Engineering change management is a special form of problem solving where many rules must be followed to satisfy the requirements of product changes.As engineering change has great influence on the cycle and the cost o...Engineering change management is a special form of problem solving where many rules must be followed to satisfy the requirements of product changes.As engineering change has great influence on the cycle and the cost of product development,it is necessary to anticipate design changes(DCs)in advance and estimate the influence effectively.A process simulation-based method for engineering change management is proposed incorporating multiple assessment parameters.First,the change propagation model is established,which includes the formulation of change propagation influence,assessment score of DC solution.Then the optimization process of DC solution is introduced based on ant colony optimization(ACO),and an optimization algorithm is detailed to acquire the optimal DC solution automatically.Finally,a case study of belt conveyor platform is implemented to validate the proposed method.The results show that changed requirement of product can be satisfied by multiple DC solutions and the optimal one can be acquired according to the unique characteristics of each solution.展开更多
Batch extractive distillation(BED)is a special method used in the distillation process by adding a solvent into the batch distillation column to alter the relative volatility of the components and improve the separati...Batch extractive distillation(BED)is a special method used in the distillation process by adding a solvent into the batch distillation column to alter the relative volatility of the components and improve the separation. A comprehensive design and simulation method is required due to the complexity of BED.In this study,a quasi-steady-state model for BED is proposed,the derivation and solution of the model are presented.This shortcut model can be used to simulate the composition and temperature of the reboiler,the top and other plates of the column in a batch extractive distillation operation.The calculated values are in good agreement with the experimental data.The results show that the quasi-steady-state model is a practical method because of some advantages such as high precision and fast calculation.展开更多
The Technical Barriers to Trade （TBT） is an important problem faced to the export of China. Based on the number differences of TBT notifications between countries, we propose the concept and computational method of ...The Technical Barriers to Trade （TBT） is an important problem faced to the export of China. Based on the number differences of TBT notifications between countries, we propose the concept and computational method of the technical barrier coefficient. By means of price-production and price-demand functions, a trade model with a developed country and a developing country is designed. The available trade policies such as technical barriers, tariffs and export subsidies are simulated and analyzed. According to the simulation results, several trade strategies to come over technical barriers are suggested. These suggestions were provided to several export enterprises for their export strategy design.展开更多
Ensemble learning is a wildly concerned issue.Traditional ensemble techniques are always adopted to seek better results with labeled data and base classifiers.They fail to address the ensemble task where only unlabele...Ensemble learning is a wildly concerned issue.Traditional ensemble techniques are always adopted to seek better results with labeled data and base classifiers.They fail to address the ensemble task where only unlabeled data are available.A label propagation based ensemble(LPBE) approach is proposed to further combine base classification results with unlabeled data.First,a graph is constructed by taking unlabeled data as vertexes,and the weights in the graph are calculated by correntropy function.Average prediction results are gained from base classifiers,and then propagated under a regularization framework and adaptively enhanced over the graph.The proposed approach is further enriched when small labeled data are available.The proposed algorithms are evaluated on several UCI benchmark data sets.Results of simulations show that the proposed algorithms achieve satisfactory performance compared with existing ensemble methods.展开更多
DR （diabetic retinopathy） is a most probable reason of blindness in adults, but the only remedy or escape from blindness is that we have to detect DR as early. Several automated screening techniques are used to dete...DR （diabetic retinopathy） is a most probable reason of blindness in adults, but the only remedy or escape from blindness is that we have to detect DR as early. Several automated screening techniques are used to detect individual lesions in the retina. Still it takes more dependency of time and experts. To overcome those problems and also automatically detect DR in easier and faster way, we took into soft computing approaches in our proposed work. Our proposed work will discuss several amounts of soft computing algorithms, it can detect DR features （landmark and retinal lesions） in an easy manner. Processes includes are： （1） Pre-processing; （2） Optic disc localization and segmentation; （3） Localization of fovea; （4） Blood vessel segmentation; （5） Feature extraction; （6） Feature selection; Finally （7） detection of diabetic retinopathy stages （mild, moderate, severe and PDR）. Our experimental results based on Matlab simulation and it takes databases of STARE and DRIVE. Proposed effective soft computing approaches should improve the sensitivity, specificity and accuracy.展开更多
This highly interdisciplinary research paper discusses some new insights into the fundamentalproperties of information-rich social networks.It mainly focuses on:i)Postulating the generalproperties of an information-ba...This highly interdisciplinary research paper discusses some new insights into the fundamentalproperties of information-rich social networks.It mainly focuses on:i)Postulating the generalproperties of an information-based networking economy;ii)Modeling emergent and self-organizing featuresof social networks;iii)Discussing how to simulate complex social systems using a field-basedapproach and multi-agent platforms.Additionally,this paper gives some ideas of how to construct avirtual field-based communications network of intelligent agents using currently available computationalintelligence methods.A new simulation paradigm offers some useful concepts to transform multidimensionalfactor space(representing a multiplicity of phenomenal forms and interactions)into the mostuniversal spectral coding system.This paper gives some ideas of how not only the communicationmechanism but also the social agents can be simulated as oscillating processes.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.51805253)Research Start-up Fund Project of Introduced Talent(No.YKJ201969)Equipment Project of Ship Assembly and Construction for the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology(No.TC190H47J)。
文摘Engineering change management is a special form of problem solving where many rules must be followed to satisfy the requirements of product changes.As engineering change has great influence on the cycle and the cost of product development,it is necessary to anticipate design changes(DCs)in advance and estimate the influence effectively.A process simulation-based method for engineering change management is proposed incorporating multiple assessment parameters.First,the change propagation model is established,which includes the formulation of change propagation influence,assessment score of DC solution.Then the optimization process of DC solution is introduced based on ant colony optimization(ACO),and an optimization algorithm is detailed to acquire the optimal DC solution automatically.Finally,a case study of belt conveyor platform is implemented to validate the proposed method.The results show that changed requirement of product can be satisfied by multiple DC solutions and the optimal one can be acquired according to the unique characteristics of each solution.
