The advent of the age of Information shifts the environment we live in from off-line to on-line. The prospect of Collective Intelligence (CI) is promising. Based on this background, the aim of this paper is to discove...The advent of the age of Information shifts the environment we live in from off-line to on-line. The prospect of Collective Intelligence (CI) is promising. Based on this background, the aim of this paper is to discover the emergence mechanism and influence factors of CI in knowledge communities using the method of quantitative and qualitative analysis. On the basis of the previous research work, our model theorizes that the two dimensions of social network (i.e., interactive network structure and participant’s characteristics) affect two references of effectiveness (i.e. group knowledge production and participation of group decision). And this hypothetical model is validated with simulation data from “Zhihu” community. Our model has been useful since it offers some inspirations and directions to promote the level of CI in knowledge communities.展开更多
To overcome the limitations of traditional dairy cow's rumination detection methods,a video-based analysis on the intelligent monitoring method of cow ruminant behavior was proposed in this study.The Mean Shift al...To overcome the limitations of traditional dairy cow's rumination detection methods,a video-based analysis on the intelligent monitoring method of cow ruminant behavior was proposed in this study.The Mean Shift algorithm was used to track the jaw motion of dairy cows accurately.The centroid trajectory curve of the cow mouth motion was subsequently extracted from the video.In this way,the monitoring of the ruminant behavior of dairy cows was realized.To verify the accuracy of the method,six videos,a total of 99'00",24000 frames were selected.The test results demonstrated that the success rate of this method was 92.03%,despite the interference of behaviors,such as raising or turning of the cow’s head.The results demonstrate that this method,which monitors the ruminant behavior of dairy cows,is effective and feasible.展开更多
The rapidly increasing demand and complexity of manufacturing process potentiates the usage of manufacturing data with the highest priority to achieve precise analyze and control,rather than using simplified physical ...The rapidly increasing demand and complexity of manufacturing process potentiates the usage of manufacturing data with the highest priority to achieve precise analyze and control,rather than using simplified physical models and human expertise.In the era of data-driven manufacturing,the explosion of data amount revolutionized how data is collected and analyzed.This paper overviews the advance of technologies developed for in-process manufacturing data collection and analysis.It can be concluded that groundbreaking sensoring technology to facilitate direct measurement is one important leading trend for advanced data collection,due to the complexity and uncertainty during indirect measurement.On the other hand,physical model-based data analysis contains inevitable simplifications and sometimes ill-posed solutions due to the limited capacity of describing complex manufacturing process.Machine learning,especially deep learning approach has great potential for making better decisions to automate the process when fed with abundant data,while trending data-driven manufacturing approaches succeeded by using limited data to achieve similar or even better decisions.And these trends can demonstrated be by analyzing some typical applications of manufacturing process.展开更多
Objective:Community health services are an emerging trend.We have found in practice that diagnosis and treatment of respiratory diseases in the community are distinct.The respiratory department’s daily work involves ...Objective:Community health services are an emerging trend.We have found in practice that diagnosis and treatment of respiratory diseases in the community are distinct.The respiratory department’s daily work involves a number of outpatient registration items and a vast workload.The routine manual operation is inefficient and it is not convenient to make effective statistical analysis of the outpatient data to identify the risk factors closely related to diseases.Therefore,it is imperative to process the outpatient information of patients with respiratory diseases effectively and efficiently in a unified manner by means of computer technology.Methods:The design and realization of the Community Health Service-oriented computerassisted Information System for Diagnosis and Treatment of Respiratory Diseases(CHS-DTRD)was completed as part of the community intervention study on bronchial asthma that was carried out jointly by the Nanjing First Hospital Affiliated to Nanjing Medical University and the Hospital of Nanjing University of Science&Technology,and based on 2 years of experience and the needs of an overall analysis.Results:The computer-assisted information system for diagnosis and treatment was developed using Java Server Page(JSP)technology and introducing the advanced Asynchronous JavaScript XML(AJAX)technique and MS-SQL Server was used in the background database.CHS-DTRD was composed of eight functional modules(outpatient data maintenance,outpatient appointment,intelligent analysis for disease risk factors,query and statistics,data dictionary maintenance,database manipulation,access control,and system configuration).CHS-DTRD featured a friendly interface,convenient operation,and stability and reliability.Conclusion:Community health-oriented diagnosis and treatment of respiratory diseases is simple,programmable,and intuitive,thus the workload of physicians is significantly reduced and the work efficiency is improved.This system facilitates an intelligent analysis of disease risk factors using data mining technology,and provides physicians with suggestions on intelligent analysis for diagnosis of disease and conclusion of disease causes.展开更多
