Labeling design documents based on operators’ consensus—A case study of robotic design

Designers usually begin with a database to look for historical design solution, available experience and techniques through design documents, when initiating a new design. This database is a collection of labeled design documents under a few of predefined categories. However, little work has been done on labeling a relatively small number of design documents for information organization, so that most of design documents in this database can be automatically categorized.This paper initiates a study on this topic and proposes a methodology in four steps: design document collection, documents labeling, finalization of documents labeling and categorization of design database. Our discussion in this paper focuses on the first three steps. The key of this method is to collect relatively small number of design documents for manual labeling operation, and unify the effective labeling results as the final labels in terms of labeling agreement analysis and text classification experiment. Then these labeled documents are utilized as training samples to construct classifiers, which can automatically give appropriate labels to each design document.With this method, design documents are labeled in terms of the consensus of operators’ understanding, and design information can be organized in a comprehensive and universally accessible way. A case study of labeling robotic design documents is used to demonstrate the proposed methodology. Experimental results show that this method can significantly benefit efficient design information search.     

Short text similarity based on probabilistic topics

In this paper, we propose a new method for measuring the similarity between two short text snippets by comparing each of them with the probabilistic topics. Specifically, our method starts by firstly finding the distinguishing terms between the two short text snippets and comparing them with a series of probabilistic topics, extracted by Gibbs sampling algorithm. The relationship between the distinguishing terms of the short text snippets can be discovered by examining their probabilities under each topic. The similarity between two short text snippets is calculated based on their common terms and the relationship of their distinguishing terms. Extensive experiments on paraphrasing and question categorization show that the proposed method can calculate the similarity of short text snippets more accurately than other methods including the pure TF-IDF measure.     

Simple procedures of choice in multicriteria problems without precise information about the alternatives’ values

The additive model of multiattribute value theory is widely used in multicriteria choice problems. But often it is not easy to obtain precise values for the scaling weights or the alternatives’ value in each function. Several decision rules which require weaker information, such as ordinal information, have been proposed to select an alternative under these circumstances. We propose new decision rules and test them using Monte-Carlo simulation, considering that there is ordinal information both on the scaling weights and on the alternatives’ values. Results show the new rules constitute a good approximation. We provide guidelines about how to use these rules in a context of selecting a subset of the most promising alternatives, considering the contradictory objectives of keeping a low number of alternatives yet not excluding the best one.     

Building a database for product design knowledge retrieval—A case study in robotic design database

In product design process, when dealing with technical problems or initiating a new design, R&D personnel would often turn to technical database to seek inspiration. The building of a database with such documents has not been systematically dealt with. In this paper, several issues on how to build up a product design database are investigated: input source, sampling scheme and quality control. A case study of building a database for robotic design is used to demonstrate the concept. It is an archive of more than 1500 relevant technical papers. A total of 16 graduates are employed as operators in the labeling process and subsequently the hypothesis tests are utilized to process the labeling results. To ensure this database quality, the labeling consistency of each operator and the understanding of each category are tested. With the use of statistical methods, this work proposes a feasible and practical way to create such a database for product design.     

2009多国仪器仪表展览会流量仪表评估

简要介绍了2009年多国仪器仪表展览会(MICONEX2009)上流量仪表参展商概况、12大类参展流量仪表所占比例,并分析评述了展品及其亮点,如新流量测最原理的激光流量计,向小流量低流速方向延伸的超声流量计、超声热黾表和超声水表,能测量液体的MEMS(微机电系统)制的热式流量计,可代替机械式的MEMS家用/商用燃气表,高阶椭圆齿轮流量计等.     

An improvement on the digital redesign method using fuzzy PWM controller

In this paper, a new digital redesign composed of pulse width modulator (PWM) is proposed. The proposed PWM combines fuzzy logic with genetic algorithm (GA) to tune the parameter of the proposed controller such that the output response of hybrid system closely matches the one of original continuous system. Finally, an illustrated example is proposed to show the proposed method is superior to the existing one.     

The DCT-based oscillation detection method for a single time series

This paper proposes a new method based on the discrete cosine transform (DCT), named as the DCT-based method, to detect oscillations for a single time series. The main idea is to isolate different frequency components of the time series via the DCT, and to detect oscillations by checking the regularity of zero-crossings of these isolated components. This method has the following features: (i) usage of only time series information of process variables without additional process knowledge, (ii) ability to deal with slowly varying trends, (iii) robustness to both white and colored noises, (iv) capability to handle the presence of multiple oscillations, and (v) amenability to complete automation without human intervention. Simulation examples and industrial case studies are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness and the above features of the DCT-based method.     

Does stock repurchase declaration affect stock price? Differences between the electrics industry and other industries

This study is to discuss the impact of stock repurchase declaration and purpose of repurchase on the stock price in the backdrop of listed companies on Taiwan’s stock market. Event Study Method is employed to discuss stock price fluctuations while GARCH (Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroscedasticity) is applied to estimate the Market Model regressive coefficients. The samples consisted of companies declaring first stock repurchase are selected from August 9, 2000 to December 31, 2005 with a precondition that all the companies shall be listed ones 150 days prior to declaration. The study results reveal that companies from other industries have considerably bigger average CAR than companies of the electrics industry before and after the declaration of stock repurchase. Companies with application purpose of “maintain stockholders’ equities and corporate credit” have considerably bigger average CAR than companies with application purpose of “transferring stocks to employees”. In industries other than electrics, companies with application purpose of “maintain stockholders’ equities and corporate credit” have bigger accumulated abnormal return response than companies with application purpose of “transferring stocks to employees”. In case of “maintain stockholders’ equities and corporate credit” as the application purpose of stock repurchase, companies from industries other than electrics have relatively higher average CAR response. The empirical study results can serve as a reference for the listed company management and to related academic studies.     

基于OPC和以太网的电梯群远程系统的开发

远程监控对电梯安全运行和故障维修具有重要意义。应用以太网、组态王软件、OPC对象链接和嵌入技术,开发了电梯群远程监控系统,实现了与监控中心的计算机控制系统的双向通信。该系统主要具有电梯系统实时监控、报警监测、数据分析和事件分析等功能,适用于各种办公楼和大型住宅小区监控,具有广阔的应用前景。     

集散控制系统网络结构的研究

为了提高集散控制系统通信的可靠性、稳定性、抗干扰性和可扩展性,降低集散控制系统通信的故障率,提出了一种基于工业以太网的网络通信方式,并验证了该通信网络的可行性。该网络是一种采用分布式、冗余式、立体式的多层次网络结构。此结构使网络的负荷均匀分配,降低了网络的故障率,并使集散控制系统的网络向开放化、信息化的方向发展。