The artificial intelligence technique is used to generate a freeway incident response plan. The incident response framework based on rule-based reasoning, case-based reasoning and Bayesian networks reasoning is presen...The artificial intelligence technique is used to generate a freeway incident response plan. The incident response framework based on rule-based reasoning, case-based reasoning and Bayesian networks reasoning is presented. First, a freeway incident management system (RK-IMS) based on rule-based reasoning is developed and applied for incident management in the northern section of the Nanjing-Lianyunguang Freeway. Then, field data from the two-year long operations of the RK-IMS are analyzed. Representations of incident case structures and Bayesian networks(BNs) structures related to incident responses are deduced. Finally, the k-nearest neighbor (k-NN) algorithm is applied to calculate the similarities of the cases. The preplan generation and the control strategy by integrating the k-NN algorithm are also developed. The model is validated by using incident data of the year 2006 from the RK-IMS. The comparison results indicate that the proposed algorithm is accurate and reliable.展开更多
This paper describes an in-house developed language tool called VPerl used in developing a 250 MHz 32-bit high-performance low power embedded CPU core. The authors showed that use of this tool can compress the Verilog...This paper describes an in-house developed language tool called VPerl used in developing a 250 MHz 32-bit high-performance low power embedded CPU core. The authors showed that use of this tool can compress the Verilog code by more than a factor of 5, increase the efficiency of the front-end design, reduce the bug rate significantly. This tool can be used to enhance the reusability of an intellectual property model, and facilitate porting design for different platforms.展开更多
Coal roadway support is the foundation and strong guarantee of safe coal production. With the FLAC3D numerical simulation, the roadway fulllength anchor support mechanism was studied, and the full-length anchor forcet...Coal roadway support is the foundation and strong guarantee of safe coal production. With the FLAC3D numerical simulation, the roadway fulllength anchor support mechanism was studied, and the full-length anchor forcetransferring mechanism and stressfield distribution formed by roadway surrounding rocks were analyzed, which will provide a scientific basis for a support technology in large-section roadways under complicated geological conditions and lay a foundation for the popularization and application of a full-length anchor support system under special geological conditions.展开更多
Color information plays a key role in the research fields of object recognition and image retrieval. However, the actual color varies by the conditions of illumination, especially the open natural daylight. Four diffe...Color information plays a key role in the research fields of object recognition and image retrieval. However, the actual color varies by the conditions of illumination, especially the open natural daylight. Four different color constancy schemes are proposed in the paper to minimize the effects of open illumination conditions. (1) The color constancy scheme based on the image statistics is proposed, which includes the color cast detection and removal. (2) The color constancy scheme based on the color temperature curve is proposed, which combines Gaussian model with linear fitting to estimate color temperature curve. (3) The color constancy scheme based on the double exposure theory is proposed, which is able to reproduce a color image under typical illumination. (4) According to the concepts of supervised learning, the supervised color constancy scheme is proposed. The transformation of color values from unknown illumination to typical illumination is solved by improved Support Vector Regression (SVR).展开更多
A novel kernel learning method for object-oriented (00) software fault prediction is proposed in this paper. With this method, each set of classes that has inheritance relation named class hierarchy, is treated as a...A novel kernel learning method for object-oriented (00) software fault prediction is proposed in this paper. With this method, each set of classes that has inheritance relation named class hierarchy, is treated as an elemental software model. A layered kernel is introduced to handle the tree data structure corresponding to the class hierarchy models. This method was vali- dated using both an artificial dataset and a case of industrial software from the optical communication field. Preliminary experi- ments showed that our approach is very effective in learning structured data and outperforms the traditional support vector learning methods in accurately and correctly predicting the fault-prone class hierarchy model in real-life OO software.展开更多
Since the frequency of network security incidents is nonlinear,traditional prediction methods such as ARMA,Gray systems are difficult to deal with the problem.When the size of sample is small,methods based on artifici...Since the frequency of network security incidents is nonlinear,traditional prediction methods such as ARMA,Gray systems are difficult to deal with the problem.When the size of sample is small,methods based on artificial neural network may not reach a high degree of preciseness.Least Squares Support Vector Machines (LSSVM) is a kind of machine learning methods based on the statistics learning theory,it can be applied to solve small sample and non-linear problems very well.This paper applied LSSVM to predict the occur frequency of network security incidents.To improve the accuracy,it used an improved genetic algorithm to optimize the parameters of LSSVM.Verified by real data sets,the improved genetic algorithm (IGA) converges faster than the simple genetic algorithm (SGA),and has a higher efficiency in the optimization procedure.Specially,the optimized LSSVM model worked very well on the prediction of frequency of network security incidents.展开更多
