Data processing: structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation inventions 10/06

20060241917 - System for analyzing transportation infrastructure and minimizing repair costs: A system, method, and software product analyzes transportation infrastructure that includes roadways and bridges. Condition indicators are associated with each roadway and bridge, and costs involved with first repairing each bridge and roadway at different points in time considering the condition indicators are determined and compared. Costs involved with maintaining...

20060241921 - Accelerating simulation of differential equation systems having continuous behavior: A method is taught for increasing the steady-state verification speed of analog and mixed signal design through increased simulation speed, model abstraction by probing an existing component model or actual device and formal comparison of distinct component models. The innovative method taught here incrementally generates processor instructions optimized for operating...

20060241923 - Automated systems and methods for generating statistical models: Systems and methods are disclosed for generating statistical models. Such systems and methods may utilize a database comprising data representing a plurality of variables. To generate a statistical model, a set of variables may be selected in accordance with a goal of the model. Using the database, the selected set...

20060241918 - Method of computing fir filter coefficient and program for computing same: The computer executes a first operation by a first recurrence formula, receiving a filter order (positive integer) of a universal maximally flat FIR filter, the number of zeros at z=−1 (integer equal to or more than zero), and a parameter for a group delay at z=1 (rational number). The first...

20060241922 - Method of data processing and program: The method first creates a BS database by randomly sampling experimental data items from an experimental data DB storing a plurality of experimental data items having n (n is an integer of 2 or larger) kinds of variates. It then identificates an n-dimensional sampling curve or surface model approximating a...

20060241920 - Method of reconstructing a stochastic model, representative of a porous heterogeneous medium, to improve its calibration by production data: Method of reconstructing a stochastic realization, continuous or discrete, resulting from a random function representing a numerical model, that can be representative of a porous heterogeneous medium such as an underground reservoir. It is based on identification, for a given realization, of a random function and of a set of...

20060241919 - Stabilizing solutions to output feedback pole placement problem with parameter drift and automated alerting of system parameter changes: Output feedback pole placement problems with parameter drift are solved with stabilizing solutions. Changes in system parameters trigger alerts in an automated manner. A representative method includes determining a set of solutions for an output feed pole placement problem, based on parameters of a physical system. The solutions are stable...

20060241924 - Pipeline optimizer system: One embodiment of the invention provides a method for optimizing a variety of aspects of pipeline operations by using a genetic algorithm. Generally, the genetic algorithm is used to evolve a population of feasible solutions over successive generations until a termination condition is satisfied. Each solution specifies a feasible operational...

20060241925 - Method for quickly forming a stochastic method representating the distribution of a physical variable in a heterogeneous environment by appropriate selection of a geostatistic realizations: A method having an application to production problems in reservoir engineering for quickly forming a stochastic model representative of the distribution of a physical quantity in a porous heterogeneous medium, which is calibrated in relation to dynamic data, by suitable selection of geostatistical realizations to be combined linearly. An iterative...

20060241926 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for producing theoretical mass spectral fragmentation patterns of chemical structures: Methods, systems, and computer program products for generating theoretical mass spectral fragmentation patterns of a chemical structure is provided. The method includes obtaining a description of a chemical structure and generating, from the description, a list of chemical structure information. A binary tree data structure is used to organize the...

20060241927 - System and method for signal prediction: Disclosed herein are a system and method for trend prediction of signals in a time series using a Markov model. The method includes receiving a plurality of data series and input parameters, where the input parameters include a time step parameter, preprocessing the plurality of data series according to the...

20060241928 - Load balancing by spatial partitioning of interaction centers: A method for creating a load balanced spatial partitioning of a structured, diffusing system of particles with pairwise interactions, comprises steps of: assigning a weight corresponding to a computational cost for a pair interaction of particles to a simulation space distance between the particles; performing a spatial partitioning of the...

20060241929 - Method of designing, modelling or fabricating a communications baseband stack: The present invention contemplates applying a form of emulation to the domain of communications baseband stack design, in which baseband stack resource requirements, capabilities and behaviour are modelled and described. and the resultant description input to software comprising a virtual machine layer optimised for a communications DSP in order to...

20060241930 - Simulation of a pci device's memory-mapped i/o registers: A component, system and method for simulation of a PCI device's memory-mapped I/O register(s) are provided. The PCI simulation component has an initialization component, a configuration space simulator and a memory-mapped I/O space simulator. The initialization component can claim an amount of memory by modifying the amount of memory that...

