Querying on large and complex databases by content: Challenges on variety and veracity regarding real applications

The amount and variety of digital data currently being generated, stored and analyzed, including images, videos, and time series, have brought challenges to data administrators, analysts and developers, who struggle to comply with the expectations of both data owners and end users. The majority of the applications demand searching complex data by taking advantage of queries that analyze different aspects of the data, and need the answers in a timely manner. Content-based similarity retrieval techniques are well-suited to handle large databases, because they enable performing queries and analyses using features automatically extracted from the data, without users’ intervention. In this paper, we review and discuss the challenges posed to the database and related communities in order to provide techniques and tools that can meet the variety and veracity characteristics of big and complex data, while also considering the aspects of semantical preservation and completeness of the data. Examples and results obtained over a two-decade-long experience with real applications are presented and discussed.     

Profiling of knowledge organisation systems for the annotation of Linked Data cultural resources

The importance of cultural heritage for supporting the knowledge economy has promoted its digitisation and online publication. Many cultural heritage repositories have published millions of digitised items using semantic web technologies and Linked Data approaches. These repositories frequently use knowledge organisation systems to classify the resources, but the domain heterogeneity makes it difficult to know if they are the most suitable ones. This paper describes the process used to discover and profile the knowledge organisation systems used in the cultural heritage domain. Additionally, for those knowledge organisation systems with a thesaurus-like structure, a detailed quality analysis is performed. The results of this analysis can be used as a key factor for the selection of knowledge organisation systems in classification tasks.     

Leveraging industrial statistics in the data revolution: The Youden Memorial Address at the 63rd Annual Fall Technical Conference

We are in the midst of a “Data Revolution” that is transforming our economy. This revolution is as large and profound as other major economic shifts from the introduction of the printing press to the Industrial Revolution. In this article, we compare the development of the field of Industrial Statistics as an outgrowth of the Machine Age to the development of the field of Data Science as an outgrowth of the Information Age. It is shown how the knowledge, skills, and abilities required for “Data Scientists” have evolved to support companies as they try to differentiate themselves in the Information Age. It is discussed how the unique skills that Industrial Statisticians possess can provide a transformative advantage to Data Scientists working in the Information Age. Advice is given on how to leverage Industrial Statistics in the midst of the Data Revolution so that we ethically and responsibly implement the tools of Data Science, address important problems, and inclusively educate future generations.     

Comprehensive Analysis of Secure Data Aggregation Scheme for Industrial Wireless Sensor Network

As an Industrial Wireless Sensor Network (IWSN) is usually deployed in a harsh or unattended environment, the privacy security of data aggregation is facing more and more challenges. Currently, the data aggregation protocols mainly focus on improving the efficiency of data transmitting and aggregating, alternately, the aim at enhancing the security of data. The performances of the secure data aggregation protocols are the trade-off of several metrics, which involves the transmission/fusion, the energy efficiency and the security in Wireless Sensor Network (WSN). Unfortunately, there is no paper in systematic analysis about the performance of the secure data aggregation protocols whether in IWSN or in WSN. In consideration of IWSN, we firstly review the security requirements and techniques in WSN data aggregation in this paper. Then, we give a holistic overview of the classical secure data aggregation protocols, which are divided into three categories: hop-by-hop encrypted data aggregation, end-to-end encrypted data aggregation and unencrypted secure data aggregation. Along this way, combining with the characteristics of industrial applications, we analyze the pros and cons of the existing security schemes in each category qualitatively, and realize that the security and the energy efficiency are suitable for IWSN. Finally, we make the conclusion about the techniques and approach in these categories, and highlight the future research directions of privacy preserving data aggregation in IWSN.     

航空物探遥感地质资料定密工作初探与实践

在地质调查信息化与地质资料社会化服务工作不断发展的背景下,航空物探遥感地质资料的开发利用与保密管理工作矛盾日益凸显。本文以航空物探遥感资料定密为研究重点,总结了地质、测绘地理信息、海洋等工作领域的定密工作情况,基于对航空物探遥感地质资料分类结果提取了共性资料涉密要素/事项,根据保密法规的相关规定与要求,初步建立了以比例尺/空间精度、测绘地理信息要素、航空物探遥感专业要素为主的定密判定要素集,提出了航空物探遥感地质资料的定密工作原则与参考准则,以期为航空物探遥感地质信息共享服务提供必要的工作支撑。     