The mission of the test field is to provide technical support to associates. The paper present the development of OE (ocean energy) field in China and outline the new technologies and best practice, resources condit...The mission of the test field is to provide technical support to associates. The paper present the development of OE (ocean energy) field in China and outline the new technologies and best practice, resources conditions, construction targets, generation device testing and standard system. The main purpose is to improve the level of China's ocean energy development. The Chinese ocean energy test field, which was started in 2008, involved a development divided in three phases (the overall design, construction, demonstration). The methodology followed in the individual phases is described, and the standardization of testing wave and tidal current energy devices is introduced. The research revealed the development and the shortage of ocean energy technology in China.展开更多
Results of a research about statistical reasoning that six high school teachers developed in a computer environment are presented in this article. A sequence of three activities with the support of software Fathom was...Results of a research about statistical reasoning that six high school teachers developed in a computer environment are presented in this article. A sequence of three activities with the support of software Fathom was presented to the teachers in a course to investigate about the reasoning that teachers develop about the data analysis, particularly about the distribution concept, that involves important concepts such as averages, variability and graphics representations. The design of the activities was planned so that the teachers analyzed quantitative variables separately first, and later made an analysis of a qualitative variable versus a quantitative variable with the objective of establishing comparisons between distributions and use concepts as averages, variability, shape and outliers. The instructions in each activity indicated to the teachers to use all the resources of the software that were necessary to make the complete analysis and respond to certain questions that pretended to capture the type of representations they used to answer. The results indicate that despite the abundance of representations provided by the software, teachers focu,; on the calculation of averages to describe and compare distributions, rather than on the important properties of data such as variability, :shape and outliers. Many teachers were able to build interesting graphs reflecting important properties of the data, but cannot use them 1:o support data analysis. Hence, it is necessary to extend the teachers' understanding on data analysis so they can take advantage of the cognitive potential that computer tools to offer.展开更多
This paper explores the image of the body in physically dependent elderly men and women and the way in which this image reconfigures their identity creating new meanings. In old age, the body becomes related with illn...This paper explores the image of the body in physically dependent elderly men and women and the way in which this image reconfigures their identity creating new meanings. In old age, the body becomes related with illness, with disablement and with its own material finiteness. Representations of the body are thus constructed around pain, deficiency, and fragility. The research was carried out from a qualitative perspective, performing in-depth interviews, with participant observation and a subject ID card as data collecting techniques. The identity of the interviewees who consented to be recorded was protected. The data were analyzed constructing concepts and theoretical and empirical categories with the support of the Etnograph V.5 software for qualitative data. The findings reflect discourses on the body that turn on its deterioration and limitations that prevent old people from functioning adequately in life. Metaphors were identified telling of a sense of"deteriorated identity"; most participants saw themselves as "a burden". They also showed symptoms of annoyance and shame regarding their sick or fragile bodies, as well as a constant memory of the healthy or "ideal" body of the past, which is hegemonic in our culture.展开更多
Discussing the matter of organizational data management implies, almost automatically, the concept of data warehousing as one of the most important parts of decision support system (DSS), as it supports the integrat...Discussing the matter of organizational data management implies, almost automatically, the concept of data warehousing as one of the most important parts of decision support system (DSS), as it supports the integration of information management by aggregating all data formats and provisioning external systems with consistent data content and flows, together with the metadata concept, as one of the easiest ways of integration for software and database systems. Since organizational data management uses the metadata channel for creating a bi-directional flow, when correctly managed, metadata can save both time and resources for organizations. This paperI will focus on providing theoretical aspects of the two concepts, together with a short brief over a proposed model of design for an organizational management tool.展开更多