The implementation of Intelligent Transport System (ITS) technology is expected to significantly improve road safety and traffic efficiency. One of the key components of ITS is precise vehicle positioning. Positioning...The implementation of Intelligent Transport System (ITS) technology is expected to significantly improve road safety and traffic efficiency. One of the key components of ITS is precise vehicle positioning. Positioning with decimetre to sub-metre accuracy is a fundamental capability for self-driving, and other automated applications. Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) Precise Point Positioning (PPP) is an attractive positioning approach for ITS due to its relatively low-cost and flexibility. However, GNSS PPP is vulnerable to several effects, especially those caused by the challenging urban environments, where the ITS technology is most likely needed. To meet the high integrity requirements of ITS applications, it is necessary to carefully analyse potential faults and failures of PPP and to study relevant integrity monitoring methods. In this paper an overview of vulnerabilities of GNSS PPP is presented to identify the faults that need to be monitored when developing PPP integrity monitoring methods. These vulnerabilities are categorised into different groups according to their impact and error sources to assist integrity fault analysis, which is demonstrated with Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) and Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) methods. The main vulnerabilities are discussed in detail, along with their causes, characteristics, impact on users, and related mitigation methods. In addition, research on integrity monitoring methods used for accounting for the threats and faults in PPP for ITS applications is briefly reviewed. Both system-level (network-end) and user-level (user-end) integrity monitoring approaches for PPP are briefly discussed, focusing on their development and the challenges in urban scenarios. Some open issues, on which further efforts should focus, are also identified.展开更多
In recent years,the artificial intelligence(Al)technology is becoming more and more popular in many areas due to its amazing performance.However,the application of Al techniques in power systems is still in its infanc...In recent years,the artificial intelligence(Al)technology is becoming more and more popular in many areas due to its amazing performance.However,the application of Al techniques in power systems is still in its infancy.Therefore,in this paper,the application potentials of Al technologies in power systems will be discussed by mainly focusing on the power system operation and monitoring.For the power system operation,the problems,the demands,and the possible applications of Al techniques in control,optimization,and decision making problems are discussed.Subsequently,the fault detection and stability analysis problems in power system monitoring are studied.At the end of the paper,a case study to use the neural network(NN)for power flow analysis is provided as a simple example to demonstrate the viability of Al techniques in solving power system problems.展开更多
文摘The advent of the age of Information shifts the environment we live in from off-line to on-line. The prospect of Collective Intelligence (CI) is promising. Based on this background, the aim of this paper is to discover the emergence mechanism and influence factors of CI in knowledge communities using the method of quantitative and qualitative analysis. On the basis of the previous research work, our model theorizes that the two dimensions of social network (i.e., interactive network structure and participant’s characteristics) affect two references of effectiveness (i.e. group knowledge production and participation of group decision). And this hypothetical model is validated with simulation data from “Zhihu” community. Our model has been useful since it offers some inspirations and directions to promote the level of CI in knowledge communities.
基金supported by the National Key Technology R&D Program of China(No.2017YFD0701603)the Natural Science Foundation of China(No.60975007).
文摘To overcome the limitations of traditional dairy cow's rumination detection methods,a video-based analysis on the intelligent monitoring method of cow ruminant behavior was proposed in this study.The Mean Shift algorithm was used to track the jaw motion of dairy cows accurately.The centroid trajectory curve of the cow mouth motion was subsequently extracted from the video.In this way,the monitoring of the ruminant behavior of dairy cows was realized.To verify the accuracy of the method,six videos,a total of 99'00",24000 frames were selected.The test results demonstrated that the success rate of this method was 92.03%,despite the interference of behaviors,such as raising or turning of the cow’s head.The results demonstrate that this method,which monitors the ruminant behavior of dairy cows,is effective and feasible.
基金Supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.51805260)National Natural Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars of China(Grant No.51925505)National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.51775278).
