Balloon focus: a seamless multi-focus+context method for treemaps

The treemap is one of the most popular methods for visualizing hierarchical data. When a treemap contains a large number of items, inspecting or comparing a few selected items in a greater level of detail becomes very challenging. In this paper, we present a seamless multi-focus and context technique, called Balloon Focus, that allows the user to smoothly enlarge multiple treemap items served as the foci, while maintaining a stable treemap layout as the context. Our method has several desirable features. First, this method is quite general and hence can be used with different treemap layout algorithms. Second, as the foci are enlarged, the relative positions among all items are preserved. Third, the foci are placed in a way that the remaining space is evenly distributed back to the non-focus treemap items. When Balloon Focus maximizes the possible zoom factor for the focus items, these features ensure that the treemap will maintain a consistent appearance and avoid any abrupt layout changes. In our algorithm, a DAG (Directed Acyclic Graph) is used to maintain the positional constraints, and an elastic model is employed to govern the placement of the treemap items. We demonstrate a treemap visualization system that integrates data query, manual focus selection, and our novel multi-focus+context technique, Balloon Focus, together. A user study was conducted. Results show that with Balloon Focus, users can better perform the tasks of comparing the values and the distribution of the foci.     

An approach to enterprise process dynamic modeling supporting enterprise process evolution

This study presents an evolutionary approach to support dynamic enterprise modeling for enterprise process cooperative scheduling and management. In this paper, an evolutionary dynamic enterprise process modeling method was proposed from the concepts of enterprise process evolution to zero-time enterprise modeling and layered complex enterprise modeling. Based on an autonomous agent development platform, an agent-based enterprise collaborative modeling environment has been implemented by integrating several software resource agents that wrap main function modules of EPMS. Scheduling strategies, algorithms, and process-driven cooperative scheduling mechanism are also discussed.

Batch Nearest Neighbor Search for Video Retrieval

To retrieve similar videos to a query clip from a large database, each video is often represented by a sequence of high- dimensional feature vectors. Typically, given a query video containing m feature vectors, an independent nearest neighbor (NN) search for each feature vector is often first performed. After completing all the NN searches, an overall similarity is then computed, i.e., a single content-based video retrieval usually involves m individual NN searches. Since normally nearby feature vectors in a video are similar, a large number of expensive random disk accesses are expected to repeatedly occur, which crucially affects the overall query performance. Batch nearest neighbor (BNN) search is stated as a batch operation that performs a number of individual NN searches. This paper presents a novel approach towards efficient high-dimensional BNN search called dynamic query ordering (DQO) for advanced optimizations of both I/O and CPU costs. Observing the overlapped candidates (or search space) of a pervious query may help to further reduce the candidate sets of subsequent queries, DQO aims at progressively finding a query order such that the common candidates among queries are fully utilized to maximally reduce the total number of candidates. Modelling the candidate set relationship of queries by a candidate overlapping graph (COG), DQO iteratively selects the next query to be executed based on its estimated pruning power to the rest of queries with the dynamically updated COG. Extensive experiments are conducted on real video datasets and show the significance of our BNN query processing strategy.     

热轧带钢层流冷却系统的前馈-反馈控制及其优化

以热轧层流冷却系统为研究对象,对如何提高带钢卷取温度控制精度进行了研究;在带钢冷却模型的基础上,对预设定模块进行了前馈补偿;考虑模型的不确定性和大时滞特性,采用模糊Smith预估器提高了反馈控制的精度;结果证明所采用的这些措施大大提高了卷取温度的控制精度。     

基于奇异值分解技术的离心机故障诊断

在简单介绍WH-800型离心机基本结构及工作原理的基础上,介绍了基于重构吸引子轨迹矩阵的奇异值分解技术,并引入自相关函数对现有奇异值分解技术加以改进．通过对现场实测故障信号的分析,表明改进的奇异值分解技术具有很好的降噪效果,能在强噪声背景环境下准确提取设备的故障特征信号,为离心机的故障诊断提供了一种新的思路．     

林业土地信息管理中的多源遥感图像融合技术

多源遥感图像为林业土地监测提供了更为丰富、精确和详尽的动态信息,提升了遥感技术科技含量和应用价值,在林业土地信息管理中得到日益广泛的重视和应用.然而多源遥感同时也增加了有效图像信息的识别问题.结合多源遥感图像融合的信息处理特点,采用基于模糊径向基函数网络、模糊Kohonen神经网络和模糊自适应谐振网的计算机图像目标识别技术,自主开发设计软件对高分辨率SPOT全色影像的多波段数据信息进行图像融合类别判断.实验证明模糊Kohonen神经网络在识别的精度、速度以及识别率是最佳方法.     

Investigation of point-to-point performance test of touch trigger probes on coordinate-measuring machines

A major factor contributing to the total measuring error of coordinate measuring machines (CMMs) is the performance of the probing sub-system. Probing test methods are typically used to detect errors due to the probing sub-system. The probe performance evaluation method specified in the ANSI B89 standard is investigated in this paper. The sampling plan associated in the probe performance evaluation was tested by using experimental probing data from a CMM. Research findings indicate that the performance of touch trigger probes is overestimated due to a systematic bias in the vertical direction of the best-fit reference ball center in the probe performance test. A two-latitude sampling plan synthesis method based on a pretravel model for touch trigger probes is proposed in this paper. The proposed method can be used to accurately identify the reference ball center in the performance test of touch trigger probes.     

PLC在钢坯温度自动监控系统中的应用

提出了一种以PC＋PLC结构组成的钢坯温度自动监控系统,并对该系统的构成、功能作了介绍。较详细地讨论了系统中PLC的程序设计,包括对AD模块的编程技术;给出了相应的PLC梯形图程序。     

图像集的离散度矩阵及其在人脸图像识别中的应用

本文提出了图像集离散度矩阵的基本概念及用于人脸图像识别的方法。该方法把同一类图像集中的各幅图像的信息矩阵的奇异值向量作为矩阵中的一列构成图像集特征矩阵。把这些矩阵组成一图像库,并找出图像集离散度矩阵和图像库离散度矩阵,从而计算出它们的最佳投影系数。然后,把测试样本的图像集特征矩阵与图像集库中的训练样本图像集的特征按投影系数相比较找出它的相似程度,从而进行人脸图像识别。