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Real-time control system. Real-time control system may refer to:

 Real-time Control System (RCS), a reference model architecture, suitable for many software-intensive, real-time control problem domains
 Real-time Control System Software, a software system developed by NIST based on the Real-time Control System Reference Model Architecture
 4D-RCS Reference Model Architecture, an RCS application in the vehicle domain
 ISAM Framework, an RCS application in the manufacturing domain
 NASA/NBS Standard Reference Model for Telerobot Control Systems Architecture (NASREM), an RCS application in the space domain
 Control engineering, an engineering field focusing on digital control systems and real-time systems
 Embedded system, a computer system with a dedicated function within a larger mechanical or electrical system

See also 
 RCS (disambiguation)
Control system (disambiguation). A control system is a device or set of devices to manage, command, invade, record, edit, hack, direct or regulate the behavior of other devices or systems. A control mechanism is a process used by a control system.

Control system may also refer to:

General control systems
Distributed control system, where control elements are not centralized
 Fuzzy control system, a control system that analyses and manipulates continuous variables (as opposed to discrete variables)
 Hierarchical control system
 Industrial control system
 Real-time control system (disambiguation), several meanings

Specific control systems
 Kite control systems
 Lighting control system

Computer control systems
 Fire-control system, which assists a weapons system in firing speed and accuracy
 Networked control system, a hierarchical control system implemented by a computer network
 Revision Control System, which automates various processes to regulate and maintain data revisions
 Source Code Control System

Vehicle control systems
 Aircraft flight control systems, which assists pilots in flying an aircraft
 Airborne early warning and control, Systems
Cruise control, a system that maintains the speed of a vehicle
 Autonomous cruise control system, a cruise control system that uses radar or laser input to detect its surroundings
 Environmental control system (aircraft), which controls environmental factors within an aircraft
 Reaction control system of a spacecraft, assisting in attitude control and steering 
 Traction control system, which maintains the traction between a vehicle's wheels and the travelling surface

Biological control systems
Cell nucleus, the central control system in every biological cell
Regulome, the entire set of control systems within a cell
Homeostasis, the regulation and maintenance of the physical properties of an internal environment, particularly within an organism
Endocrine system, the organ system most responsible for the control of biological processes
Brain, the control system of the central nervous system and of all cognition
Gene regulation, which controls what genes are and are not transcribed or expressed

See also 
 Control System, 2012 album by Ab-Soul
 Control theory
 Controller (control theory)
 Motion control
 Regulation (disambiguation)
 Systems control
Ernesto Morgado. Ernesto M. Morgado is a Portuguese computer scientist and software entrepreneur. He has served as Associate Professor of computer science and engineering in Instituto Superior Técnico (Technical University of Lisbon) since 1992. He was one of the people behind the creation of the Computer Science and Engineering degree of Instituto Superior Técnico (Technical University of Lisbon), in 1988, and one of the founders of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering there in 1998.

Early life
Morgado earned a licentiate degree in mechanical engineering (1976) from Instituto Superior Técnico (Technical University of Lisbon) and a Master of Science in computer science (1981) and a Ph.D. in artificial intelligence (1986) from State University of New York at Buffalo.

Career

He was lecturer of computer Science in Millard Fillmore College (State University of New York at Buffalo) in 1980 and Canisius College (1981–1984).

In 1986, together with João Pavão Martins, he founded SISCOG - Sistemas Cognitivos, SA, a startup devoted to Artificial Intelligence. Together they led the company to develop and deploy software systems in railway and metro companies throughout Europe. These systems plan and manage more than 20,000 people, affect the life of millions of passengers, and have been recognized by organisations in Europe and the United States.

Morgado is also involved in the food industry.

He is president of Ernesto Morgado S.A., a rice huller company founded by his grandfather in 1920. Since 2003, he transformed the company's focus from staple foods to value-added products, namely high-quality ready meals based on rice.

