Cooperative private searching in clouds

With the increasing popularity of cloud computing, there is increased motivation to outsource data services to the cloud to save money. An important problem in such an environment is to protect user privacy while querying data from the cloud. To address this problem, researchers have proposed several techniques. However, existing techniques incur heavy computational and bandwidth related costs, which will be unacceptable to users. In this paper, we propose a cooperative private searching (COPS) protocol that provides the same privacy protections as prior protocols, but with much lower overhead. Our protocol allows multiple users to combine their queries to reduce the querying cost while protecting their privacy. Extensive evaluations have been conducted on both analytical models and on a real cloud environment to examine the effectiveness of our protocol. Our simulation results show that the proposed protocol reduces computational costs by 80% and bandwidth cost by 37%, even when only five users query data.     

Utilization-based pricing for power management and profit optimization in data centers

Traditional load balancing approaches may spread the load on more computers as long as the performance in terms of response time or cost is minimized. Nowadays power is a growing cost factor for data centers. In this paper, from the service provider’s point of view, the load balancing decision is made based on whether power consumption can be reduced or more profit can be earned. To achieve this, we design pricing algorithms to influence the load distribution. Both algorithms take into account the utilization of computers besides other factors, such as prices and power costs. In the first algorithm, we design pricing functions with respect to the computer utilization to encourage or discourage resource usage. In the second algorithm, we focus on the profit that a service provider can earn after deducting power cost from its revenue. We formulate this profit optimization problem and derive the optimum price solution.     

CrackTree: Automatic crack detection from pavement images

Pavement cracks are important information for evaluating the road condition and conducting the necessary road maintenance. In this paper, we develop CrackTree, a fully-automatic method to detect cracks from pavement images. In practice, crack detection is a very challenging problem because of (1) low contrast between cracks and the surrounding pavement, (2) intensity inhomogeneity along the cracks, and (3) possible shadows with similar intensity to the cracks. To address these problems, the proposed method consists of three steps. First, we develop a geodesic shadow-removal algorithm to remove the pavement shadows while preserving the cracks. Second, we build a crack probability map using tensor voting, which enhances the connection of the crack fragments with good proximity and curve continuity. Finally, we sample a set of crack seeds from the crack probability map, represent these seeds by a graph model, derive minimum spanning trees from this graph, and conduct recursive tree-edge pruning to identify desirable cracks. We evaluate the proposed method on a collection of 206 real pavement images and the experimental results show that the proposed method achieves a better performance than several existing methods.     

CaF_2掺杂对α-BZN陶瓷结构与介电性能的影响

采用固相反应法制备Bi1.5-xCaxZnNb1.5O7-yFy（0.00≤x≤0.20,以下简称BZN-x）陶瓷样品,研究了Ca2＋、F-共掺杂对BZN-x陶瓷烧结特性、微观结构和介电性能的影响。结果表明：BZN-x陶瓷样品的最佳烧结温度为1 020℃,CaF2在α-BZN中的固溶度是0.05,伴随着CaF2掺杂量的增加,介电常数逐渐减小,而介电损耗先减小然后又微弱增加（测试频率为1 MHz时）。通过介电损耗、电阻率的变化确认了CaF2掺入α-BZN后的缺陷补偿方式,同时也证实随着掺杂量的增加,介电常数峰值温度向低温移动与缺陷补偿方式有关。     

拉细羊毛Lanasol CE染色性能研究

采用Lanasol CE染料对拉细羊毛进行染色,研究纤维修补剂WLX和毛用匀染剂WPN对纤维染色性能的影响.结果表明,修补剂WLX和匀染剂WPN可以明显降低Lanasol CE染料对拉细羊毛的上染速率,明显提高匀染性,而不影响竭染率、固色率以及染色羊毛的K/S值;同时显著降低拉细羊毛在染色过程中所受的损伤,改善染色羊毛的手感.与Lanasol CE染料配套匀染剂Albegal B相比,80s、90s染色拉细羊毛单纤强力分别提高13.26%,16.52%,不同匀染剂对应染色拉细羊毛色牢度相当.     

一种OA系统主题词提取算法设计

设计了一种用于OA系统主题词提取算法,该算法包括单句聚类、抽取代表句、代表句分词和主题词提取几个步骤。采用层次凝聚法作为单句聚类算法,研究公文句子的特点,设计了代表句抽取算法,根据公文群体较为单一的特点,建立主题词词库以及主题词提取规则库,对机械分词法进行改进,设计了代表句的分词算法,实现了公文搜索主题词的自动生成。     

基于语料库的语言自主学习中心资源建设研究

为解决语言自主学习中心资源匮乏、学生自主学习过程缺乏有效监控和教师缺乏指导学生自主学习的针对性方案的问题,加强语言自主学习中心资源建设,在语料库数据驱动学习理论的基础上,探讨了语料库在自主学习中的优势,介绍了基于语料库的语言自主学习中心资源建设方案。     

Flotation performances of polymorphic pyrrhotite

The floatability of different crystalline structures of pyrrhotite (monoclinic and hexagonal) was studied. It is shown that the floatability of monoclinic and hexagonal has obvious difference, and that the flotation recovery of monoclinic pyrrhotite is larger than that of hexagonal pyrrhotite using different collectors. When butyl dithiophosphate is used as the collector, the recovery is larger than that by sodium butyl xanthate and sodium diethyl dithiocarbamate. At the pH values ranging from 6 to 9, monoclinic pyrrhotite can be floated well, and the flotation recovery is higher than 90%. Monoclinic and hexagonal pyrrhotites are more easily activated by Cu²⁺ in acidic conditions than in alkaline conditions. But Cu²⁺ cannot activate hexagonal pyrrhotite using sodium diethyldithiocarbamate as the collector. By the measurement of contact angle, it is indicated that monoclinic and hexagonal pyrrhotites float well and are easily activated by Cu²⁺ when dithiophosphate is used as the collector. Using sodium diethyl dithiocarbamate as a collector, the relationship between potential and pH range for pyrrhotite flotation is established. At pH 5, the optimal potential range for flotation of monoclinic pyrrhotite is about 125–580 mV (vs SHE), with the maximum flotation occurring at about 350 mV (vs SHE); the optimal potential range for flotation of hexagonal pyrrhotite is 200–580 mV (vs SHE), with the maximum flotation occurring at about 300 mV (vs SHE).     

车载摄像机的立体标定方法

提出了一种简便实用的基于立体标定板的车载摄像机标定方法。基于自制立体标定板对车载摄像机进行标定,方法比较便捷,精度较高,且方便车载摄像机进行后续检测等工作。实验结果及误差分析验证了该方法的可行性。     

海州湾渔场小拟哲水蚤的生态学研究

依据海州湾渔场2006年7月-2007年11月的小拟哲水蚤调查数据,分析了小拟哲水蚤的空间分布特征、丰度的时空变化以及与叶绿素α含量之间的回归关系。结果表明：小拟哲水蚤在调查海域呈聚集分布;小拟哲水蚤平均丰度的时空变化差异显著,空间分布方面,经度上中部海域平均丰度最高,纬度上中部海域最低,季节变化方面,小拟哲水蚤夏、冬季节的平均丰度明显高于春、秋季节;小拟哲水蚤平均丰度与叶绿素α含量之间相关性不明显。