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	Configuration space - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The configuration space of a typical system has the structure of a manifold; for this reason it is also called the configuration manifold.
		In short, a configuration space is typically "half" of (see Lagrangian distribution) a phase space that is constructed from a function space.
		Configuration spaces are related to braid theory, also, since the condition on a string of not passing through itself is formulated by cutting diagonals out of function spaces.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Configuration_space (232 words)

	PCI Configuration Space - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The first 64 bytes of configuration space are standardised; the remainder are available for vendor-defined purposes.
		The only standardised part of extended configuration space is the first 4 bytes at 0x100 which are the start of an extended capability list.
		Since this entire process is fully automated, the computer user is spared the difficult task of configuring any newly added hardware manually by modifying settings of dip switches on the cards themselves.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/PCI_Configuration_Space (782 words)

	Hilbert Space
		Configuration space is the position half of phase space in which the momentum coordinates are left out.
		Hilbert space is not a space of simple points, rather it is a space of functions at a higher level of mathematical abstraction.
		The angular momentum of a particle relative to a direction in space is incompatible with the angle of rotation of that particle in a plane perpendicular to that direction in space.
	www.qedcorp.com /pcr/pcr/hilberts.html (2670 words)

	Configuration space spinors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The space of the configuration space spinors (as opposed to the CH spinor fields) must be essentially identical with the Fock space of fermions and antifermions.
		Configuration space gamma matrices are linear superpositions of the fermionic oscillator operators associated with the massless Dirac action defined for H-spinors on the spacetime surface or on its boundary components.
		The experience with the string models and p-adic mass calculations suggests strongly that the canonical symmetry algebra of the configuration space isometries extends to a super canonical algebra and that the configuration space gamma matrices are very simply related to the super generators of the super canonical algebra.
	www.physics.helsinki.fi /~matpitka/cspinor.html (453 words)

	Constraint Singularities as Configuration Space Singularities
		When the configuration space is also a constraint singularity the different adjoining regions of the configuration space can be expected to sometimes have different possible motions of the moving platform and, therefore, result in distinct modes of operation of the parallel manipulator.
		For all configurations with a given tilt angle, the platform centres are along a ray from the origin and at half the tilt angle from the vertical axis.
		The configuration with the platform face down (horizontal) and at the base centre, and the single singular leg is in the base plane (a configurations where both the platform and the chain have 5 DOF), is adjacent to all four regions.
	www.parallemic.org /Reviews/Review008.html (7499 words)

	Configuration space of TGD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Configuration space must be endowed with a metric and spinor structure.
		The closest analog is the Super Space of Wheeler defined as the space of all possible 3-metrics.
		A second analog is the space of the closed loops in some imbedding space: this space is closely related to the quantization of the closed string models.
	www.physics.helsinki.fi /~matpitka/conf.html (130 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Classical mechanics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		For example, the electrons used by Clinton Davisson and Lester Germer in 1927, accelerated by 54 volts, had a wave length of 0.167 nm, which was long enough to exhibit a single diffraction side lobe when reflecting from the face of a nickel crystal with atomic spacing of 0.215 nm.
		With a larger vacuum chamber, it would seem relatively easy to increase the angular resolution from around a radian to a milliradian and see quantum diffraction from the periodic patterns of integrated circuit computer memory.
		The position of a point particle is defined with respect to an arbitrary fixed point in space, which is sometimes called the origin, O.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Classical_mechanics (2490 words)

	Principle of the Ariadne's Clew Algorithm
		The length l of the trajectories considered may be too short to reach all the accessible regions of the configuration space.
		Without bouncing, the mapping of a corridor in the configuration space to the trajectory space is a set of very few points.
		The resultant mapping of the corridor in the trajectory space is consequently a much larger set of points, and therefore it is much easier to find a member of this set.
	www.cs.cmu.edu /afs/cs/project/jair/pub/volume9/mazer98a-html/node3.html (1294 words)

	Space Future - RLV Design Optimization for Human Presence in Space (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Configuration 2b is recovered in a similar fashion to that of 2a except that to reduce turnaround delays, jet engines and the JP fuel supply are integrated into the vehicle.
		Configuration 3b is similar to 3a, except that it is sized for a 100,000 lb payload and has a slightly higher staging velocity.
		Although this configuration addresses the needs of traditional spacelift, it was not optimized to perform the tourism mission and thus received a lower score than the configurations specifically targeted to address them.
	www.spacefuture.com /archive/rlv_design_optimization_for_human_presence_in_space.shtml (9520 words)

