Assessing Ideational and Evaluative Skills and Creative Styles and Attitudes

This article describes the rationale for the multiphase creative problem solving process, and reports the findings from an empirical investigation conducted to facilitate the problem solving of managers. The ideational skills of the managers were assessed before and after training in a complete process of creative problem solving, along with their ideational attitudes, creative problem solving style (i.e., generator, conceptualizer, optimizer, or implementor), and evaluative skill (i.e., ability to recognize original ideas). The most important findings indicated that the training had a significant impact on the evaluative accuracy of the managers. They were significantly more accurate in their judgments about original ideas after training, both in their identification of original ideas and their recognition of unoriginal ideas. After training, the managers also gave more solutions and more original solutions to problems. Finally, several variables (e.g., the “preference for active divergence” attitude, and the conceptualizer process style) seemed to moderate the impact of training. Training was therefore effective, with specific effects that can be predicted from pre-training individual differences in attitudes and process style.     

Stochastic balancing and approximation-stability and minimality

A new method of stochastic model reduction has recently been introduced by Desai et al. [1], [2]. The stability of the reduced order model has not previously, been considered. In this paper, we show that the stability of the reduced order model follows directly from the results of Pernebo and Silverman [3]. It is also shown that the reduced order model is minimal, in the controllability/observability sense. The relevance of this notion of minimality to stochastic minimality is made clear.     

高等院校行政分析与决策系统的设计与实现

为提高高等院校的管理水平和决策水平,充分利用校园网资 源,开发了高等院校行政财政分析与决策系统。解决了诸如数据的动态查询、自动生成报表 、网络环境下数据共享等技术问题,具有网上数据共享、图形界面友好和安全的保密措施等 特点。     

国内外标准法规比对分析系统设计与实现

为发现我国国家标准与国外发达国家标准法规的差距,从根本上提高我国国家标准的总体质量,提升我国产品的质量安全水平,以关键指标(因子)为核心,研究国内外标准法规比对的工作流程,利用面向对象的方法设计,实现了国内外标准法规比对分析系统。该系统适用于所有产品国内外标准法规的比对工作。     

面向EAI的高可用性松耦合的扩展JCA架构

企业应用集成(EAI)不可避免的要整合各种异构的数据资源,同时还需要集成业务过程,而JCA则是一种较好的基于J2EE的解决方案。针对现有JCA规范还不成熟、难于使用的问题,主要从企业应用集成的角度对该架构作了一定的扩展,以满足EAI过程中的高可用性和松耦合要求。     

Semantics and verification of monitors and systems of monitors and processes

In this paper we present a sound and complete semantics for the monitor concept of C.A.R. Hoare. First a method for specification of monitors, introduced by O.-J. Dahl, is reviewed. This method is based on the relation between the historic sequence of monitor procedure calls and the historic sequence of monitor procedure exits. Based on such specifications and our new monitor semantics we present a method by which it is possible to prove that a concrete monitor is an implementation of an abstract one. In the last part of the paper an axiomatic semantics for systems of concurrent processes and monitors is introduced. The method supports verification by separation of concerns: Properties of the communication to and from each process are proven in isolation by a usual Hoare style axiomatic semantics, while abstract monitors are also specified in isolation by the method reviewed in the first part of the paper. These properties of the components of the system are then used in a new proof rule to conclude properties of the complete system. Stein Gjessing received a Ph.D. (actually a Dr. philos.) from the University of Oslo (Norway) in 1985. Presently he is an Associate Professor at the Institute of informatics, University of Oslo, Norway. Dr. Gjessings research interests are in the area of concurrent and distributed programming, operating systems, formal specification and verification and programming languages.     

Rank and select revisited and extended

The deep connection between the Burrows–Wheeler transform (BWT) and the so-called rank and select data structures for symbol sequences is the basis of most successful approaches to compressed text indexing. Rank of a symbol at a given position equals the number of times the symbol appears in the corresponding prefix of the sequence. Select is the inverse, retrieving the positions of the symbol occurrences. It has been shown that improvements to rank/select algorithms, in combination with the BWT, turn into improved compressed text indexes.     

Vignette and exposure calibration and compensation

We discuss calibration and removal of "vignetting" (radial falloff) and exposure (gain) variations from sequences of images. Even when the response curve is known, spatially varying ambiguities prevent us from recovering the vignetting, exposure, and scene radiances uniquely. However, the vignetting and exposure variations can nonetheless be removed from the images without resolving these ambiguities or the previously known scale and gamma ambiguities. Applications include panoramic image mosaics, photometry for material reconstruction, image-based rendering, and preprocessing for correlation-based vision algorithms.     

Binary perfect and extended perfect codes of lengths 15 and 16 and of ranks 13 and 14

Inaccuracies in computations in the paper of the authors on classification of perfect binary codes of lengths 15 and 16 and of rank 13 are fixed. An explicit construction of all extended perfect codes of length 16 and rank 13 with a given kernel size is presented. Perfect binary codes of length 15 and rank 14 obtained by the general doubling construction are classified.     

Integrating and automating analysis and optimization

The development of an interface coupling program on personal computers for an analysis software system such as ANSYS, SAP, etc. and an optimization software system, MOST, is presented. By controlling and directing the communications the interface coupler integrates the two programs while retaining their versatility and interactive features. The integrated system is used to solve a numerical example of active noise control for a three-dimensional enclosure, in which an energy density level of control points is minimized by adding the sound source to cancel the unwanted noise. The interface coupling program automates with relatively low cost the iterative process for designing an engineering system, remaining flexible in acoustical modelling and efficient in equation solving. Also, the coupling interface is developed in a general-purpose way so that it can be expanded easily to integrate more analysis software packages of different kinds.     