基金Supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Hebei Province（B2006000018）
文摘Batch extractive distillation(BED)is a special method used in the distillation process by adding a solvent into the batch distillation column to alter the relative volatility of the components and improve the separation. A comprehensive design and simulation method is required due to the complexity of BED.In this study,a quasi-steady-state model for BED is proposed,the derivation and solution of the model are presented.This shortcut model can be used to simulate the composition and temperature of the reboiler,the top and other plates of the column in a batch extractive distillation operation.The calculated values are in good agreement with the experimental data.The results show that the quasi-steady-state model is a practical method because of some advantages such as high precision and fast calculation.
基金This work is supported by National Nature Science Foundation （No. 70771021, No. 60821063）.
文摘The Technical Barriers to Trade （TBT） is an important problem faced to the export of China. Based on the number differences of TBT notifications between countries, we propose the concept and computational method of the technical barrier coefficient. By means of price-production and price-demand functions, a trade model with a developed country and a developing country is designed. The available trade policies such as technical barriers, tariffs and export subsidies are simulated and analyzed. According to the simulation results, several trade strategies to come over technical barriers are suggested. These suggestions were provided to several export enterprises for their export strategy design.
基金Project (20121101004) supported by the Major Science and Technology Program of Shanxi Province,ChinaProject (20130321004-01) supported by the Key Technologies R&D Program of Shanxi Province,China+2 种基金Project (2013M530896) supported by the Postdoctoral Science Foundation of ChinaProject (2014021022-6) supported by the Shanxi Provincial Science Foundation for Youths,ChinaProject (80010302010053) supported by the Shanxi Characteristic Discipline Fund,China
文摘Ensemble learning is a wildly concerned issue.Traditional ensemble techniques are always adopted to seek better results with labeled data and base classifiers.They fail to address the ensemble task where only unlabeled data are available.A label propagation based ensemble(LPBE) approach is proposed to further combine base classification results with unlabeled data.First,a graph is constructed by taking unlabeled data as vertexes,and the weights in the graph are calculated by correntropy function.Average prediction results are gained from base classifiers,and then propagated under a regularization framework and adaptively enhanced over the graph.The proposed approach is further enriched when small labeled data are available.The proposed algorithms are evaluated on several UCI benchmark data sets.Results of simulations show that the proposed algorithms achieve satisfactory performance compared with existing ensemble methods.
文摘DR （diabetic retinopathy） is a most probable reason of blindness in adults, but the only remedy or escape from blindness is that we have to detect DR as early. Several automated screening techniques are used to detect individual lesions in the retina. Still it takes more dependency of time and experts. To overcome those problems and also automatically detect DR in easier and faster way, we took into soft computing approaches in our proposed work. Our proposed work will discuss several amounts of soft computing algorithms, it can detect DR features （landmark and retinal lesions） in an easy manner. Processes includes are： （1） Pre-processing; （2） Optic disc localization and segmentation; （3） Localization of fovea; （4） Blood vessel segmentation; （5） Feature extraction; （6） Feature selection; Finally （7） detection of diabetic retinopathy stages （mild, moderate, severe and PDR）. Our experimental results based on Matlab simulation and it takes databases of STARE and DRIVE. Proposed effective soft computing approaches should improve the sensitivity, specificity and accuracy.
基金supported by EU-Funded Research Project Reg. under Grant No.S-VP2-1.3-UM-01-K-01-065
文摘This highly interdisciplinary research paper discusses some new insights into the fundamentalproperties of information-rich social networks.It mainly focuses on:i)Postulating the generalproperties of an information-based networking economy;ii)Modeling emergent and self-organizing featuresof social networks;iii)Discussing how to simulate complex social systems using a field-basedapproach and multi-agent platforms.Additionally,this paper gives some ideas of how to construct avirtual field-based communications network of intelligent agents using currently available computationalintelligence methods.A new simulation paradigm offers some useful concepts to transform multidimensionalfactor space(representing a multiplicity of phenomenal forms and interactions)into the mostuniversal spectral coding system.This paper gives some ideas of how not only the communicationmechanism but also the social agents can be simulated as oscillating processes.