文摘The rapidly increasing demand and complexity of manufacturing process potentiates the usage of manufacturing data with the highest priority to achieve precise analyze and control,rather than using simplified physical models and human expertise.In the era of data-driven manufacturing,the explosion of data amount revolutionized how data is collected and analyzed.This paper overviews the advance of technologies developed for in-process manufacturing data collection and analysis.It can be concluded that groundbreaking sensoring technology to facilitate direct measurement is one important leading trend for advanced data collection,due to the complexity and uncertainty during indirect measurement.On the other hand,physical model-based data analysis contains inevitable simplifications and sometimes ill-posed solutions due to the limited capacity of describing complex manufacturing process.Machine learning,especially deep learning approach has great potential for making better decisions to automate the process when fed with abundant data,while trending data-driven manufacturing approaches succeeded by using limited data to achieve similar or even better decisions.And these trends can demonstrated be by analyzing some typical applications of manufacturing process.
基金National Natural Science Foundation of China[grant No.61373062]The Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities[grant No.30920130111010]Social Development Project of Wujiang City,[grant No.WS201217].
文摘Objective:Community health services are an emerging trend.We have found in practice that diagnosis and treatment of respiratory diseases in the community are distinct.The respiratory department’s daily work involves a number of outpatient registration items and a vast workload.The routine manual operation is inefficient and it is not convenient to make effective statistical analysis of the outpatient data to identify the risk factors closely related to diseases.Therefore,it is imperative to process the outpatient information of patients with respiratory diseases effectively and efficiently in a unified manner by means of computer technology.Methods:The design and realization of the Community Health Service-oriented computerassisted Information System for Diagnosis and Treatment of Respiratory Diseases(CHS-DTRD)was completed as part of the community intervention study on bronchial asthma that was carried out jointly by the Nanjing First Hospital Affiliated to Nanjing Medical University and the Hospital of Nanjing University of Science&Technology,and based on 2 years of experience and the needs of an overall analysis.Results:The computer-assisted information system for diagnosis and treatment was developed using Java Server Page(JSP)technology and introducing the advanced Asynchronous JavaScript XML(AJAX)technique and MS-SQL Server was used in the background database.CHS-DTRD was composed of eight functional modules(outpatient data maintenance,outpatient appointment,intelligent analysis for disease risk factors,query and statistics,data dictionary maintenance,database manipulation,access control,and system configuration).CHS-DTRD featured a friendly interface,convenient operation,and stability and reliability.Conclusion:Community health-oriented diagnosis and treatment of respiratory diseases is simple,programmable,and intuitive,thus the workload of physicians is significantly reduced and the work efficiency is improved.This system facilitates an intelligent analysis of disease risk factors using data mining technology,and provides physicians with suggestions on intelligent analysis for diagnosis of disease and conclusion of disease causes.
基金the Australian Research Council(ARC)Project No.DP170103341.
文摘The implementation of Intelligent Transport System (ITS) technology is expected to significantly improve road safety and traffic efficiency. One of the key components of ITS is precise vehicle positioning. Positioning with decimetre to sub-metre accuracy is a fundamental capability for self-driving, and other automated applications. Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) Precise Point Positioning (PPP) is an attractive positioning approach for ITS due to its relatively low-cost and flexibility. However, GNSS PPP is vulnerable to several effects, especially those caused by the challenging urban environments, where the ITS technology is most likely needed. To meet the high integrity requirements of ITS applications, it is necessary to carefully analyse potential faults and failures of PPP and to study relevant integrity monitoring methods. In this paper an overview of vulnerabilities of GNSS PPP is presented to identify the faults that need to be monitored when developing PPP integrity monitoring methods. These vulnerabilities are categorised into different groups according to their impact and error sources to assist integrity fault analysis, which is demonstrated with Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) and Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) methods. The main vulnerabilities are discussed in detail, along with their causes, characteristics, impact on users, and related mitigation methods. In addition, research on integrity monitoring methods used for accounting for the threats and faults in PPP for ITS applications is briefly reviewed. Both system-level (network-end) and user-level (user-end) integrity monitoring approaches for PPP are briefly discussed, focusing on their development and the challenges in urban scenarios. Some open issues, on which further efforts should focus, are also identified.
文摘In recent years,the artificial intelligence(Al)technology is becoming more and more popular in many areas due to its amazing performance.However,the application of Al techniques in power systems is still in its infancy.Therefore,in this paper,the application potentials of Al technologies in power systems will be discussed by mainly focusing on the power system operation and monitoring.For the power system operation,the problems,the demands,and the possible applications of Al techniques in control,optimization,and decision making problems are discussed.Subsequently,the fault detection and stability analysis problems in power system monitoring are studied.At the end of the paper,a case study to use the neural network(NN)for power flow analysis is provided as a simple example to demonstrate the viability of Al techniques in solving power system problems.