A method of defuzzification based on the approach of areas' ratio

The new method of defuzzification of output parameters from the base of fuzzy rules for a Mamdani fuzzy controller is given in the paper. The peculiarity of the method is the usage of the universal equation for the area computation of the geometric shapes. During the realization of fuzzy inference linguistic terms, the structure changes from the triangular into a trapezoidal shape. That is why the universal equation is used. The method is limited and can be used only for the triangular and trapezoidal membership functions. Gaussian functions can also be used while modifying the proposed method. Traditional defuzzification models such as Middle of Maxima − MoM, First of Maxima − FoM, Last of Maxima − LoM, First of Suppport − FoS, Last of Support − LoS, Middle of Support − MoS, Center of Sums − CoS, Model of Height − MoH have a number of systematic errors: curse of dimensionality, partition of unity condition and absence of additivity. The above-mentioned methods can be seen as Center of Gravity − CoG, which has the same errors. These errors lead to the fact that accuracy of fuzzy systems decreases, because during the training root mean square error increases. One of the reasons that provokes the errors is that some of the activated fuzzy rules are excluded from the fuzzy inference. It is also possible to increase the accuracy of the fuzzy system through properties of continuity. The proposed method guarantees fulfilling of the property of continuity, as the intersection point of the adjustment linguistic terms equals 0.5 when a parametrized membership function is used. The causes of errors and a way to delete them are reviewed in the paper. The proposed method excludes errors which are inherent to the traditional and non- traditional models of defuzzification. Comparative analysis of the proposed method of defuzzification with traditional and non-traditional models shows its effectiveness.     

Schematic classification problems and their solution

The necessity arises in a variety of tasks to classify items on the basis of the presence of one of a number of criterial sets of co-related feature values. Such sets are called class characteristics. Because such classification problems require the identification of characteristics on the basis of limited training information, they entail a difficult search problem. Consideration of the differences between the theoretical models underlying characteristic and volume pattern generators suggests a schematic approach. Schemata, sets of commonly co-occuring features values, are probabilistic indicators of class membership whenever the characteristics are unknown but the characteristic model prevails. Formal and algorithmic solutions to the classification problem when exemplars are simple (consist only of M feature or attribute values) are described. The relevance of these procedures to problems involving general (relational) data structures is also indicated.     

Ethical and legal issues for writing researchers in an age of media convergence

With the convergence of digital media into ever-widening social and technological networks for creation and distribution, the contexts for writing and the study of writing and writers have certainly changed. Researchers must navigate a dense matrix of ethical and legal issues in all phases of research when studying the ever-changing processes and products of digital communications. In this article, I draw from numerous sources to articulate a few of the challenges facing digital writing researchers in this age of convergence, focusing on issues of representation (researcher, participant, third-party), issues of informed consent, and issues of copyright and fair use.     

人和人工智能系统的概念形成过程研究

概念的形成是实现人工智能的基础,为研究人工智能系统中概念的形成过程,从人对事物形成概念的过程出发进行了研究。比较人和人工智能系统的概念形成过程得到了如下特点:人的优势在于能自主地确定对象表象和对象功能中的各种特征和划分等,能在对象、描述性定义和功能性定义对应关系不完备情况下通过思维和联想建立概念;人工智能系统的优势在于丰富的对象表象感知能力,对象的各种特征和划分的长期存储、运算和分析能力;而人工智能的概念形成过程存在的缺点基本与人的概念形成过程的优点对应。因此本文认为人工智能的概念形成过程必须关注因素的智能识别、功能的系统实践和人经验知识的有师学习。现有技术在缺乏人经验知识的情况下,人工智能系统不能自主建立概念和知识库,不能实现智能过程。     

Interface as Exordium: The Rhetoric of Interactivity

In this article, I outline how the interface of new media functions rhetorically as an exordium to engage users and to dispose them to persuasion. The modular, networked, and interactive nature of new media requires an interface: a central place of interaction for the technological, human, social, and cultural aspects of new media. I propose that the interface functions rhetorically through three modes of interactivity, including multi-directionality, manipulability, and presence. By understanding these modes of interactivity and how they function to create various degrees of interaction and engagement, we can begin to develop the analytic tools needed to increase critical awareness of the interface. A rhetorical understanding of the interface enables us and our students to see that the shape and design of the interface is not natural and inevitable. The design of the interface is a design of human experience and, as such, the interface becomes a locus of power. The modes of interactivity it deploys are capable of enabling empowerment and enacting rhetorical patterns of control.     

A New Method of Coding Minorants in Problems of Synthesis of Digital Devices from PLAs

A new method of coding minorants in decomposing a system of Boolean function is proposed. The method is based on the initial coding obtained from the minimal representation of the system in the so-called set-theoretical decomposition form obtained as a result of q-partitioning of conjuncterms of functions represented in DNF. A distinctive feature of the method is the preservation of the correspondence of the obtained codes of minorants to the block structure of the system being decomposed, which provides the minimum of informational capacity of PLAs.     