Groundwater extraction is used to alleviate drought in many habitats. However, widespread drought decreases spring discharge and there is a need to integrate climate change research into resource management and action...Groundwater extraction is used to alleviate drought in many habitats. However, widespread drought decreases spring discharge and there is a need to integrate climate change research into resource management and action. Accurate estimates of groundwater discharge may be valuable in improving decision support systems of hydrogeological resource exploitation. The present study performs a forecast for groundwater discharge in Aquifer?s Cervialto Mountains(southern Italy). A time series starting in 1883 was the basis for longterm predictions. An Ensemble Discharge Prediction(EDis P) was applied, and the progress of the discharge ensemble forecast was inferred with the aid of an Exponential Smoothing(ES) model initialized at different annual times. EDisP-ES hindcast model experiments were tested, and discharge plume-patterns forecast was assessed with horizon placed in the year 2044. A 46-year cycle pattern was identified by comparing simulations and observations, which is essential for the forecasting purpose. ED is P-ES performed an ensemble mean path for the coming decades that indicates a discharge regime within ± 1 standard deviation around the mean value of 4.1 m^3 s^(-1). These fluctuations are comparable with those observed in the period 1961-1980 and further back, with changepoints detectable around the years 2025 and 2035. Temporary drought conditions are expected after the year 2030.展开更多
Forecasting economic indices on the basis of information extracted from text documents, like newspaper articles is an attractive idea. With the help of text mining techniques, in particular sentiment analysis, we eval...Forecasting economic indices on the basis of information extracted from text documents, like newspaper articles is an attractive idea. With the help of text mining techniques, in particular sentiment analysis, we evaluate the tone of individual New York Times (NYT) articles and compare our results to the Chicago Fed National Activity Index (CFNAI). In this paper, we present a simple, intuitive framework to derive sentiment scores from text documents In particular articles are tagged based on terms and their connotated sentiment. Subsequently, we forecast the CFNAI movements via support vector machines (SVM) trained on a subset of the observed sentiment scores. We apply our model into two different data sets, the whole NYT articles and the articles categorized as NYT business news. On both data sets, we applied a simple performance measure to evaluate forecasting accuracy of the CFNAI展开更多
Chinese organization name recognition is hard and important in natural language processing. To reduce tagged corpus and use untagged corpus,we presented combing Co-training with support vector machines (SVM) and condi...Chinese organization name recognition is hard and important in natural language processing. To reduce tagged corpus and use untagged corpus,we presented combing Co-training with support vector machines (SVM) and conditional random fields (CRF) to improve recognition results. Based on principles of uncorrelated and compatible,we constructed different classifiers from different views within SVM or CRF alone and combination of these two models. And we modified a heuristic untagged samples selection algorithm to reduce time complexity. Experimental results show that under the same tagged data,Co-training has 10% F-measure higher than using SVM or CRF alone; under the same F-measure,Co-training saves at most 70% of tagged data to achieve the same performance.展开更多
Africa is the most affected continent with energy poverty. Wood fuel is the main source of energy for remote and rural populations. At the same time, most parts of Africa are endowed with abundant solar energy. Togeth...Africa is the most affected continent with energy poverty. Wood fuel is the main source of energy for remote and rural populations. At the same time, most parts of Africa are endowed with abundant solar energy. Together with a highly developed global solar industry and ever declining cost of solar systems, solar has unprecedented potential to combat energy poverty in Africa. However, dissemination of solar systems is faced with a number of barriers and challenges amongst where sustainable financing and lack of technological support for installation, maintenance and repair of systems are the most significant. This paper discusses the cases of Botswana and Namibia where financing schemes based on different partnership models have been successfully implemented. These schemes have the potential for success and adaptation by countries with similar socio-economic conditions. We conclude with recommendations on training programs for different levels of intervention to overcome the lack of technological support.展开更多
基金The Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province(NoBK2008308)
文摘The artificial intelligence technique is used to generate a freeway incident response plan. The incident response framework based on rule-based reasoning, case-based reasoning and Bayesian networks reasoning is presented. First, a freeway incident management system (RK-IMS) based on rule-based reasoning is developed and applied for incident management in the northern section of the Nanjing-Lianyunguang Freeway. Then, field data from the two-year long operations of the RK-IMS are analyzed. Representations of incident case structures and Bayesian networks(BNs) structures related to incident responses are deduced. Finally, the k-nearest neighbor (k-NN) algorithm is applied to calculate the similarities of the cases. The preplan generation and the control strategy by integrating the k-NN algorithm are also developed. The model is validated by using incident data of the year 2006 from the RK-IMS. The comparison results indicate that the proposed algorithm is accurate and reliable.
文摘This paper describes an in-house developed language tool called VPerl used in developing a 250 MHz 32-bit high-performance low power embedded CPU core. The authors showed that use of this tool can compress the Verilog code by more than a factor of 5, increase the efficiency of the front-end design, reduce the bug rate significantly. This tool can be used to enhance the reusability of an intellectual property model, and facilitate porting design for different platforms.
