Abstract:
A hierarchal view preserving relationships between data is generated by storing information related to sales and investment. The information includes dimensions and each of the dimensions includes a level and each of the levels is described by variables. Relationships between the variables are also stored. A request for a hierarchy is received. The requested hierarchy includes a set of dimensions from the stored dimensions, a level for each dimension in the set, and a sequence of the dimensions or levels in the hierarchy. A computer system calculates values for the variables in the levels for the requested hierarchy using the stored relationships that are applicable to the variables in the levels. A view of the hierarchy is generated and includes the calculated values. The view also includes the dimensions or levels of the requested hierarchy in the sequence specified for the requested hierarchy.
Abstract:
A method for symbolic model checking for sequential systems using a combination of state-based and state-less approaches. A state-based method is used to compute frontier states by building transition relations on-the-fly using control flow information of the system, and performing successive image computations until a memory bound is reached, and efficiently storing only the new frontier states as disjunctive partitions of Boolean and Arithmetic expressions. A stateless method is used to check reachability of given goal states from a heuristically chosen set of frontier states until depth/time bound is reached. These two methods are alternated until one of the following occurs: all frontier states are explored, all goal states are reached, all computing resources are exhausted. Even though we do not store the entire reachable state set, we guarantee a complete coverage for terminating programs without the need to compute a fixed-point.
Abstract:
A method and device for image guided dynamic radiation treatment of prostate cancer and other pelvic lesions including: 1) a unique fan geometry of radiation sources; 2) a special collimation method and apparatus to sculpt the radiation borders; 3) an integrated three-dimensional imager and a special tissue interface imaging system to locate and track critical boundaries in real-time; 4) a dynamic patient support system, which is shared by the said imager and the irradiation system; and 5) motorized custom shielding filters to further protect neighboring normal tissues such as the kidneys and femoral heads. The fan geometry utilizes a plural number of radiation sources arranged specifically for irradiating tumors in the human pelvis while not harming critical structures, and the collimation sculpts the radiation borders using motorized shields for different sensitive structures. This allows high doses of radiation to be delivered to lesions within the human pelvis, such as the prostate, while sparing its surrounding structures, such as the rectum and bladder, as well as the urethra that is contained inside the prostate.
Abstract:
Salience-preserving image fusion is described. In one aspect, multi-channel images are fused into a single image. The fusing operations are based on importance-weighted gradients. The importance weighted gradients are measured using respective salience maps for each channel in the multi-channel images.
Abstract:
A system and method for verifying a composition of interacting services in a distributed system includes generating a concurrent process graph (CPG) for processes in a system and symbolically encoding the CPG of each process to perform a reachability analysis. Symbolic summaries are generated for concurrently running processes based on the reachability analysis. Modular verification is conducted by utilizing the symbolic summaries of the processes to verify a system of interrelated processes.
Abstract:
A cryocooler for liquefying gas in which the neck of the dewar or cryostat includes a cold end of a cryocooler with the first stage cooling station, the first stage regenerator, the second stage cooling station, the second stage regenerator, and a condenser thermally coupled to the second cooling station. Radiation baffles are also present within the neck portion of the dewar between the storage portion for the dewar and the condenser, such that when the cryocooler is turned off, the radiation baffles reduce heat radiation on the cryogen in the storage section of the dewar.
Abstract:
A system and method for conducting symbolic partial order reduction for concurrent systems includes determining a guarded independence relation which includes transitions from different threads that are independent for a set of states, when a condition or predicate holds. Partial order reduction is performed using the guarded independence relation to permit automatic pruning of redundant thread interleavings when the guarded independence condition holds.
Abstract:
Progressive cut interactive object segmentation is described. In one implementation, a system analyzes strokes input by the user during iterative image segmentation in order to model the user's intention for refining segmentation. In the user intention model, the color of each stroke indicates the user's expectation of pixel label change to foreground or background, the location of the stroke indicates the user's region of interest, and the position of the stroke relative to a previous segmentation boundary indicates a segmentation error that the user intends to refine. Overexpansion of pixel label change is controlled by penalizing change outside the user's region of interest while overshrinkage is controlled by modeling the image as an eroded graph. In each iteration, energy consisting of a color term, a contrast term, and a user intention term is minimized to obtain a segmentation map.
Abstract:
A symbolic disjunctive image computation method for software models which exploits a number of characteristics unique to software models. More particularly, and according to our inventive method, the entire software model is decomposed into a disjunctive set of submodules and a separate set of transition relations are constructed. An image/reachability analysis is performed wherein an original image computation is divided into a set of image computation steps that may be performed on individual submodules, independently from any others. Advantageously, our inventive method exploits variable locality during the decomposition of the original model into the submodules. By formulating this decomposition as a multi-way hypergraph partition problem, we advantageously produce a small set of submodules while simultaneously minimizing the number of live variable in each individual submodule. Our inventive method produces a set of disjunctive transition relations directly from the software model, without producing a conjunctive transition relation—as is necessary in the prior art. In addition, our inventive method exploits the exclusive use of live variables in addition to novel search strategies which provide still further benefit to our method.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to the protected intermediates and the deprotected products of P6A, related to the protected pseudopeptides introducing the protected intermediateds of P6A to 3S-(2-Boc)-1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-β-carboline-3-carboxylic acid and the deprotected pseudopeptides, related to the protected pseudopeptides introducing the protected intermediateds of P6A to 3S-1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-β-carboline-3-carboxylic acid benzyl ester, related to the methods for their preparation, and related to their use as the thrombolytic agents.