New debates on learning support

Abstract In the present debate on knowledge management and multimedia support of human learning, the word 'mediation' (of conduct) is often used as a natural correlate and rough equivalent to the word 'mediatisation' (of information). It is suggested that the distinction between the two words points to a basic difference between two types of processes which are crucial to a much needed rethinking of the conception and design of humanmachine interaction (HCI).
A redefinition of the 'appropriateness' of media support as the quality of the help to people's self-help rather than of direct control of their behaviour is proposed. Such a redefinition implies a radical shift of paradigm allowing for approaches to human learning as a cognitive activity in its own right. Another view of technological mediation is advocated, in keeping with some recent developments in HCI.     

基于XML的中间层交互技术的研究

由于HTML自身的不足．所以无法适应Web发展的复杂性和多变性，也不利于机器之间的数据交换和信息传递，通过对XML和HTML作多个角度的对比，文中提出将XML作为载体实现Web上的动态交互。首先从XML的自身特点出发，分析了XML驱动下的Web体系结构，从而得出基于XML的中间层交互技术的实现原理．重点研究了如何设计与XML相匹配的Web数据库，用XML查询数据库的实现方法，以及如何构造从XML到数据库的映射关系，具体包括从XIviL的DTD或者Schema出发来设计数据库的结构或者从数据库本身出发来构造与之相适应的DTD或Schema，最后分析了浏览XML格式信息的诸多策略。     

HUYGENS' PRINCIPLE,PHYSICS AND COMPUTERS

We discuss the emergence of topology from a consideration of set extensions in General Systems Theory. Boundaries arise in a natural way, separating independent elements or regions of the system. Our aim is a unification of Etter theory, Kron's method of Tearing and Jessel's formulation of Huygens' Principle. This should make explicit the equivalence between the objective, structural, holographic and the subjective, relative definitions of information, sought in Bowden (1994b), reprinted in this Special Issue. It connects the abstract generalisations of Schrodinger's equation and Bom's rule derived in probabilistic Etter theory with the real world of electrical and other physical phenomena in General Physical Systems Theory. This paper can be considered as a continuation of Bowden (1990; 1994a) and as a response to Bowden (1994b), reprinted in this issue.

We review the ideas behind Kron's Method of Tearing and Jessel's Principle of Secondary sources (both special cases of the above theory) and their equivalence. We follow Hiley's argument in Hiley (1996) to show how Schrodinger's equation can be thought of as specifying the evolution of (a series of) tearings in continuous space. These can be shown on a commutative diagram as a series of similarity transforms. We compare this with Etter's derivation (Etter, 1998). We describe briefly a recently published derivation of Maxwell's equations from a non-commutative algebra and show how they fit onto a related commutative diagram. Finally we make some comments on applications of the general theory to computer systems. This paper is a series of vignettes of work in progress. It is designed to point the direction of work to come in Constructive Physics.     

Open ended intelligence: the individuation of intelligent agents

Artificial general intelligence is a field of research aiming to distil the principles of intelligence that operate independently of a specific problem domain and utilise these principles in order to synthesise systems capable of performing any intellectual task a human being is capable of and beyond. While “narrow” artificial intelligence which focuses on solving specific problems such as speech recognition, text comprehension, visual pattern recognition and robotic motion has shown impressive breakthroughs lately, understanding general intelligence remains elusive. We propose a paradigm shift from intelligence perceived as a competence of individual agents defined in relation to an a priori given problem domain or a goal, to intelligence perceived as a formative process of self-organisation. We call this process open-ended intelligence. Starting with a brief introduction of the current conceptual approach, we expose a number of serious limitations that are traced back to the ontological roots of the concept of intelligence. Open-ended intelligence is then developed as an abstraction of the process of human cognitive development, so its application can be extended to general agents and systems. We introduce and discuss three facets of the idea: the philosophical concept of individuation, sense-making and the individuation of general cognitive agents. We further show how open-ended intelligence can be framed in terms of a distributed, self-organising network of interacting elements and how such process is scalable. The framework highlights an important relation between coordination and intelligence and a new understanding of values.     

基于WWW技术的水政水资源管理系统的设计与实现

该文结合连云港水政水资源综合信息系统的开发过程,分析了基于B/S结构的信息系统的基本特征及运行机制,具体介绍了一种基于WWW技术的系统设计方案,并对其中的一些关键技术进行了研究。     

An approach to the synthesis of fuzzy stabilization systems with a priori unknown model of an object

A method of synthesis of fuzzy stabilization systems for a broad class of dynamic objects under the assumption that the mathematical model of the object is not known a priori is proposed. The control is formulated in the form of a proportional law of adjustment as a function of a macro-variable; the square of the Euclidean norm of the phase variables is adopted as the macro-variable. An analogous variable characterizes the distance of the object from the equilibrium position. Despite the simplicity of the control law, its sign remains constant due to the fact that the macro-variable is positive-definite over the entire phase space. The switching times of the signals are determined by fuzzy identification of the system’s dynamic modes on the basis of measurement of the derivatives of the macro-variable.     