20060241931 - Automated system and method for service and cost architecture modeling of enterprise systems: An automated system and method is provided for system architects to model enterprise-wide architectures of information systems. From an initial model of a proposed system architecture, performance metrics are modeled and compared against a set of user-defined corporate and business requirements. The performance metrics include cost, quality of service and...

20060235656 - Product shape designing device: There is provided a product shape designing device capable of designing a product appropriate for an individual human body shape by considering the designing restrictions of the product and the restrictions when matching the product to a human body. The product shape designing device includes: a measurement unit (101) for...

20060235657 - System of accumulating component design experience and method thereof: The present invention discloses a system of accumulating component design experience, comprising: a user operating interface, a component database, a configuration module of design, and a modification module of design. The present invention further discloses a method of accumulating component design experience, comprising: providing a component design plan, searching and...

20060235660 - Customized processing in association with finite element analysis: A facility provides functionality for performing customized analysis on finite element models. The facility may include a finite element post processing framework, wherein the finite element post processing framework is not specific to a particular finite element model. The facility may also include an interface component configured to receive input...

20060235662 - Eliminating redundant patterns in a method using position indices of symbols to discover patterns in sequences of symbols: The present invention relates to computer-implemented methods for finding patterns in patterns in a set of k-sequences of symbols (where k≧2) and to a computer readable medium having instructions for controlling a computer system to perform the methods. Patterns of symbols common to each 2-tuple of sequences are identified. Each...

20060235659 - Fixed time step dynamical solver for interacting particle systems: The present invention is a particle position solver that allows particles to reach an end of a fixed time, time step in an invalid state and which are then pushed toward a valid state. This allows the solver to continue the simulation while the simulation results move toward a valid...

20060235663 - Method and device for checking lithography data: Devices and methods are provided that include advantages such as the ability to identify sizes, shapes and locations of frequently unwanted additional features that occur as a result of photolithographic interference. The additional feature information is obtained through use of simulation methods with reduced processing time or solving a system...

20060235658 - Pathway information display device: A spring layout system or the like is then executed to nodes (A to U in FIG. 10) and edges (e1 to e15) defined in a binary relation model database to thereby automatically draw a graph. Nodes are replaced by rings and edges are replaced by springs, and a layout...

20060235661 - Perturbing latent semantic indexing spaces: A text processing method is provided that includes the following steps. First, an abstract mathematical vector space is generated based on a collection of documents. Respective documents in the collection of documents have a representation in the abstract mathematical vector space and respective terms contained in the collection of documents...

20060235664 - Model-based capacity planning: Model-based capacity planning includes accessing a model of a planned system that includes multiple components. Relationships among the multiple components are identified based on the model of the system. Transactions to be performed by the planned system are identified along with a cost associated with each of the identified transactions....

20060235665 - Methods and systems for operating engine cycle models: A computer-implemented tool and method of operating a calculational model is provided. The method includes selecting a model from a predetermined plurality of available models, entering input data corresponding to preformatted data entry fields that are predetermined for the selected model, converting the entered input data to a predetermined format...

20060235668 - Modeling clastic reservoirs: Methods, computer programs, and information handling systems for modeling one or more reservoirs are disclosed. The method uses one or more well logs, each for a well at a location and each including one or more Relative amount of Small Size Range of the Size Spectrum of Clastic Particles (RSSRSS)...

20060235667 - Solution method and apparatus for large-scale simulation of layered formations: A targeted heterogeneous medium in the form of an underground layered formation is gridded into a layered structured grid or a layered semi-unstructured grid. The structured grid can be of the irregular corner-point-geometry grid type or the simple Cartesian grid type. The semi-unstructured grid is areally unstructured, formed by arbitrarily...

20060235666 - System and method for representing and processing and modeling subterranean surfaces: Methods and systems are disclosed for processing data used for hydrocarbon extraction from the earth. Symmetry transformation groups are identified from sampled earth structure data. A set of critical points is identified from the sampled data. Using the symmetry groups and the critical points, a plurality of subdivisions of shapes...

20060235669 - Method and system for 3d blood vessel localization: A method and apparatus are provided for modeling circulation in a living subject. The method includes the steps of developing a model for living subjects in general and correcting the model to substantially conform to the overall cerebral physiology of the living subject. The method further includes the step of...

