Semantically enriched Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) platform

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are becoming an essential source of information for both students and teachers. Noticeably, MOOCs have to adapt to the fast development of new technologies; they also have to satisfy the current generation of online students. The current MOOCs’ Management Systems, such as Coursera, Udacity, edX, etc., use content management platforms where content are organized in a hierarchical structure. We envision a new generation of MOOCs that support interpretability with formal semantics by using the SemanticWeb and the online social networks. Semantic technologies support more flexible information management than that offered by the current MOOCs’ platforms. Annotated information about courses, video lectures, assignments, students, teachers, etc., can be composed from heterogeneous sources, including contributions from the communities in the forum space. These annotations, combined with legacy data, build foundations for more efficient information discovery in MOOCs’ platforms. In this article we review various Collaborative Semantic Filtering technologies for building Semantic MOOCs’ management system, then, we present a prototype of a semantic middle-sized platform implemented at Western Kentucky University that answers these aforementioned requirements.     

MIMO系统中简单的扩展空时块编码分集技术研究

本文提出一种多输入多输出（MIMO）天线系统中简单的扩展空时块编码（SSTBC）分集技术，采用沃尔什码来区分各天线发送数据子流。采用这种方法，在系统带宽一定时，不降低发送信息速率，同时接收机简单。不同天线的发送信息经过了所有收一发天线对之间的空间子信道，获得了所有路径的部分空间分集增益，仿真结果表明，这种增益的获得不受限于接收分集阶数，并且随发射天线的增加以一定的线性关系增加。     

OFDM-MIMO系统及其频率同步分析

多媒体业务对无线通信的带宽与品质提出了更高的要求，OFDM和MIMO由于满足了这一需求被越来越多的无线通信标准采用所为底层的调制和传输技术。频率同步问题是OFDM—MIMO物理层设计中正确解调的前提和基础，本文介绍了OFDM—MIMO的原理、特点和频率同步问题的研究现状。     

MIMO系统的自适应均衡技术研究

研究了用于MIMO系统的自适应均衡的几种算法，比较了最小均方算法(LMS)、递归最小二乘算法(RLS)、判决反馈算法(DFE)、格型梯度自适应均衡算法(GALE)和格型最小二乘自适应均衡算法(LSALE)。文章的最后给出了仿真结果及结论。     

MIMO系统中的分组全分集全码率空时编码

针对未编码的多输入多输出（MIMO，Multi—Input Multi—Output）系统，提出一种复杂度适中的分组全分集全码率（GFDFR，Group—wise Full Diversity Full Rate）空时编码方案。该方案通过在发送端进行天线分组，各组独立编码，减小全分集全码率（FDFR，Full Diversity Full Rate）编码块的大小从而降低系统编解码复杂度；在频率选择性信道中，进一步对子载波分组进行独立编码，获得频率分集（或多径分集），以适中的复杂度在不降低系统分集度的情况下保证了信息的全码率传输，是一种在MIMO信道中极具实用价值的空时编码方案。     

Multi-User MIMO Mobile CDMA Uplink System Employing Turbo Coding and Joint Detection Through a Multipath Rayleigh Fading Channel

