A method for estimating growth stage threshold values for a specific hybrid seed at a specific geo-location using historical growth stage data and observed growth stage data comprises using a server computer system, storing a historical crop growth model of one or more hybrid seeds measured from one or more fields over a particular period of time. The historical crop growth model includes growth stage threshold estimates for one or more hybrid seeds. The server computer system receives, via a network, one or more digital measurement values specifying one or more observed growth stage values for a particular hybrid seed at a particular field over a particular period of time. The server computer system transforms the growth stage thresholds into growth stage duration values for the historical crop data and the observed crop data.

Abstract: A method for shale fracturing includes determining dynamic-elastic properties of a shale deposit in a geological formation. A training database is generated by three-dimensional fracture modeling. A neural network is generated in response to output results of the training database. The shale fracturing may then be performed based on the neural network.

Abstract: A method for selecting a bottomhole assembly, including performing a first dynamic simulation of a first bottomhole assembly, performing at least a second dynamic simulation of the first bottomhole assembly, in which the at least a second dynamic simulation includes a different constraint than the first dynamic simulation, and outputting results for both the first dynamic simulation and the second dynamic simulation, in which the results include at least one output showing performance as a function of position along the bottomhole assembly.

Abstract: Systems and methods of determining a global model are provided. In particular, one or more local updates can be received from a plurality of user devices. Each local update can be determined by the respective user device based at least in part on one or more data examples stored on the user device. The one or more data examples stored on the plurality of user devices are distributed on an uneven basis, such that no user device includes a representative sample of the overall distribution of data examples. The local updates can then be aggregated to determine a global model.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for the controlled determination of channel waves on the basis of a model comprising at least one minimum limit distance being associated with a representation. The method comprises a determination of a first trajectory and a first dress-up, the latter being tangent internally to a polar form centered on the well and with the said minimum limit distance as radius. A minimum exclusion zone is then determined as a function of said point of minimum tangency and a second trajectory and a second dress-up are determined in such a way that this second dress-up does not cross the minimum exclusion area. The determination of the second trajectory is repeated if the intersection between the representation of the well and the union of the trajectories determined is empty.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a device and a method for calculating stability and predicting an error of a power system network, the device comprising: a standard object information reception unit for receiving standard object information provided by a power system network; a connection state stability calculation unit for calculating connection state stability (Sstate) using the standard object information; a connection time stability calculation unit for calculating connection time stability (Stime) using the standard object information; a network connection stability calculation unit for calculating a final network connection stability using the network connection state stability (Sstate) and the connection time stability (Stime); and an error prediction information display unit for displaying error prediction information including at least one of network path information, a network state value, the final network connection stability, the connection state stability (Sstate), and the connection time stab

Abstract: A method for modeling an offset portion of a blade of a non-ducted propeller is provided. The method includes: parametrizing a C1-class curve representing a deformation of the blade characterizing the offset, according to a position along a section at a given height in the blade, the curve intersecting consecutively through a first bend control point, a central control point, and a second bend control point, the first and second bend control points defining the extent of the blade section, the parametrization being implemented according to a first deformation parameter defining the abscissa of the central control point, a second parameter of deformation defining the ordinate of the second bend point, and a third deformation parameter defining the angle of the tangent to the curve at the second bend control point; optimizing one of the deformation parameters; and plotting the values of the optimized parameters on an interface.

Abstract: The present invention is a computer apparatus for creating an environmental impact model. The apparatus includes emission objects representing single or compound emissions. These objects include emission properties and processing function for updating these properties, and a species impact model which represents the impact of an emission on a species. The model includes value pairs of a quantified species impact value linked to an emissions concentration value. A computer system includes the emission objects on a server, a data interface for receiving emission properties, and an instantiation processor for creating more objects. Extrapolation and update processors allow statistical extrapolation of value pairs and updating emission properties.

Abstract: A system and method for an application of a virtual load monitoring of an aircraft to determine a component retirement time for at least one component of the aircraft is provided. The system and method includes estimating component loads from aircraft state parameters; calculating load statistics from the component loads; calculating a reliability factor; generating a component design load spectrum by applying the reliability factor to the load statistics; and calculating the component retirement time for the at least one component of the aircraft by utilizing the component design load spectrum.

Abstract: A method of modeling a tire includes providing a tire having a first tire design, rotating the tire under a vertical load, and measuring a plurality of forces at a plurality of selected conditions. The method further includes using a computer to plot the plurality of forces against the plurality of conditions, using the computer to plot a plurality of moments against the plurality of conditions, and using the computer to fit a first force curve to the plurality of plotted forces at the plurality of conditions, such that the first force curve is asymmetric. The method also includes using the computer to fit a first moment curve to the plurality of plotted moments at the plurality of conditions, evaluating the first force curve and the first moment curve, and making a second tire design based on the evaluation of the first force curve and the first moment curve.