因素空间与可拓学的互补性分析及问题处理融合模型

问题智能处理是人工智能领域具有挑战性和交叉性的课题。大数据与人工智能技术背景下,为了给具有较高普遍性的开放性问题求解提供新的理论支撑,对因素空间与可拓学做了对比分析,发现两者具有共同的数学基础,在问题智能处理等研究方向有交叉性和互补性。以面向问题处理的融合模型为例,论证了可拓学与因素空间交叉研究的基本路径及其可行性,提出了两者交叉研究的主要方向,阐明了实际应用的潜在优势及适用范围。该研究将有助于进一步提高问题处理的系统性、智能化水平,提高解决问题从不确定性、偶然性到必然性的程度,并将推动为智能科学服务的智能数学的发展。     

Forage quality of savannas — Simultaneously mapping foliar protein and polyphenols for trees and grass using hyperspectral imagery

Savanna covers about two-thirds of Africa, with forage quantity and quality being important factors determining the distribution and density of wildlife and domestic stock. Testing hypotheses about the distribution of herbivores is hampered by the absence of reliable methods for measuring the variability of vegetation quality (e.g. biochemical composition) across the landscape. It is demonstrated that hyperspectral remote sensing fills this gap by revealing simultaneously the spatial variation of foliar nitrogen (crude protein) as well as the total amount of polyphenols, in grasses and trees. For the first time, the pattern of resources important for feeding preferences in herbivores (polyphenols and nitrogen) is mapped across an extensive landscape and the modeled foliar concentrations are shown to fit with ecological knowledge of the area. We explain how estimates of nitrogen (crude protein) and polyphenols may be scaled up from point-based observations to reveal their spatial pattern, and how the variation in forage quality can influence the management of savannas, including farms, communal grazing areas, and conservation areas. It provides a glimpse of the choices herbivores must face in selecting food resources of different qualities.     

Innovative uses of ICT in Chilean schools

Abstract This paper presents some of the results of the study of seven cases of innovative pedagogical practices using ICT. The study was performed in the framework of the application of SITES M2 in Chile. The results are divided in two sections. First is a summary of each case, highlighting its innovative characteristics that serve as models of 'good practice' for Chilean teachers. Second, the results of the analysis of what teachers did are outlined; the impact on students and the type of teaching and learning activities in use. Results show that these projects did not provide evidence of having impact on students' learning as defined in the national curriculum. However, they show that students participating in these projects could learn other things, had the opportunity to develop abilities defined as cross-curricular and practised ICT related skills. The analysis of the teaching and learning activities highlights some deficiencies in the way that teachers implement new teaching strategies.     

动态规划求解中国象棋状态总数

中国象棋空间复杂度是分析中国象棋博弈难度的重要指标，中国象棋空间复杂度分析是一个计数问题，即求解中国象棋状态总数。根据中国象棋棋子的着法特征，该问题可分解为若干子问题，利用动态规划分别解决这些子问题，能够求出中国象棋状态总数的精确解。实验得出中国象棋状态总数约为7.54×10^39.88，过去许多文献描述的中国象棋状态总数是不准确的，远远高估了中国象棋状态总数。基于动态规划的计数方法也可以用于计算其他棋类的空间复杂度，也能够用于寻找空间复杂度较低的残局棋型，为构建中国象棋残局库提供依据。     

OpenFlow技术与商业价值

针对目前流行的OpenFlow技术,本文提出OpenFlow的标准进展、商业价值和连通性测试。该方法根据控制层面和转发层面相分离的技术,采用移动研究院内网拓扑进行测试。实验结果表明,通过在BigSwitch controler上进行相关命令配置就可实现二层的OpenFlow交换机互联的不同网段主机的通信。OpenFlow是SDN技术中一种关键的接口协议,SDN是对网络的抽象, OpenFlow是对单个转发面设备的抽象。OpenFlow交换机和Control er的出现为新型互联网（NGN）体系结构的研究提供了实验途径。     

Context-free and stationary languagest†

A stationary word of a OL system G=(X,P,w) is a word that generates itself after a positive number of direct derivations. The stationary set of G is the set of stationary words of G and the stationary language of G is the set of the stationary words generated by w. The stationary set of G is a submonoid of X ^* containing the adult set of G.

A language not containing the empty word is context-free if and only if it is the stationary language of a propagating system. Every TOL language is the image under a coding of the stationary language of a TOL system.     

Delay-Insensitivity and Semi-Modularity

The study of asynchronous circuit behaviors in the presence of component and wire delays has received a great deal of attention. In this paper, we consider asynchronous circuits whose components can be any non-deterministic sequential machines of the Moore type, and describe a formal model for these circuits and their behaviors under the inertial delay model.We model an asynchronous circuit C by a network N of modules with delays associated with its components and/or wires. We compute the behavior of N assuming arbitrary inertial delays in the modules, and take this behavior to be correct. We define N to be strongly delay-insensitive if its behavior remains correct in the presence of arbitrary stray delays, where correctness is defined through the notion of observational equivalence (or bisimulation), one of the strongest forms of behavioral equivalence. We introduce the notion of quasi semi-modularity, which generalizes Muller's definition of semi-modularity to non-deterministic networks. We prove that a circuit, with all the wire delays taken into account, is strongly delay-intensitive if and only if its behavior is quasi semi-modular.