April 2010, Volume 10, Number 1

KOPÁČEK, L. — OLEJ, V.:
Municipal Creditworthiness Modelling by Artificial Immune Systems

DUDRIK, J. — RUŠČIN, V.:
ZVZCS PWM DC-DC Converter with Controlled Output Rectifier

TAR, J. K.:
Robust Fixed Point Transformations Based Adaptive Control of an Electrostatic Microactuator

HORVÁTH, L. — RUDAS, I. J. — BITÓ, J. F.:
Contextual Connections Among Objectives and Objects at Product Model Definition

BĚLÍK, M. — ŠKORPIL, J.:
Methodology, Measurement and Analysis of 20 kWp PV System Service Conditions

GAZDA, J. — DROTÁR, P. — KOCUR, D. — GALAJDA, P.:
Uplink Modulation Strategies in 4G Wireless Cellular Systems

ANDOGA, R. — FŐZŐ, L. — MADARÁSZ, L. — KAROĽ, T.:
Progressive Methods in the Area of Turbojet Engines’ Control Systems

MARTÍNEK, Z. — KRÁLOVCOVÁ, V.:
The Reliability Characteristic of Power Plant Unit

FURDÍK, K. — PARALIČ, J. — BABIČ, F. — BUTKA, P. — BEDNÁR, P.:
Design and Evaluation of a Web System Supporting Various Text Mining Tasks for the Purposes of Education and Research

ŠIMOŇÁK, S. — PEŤKO, I.:
PATool – A Tool for Design and Analysis of Discrete Systems Using Process Algebras with FDT Integration Support

CHOCHOL, P.:
QoS Measurement and Evaluation in Private Network of SPP Prior to VoIP Implementation

Summary:
KOPÁČEK, L. — OLEJ, V.:
Municipal Creditworthiness Modelling by Artificial Immune Systems [full paper]

Municipal creditworthiness represents a very important measure of financial stability. Banks, supervisors, and other institutions rely upon ratings of creditworthiness to produce representations of the risk, nevertheless rating agencies never disclose evaluated parameters and their weight. This implies effort of scientific community to find accurate models for prediction of municipal creditworthiness rating. In this paper we present a classification model for municipal rating based on algorithms from the branch of artificial immune systems; Immunos-1, Immunos-2, Immunos-99, CLONALG and CLONCLAS.

DUDRIK, J. — RUŠČIN, V.:
ZVZCS PWM DC-DC Converter with Controlled Output Rectifier [full paper]

A new zero-voltage zero-current switching (ZVZCS) full-bridge phase-shifted PWM converter with controlled output rectifier is presented in this paper. Zero-voltage turn-on and zero-current turn-off for all power switches of the inverter is achieved for full load range from no-load to short circuit by using new secondary energy recovery clamp and modified PWM control strategy. Moreover by adding secondary energy recovery clamp the zero-current turn-on and zero-voltage turn-off for rectifier switch is ensured. The principle of operation is explained and analysed and simulation results are presented.


TAR, J. K.:
Robust Fixed Point Transformations Based Adaptive Control of an Electrostatic Microactuator [full paper]

In this paper a potential application of a novel adaptive controller based on robust fixed point transformations of local basin of attraction in iterative learning is suggested on the basis of numerical simulation results. Its main advantage is its simplicity in comparison with the more sophisticated adaptive approaches in nonlinear control that normally are based on the application of Lyapunov functions. While the Lyapunov function based parameter tuning normally is complicated, is restricted to special models and typically is sensitive to unknown external disturbances, the here resented method needs only approximate setting of actually only two adaptive parameters and it efficiently can compensate the effects of the external perturbations. The electrostatic micro-actuators (EμAs) seem to be typical application area for this control that needs simple and fast calculations on the basis of quite approximate available model.

HORVÁTH, L. — RUDAS, I. J. — BITÓ, J. F.:
Contextual Connections Among Objectives and Objects at Product Model Definition [full paper]

During the past decade, work of engineers has moved into integrated product modeling systems at the leading industries. In order to establish high level and comprehensive support of product related engineering activities, engineering software has been concentrated in product lifecycle management (PLM) systems. Product development applies object modeling techniques where objects, their parameters, and relationships with other objects are defined for very complex products. Product model increasingly serves as a medium in communication between engineers. This great achievement requires information about the background of decisions on the objects those are received by engineers who must coordinate new decisions with earlier ones. The authors of this paper proposed a new modeling method for the definition of the above background at the definition of product objects. Moreover, definition of product objects is done by human intent based control using the background definition. The new modeling is an extension to the current product modeling in industrial PLM systems. In this paper, the main process and the related model entities are introduced, explained ad discussed. The proposed modeling called as information content based modeling relies upon model entities for human intent, engineering objective, contextual connections, and decisions. It can be fully integrated with product modeling in current industrial PLM systems.


BĚLÍK, M. — ŠKORPIL, J.
Methodology, Measurement and Analysis of 20 kWp PV System Service Conditions [full paper]

This article describes measurement methodology of large photovoltaic systems. The real data measured on 20kWp photovoltaic system installed on the faculty building in Bory and computed functionalities are displayed in the last paragraphs. Measurement records metered on this system served as input for numerical model of the PV system.