20060235670 - Method and system for selecting therapeutic targets using molecular interaction dynamic networks: The present invention concerns the field of integrative analysis of molecular interactions in a biological system. In particular, it pertains to a method for obtaining a dynamic model of a molecular interaction network in a biological system that allows analysis of said interactions when a stimulus is applied to the...

20060235671 - Real-time virtual endoscopy: In a method of real-time 3-D visualization and navigation for interventional procedures a position is determined at which data will be acquired, and data is acquired at the position. Features are extracted from the acquired data. A model described by the extracted features is built or updated, wherein updating the...

20060235672 - Electromagnetic response model with improved high frequency stability: A model for modeling electromagnetic response in a conductor and in dielectric, a method of modeling the electromagnetic response in the conductor and dielectric and a program product therefor. Coupled supplies (delayed capacitive-current-controlled current sources or delayed inductance-voltage-controlled voltage sources) are low pass filtered in an electromagnetic model for the...

20060235673 - Radio communication network cell configuration model optimization device: A device is dedicated to optimizing configuration models of cells of a radio communication network. The optimization device comprises processor means adapted to analyze configuration data representing each model used to configure each cell of the network and any associated configuration parameter exception value(s) in order to determine analysis data...

20060235674 - Method for controlling sequential object-oriented system-simulations: In a method for controlling sequential object-oriented system-simulations, presentation of an object of a group of objects to an instance-to-class is carried out in the following manner. The instance is produced by adjusting at least one parameter in the part of a simulation program. The instances produce and treat events...

20060235675 - Preconditioning for stochastic simulation of computer system performance: Preconditioning for stochastic simulation of computer system performance is described. In an embodiment, methods taught herein include preconditioning a performance scenario that is simulated as part of a software deployment. The performance scenario specifies devices included as part of a hardware configuration supporting the software. The performance scenario can be...

20060229853 - Apparatus and method for data modeling business logic: A computer readable medium storing executable instructions to define a data modeling system include executable instructions to specify named modular semantic transformation objects that contain a function, a type and metadata. Executable instructions are used to combine modular semantic transformation objects, as permitted based on type and metadata constraints, in...

20060229854 - Computer system architecture for probabilistic modeling: A computer system for probabilistic modeling includes a display and one or more input devices. A processor may be configured to execute instructions for generating at least one view representative of a probabilistic model and providing the at least one view to the display. The instructions may also include receiving...

20060229852 - Zeta statistic process method and system: A computer-implemented method is provided for model optimization. The method may include obtaining respective distribution descriptions of a plurality of input parameters to a model and specifying respective search ranges for the plurality of input parameters. The method may also include simulating the model to determine a desired set of...

20060229855 - Method of offering wall-thickness thinning prediction information, and computer-readable recording medium storing wall-thickness thinning prediction program, and method of planning piping work plan: A wall-thickness thinning rate at a not-measured position is estimated using information having a small number of measured points. Simulation of behavior of fluid flowing inside a pipe line is performed based on wall-thickness data of pips and three-dimensional layout data of the pipe line including the pips using a...

20060229856 - Systems, devices, and methods for diffusion tractography: Certain exemplary embodiments comprise a method, which can comprise automatically causing a representation of body tissue to be rendered. The body tissue can be tracked via clusters. The clusters each can comprise a predetermined number of particles. Each particle of a particular cluster can be representative of a discreet path...

20060229860 - Efficient presentation of functional coverage results: A method for presentation of functional coverage includes representing a set of attributes of a design under test as a multi-dimensional cross-product space, which includes events corresponding to combinations of values of the attributes to be tested, the events including legal and illegal events. At least one test is run...

20060229859 - Logic design development tool and method: A logic design development tool including a converting unit configured to convert a plurality of different circuit design languages into a common intermediate format, and an executing unit configured to execute the common intermediate format so as to perform a design simulation of a circuit defined by the circuit design...

20060229857 - Method of digital simulation of image support rendering: b) the establishment, from the digital codes of the sensitometry control (26), of an initial sensitometry relationship (26) for the first digital support, the initial sensitometry relationship (26) linking the digital codes to the support's light exposure values, c) the establishment, from one target sensitometry relationship (28), corresponding to the...