He became president of FERM (Federation of European Rice Millers) at its inception in 2002, president of ANIA (Portuguese Rice Millers Association) in 1990, and vice-president of COTArroz (Portuguese Rice Chain Association) in 2004. At FIPA (Portuguese Food Industry Federation), he is currently, and for the second time, president of the board (1997–2003 and 2009) and served as vice-president of its executive committee (1990–1997) and president of the Control Council (2003–2009).

He was a member of CIP (Portuguese Industry Confederation) Council of Presidents (1990–2007).

Author 
Morgado is author/co-author of:

References

Artificial intelligence researchers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Academic staff of the University of Lisbon
Place of birth missing (living people)
University of Lisbon alumni
University at Buffalo alumni
Fiber management system. A fiber management system (FMS) manages optical fiber connections from outside of fiber rack to the fiber routers. Fiber-optic cable duct containing many fibers comes from far end sites and terminates on the FMS using splicing technology. FMS has fiber in and fiber out ports. From fiber out port the fiber patch will go to fiber optics based router.

FMS is a process by which a fiber network is managed. It tracks functions or attributes of the system such as schematic design, physical locations of assets, splice points (mechanical/fusion), and more.

Background 

Fiber management systems surfaced with fiber optic cable technology in the early 1970s. Peter Schultz, Donald Keck, and Robert Maurer developed the first optical fiber that could transmit digital data more than 65,000 times faster than coaxial cables. In April 1977, General Telephone and Electronics launched the first optical network, in Southern California. The next month, Bell launched an optical telephone system in Chicago. Since the 1970s, fiber networks have grown to service over 80% of the world’s data and voice traffic.

Modern fiber management 
Fiber optic network management is used to: 

Most organizations use software-based platforms, databases, and spreadsheets to execute these activities. With these tools, managers and installers can store data related to network components, connections, and tests that are valuable for planning future developments or troubleshooting issues as they arise. Fiber optic management systems can generate reports that describe various network data points, including cable section lengths, loss budgets, network capacity, optical loss, splice and termination locations. 

Operators can also store geospatial data and documents if GIS capabilities are available. Software-based fiber optic network management platforms with GIS features allow network managers to visualize cable routes and evaluate surrounding environments.

See also 
Broadband
Fiber to the x
GTE
Last mile
MapInfo
Municipal broadband

References

Fiber optics
Strategic Indigenous Housing and Infrastructure Program. The Strategic Indigenous Housing and Infrastructure Program (SIHIP) is a joint program between the Australian Federal Government and the Northern Territory government to design and construct housing in a range of Indigenous Australian communities in the Northern Territory. It follows on from the previous Federal government's Northern Territory National Emergency Response.

The A$647 million program proposes to construct over 750 houses and refurbish another 2,500 houses in 73 communities across the Northern Territory, as well as providing essential urban infrastructure to support the new houses. Major capital works are proposed in 16 communities, pending the establishment of long-term leases. A key focus of the program is the aim to provide jobs and training opportunities for Indigenous Australians.

The Federal Government announced in May 2009 that work under the program had started in three locations, Groote Eylandt, the Tiwi Islands and Tennant Creek. The government has announced that at least 20 per cent of the local workforce will be indigenous, with the aim of creating longer-term employment outcomes for communities. Work at Tennant Creek includes providing electricity, water, sewerage and roads to the town camps. 

The program has been criticised by indigenous leaders such as Alison Anderson and Galarrwuy Yunupingu for what they claim is excessive bureaucracy and overheads. Yunupingu said in August 2009 "I keep hearing that, two years on, not one house has been built and I see it, too. Not one house. I keep getting the complaint that all the companies are doing is consulting and consulting, getting their daily fees and disappearing again.", adding "It's a system designed to profit non-Aborigines while nothing gets done." The local federal member of parliament, Damian Hale had earlier defended the program, citing the remoteness of the areas where the houses are proposed to be built. Hale commented that "It will not be fixed in 20 months but what we can fix is have the land lease arrangements in place properly, the alliances are put in place" and stated that "[W]e're not building in Sydney or Melbourne, we're building in remote parts of Australia."