GAZDA, J. — DROTÁR, P. — KOCUR, D. — GALAJDA, P.:
Uplink Modulation Strategies in 4G Wireless Cellular Systems [full paper]

New upcoming wireless communication standards utilizing Ortogonal Frequency Division Multipexing (OFDM) provide high data rates and good signal cell coverage that makes their application extremely promising in fourthcoming years. Despite of its widely recognized benefits, sensitivity to the nonlinear amplification remains still a special issue to be solved. Recent solution to overcome this problem has been itroduced by 3GPP consortion in Release 8, where the the particular precoded OFDMA scheme, a closely related OFDMA alternative, is considered. This approach is widely recognized as a Single Carrier Frequency Division Multiplexing (SC-FDMA) and is characterized by using Discrete Fourier Transformation (DFT) for the signal spreading/despreading purposes. In this paper, we present the mutual performance evaluation of discussed techniques performing over nonlinear AWGN channels and state some significant considerations resulting from this.


ANDOGA, R. — FŐZŐ, L. — MADARÁSZ, L. — KAROĽ, T.:
Progressive Methods in the Area of Turbojet Engines’ Control Systems [full paper]

The article deals with modern concepts of control systems used in turbojet engines. We specifically aim on description of control systems using methods and concepts of artificial intelligence, which can bring a new quality in terms of operation and safety of turbojet engines’ operation. We also propose a design of intelligent control system for small turbojet engine MPM-20 within the scope of methodology of situational control together with exploration of macro and micro situations concepts.


MARTÍNEK, Z. — KRÁLOVCOVÁ, V.:
The Reliability Characteristic of Power Plant Unit [full paper]

The application of reliability theory is in a fast progress today. There are high expectances on power plant units because of its higher performance, better parameters, complex technologies, higher control level and further cooperation between devices. Experience shows that with higher performance there is a decrease of reliability demonstrated by higher blackout number, lower maintenance and decreased lifetime period of mostly used parts of device. Criteria and normative of reliability enable more precise programming of network operation, failure free time planning for aggregate and output backup, order and time of preventive inspections and selection of appropriate correctional provisions. It also enables prognosis of quantity and sort of material and other sources for recovery, normal operation and device ageing. Applications are useful for both the producer and user of power devices, who in past few years worked on a progress in practical usage of these applications. One of the most used applications are those which deals with the prediction of reliability indicator of new devices, their parts and system of unit control which are used for blackout analyses of lower output level. The final goal of this prediction is design, construction and operation of devices with wanted reliability.


FURDÍK, K. — PARALIČ, J. — BABIČ, F. — BUTKA, P. — BEDNÁR, P.:
Design and Evaluation of a Web System Supporting Various Text Mining Tasks for the Purposes of Education and Research [full paper]

This paper presents an original solution that offers necessary functionalities for design, implementation or simple evaluation of various text mining techniques based on Java library called JBOWL. This library was designed as open source API to support different phases of the whole text mining process and offers a wide range of relevant classification and clustering algorithms. JBOWL is particularly useful for enhancing existing software applications with text mining capabilities, as well as for support of practical education of text mining and its exploitation. In this paper we present two particular cases where JBOWL has been successfully integrated and tailored for specific way of exploitation. First case presents integration of JBOWL within collaborative application called KP-Lab System and the second one is a web-based system for education purposes. The proposed solution supports the whole text mining process, starting from creation of a corpus of relevant documents, application of various pre-processing methods, up to creation of text mining models in a form of classifiers and evaluation of the obtained models. The execution of different tasks in the same time is supported by task-based execution engine, which provides middleware-like transparent layer for distributed execution. Evaluation of developed solution was realized within the university course called Knowledge management. This course is organized at the Department of Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, Technical University of Košice. The paper also describes performed experiments and their results.


ŠIMOŇÁK, S. — PEŤKO, I.:
PATool – A Tool for Design and Analysis of Discrete Systems Using Process Algebras with FDT Integration Support [full paper]

This paper deals with PATool – a process algebra tool with FDT integration support. We discuss main features, used formats, principles of conversions and cooperation with other tools in order to provide a platform for the design and analysis of systems using process algebras. PATool is based on former work in the FDT integration area, which formed the basic idea and requirements to the tool. As a result, PATool currently offers a simple interface for FDT integration tools and process algebra specifications with corresponding interchange formats transformations. A typical use is demonstrated by examples.


CHOCHOL, P.:
QoS Measurement and Evaluation in Private Network of SPP Prior to VoIP Implementation [full paper]

Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) has many advantages for enterprises, chief of which its cost-effectiveness. However, to compete with traditional telecommunications technologies, the quality of speech over a VoIP connection must be comparable to or better than that of the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN). Enterprises must perform a full network assessment to discover all network impacts prior to the IP telephony deployment. This will help avoid service problems, unplanned additional costs and deployment delays of IP telephony implementations. Several objective testing methods are available to measure, monitor and analyse the speech quality of VoIP services. These include Perceptual Speech Quality Measure (PSQM). This article explains the technical principles of these methodologies, shows how they are applied in network assessment in private network prior to the IP telephony deployment by the Siemens network engineering and routing tool. This assessment verified that the solution is capable of delivering acceptable voice quality across the network from end points within all important office locations.

 

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    Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, Technical University of Košice, Slovak Republic

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    ISSN 1335-8243
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