	Real Property Management: Space Configuration Management Policy: 7211
		Modifications to space configurations shall be made in accordance with University design guidelines and in such manner as to best support the functional use of space.
		Requests for the modification of a space configuration shall be made by the OSM in accordance with University Space Configuration Request Procedures.
		All costs for returning the configuration of spaces to their original form for any change made not in accordance to this policy shall be borne by the organizational unit of the OSM.
	www.longwood.edu /vpaf/final_policy_base/7000/7211.htm (489 words)

	Modeling the Aggregate Structure of Configuration Space
		These directions in space are no less natural and inevitable than those which build a three dimensional continuity, except for the critical feature that each single direction contributing to four dimensional space probabilistically constructs the lateral component of its surrounding conditions relative to itself.
		In essence, each linear direction in four dimensional space constitutes a unique space-time bubble, and since each observer invariably surrounds a linear path in the four dimensional matrix, the lateral component is composed relative to each observer.
		Applying the model of configuration space proposed in previous articles, each linear path inevitably begins confined by grouping order in a state denotable as positive or negative, and in escaping is probabilistically directed toward becoming neutral.
	macrocosmicsymmetry.com /npaper3.html (3289 words)

	Real Property Management: Space Configuration: Policies & Procedures
		Space configuration on Longwood University’s campus is managed by the University Space Planning and Management Committee.
		Requesting Department shall determine the need to modify the configuration of the space or the design of new space as it relates to fulfilling the functions of the department.
		An RPM-2a form, Space Configuration Modification Request, must be completed by the requesting space Operational Space Manager (OSM) and approved by the Vice President responsible for the operational management of the space involved.
	www.longwood.edu /realproperty/space_configuration_policy.htm (610 words)

	How much uncompressed configuration space will I need in my enhanced configuration device for the configuration scheme ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The total size of your uncompressed configuration space needed for your enhanced configuration device depends on the configuration scheme and the size of the configuration files.
		The total size of the enhanced configuration device uncompressed configuration space is the size of the largest device configuration file multiplied by the number of devices that are concurrently configured.
		For example, if you concurrently configure three devices in 4-bit passive serial mode, the total size of the enhanced configuration device uncompressed configuration space is the size of the largest device configuration file multiplied by 4.
	www.altera.com /support/kdb/2002/01/rd01302002_6538.html (492 words)

	GigaSpaces - Write Once, Scale Anywhere
		The space provides built-in capability to run your business logic together with the space process and you can gain access to the space locally, as if running it in embedded mode.
		Central cache configuration is most relevant whenever the application processing tasks, which may take a long time compared to remote call times, are around 50 milliseconds.
		When space was configured in clustered mode and update API was called, in certain scenarios replication events were not generated.
	www.gigaspaces.com /features4_1.htm (3591 words)

	Space News, Week of Sept. 23, 2002
		Coming up with research priorities for the international space station was the charter of a special panel of independent experts convened earlier this year called the Research Maximization and Prioritization Task Force (Remap).
		NASA hopes to finalize the research priorities for the international space station by the end of the year so that decisions on the outpost’s configuration can be reflected in the agency’s 2004 budget request.
		The report also drew criticism for its suggestion that the space station in its currently planned conjuration not be considered a science program.
	space.com /spacenews/spacenews_businessmonday_020923.html (611 words)

	Clara Fernandez Vara (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		As Jenkins (2002, 2004) proposes, contested spaces are a basic feature in videogames; every different spatial configuration involves a different contest and challenge to advance in it or to ‘beat’ it.
		These configurations are dependent on the hardware of the computer, so that the larger the processing power, the more elaborate the configuration of the space is.
		In early videogames the player could not go back in space once it had passed the left limit of the screen (Super Mario); in others the space advances so that the player has to keep up with it, which is a feature of most shoot-‘em-up such as Gradius.
	www.gamesconference.org /digra2005/viewabstract.php?id=316 (853 words)

	Spaceflight Now \| Breaking News \| Station action plan approved
		Marc Garneau, President of the Canadian Space Agency; Antonio Rodota, Director General of the European Space Agency; Yuri Nikolayevich Koptev, General Director of the Russian Aviation and Space Agency; and Shuichiro Yamanouchi, President of the National Space Development Agency of Japan.
		Space agency leaders from the United States, Europe, Canada, Japan and Russia met in Tokyo, Japan, December 6, 2002, to review and further promote International Space Station (ISS) cooperation.
		It will lead to approval of a configuration option recommendation in March 2003, the selection of a revised ISS configuration option by June/July 2003, and agreement on a configuration by December 2003.
	www.spaceflightnow.com /news/n0212/06station (1057 words)

	The real line and configuration space
		The nonrelativistic version of quantum mechanics exists, not in physical space, but in an abstract higher dimensional structure known as configuration space where there is a single time dimension and a separate set of spatial dimensions for every particle.
		The connection between configuration space and physical space is through a probability distribution which gives the probability that a given configuration of particles will be observed.
		What exactly we do have is not clear since the actualization of probabilities in configuration space to events in physical space is not part of any existing scientific theory.
	www.mtnmath.com /whatrh/node74.html (510 words)