A briefing to Anderson, a Northern Territory parliamentarian, by the administrator of the program, was said to have indicated that as few as 300 houses may be built; this briefing was later described as "inaccurate". Anderson challenged the administration charge claimed by the Territory government—initially $100 million, 15 per cent of the project budget—claiming it was excessive, and was successful in pushing for cost savings of $50 million. The Chief Minister of the Northern Territory, Paul Henderson, has pledged that the program would construct the 750 houses, with construction of 55 new homes to be underway by the end of 2010.

References

Indigenous Australian politics
Indigenous Australians in the Northern Territory
Housing in Australia
Public policy in Australia
Nematicon. In optics, a nematicon is a spatial soliton in  nematic liquid crystals (NLC). The name was invented in 2003 by G. Assanto. and used thereafter   Nematicons are generated by a special type of optical nonlinearity present in NLC: the light induced reorientation of the molecular director (i.e. the average molecular orientation). This nonlinearity arises from the fact that the molecular director (i.e., the optic axis of the corresponding uniaxial) tends to align along the electric field of light. Nematicons are easy to generate (with  mW optical power or less ) because the NLC dielectric medium exhibits the following properties:

 A very large nonlinear response : the effective nonlinearity is typically eight orders of magnitude larger than that of carbon disulfide. This means that much lower optical powers are necessary to obtain the same refractive index variation (increase) or self-focusing to balance out diffraction.
 A nonlocal response : the nonlinear response is not limited to the location of the optical field. Instead the response profile is wider than the light beam. A high nonlocality allows for stable soliton propagation even in the case of two transverse dimensions. Higher or lower powers than the exact value required for a soliton to exist lead to breathing solitons.
 
 A saturable all-optical response: the director of the liquid crystal tends to align along the electric field of the light beam. For powerful beams the molecular director becomes parallel to the field and no further reorientation is possible. Response saturation also stabilizes two-dimensional solitons.

Since the reorientational optical nonlinearity of nematic liquid crystals is accompanied by an electro-optic response to  low-frequency electric fields, i.e. applied voltages, nematicons and the associated waveguides  can be steered in angle and routed in space by the application of an external bias, leading to reconfigurable interconnects.

In waveguide arrays where discrete solitons are knows to form, discrete nematicons have also been demonstrated

See also
 Soliton (optics)
 Liquid crystals

References

External links
 Spatial optical solitons in liquid crystals , a short introduction (Ghent University).

Solitons
Nonlinear optics
Liquid crystals
SimOS. SimOS was a full system simulator, developed in the Stanford University in the late nineties in the research group of Mendel Rosenblum. It was enabled to run IRIX 5.3 on MIPS, and Unix variants on Alpha.

Derivatives

SimOS-PPC

SimOS-PPC was forked from the original SimOS as IBM's internal project, running a modified AIX kernel and userland in an emulator, developed by Tom Keller and his team in the Austin lab of IBM. IBM used SimOS to facilitate development of new systems. The software used in this project is now publicly available for download for AIX 4.3 licensees.

Linux/SimOS

Linux/SimOS was "...a Linux operating system port to SimOS, which is a complete machine simulator from Stanford. The motivation for Linux/SimOS is to alleviate the limitations of SimOS, which only supports proprietary operating systems."

SimBCM

SimBCM is an open source full system simulator based on SimOS. It simulates BCM1250, a dual-core MIPS64 SOC of Broadcom. The entire source code of SimBCM is distributed under GPL. It is capable of running the Linux kernel or the NICTA::Pistachio L4 microkernel.

Similar products

Simics

The currently available commercial product, Virtutech Simics was derived from the work of the Swedish Institute of Computer Science, and was originally developed to run a full system simulation of Solaris on SPARC platform. Simics was used by IBM to help develop AIX 6.1 on a simulation of the POWER6 hardware.

RSIM

RSIM was the "Rice Simulator for ILP Multiprocessors", developed at the Rice University in the late 1990s. It was able to run on Solaris, IRIX and HP-UX. The simulator is available under the University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License agreement. The development is finished.