20060229858 - System, method and program storage device for simulation: Sample-count feedback from bus functional models and a binary convergence algorithm are to generate optimal sampling values for an accelerator, or hardware assisted simulator. The simulator includes a bus functional model and a driver program. A software readable register maintains a count of a number of samples provided the simulator...

20060229861 - Multi-core model simulator: A high-speed multicore model simulator is realized. A multicore model simulator having a plurality of threads, and a plurality of core models executing the aforesaid plurality of threads is provided. The plurality of core models are a plurality of processor core models, each of which executes one thread, and they...

20060224367 - Inspection apparatus, aid device for creating judgement model therefor, abnormality detection device for endurance test apparatus and endurance test method: An endurance test is carried out after judgment models are created from normal data obtained from test apparatus while operating stably and presence and absence of abnormality in a target object is judged from waveform data obtained during the test and by using the created judgment models. An aid device...

20060224366 - Method and system for graphical hairstyle generation using statistical wisp model and pseudophysical approaches: A method for graphical hairstyle generation presents an interactive technique that produces static hairstyles by generating individual hair strands of the desired shape and color, subject to the presence of gravity and collisions. A variety of hairstyles can be generated by adjusting the wisp parameters while the deformation is solved...

20060224368 - Force-balanced roller-cone bits, systems, drilling methods, and design methods: Roller cone drilling wherein the bit optimization process equalizes the downforce (axial force) for the cones (as nearly as possible, subject to other design constraints). Bit performance is significantly enhanced by equalizing downforce....

20060224370 - Method system and program storage device for simulating interfacial slip in a hydraulic fracturing simulator software: A method, practiced by a Hydraulic Fracturing Simulator software, is adapted for simulating a hydraulic fracture in an Earth formation, the formation including a plurality of layers, a slip zone, which represents a debonding between adjacent layers of the Earth formation, possibly existing between the adjacent layers, the method comprising...

20060224369 - Performance prediction method for hydrocarbon recovery processes: The invention relates to a method for predicting the performance of large-scale hydrocarbon-bearing reservoir floods. One embodiment of the invention includes a method for predicting performance of a patterned flooding process in a subterranean hydrocarbon-bearing formation, said formation being penetrated by a plurality of injector wells and producer wells, comprising...

20060224371 - Information system for metabolic flux analysis using extensible markup language and operating method thereof: The present invention relates to an MFA (Metabolic Flux Analysis) information system using an XML (eXtensible Markup Language) and an operating method thereof. More specifically, the invention relates to an MFA information system and an operating method thereof, which generates, edits, stores and visualizes an MFA model feature and an...

20060224372 - Systems, methods, and media for simulation of integrated hardware and software designs: Systems, methods and media for simulation of integrated hardware and software designs are disclosed. More particularly, hardware and/or software for synchronizing cycle timers of an integrated hardware and software design are disclosed. One embodiment provides a system for simulating an integrated design. Embodiments may include one or more software components...

20060224373 - Electromagnetic solutions for full-chip analysis: A modeling method is provided that includes receiving a computational model of a structure and slicing the computational model into a plurality of circuit prints. The plurality of slices may include essential circuit prints and backfill circuit prints. Various unknowns may be eliminated between essential circuit prints of the computational...

20060224374 - Method for converting ibis model to spice behavioral model by extracting resistor and capacitor: A method for converting an IBIS (Input/output Buffer Information Specification) model to a SPICE (Simulation Program with Integrated Circuit Emphasis) behavioral model by RC (resistor/capacitor) extraction is provided. In the method, when the SPICE behavioral models of pull-up and pull-down transistors being switching components of the output IBIS model is...

20060224375 - Method for building enterprise scalability models from load test and trace test data: A method is disclosed that preparing a discrete event simulation model of a production network is provided including a client and a plurality of servers connected by a network comprising the steps of initiating a single business function trace test on the production network; gathering network from trace data from...

20060224376 - Method and system for emulation of an internetwork operating system device: A method and apparatus for emulation of IOS in a feasible and efficient manner are provided. The method includes defining a data structure to hold a data set; opening a socket connection to the device; sending instructions to return the command data for an index value; storing the returned command...

20060224377 - Rom emulator: A ROM emulator for testing basic input/output system (BIOS) includes a memory, an emulation controller, and a download interface controller, and can download various versions of BIOS from a computer. When the inventive ROM emulator is connected to a computer motherboard of a computer, it can secure the mastership of...