基金Supported bythe National Natural Science Foundation of China (50904024) the State Key Laboratory Research Fund of Coal Resources and Mine Safety of China University of Mining & Technology (10KF02) the Doctoral Fund of Henan Polytechnic University (B2009-66)
文摘Coal roadway support is the foundation and strong guarantee of safe coal production. With the FLAC3D numerical simulation, the roadway fulllength anchor support mechanism was studied, and the full-length anchor forcetransferring mechanism and stressfield distribution formed by roadway surrounding rocks were analyzed, which will provide a scientific basis for a support technology in large-section roadways under complicated geological conditions and lay a foundation for the popularization and application of a full-length anchor support system under special geological conditions.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.60431020)the Natural Science Foundation of Beijing (No.3052005)the Ph.D. Foundation of Ministry of Education (No.20040005015)
文摘Color information plays a key role in the research fields of object recognition and image retrieval. However, the actual color varies by the conditions of illumination, especially the open natural daylight. Four different color constancy schemes are proposed in the paper to minimize the effects of open illumination conditions. (1) The color constancy scheme based on the image statistics is proposed, which includes the color cast detection and removal. (2) The color constancy scheme based on the color temperature curve is proposed, which combines Gaussian model with linear fitting to estimate color temperature curve. (3) The color constancy scheme based on the double exposure theory is proposed, which is able to reproduce a color image under typical illumination. (4) According to the concepts of supervised learning, the supervised color constancy scheme is proposed. The transformation of color values from unknown illumination to typical illumination is solved by improved Support Vector Regression (SVR).
文摘A novel kernel learning method for object-oriented (00) software fault prediction is proposed in this paper. With this method, each set of classes that has inheritance relation named class hierarchy, is treated as an elemental software model. A layered kernel is introduced to handle the tree data structure corresponding to the class hierarchy models. This method was vali- dated using both an artificial dataset and a case of industrial software from the optical communication field. Preliminary experi- ments showed that our approach is very effective in learning structured data and outperforms the traditional support vector learning methods in accurately and correctly predicting the fault-prone class hierarchy model in real-life OO software.
基金supported in part by the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China ("863" Program) (No.2007AA010502)
文摘Since the frequency of network security incidents is nonlinear,traditional prediction methods such as ARMA,Gray systems are difficult to deal with the problem.When the size of sample is small,methods based on artificial neural network may not reach a high degree of preciseness.Least Squares Support Vector Machines (LSSVM) is a kind of machine learning methods based on the statistics learning theory,it can be applied to solve small sample and non-linear problems very well.This paper applied LSSVM to predict the occur frequency of network security incidents.To improve the accuracy,it used an improved genetic algorithm to optimize the parameters of LSSVM.Verified by real data sets,the improved genetic algorithm (IGA) converges faster than the simple genetic algorithm (SGA),and has a higher efficiency in the optimization procedure.Specially,the optimized LSSVM model worked very well on the prediction of frequency of network security incidents.
文摘The mission of the test field is to provide technical support to associates. The paper present the development of OE (ocean energy) field in China and outline the new technologies and best practice, resources conditions, construction targets, generation device testing and standard system. The main purpose is to improve the level of China's ocean energy development. The Chinese ocean energy test field, which was started in 2008, involved a development divided in three phases (the overall design, construction, demonstration). The methodology followed in the individual phases is described, and the standardization of testing wave and tidal current energy devices is introduced. The research revealed the development and the shortage of ocean energy technology in China.
文摘Results of a research about statistical reasoning that six high school teachers developed in a computer environment are presented in this article. A sequence of three activities with the support of software Fathom was presented to the teachers in a course to investigate about the reasoning that teachers develop about the data analysis, particularly about the distribution concept, that involves important concepts such as averages, variability and graphics representations. The design of the activities was planned so that the teachers analyzed quantitative variables separately first, and later made an analysis of a qualitative variable versus a quantitative variable with the objective of establishing comparisons between distributions and use concepts as averages, variability, shape and outliers. The instructions in each activity indicated to the teachers to use all the resources of the software that were necessary to make the complete analysis and respond to certain questions that pretended to capture the type of representations they used to answer. The results indicate that despite the abundance of representations provided by the software, teachers focu,; on the calculation of averages to describe and compare distributions, rather than on the important properties of data such as variability, :shape and outliers. Many teachers were able to build interesting graphs reflecting important properties of the data, but cannot use them 1:o support data analysis. Hence, it is necessary to extend the teachers' understanding on data analysis so they can take advantage of the cognitive potential that computer tools to offer.