模型驱动的大数据流水线框架PiFlow

复杂流程的大数据处理多依托于流水线系统，但大数据处理的流水线系统在易用性、功能复用性、扩展性以及处理性能等方面存在不足。针对上述问题，为提高大数据处理环境的构建与开发效率,优化处理流程，提出了一种模型驱动的大数据流水线框架PiFlow。首先，将大数据处理过程抽象为有向无环图；然后，开发一系列组件用于构建数据处理流水线，并设计了流水线任务执行机制。同时，为规范和简化流水线框架的描述，设计了基于模型驱动的大数据流水线描述语言——PiFlowDL，该语言以模块化、层次化的方式对大数据处理任务进行描述。PiFlow以所见即所得(WYSIWYG)的方式配置流水线，集成了状态监控、模板配置、组件集成等功能，与Apache NiFi相比有2~7倍的性能提升。     

基于决策树的堆芯物理参数预测研究

反应堆堆芯核设计涉及大量方案的搜索与详细计算，缩短方案搜索时间有利于提高核设计效率。数据挖掘技术通过对大量数据进行学习与模式识别，可实现核设计方案物理参数的快速预测，更快地筛选出可行的备选堆芯方案。本文基于数据挖掘的决策树4种算法：C4.5、RepTree、Random Forest及Random Tree，在计算时以燃料富集度、含可燃毒物燃料棒数量及含量作为自变量，以寿期内k_eff不均匀系数偏差（KUCD）、径向功率不均匀系数偏差（RPNCD）、径向中子通量不均匀系数偏差（RFNCD）、堆芯寿期（CL）作为目标函数，构成目标函数符合度（CPF），利用大量已知核设计参数的组件及堆芯设计方案作为数据挖掘训练集，构建数据挖掘模型，并用于对未知核设计参数的组件方案集合（测试集）进行CPF快速预测。结果表明，4种算法利用训练集构建数据挖掘模型的时间在0.6 s以内，各算法的交叉验证精度均在0.7以上，其中C4.5算法对CPF预测精度最高；对测试集方案的核设计参数预测中，单个方案的预测时间均在0.9 s以内，而Random Forest算法对CPF等于4的预测效果最好。     

Experimental investigation of multiphase flow behavior in drilling annuli using high speed visualization technique

Imaging with high definition video camera is an important technique to visualize the drilling conditions and to study the physics of complex multiphase flow associated with the hole cleaning process. The main advantage of visualizing multiphase flow in a drilling annulus is that the viewer can easily distinguish fluid phases, flow patterns and thicknesses of cutting beds. In this paper the hole cleaning process which involves the transportation of cuttings through a horizontal annulus was studied. The two-phase (solid-liquid) and the three-phase (solid-liquid-gas) flow conditions involved in this kind of annular transportation were experimentally simulated and images were taken using a high definition camera. Analyzing the captured images, a number of important parameters like velocities of different phases, heights of solid beds and sizes of gas bubbles were determined. Two different techniques based on an image analysis software and MATLAB coding were used for the determinations. The results were compared to validate the image analyzing methodology. The visualization technique developed in this paper has a direct application in investigating the critical conditions required for efficient hole cleaning as well as in optimizing the mud program during both planning and operational phases of drilling. Particularly, it would be useful in predicting the cuttings transport performance, estimating solid bed height, gas bubble size, and mean velocities of bubbles/particles.     

A one-class peeling method for multivariate outlier detection with applications in phase I SPC

In phase I of statistical process control (SPC), control charts are often used as outlier detection methods to assess process stability. Many of these methods require estimation of the covariance matrix, are computationally infeasible, or have not been studied when the dimension of the data, $p$, is large. We propose the one-class peeling (OCP) method, a flexible framework that combines statistical and machine learning methods to detect multiple outliers in multivariate data. The OCP method can be applied to phase I of SPC, does not require covariance estimation, and is well suited to high-dimensional data sets with a high percentage of outliers. Our empirical evaluation suggests that the OCP method performs well in high dimensions and is computationally more efficient and robust than existing methodologies. We motivate and illustrate the use of the OCP method in a phase I SPC application on a $N=354$, $p=1917$ dimensional data set containing Wikipedia search results for National Football League (NFL) players, teams, coaches, and managers. The example data set and R functions, OCP.R and OCPLimit.R, to compute the respective OCP distances and thresholds are available in the supplementary materials.     

数据信息化时代下的工程造价管理

在经济不断迅猛发展的形势下,新时代的经济形式催生出一些多元化企业和职业,信息技术的不断发展使数据信息成为最具价值的财富。在信息传播极其迅速的今天,工程造价在数据信息时代下的管理模式也不断更新变化,以适应多元化的工程项目形式。因此信息数据的大量搜集和相关研究受到了各大科研机构和各类企业的高度关注。