M5
Developed at the University of Michigan, M5 simulates Alpha and SPARC hardware, with support for other architectures in progress. [10]

Notes and references

Simulation software
EMD GP22ECO. The EMD GP22ECO is a  B-B diesel-electric locomotive rebuilt by Electro-Motive Diesel and Norfolk Southern's Juniata Shops. Initially EMD built two GP22ECO demonstrators, one based on a GP9 and one based on a GP40, but thus far all orders have been for conversions based on EMD GP40 and EMD GP40-2 series locomotives. The rebuild involves replacing the existing prime mover with an EPA Tier-II-compliant turbocharged V8 710G3A, with Electronic fuel injection. The prime mover is mated to an AR10 alternator for traction power, a CA6 alternator for control power, and a computerized control system. Applying this to a 6-axle locomotive results in a SD22ECO. Some 6-axle locomotives could alternately be converted into a SD32ECO, using a  V12 instead.

When applied to GP40 or GP40-2 series locomotives, this conversion does not alter the external appearance of the locomotive, although the conversion of the GP9-based demonstrator required extensive changes to the long hood. The GP22ECO offers customers a 'factory' upgrade of existing locomotives.

Norfolk Southern's units were rebuilt from GP38AC units. They also feature electrical, mechanical, and emissions improvements.

References

External links 

 

B-B locomotives
GP22ECO
Electro-Motive Division locomotives
Diesel–electric locomotives of the United States
EPA Tier 2-compliant locomotives of the United States
Rebuilt locomotives
Standard gauge locomotives of the United States
EMD SD22ECO. The EMD SD22ECO is a  C-C diesel-electric locomotive rebuilt by Electro-Motive Diesel.  It is, along with the GP22ECO, primarily the application of a conversion kit to an existing EMD SD40-type locomotive.  This involves replacing the existing prime mover with an EPA Tier-II-compliant turbocharged V8 710G3A-T2, with electronic fuel injection.  The prime mover is mated to an AR10 alternator for traction power, a CA6 alternator for control power, and a computerized control system. This conversion does not alter the external appearance of the locomotive. 

The Kansas City Southern Railway and Kansas City Southern de México were the only railroads to have rebuilt SD40s into SD22ECOs.

References

External links 
 Railroad Picture Archives – Photographs of the EMD SD22ECO.

C-C locomotives
SD22ECO
Electro-Motive Division locomotives
Diesel–electric locomotives of the United States
EPA Tier 2-compliant locomotives of the United States
Rebuilt locomotives
Standard gauge locomotives of the United States
Walchandnagar Industries. Walchandnagar Industries Limited (WIL) (NSE: WALCHANNAG, BSE: 507410) is a heavy engineering products and EP&C services company, based in Mumbai, India.

History
Walchandnagar Industries was founded by Walchand Hirachand Doshi in 1908.

WIL was subject to sanctions by the United States following Pokhran-II for its involvement in India's nuclear and space programs. The sanctions were dropped in 2001.

References

Manufacturing companies based in Mumbai
Engineering companies of India
Walchand Group
Indian companies established in 1908
Manufacturing companies established in 1908
Companies listed on the National Stock Exchange of India
Companies listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange
Lauren Engineers & Constructors. Lauren Engineers & Constructors is a North American Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) contractor based in Abilene, Texas. The company specializes in industrial and heavy construction projects in the power, polymers, chemicals, refining, and specialty metals markets in the U.S. and Canada. Lauren also has a strong focus and expertise in the renewable green energy industry and was the EPC contractor for both Nevada Solar One and Florida Power & Light’s 75 MW Martin Next Generation Solar Energy Center. The company is an Engineering News-Record Top 100 Design-Build Firm in the U.S. and a Top 400 Contractor.

The company has regional offices in Irving, Texas; Houston, Texas; Atlanta, Georgia; Knoxville, Tennessee; and Canadian subsidiary offices in Calgary, Vancouver, and Montreal. Fabrication operations are located in Abilene, Texas and Tulsa, Oklahoma. Lauren is licensed as a contractor in 39 states. The corporate motto is “Designing & Building Success.”