文摘This paper explores the image of the body in physically dependent elderly men and women and the way in which this image reconfigures their identity creating new meanings. In old age, the body becomes related with illness, with disablement and with its own material finiteness. Representations of the body are thus constructed around pain, deficiency, and fragility. The research was carried out from a qualitative perspective, performing in-depth interviews, with participant observation and a subject ID card as data collecting techniques. The identity of the interviewees who consented to be recorded was protected. The data were analyzed constructing concepts and theoretical and empirical categories with the support of the Etnograph V.5 software for qualitative data. The findings reflect discourses on the body that turn on its deterioration and limitations that prevent old people from functioning adequately in life. Metaphors were identified telling of a sense of"deteriorated identity"; most participants saw themselves as "a burden". They also showed symptoms of annoyance and shame regarding their sick or fragile bodies, as well as a constant memory of the healthy or "ideal" body of the past, which is hegemonic in our culture.
文摘Discussing the matter of organizational data management implies, almost automatically, the concept of data warehousing as one of the most important parts of decision support system (DSS), as it supports the integration of information management by aggregating all data formats and provisioning external systems with consistent data content and flows, together with the metadata concept, as one of the easiest ways of integration for software and database systems. Since organizational data management uses the metadata channel for creating a bi-directional flow, when correctly managed, metadata can save both time and resources for organizations. This paperI will focus on providing theoretical aspects of the two concepts, together with a short brief over a proposed model of design for an organizational management tool.
文摘Groundwater extraction is used to alleviate drought in many habitats. However, widespread drought decreases spring discharge and there is a need to integrate climate change research into resource management and action. Accurate estimates of groundwater discharge may be valuable in improving decision support systems of hydrogeological resource exploitation. The present study performs a forecast for groundwater discharge in Aquifer?s Cervialto Mountains(southern Italy). A time series starting in 1883 was the basis for longterm predictions. An Ensemble Discharge Prediction(EDis P) was applied, and the progress of the discharge ensemble forecast was inferred with the aid of an Exponential Smoothing(ES) model initialized at different annual times. EDisP-ES hindcast model experiments were tested, and discharge plume-patterns forecast was assessed with horizon placed in the year 2044. A 46-year cycle pattern was identified by comparing simulations and observations, which is essential for the forecasting purpose. ED is P-ES performed an ensemble mean path for the coming decades that indicates a discharge regime within ± 1 standard deviation around the mean value of 4.1 m^3 s^(-1). These fluctuations are comparable with those observed in the period 1961-1980 and further back, with changepoints detectable around the years 2025 and 2035. Temporary drought conditions are expected after the year 2030.
文摘Forecasting economic indices on the basis of information extracted from text documents, like newspaper articles is an attractive idea. With the help of text mining techniques, in particular sentiment analysis, we evaluate the tone of individual New York Times (NYT) articles and compare our results to the Chicago Fed National Activity Index (CFNAI). In this paper, we present a simple, intuitive framework to derive sentiment scores from text documents In particular articles are tagged based on terms and their connotated sentiment. Subsequently, we forecast the CFNAI movements via support vector machines (SVM) trained on a subset of the observed sentiment scores. We apply our model into two different data sets, the whole NYT articles and the articles categorized as NYT business news. On both data sets, we applied a simple performance measure to evaluate forecasting accuracy of the CFNAI
基金National Natural Science Foundations of China (No.60873179, No.60803078)
文摘Chinese organization name recognition is hard and important in natural language processing. To reduce tagged corpus and use untagged corpus,we presented combing Co-training with support vector machines (SVM) and conditional random fields (CRF) to improve recognition results. Based on principles of uncorrelated and compatible,we constructed different classifiers from different views within SVM or CRF alone and combination of these two models. And we modified a heuristic untagged samples selection algorithm to reduce time complexity. Experimental results show that under the same tagged data,Co-training has 10% F-measure higher than using SVM or CRF alone; under the same F-measure,Co-training saves at most 70% of tagged data to achieve the same performance.
文摘Africa is the most affected continent with energy poverty. Wood fuel is the main source of energy for remote and rural populations. At the same time, most parts of Africa are endowed with abundant solar energy. Together with a highly developed global solar industry and ever declining cost of solar systems, solar has unprecedented potential to combat energy poverty in Africa. However, dissemination of solar systems is faced with a number of barriers and challenges amongst where sustainable financing and lack of technological support for installation, maintenance and repair of systems are the most significant. This paper discusses the cases of Botswana and Namibia where financing schemes based on different partnership models have been successfully implemented. These schemes have the potential for success and adaptation by countries with similar socio-economic conditions. We conclude with recommendations on training programs for different levels of intervention to overcome the lack of technological support.