In this paper, a generalized multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) antenna system that can be fitted to the uplink of a wireless communication system is considered for the general case of multi-user. At the transmitter, the information bits are Turbo coded, then interleaved and passed through a serial-to-parallel converter. The channel is assumed bad urban suffering from multipath Rayleigh fading resulting in inter-symbol and multiple access interferences (ISI and MAI). At the front-end of the receiver, a number of receiving antennas are used followed by a joint multi-user estimator based on the Minimum Mean Square Error Block Linear Equalizer (MMSE-BLE).Computer simulations demonstrate a significant performance improvement in both single user and multi-user cases.This paper depends in parts on that presented at the 11th European Wireless Conference, Cyprus, Nicosia, pp. 187–192, April 2005. Yasmine A. Fahmy was born in Guiza, Egypt, on June 4, 1976. She received the B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Communication and Electronics engineering from Cairo University, Egypt on 1999, 2001 and 2005 respectively. She is presently an assistant professor at Cairo University, Egypt. Her current field of interest is wireless communication and channel estimation. Hebat-Allah M. Mourad received her B.Sc., M. Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical communication engineering from Cairo University, Egypt, in 1983, 1987 and 1994 respectively. Since 1983, she has been with the Department of Electronics and Communications, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, and is currently associate professor there. Her research interests include optical fiber communications, mobile and satellite communications. Emad K. Al-Hussaini received his B.Sc degree in Electrical Communication Engineering from Ain-Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, in 1964 and his M.Sc and Ph.D. degrees from Cairo University, Giza, Egypt, in 1974 and 1977, respectively. From 1964 to 1970, he was with the General Egyptian Aeroorganization. Since 1970, he has been with the Department of Electronics and Communications, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, and is currently professor there. He was a research fellow at Imperial College, London, UK, and at the Moore School of Electrical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA, in the academic years 1976/1977 and 1981/1982, respectively. In 1990, he received the Egyptian national encouragement award for outstanding engineering research. He has written several papers for technical international journals and conferences. His research interests include signal processing, fading channel communication, modulation, and cellular mobile radio systems. Dr Al-Hussaini is a senior member of IEEE. He is listed in Marquis Whos Who in the World and in the IBC (International Biographical Center, Cambridge) for outstanding people of the 20th century.     

Intelligent temperature control system of quench furnace

1　INTRODUCTIONQuenchfurnaceisakindofkeyequipmentusedtoheattreatlargecomplexcomponentsofaircraftsorrockets ,withheightof 2 4m ,containingtwoheatingroomsandaworkroom ,withsteelboardssetbetweentherooms .Bothheatingroomsareseparatedintosixsections ,eachofwhichcontainsaheatingresistancecontrolledbyapoweradjuster .Workpiecesareputinworkroom .Acentrifugalelectromotorisusedtoblowhotairintoworkroomfromheatingroom .Thede mandofalloyintemperature risingrateandstableve racityatfixedtemperaturepointi…     

Squaring down of general MIMO systems to invertible uniform rank systems via pre- and/or post-compensators

Pre- and/or post-compensators are designed to square down a general MIMO system to a uniform rank system, the structure of which is almost similar to a SISO system. The method of squaring down either does not change the finite zero structure of the given MIMO system or simply adds additional finite zeros in the left half s-plane. The significance of such a squaring down lies in the simplicity of the structure of a uniform rank system lending itself for easy analysis and control design.     

On the filtered Smith predictor for MIMO processes with multiple time delays

This paper discusses about a unified implementation structure of the filtered Smith predictor (FSP) for MIMO processes with multiple time delays. Two kinds of dead-time free models are analyzed in order to extend the original properties of the SISO Smith predictor to MIMO processes with multiple time delays. It is demonstrated that FSP strategy can be applied to control open-loop unstable processes with multiple time delays by considering a model without any input, output or internal coupling delays. Moreover, for open-loop stable processes, it is shown that the FSP scheme can be used to speed-up disturbance rejection of processes with multiple time delays by using a nominal model without delay. Different simulation examples are used to illustrate the proposed strategy properties and advantages over other MIMO time-delay compensators. The results may be considered to control either square or non-square processes.     

基于BD预编码和时分复用的MIMO广播传输方案

在MIMO系统中,块对角化(BD)预编码用来消除多用户的共信道干扰(CCI)。BD预编码要求系统发射天线数大于全部用户接收天线数目的总和。当用户数增多时,用户接收天线总数随之增多,BD算法的复杂度将急剧增大。为了解决这个问题,同时使系统支持的用户数最大化,提出了一种基于BD预编码和时分复用(TDM)相结合的广播传输方案。该方案通过对用户进行分组,对组内的用户进行BD预编码,并对组间进行时分复用,从而降低系统对发射天线数目的要求和算法的复杂度。仿真结果表明,这种组合方案在支持更多用户的同时还可以获得较高的吞吐率。