History
Founded in Atlanta, Georgia in 1984, Lauren Engineers & Constructors started as a small specialty non-union contractor and subsidiary of Comstock Mechanical. In the 25-years since its founding, the company has become independent and privately owned while growing into a fully integrated provider of professional engineering and construction services. The company’s development has occurred through both internal growth and corporate acquisitions, including companies such as Brock and Blevins (Chattanooga, TN), Commercial Welding Company (South Portland, ME), PCI Engineering (Houston, TX), Kamtech and Kamtech Services, and Tippett & Gee (Abilene, TX).

In 1994, Lauren relocated its headquarters from Atlanta, Georgia to Abilene, Texas, taking up residence in the historic Park Office Building built in 1922. Three years later, the company’s fabrication shop was started in Abilene. The company utilizes the fabrication shop to support Lauren’s EPC projects as well as performing third party work. 
In 2007, Lauren doubled the size of the company’s headquarters by adding on to the existing building, matching the vintage exterior Neoclassical brick décor.

Alternative Energy
Lauren was the EPC contractor on the 64 MW Nevada Solar One parabolic trough project near Las Vegas, Nevada which was completed in 2007 after just 16 months of construction. This was the first utility scale CSP project to be completed in the U.S. in 16 years. Lauren was the EPC contractor on the 75 MW Martin Next Generation Solar Energy Center for Florida Power & Light. This project is also using parabolic trough technology and became operational at the end of 2010.

References

External links
 Company website
 Abilene firm at forefront of alternative energy, Abilene Reporter News, January 9, 2009

Construction and civil engineering companies of the United States
Engineering companies of the United States
Construction and civil engineering companies established in 1984
1984 establishments in Texas
Privately held companies based in Texas
Torva 15. The Torva 15  was a single-seat glider designed and built in the United Kingdom from 1970.

Development 
The Torva 15 was designed as a reasonably priced single-seat glider, with reasonable performance, suitable for club and competition flying. Two versions were designed; one with flaps,  retractable main-wheel and provision for water ballast named Sport, and one with fixed undercarriage covered by a fairing, called Sprite. Construction of the Torva 15 gliders was of glassfibre with foam filling and plywood frames ribs and reinforcement. The specially modified Wortmann aerofoil section endowed the Torva 15's with good climb performance in typical British weak thermals and reduced the stalling speed to allow easy field landings. The smooth lines of the fuselage were unbroken by the one-piece  canopy, which hinged to the side to allow easy access to the comfortable cockpit, with the tail section, integral with the rear fuselage, supporting a cruciform style tail assembly. Large airbrakes in the wings allowed for accurate landings and approach control as well as limiting the maximum speed attainable. The first flight of the Torva 15 Sport, piloted by Chris Riddell, was on 8 May 1971. The Torva company was closed before production could start and the two prototypes were acquired by Chris Riddell.

Variants 
 Torva 15 Sport – The 15m flapped aircraft with retractable undercarriage and provision for water ballast for advanced and competition flying.
 Torva 15 Sprite – The club flying version with no flaps and fixed undercarriage.

Specifications (Torva 15 Sport)

See also

References

 Taylor, J. H. (ed) (1989) Jane's Encyclopedia of Aviation. Studio Editions: London. p. 29
 Coates, Andrew. Jane's World Sailplanes & Motor Gliders new edition. London, Jane's. 1980. 

Glider aircraft
1970s British sailplanes
Sequential algorithm. In computer science, a sequential algorithm or serial algorithm is an algorithm that is executed sequentially – once through, from start to finish, without other processing executing – as opposed to concurrently or in parallel. The term is primarily used to contrast with concurrent algorithm or parallel algorithm; most standard computer algorithms are sequential algorithms, and not specifically identified as such, as sequentialness is a background assumption. Concurrency and parallelism are in general distinct concepts, but they often overlap – many distributed algorithms are both concurrent and parallel – and thus "sequential" is used to contrast with both, without distinguishing which one. If these need to be distinguished, the opposing pairs sequential/concurrent and serial/parallel may be used.

"Sequential algorithm" may also refer specifically to an algorithm for decoding a convolutional code.

See also
 Online algorithm
 Streaming algorithm

References

Algorithms