
28th CCECE 2015: Halifax, NS, Canada
- IEEE 28th Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, CCECE 2015, Halifax, NS, Canada, May 3-6, 2015. IEEE 2015, ISBN 978-1-4799-5827-6
Session MA1: Modeling I
- Bruno Barazani, Stephan Warnat, Ted Hubbard:
Simulation and optical measurement of MEMS thermal actuator sub-micron displacements in air and water. 1-6 - S. F. Rabbi, M. Azizur Rahman:
Analysis of a radial flux hysteresis IPM motor. 7-12 - Runtao Yang, Chengjin Zhang, Rui Gao, Lina Zhang:
A machine learning approach to identify DNA replication proteins from sequence-derived features. 13-18 - Shuang Song
, Haoyong Yu
, Hongliang Ren
:
Study on mathematic magnetic field model of rectangular coils for magnetic actuation. 19-24 - Adel Aktaibi
, S. F. Rabbi, Glyn H. George
, M. Azizur Rahman:
Off-line signature evaluation for dqWPT hybrid technique based differential protection of power transformers. 25-30 - Lina Zhang, Chengjin Zhang, Rui Gao, Runtao Yang:
Incorporating g-gap dipeptide composition and position specific scoring matrix for identifying antioxidant proteins. 31-36
Session MA2: Power System Operation and Planning I
- M. Nguyen, Sami Alshareef, A. Gilani, Walid G. Morsi:
A novel feature extraction and classification algorithm based on power components using single-point monitoring for NILM. 37-40 - M. Gray, Walid G. Morsi:
Application of wavelet-based classification in non-intrusive load monitoring. 41-45 - Harmanveer Cheema, Manpreet Sidhu, Shoaib Qabil, Hamed H. Aly, Rob MacNeil:
A proposed operating plant risk profile to improve the system performance. 46-50 - M. H. El-Far, Walid G. Morsi:
Cost-effectiveness analysis of battery energy storage in distribution systems embedded with plug-in electric vehicles. 51-56 - Pegah Yazdkhasti, Chris P. Diduch:
An islanding detection method based on measuring impedance at the point of common coupling. 57-62 - Victor H. X. Torres, Breno C. Costa, Gustavo L. Horta, Henrique E. Borges, Paulo E. M. de Almeida
, Rodrigo T. N. Cardoso
:
A scalable methodology to measure power distribution networks reliability. 63-68
Session MA3: Optimization
- Anirban Sengupta, Reza Sedaghat:
Exploration of optimal multi-cycle transient fault secured datapath during high level synthesis based on user area-delay budget. 69-74 - Pallabi Sarkar, Anirban Sengupta, Mrinal Kanti Naskar:
GA driven integrated exploration of loop unrolling factor and datapath for optimal scheduling of CDFGs during high level synthesis. 75-80 - Hesam Akbari, Xavier N. Fernando
:
Modeling and optimization of PHEV charging queues. 81-86 - Bahman Tavassoli, Farah Mohammadi, Kaamran Raahemifar:
Enhanced placement algorithm for FPGAs using sparse circuit. 87-91 - Noha Hassan, Khalid Elkhazeen, Kaarman Raahemiafar, Xavier N. Fernando
:
Optimization of control parameters using averaging of handover indicator and received power for minimizing ping-pong handover in LTE. 92-97 - Hasan Farahneh, Xavier N. Fernando
:
Leaky feeder, a new linear array transceiver for micro/pico cells. 98-102
Session MA4: Digital Circuits and Systems I
- Haizheng Guo, Tadeusz Kwasniewski:
A DLL-based period synthesis. 103-106 - Christopher E. Kennedy, Mehran Mozaffari Kermani
:
Generalized parallel CRC computation on FPGA. 107-113 - Haizheng Guo, Tadeusz Kwasniewski:
A DLL fractional M/N frequency synthesizer. 114-117 - Ge Guo, Mary E. Kaye, Yun Zhang:
Enhancement of Gaussian background modelling algorithm for moving object detection & its implementation on FPGA. 118-122 - Xiang Li
, Yongjun Wang, Zhi Li:
Calibration of tri-axial magnetometer in magnetic compass using vector observations. 123-127 - Hamidreza Nateghi, Kamal El-Sankary:
A self-healing technique using ZTC biasing for PVT variations compensation in 65nm CMOS technology. 128-131
Session MA5: Computer Applications I