	Constraint Based Configuration Space
		This code forms a representation of a (x,y,theta) configuration space for a convex obstacle and robot.
		The region of the obstacle in configuration space is shaded gray.
		This program converts the configuration space obstacle into a discrete polygonal representation that can be displayed in any 3d VRML viewer.
	www.cs.ubc.ca /spider/jennings/515/doc.html (662 words)

	Configuration management
		This text introduces a general configuration management system which flexible enough to be used for all kinds of applications.
		The meta-data exists in a space with similar naming properties to the configuration space described above, and typically one variable in the configuration space will have associated with it metadata with the same name in the meta-data space.
		There is one thing missing though: a system to handle the configuration of packages so we don't have to stop the installation every time a package needs some data from the user or wants to show some information.
	www.debian.org /doc/packaging-manuals/debconf_specification.html (2156 words)

	Robotics Institute: Multiple-point contact with friction: Computing forces and motions in configuration space
		The configuration space of an object is the parameter space describing the object's degrees of freedom.
		Kinematic constraints imposed on the object by obstacles in the environment may be represented as hypersurfaces in the configuration space.
		Physical and dynamical constraints such as those imposed by friction may be represented as constraints in the generalized force space that accompanies the configuration space.
	www.ri.cmu.edu /pubs/pub_3631.html (280 words)

	Copenhagen interpretation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Of course the introduction of the observer must not be misunderstood to imply that some kind of subjective features are to be brought into the description of nature.
		Erwin Schrödinger devised the Schrödinger's cat experiment that attempts to illustrate the incompleteness of the theory of quantum mechanics when going from subatomic to macroscopic systems.
		Also, the required "instantaneous" collapse of the wavefunction throughout all of space may be considered problematic.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Copenhagen_interpretation (1435 words)

	The ALPHA Lab at UC Berkeley -- Projects -- D-Space and Deform Closure
		We define the free space as the intersection of the set of topology preserving mesh configurations with the complement of the union of all D-obstacles that represent collisions of the part with finger bodies.
		In C-Space (configuration space), the part’s position and orientation are parameterized in a Euclidian space thus representing the part’s configuration in physical space as a point in C-Space.
		The set of points in C-Space for which the corresponding configuration of the part intersects with a given obstacle is the corresponding C-obstacle.
	ford.ieor.berkeley.edu /Gopal/DSpace (1059 words)

	Modeling the Aggregate Structure of Configuration Space
		I submit that certain configurations of three dimensional spaces are naturally interconnected, forming a four dimensional matrix, which we from our internal location refer to as time or space-time.
		These directions in space are no less natural and inevitable than those which build a three dimensional continuity, except for the critical feature that each single direction in four dimensional space probabilistically constructs the lateral component of its surrounding conditions relative to itself.
		Applying the model of state space proposed, each linear path inevitably begins confined by grouping order in a state denotable as positive or negative, and in escaping is probabilistically directed toward becoming neutral.
	macrocosmicsymmetry.com /jpaper3.html (3639 words)

	OSR's ntdev List: RE: How is PCI Configuration space mapped??
		The PCI configuration space of a device from the perspective of a device is not in any address space.
		How the IDSEL for a slot is activated (in other words, how a "configuration cycle is initiated") varies based on the system board chip set, but almost certainly the configuration spaces are not memory mapped or I/O mapped.
		When you stuff your desired config space address into the address port, and then read/write on the data port, the OS may have also simultaneously (on a different processor for example) stuffed it's desired address into the address port.
	www.osronline.com /showThread.cfm?link=5459 (751 words)

	SPACE.com -- New Main Shuttle Engine Promises Safer Ride
		The next space shuttle crew can expect an even safer ride into orbit, thanks to the completion of a new space shuttle main engine.
		The primary modification to the engine is elimination of welds by using a casting process for the housing and an integral shaft/disk with thin-wall blades and ceramic bearings.
		Previous improvements to the space shuttle main engine include the Block 1 configuration, which featured an improved high-pressure liquid oxygen turbopump, a two-duct engine power head and a single-coil heat exchanger.
	www.space.com /businesstechnology/technology/new_shuttle_engine_010426.html (606 words)

	CSpace (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In the right area of the window is the Configuration Space, showing the arm configuration based on the angle of the first joint (X axis) and the angle of the second joint (Y axis).
		Any configuration of the robot arm in the left window corresponds to the a point in the Configuration Space.
		Be sure the obstacle does not intersect the robot in its current configuration.
	ford.ieor.berkeley.edu /cspace (260 words)

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