Geometric and Harmonic Means and Progressions

Geometer Marcus the Marinite explores how the geometric and harmonic means can be employed compositionally within a frame; how means function in the development of organizational field grids; how means work to develop linear perspective and proportional grids.     

冰雪运动生物力学及其机器人研究进展

随着我国冰雪运动的蓬勃发展和2022年北京冬季奥运会的成功申办,冰雪运动生物力学和冰雪机器人的研究越来越受关注.首先,介绍冰雪环境下摩擦力学的基本理论,进一步,对比不同变量对摩擦系数的影响;其次,讨论冰雪运动中空气阻力的成因,并分析潜在的减阻机制;再次,介绍研究中常用的测量手段和不同维度的建模方法,阐明各类手段和方法的优缺点;最后,回顾冰雪机器人的研究进展,分析冰雪机器人研究领域的技术挑战,展望冰雪机器人未来的研究思路.     

基于Spring与DI的项目开发研究与实现

软件项目开发中,其设计思想有以前的面向过程到面向对象,程序的规模和需要处理的逻辑越来越复杂,面向对象技术有时也显苍白无力。组件化的编程思想很好地解决了以上矛盾,以常用黑白打印机为例。     

Information and Communication Technologies,Organisations and Skills: Convergence and Persistence

This article, first of all, supports the idea that the undeniable process of ICT-based technological convergence implies the social, cultural and business unification of the world of media and culture. The poor performance of the megamerger is a clear indicator of the unstable ground of the convergence hypothesis. Secondly, it argues in favour of cooperation between different expertise, skills and cultures to make multimedia products or to supply multimedia services, instead of creating from scratch a brand new class of hybrid skills and professions. Thirdly, a variety of new possible and realistically achievable professional profiles in cultural industries and institutions are illustrated. Eventually a set of public policies, in the light of a new role for cities and regions, is developed. Correspondence and offprint requests to: Francesco Garibaldo, Fondazione ‘Istituto Per il Lavoro (IPL)’, via Marconi 8, 40122 Bologna, Italy. Email: f.garibaldo@ipielle.emr.it     

Dimension and tolerance modeling and transformations in feature based design and manufacturing

This paper describes the development and application of a geometric dimension and tolerance (GD&T) model for use in both design and process planning. The model meets criteria for computability and compatibility with the Y14.5M standard. The model is first used to capture the designers GD&T scheme on a feature based design model, validate its completeness, and then transfer the GD&T to machining features extracted automatically by feature recognition. The model is based on relative degrees of freedom of geometric entities: feature axes, edges, faces and features-of-size. Dimension graphs are created based on the degrees of freedom for each control direction. Datum reference frames and standard tolerance classes are incorporated into the graph. The model allows dimension specification, dimension scheme modification, and dimension scheme validation. A methodology to automatically determine the GD&T of machining volumes obtained by feature recognition is also described.     

Teamcenter与NX集成客户化定制技术研究与实现

PDM产品实施过程中一项重要工作是系统集成与客户化定制。对Teamcenter Engineering(简称Teamcenter)与NX系统集成客户化定制中业务建模、属性映射等相关技术进行了研究,提出了Teamcenter与NX集成客户化定制的技术思路,并以客户化定制NX工程图纸标题栏为例,介绍了Teamcenter与NX集成定制实现的关键步骤及方法。     

地形等高线与经纬网的分离及其矢量化

该文利用经纬网在局部范围的直线性及直线的平均ｆｒｅｅｍａｎ链码等于其上任意一点的链码这一特性,达到自动分离经纬网与等高线的目的,为实现等高线图扫描输入计算机的自动矢量化打下基础。     

SGML and XML Document Grammars and Exceptions

The Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) and the Extensible Markup Language (XML) allow users to define document-type definitions (DTDs), which are essentially extended context-free grammars expressed in a notation that is similar to extended Backus–Naur form. The right-hand side of a production, called a content model, is both an extended and a restricted regular expression. The semantics of content models for SGML DTDs can be modified by exceptions (XML does not allow exceptions). Inclusion exceptions allow named elements to appear anywhere within the content of a content model, and exclusion exceptions preclude named elements from appearing in the content of a content model. We give precise definitions of the semantics of exceptions, and prove that they do not increase the expressive power of SGML DTDs when we restrict DTDs according to accepted SGML practice. We prove the following results:1. Exceptions do not increase the expressive power of extended context-free grammars.2. For each DTD with exceptions, we can obtain a structurally equivalent extended context-free grammar.3. For each DTD with exceptions, we can construct a structurally equivalent DTD when we restrict the DTD to adhere to accepted SGML practice.4. Exceptions are a powerful shorthand notation—eliminating them may cause exponential growth in the size of an extended context-free grammar or of a DTD.     

BIM 和GIS 的空间语义数据集成方法及应用研究

随着数字城市和智慧城市的建设发展,建筑信息模型(BIM)和地理信息系统(GIS) 的集成被广泛研究和应用。目前的集成研究主要是通用数据标准IFC 和CityGML 之间的空间和 语义转换,但由于应用领域和空间尺度等差异,存在信息错误和丢失、几何语义信息耦合度低、 应用拓展性差等问题。为此提出了一种兼顾三维实体对象和地理空间对象的三维城市数据模型, 研究了BIM 和GIS 的空间和语义数据的提取、处理和转换方法,设计了BIM 和三维GIS 的集 成应用框架并在三维可视化平台上进行验证和初步应用。该方法可实现BIM和GIS 信息在几何、 语义、精度上的完全融合,避免了传统的数据转换带来的信息缺失,在多尺度的空间和语义信 息分级存储和加载显示方面存在着优势,有利于实现大规模、高精度的建筑和城市信息的高效 集成。