- Sherif Elshafei, Mahmoud Menshawi:
A case study on a systematic approach for developing a user interface software for programming intensive software tools. 132-139 - Pengtao Zhang, Ying Tan:
Hybrid concentration based feature extraction approach for malware detection. 140-145 - Yong Peng, Bao-Liang Lu:
Robust group sparse representation via half-quadratic optimization for face recognition. 146-151 - Alaa Eddin Al-Chalabi, Samer Essa, Hasseb Shahzad, Issam W. Damaj:
A wearable and ubiquitous NFC wallet. 152-157 - Scott Fazackerley, Eric Huang, Graeme Douglas, Raffi Kudlac, Ramon Lawrence:
Key-value store implementations for Arduino microcontrollers. 158-164 - Xuan Wu, Bin Xi:
Subspace method for local trend extraction. 165-170
Session MA6: Biomedical Engineering I
- Ali Hassan, Farhan Riaz, Abdul Basit:
A robust classification model based on iBSA and GCA biomarkers for diagnosis of epilepsy. 171-175 - Ali Hassan, Farhan Riaz, Abdul Basit:
A robust classification model with voting based feature selection for diagnosis of epilepsy. 176-179 - Jessy Mathault, Benoit Gosselin, Amine Miled:
4V microfluidic platform for biological manipulation with glycine, glutamate, GABA and acetylcholine. 180-183 - Ali Hassan, Farhan Riaz, Saad Rehman, Mads Jochumsen
, Imran Khan Niazi
, Kim Dremstrup
:
An empirical study to remove noise from single-trial MRCP for movement intention detection. 184-189 - Ravi Pathak, Vaidehi V.
:
An efficient rule balancing for scalable complex event processing. 190-195 - Vaidehi V.
, Kirupa Ganapathy, Vignesh Raghuraman:
A genetic approach for personalized healthcare. 196-201
Session MP1: Communications and Networking I
- Thomas Gwynne-Timothy, Jean-Francois Bousquet:
Wireless transmitter bandwidth extension using dynamically varying capacitors. 202-207 - Mohammad Mehdi Asadi
, Hamid Mahboubi, Amir G. Aghdam, Stephane Blouin:
Connectivity measures for random directed graphs with applications to underwater sensor networks. 208-212 - Navin Haghighizadeh, Oliver Yang:
Internet traffic control with the H2/H∞ controller. 220-225 - Aymen Ben Salem, Claude D'Amours:
BER performance of SC-FDMA with subcarrier sharing: Improvements on spectral efficiency. 226-230 - Walaaeldin Ghadiry
, Jalal Habibi, Amir G. Aghdam, Youmin Zhang
:
Generalized formulation for trajectory optimization in patrolling problems. 231-236
Session MP2: Power System Operation and Planning II
- Sarah Kandil, Hany E. Farag, L. St. Hilaire, E. Janssen:
A power quality monitor system for quantifying the effects of photovoltaic penetration on the grid. 237-241 - Chang He, Qixin Chen, Haiwang Zhong, Qing Xia, Lei Shi, Jing Zhang, Jianxun Song:
A homogenized-overload model applied for infeasible security-constrained unit commitment (SCUC) problem. 242-247 - Heting Li, Lin Gui, Jun Chen, Rufei He, Shichao Liu, Xiaoyu Wang:
A new criterion for GCB open-phase protection in large pumped storage units. 248-253 - Peter Sztur, Nafia Al-Mutawaly:
Correlation of weather conditions and power quality for distributed generation and modern loads. 254-258 - Xinjun Ma, Chensheng Liu, Jing Wu, Chengnian Long:
On-demand state estimation with sampling time skew in power systems. 259-264 - Hesamaldin Maleki, Rajiv K. Varma
:
Comparative study for improving damping oscillation of SMIB system with STATCOM and BESS using remote and local signal. 265-270
Session MP3: Performance & Optimization
- Lihong Wang, Haikun Ten, Guanghua Yu:
A hybrid genetic algorithm for Job-Shop scheduling problem. 271-274 - Hadis Kakanejadi Fard, Yuanzhu Chen, Kyung Kook Son:
Indoor positioning of mobile devices with agile iBeacon deployment. 275-279 - Ahmed H. Shaltout, Stefano Gregori
:
Efficiency optimization for monolithic step-up dc-dc converters. 280-285 - Zhou Yuan, Yan Lu, Jinyun Zhang, Yu Pei:
Specific azimuth self-calibration of PIGA of inertial platform system. 286-290 - Shriram Shukla, Alan S. Fung, Kaamran Raahemifar:
Transient stability optimization & analysis for transmission systems & generators to prevent cascade failure by coordinating contingency planning & load-shedding in power transmission grid. 291-296 - Rinju Alice John, Kaamran Raahemifar:
Designing a 2D color barcode. 297-301
Session MP4: Mobile Robotics I
- Amr Nagaty, Carl Thibault, Michael Trentini, Tullio Facchinetti
, Howard Li:
Construction, modeling and control of a quadrotor for target localization. 308-313 - Jeffrey S. Campbell, Sidney Nascimento Givigi
, Howard M. Schwartz:
Handling stochastic reward delays in machine reinforcement learning. 314-319 - Mohamed Al Lawati, Christopher Nielsen:
Hybrid virtual holonomic constraints for a 2-D.O.F. bipedal robot. 320-325 - Sajad Saeedi G., Mae L. Seto, Howard Li:
Fast Monte Carlo localization of AUV using acoustic range measurement. 326-331 - Colin M. MacKenzie, Mae L. Seto, Yajun Pan:
Extracting seafloor elevations from side-scan sonar imagery for SLAM data association. 332-336
Session MP5: Computer Applications II
- Jian Yang, Xin Wang, Xue Zang, ZhenYou Dai:
Cloud computing and visual attention based object detection for power substation surveillance robots. 337-342 - Mark P. Wachowiak, Renata Wachowiak-Smolíkova, Devin M. Rotondo:
Dynamic particle swarm optimization with heterogeneous multicore parallelism and GPU acceleration. 343-348 - Marcel Dombrowski, Konstantin Nasartschuk, Kenneth B. Kent, Gerhard W. Dueck:
A survey on object cache locality in automated memory management systems. 349-354 - Patrick Onotu, David Day, Marcos A. Rodrigues
:
Accurate shellcode recognition from network traffic data using artificial neural nets. 355-360 - Ji Tu, Zilong Wang, Meisong Zheng, Lijian Li, Junye Wang:
Code compression in embedded processors using multi-dictionary and pattern blocks. 361-365 - Xuechao Zhang, Ravi Shrestha
, Khan A. Wahid:
An efficient algorithm for localization using RSSI based on ZigBee. 366-369
Session MP6: Biomedical Engineering II
- Scott MacKay, Peter Hermansen, David S. Wishart
, Wayne Hiebert
, Jie Chen:
Simulating electrical properties of interdigitated electrode designs for impedance-based biosensing applications. 370-375 - Rupin Dalvi, Adrian M. Suszko, Vijay S. Chauhan:
Graph search based detection of periodic activations in complex periodic signals: Application in atrial fibrillation electrograms. 376-381 - Hugo Vihvelin, Jeff Leadbetter, Manohar Bance, Jeremy A. Brown, Robert B. A. Adamson:
Class E RF amplifier design in an ultrasonic link for wireless power delivery to implanted medical devices. 382-386 - Mohammad H. Shariat, Javad Hashemi, Saeed Gazor
, Damian P. Redfearn:
Activation detection of intracardiac electrogram during atrial fibrillation based on the variance equality test. 387-391 - Mohammad H. Shariat, Javad Hashemi, Saeed Gazor
, Damian P. Redfearn:
Localization of the ectopic spiral electrical source using intracardiac electrograms during atrial fibrillation. 392-395 - Guojun Mao:
An efficient mining algorithm for key segment from DNA sequences. 396-399
Session ME1: Control System I
- Chuen Kit Luk, Graziano Chesi:
On the synthesis of output feedback controllers for increasing the domain of attraction of piecewise polynomial systems. 400-405 - Mohamed A. Kamel
, Youmin Zhang
:
Decentralized leader-follower formation control with obstacle avoidance of multiple unicycle mobile robots. 406-411 - Rita T. Aljadiri, Luay Yassin Taha, Paul Ivey:
Electrostatic harvester for wind energy harvesting and wind speed remote sensing. 412-417 - Jan Feiling, Zheng Li, Haoyong Yu
, Hongliang Ren
:
Optimal teleoperation control of a constrained tendon-driven serpentine manipulator. 418-423 - Umar Farooq, Jason Gu, Mohamed E. El-Hawary, Ghulam Abbas
, Muhammad Usman Asad:
An interval type-2 fuzzy regulator for magnetic levitation system. 424-431 - Ranga Babu Ganta, Mengye Cai, Kyle Fricke, Robert Sobot:
Design of a 50nW, 0.5VDD sub-threshold OTA amplifier with indirect compensation technique and class AB output stage. 432-435
Session ME2: Power Quality & Systems
- Shadi H. Shehadeh, Hamed H. Aly, Mohamed E. El-Hawary:
Photovoltaic inverters technology. 436-443 - Abdulrazig Alarabi, Mohamed E. El-Hawary:
Rotor angle wind turbine energy capture control. 444-451 - Michael N. D. Dang, Nafia Al-Mutawaly, John Lepoutre:
From transmission to distribution networks-harmonic impacts on modern grid. 452-459 - Paul Makanga Koumba, Ahmed Chériti, Mamadou Lamine Doumbia:
Impacts of distributed generation on the coordination of protective devices in distribution network. 460-465 - L. Al-Musawi, Nafia Al-Mutawaly, N. Schofield:
Shunt active power filtering for smart appliances. 466-470 - Khedidja Ayache, Ahmed Chériti, Labar Hocine, Abdelhalim Sandali:
Practical considerations for a photovoltaic system connected to the network. 471-476
Session ME3: Intelligent Transportation
- Semiha Türkay, Hüseyin Akçay:
Spectral modeling of longitudinal road profiles. 477-482 - Emad A. Mohammed, Charan Aulakh, Diwakar Krishnamurthy, Christopher T. Naugler, Behrouz H. Far:
Short-term travel time estimation: A case study. 489-496 - Aliakbar Akbari
, Shiva Mirshahi, Majid Hashemipour:
Application of RFID system for the process control of distributed manufacturing system. 497-501 - Aliakbar Akbari
, Shiva Mirshahi, Majid Hashemipour:
Comparison of RFID system and barcode reader for manufacturing processes. 502-506 - Hamdy Ibrahim, Behrouz H. Far:
Simulation-based benefit analysis of pattern recognition application in intelligent transportation systems. 507-512
Session ME4: Modelling II
- Farid Mirhosseini, Bruce G. Colpitts:
Simulating RCS of dispersive media using SO-FDTD-DPW method. 513-518 - Claude Lafond, Innocent Kamwa, Jacques Prévost, Mathieu Nadeau:
Coherence verification of transmission line parameters with PMUs measurements at its ends. 519-524 - Stephane Blouin:
Localization error of underwater multistatic scenarios with uncertain transducers' location. 525-529 - Zhenhai Lin:
Mission planning for electromagnetic environment monitors satellite based on simulated annealing algorithm. 530-535 - Najmeh Sadatnejad, Hossein Miar Naimi:
A new fractional spur modeling in fractional-N frequency synthesizers. 536-540 - Lianhua Li, Greg Franks:
Improved interlock correction when solving layered queueing networks using decomposition. 541-546
Session ME5: Computer Applications III
- Ying-Wen Bai, Cheng-Hung Lin:
Using a hybrid LDO regulator and a switching regulator circuit to reduce the power consumption in the light load operation of a server motherboard. 547-552 - Matthew Murawski, R. M. Jenita Priya, Mohammed Khalid:
Design and evaluation of Avalon compatible adapter and parameterizable NoC router for FPGAs. 553-558 - Ian Janik, Qing Y. Tang, Mohammed A. S. Khalid:
An overview of Altera SDK for OpenCL: A user perspective. 559-564 - Sofiane Hachemi, Daniel Massicotte:
Binary input-output compressive sensing: A sub-gradient reconstruction. 565-570 - Weiying Zeng, Mohammed A. S. Khalid, Sazzadur Chowdhury:
A qualitative comparison of FlexRay and Ethernet in vehicle networks. 571-576 - Chun-Hung Cheng, Ying-Wen Bai:
Anti-ghost key design for a notebook keyboard. 577-580
Session ME6: Biomedical Signal Processing I
- Babak Sharif, Amir Homayoun Jafari
:
A new approach to automatically generate optimal Poincaré plane from discrete time series. 581-586 - Diana P. Tobón, Tiago H. Falk
:
Online ECG quality assessment for context-aware wireless body area networks. 587-592 - Anwar Abdalbari, Jing Ren:
Accurate seed points classification using invariant moments & neural network. 597-602 - Majid Komeili, Narges Armanfard, Dimitrios Hatzinakos, Anastasios N. Venetsanopoulos:
Feature selection from multisession electrocardiogram signals for identity verification. 603-608 - Salah S. Al-Majeed, Intisar S. Al-Mejibli, Jalal Karam:
Home telehealth by Internet of Things (IoT). 609-613
Session TA1: Image Processing I
- Mohammad Anvaripour, Shahpour Alirezaee, Majid Ahmadi, Sima Soltanpour:
Moving objects tracking from most probable regions and eliminating camera motion. 614-619 - Biyun Sheng, Yan Yan, Changyin Sun:
Encoding spatio-temporal distribution by generalized VLAD for action recognition. 620-625 - Muhammad Talal Ibrahim, Anastasios N. Venetsanopoulos, Ling Guan:
A comparative study of directional filters with application to angiogram image enhancement. 626-629 - Reza Shahidi, Cecilia Moloney:
A variational textured image decomposition model and its efficient MPI implementation. 630-637 - Arpik Hakobyan, Peter F. McGuire, Desmond Power, Thomas Puestow, Cecilia Moloney, Guido Luzi, Pietro Guccione:
Applications and validation tests of ground-based coherent radar for deformation and vibration measurements in Canada's Atlantic region. 638-642 - Han Liu
, Yue Zhao, Lili Liang, Yingmin Yi:
Research on image denoising using patch-based singular value decomposition. 643-647
Session TA2: Power Electronic Converters & Controls I
- Shadi H. Shehadeh, Hamed H. Aly, Mohamed E. El-Hawary:
Photovoltaic multi-level inverters technology. 648-655 - Tamer Kamel, Yevgen Biletskiy, Liuchen Chang:
Open circuit fault diagnosis for the power electronic converter stages using ANFIS algorithm. 656-662 - Tamer Kamel, Yevgen Biletskiy, Liuchen Chang:
Capacitor aging detection for the DC filters in the power electronic converters using ANFIS algorithm. 663-668 - Wenyan Gu:
Commissioning generator AVR, PSS and model validation. 669-673 - Marcos Aguirre, Vijay K. Sood, Julio Pimentel:
A flexible laboratory platform for multi-disciplinary electrical engineering courses. 674-679 - Gang Yao, Luan He, Xin Wang, Lidan Zhou, Hua-Jun Yu:
The study of hybrid modulation based on cascade SVG and its DC control method. 680-685
Session TA3: Circuit and System
- Zhe Jiang, Haizheng Guo, Tadeusz Kwasniewski:
Low noise CMOS voltage-control oscillator design methodology with emphasis on non-linear effect contributions, 2.4 GHz CMOS design example. 686-690 - Mengye Cai, Kyle Fricke, Robert Sobot:
Design of a low-power 2.4GHz current reuse VCO for biomedical implantable applications. 691-694 - Yuanchi Tian, Howard M. Heys
:
Hardware implementation of a high speed self-synchronizing cipher mode. 695-700 - Haohao Liao, Howard M. Heys
:
An integrated hardware platform for four different lightweight block ciphers. 701-705 - Naraig Manjikian:
Dynamic RAM-based programs and tasks in the freescale MQX operating system. 706-711 - Mohammad S. Jassas
, Abdullah A. Qasem, Qusay H. Mahmoud
:
A smart system connecting e-health sensors and the cloud. 712-716
Session TA4: Mobile Robotics II
- Chunlei Cheng, Daqi Zhu, Bing Sun, Zhenzhong Chu, Jianduo Nie, Sheng Zhang:
Path planning for autonomous underwater vehicle based on artificial potential field and velocity synthesis. 717-721 - S. Jamal Haddadi, Payam Zarafshan
, Farahnaz J. Niroumand:
Dynamics modelling and implementation of an attitude control on an Octorotor. 722-727 - Zhenzhong Chu, Daqi Zhu, Bing Sun, Jianduo Nie, Di Xue:
Design of a dead reckoning based motion control system for small autonomous underwater vehicle. 728-733 - Hassam Moazzam, Muhammad Usman Asad, Ghulam Abbas
, Umar Farooq, Jason Gu:
Design and implementation of a robotic car to recognize traffic signs. 734-737 - Chris L'Esperance, Douglas Wallace:
Monitoring the dispersion of an intentionally released tracer, SF5CF3 with an instrumented, unmanned surface vehicle. 738-743