User preference mining techniques for personalized applications

Advanced personalized e-applications require comprehensive knowledge about their users’ likes and dislikes in order to provide individual product recommendations, personal customer advice, and custom-tailored product offers. In our approach we model such preferences as strict partial orders with “A is better than B” semantics, which has been proven to be very suitable in various e-applications. In this paper we present preference mining techniques for detecting strict partial order preferences in user log data. Real-life e-applications like online shops or financial services usually have large log data sets containing the transactions of their customers. Since the preference miner uses sophisticated SQL operations to execute all data intensive operations on database layer, our algorithms scale well even for such large log data sets. With preference mining personalized e-applications can gain valuable knowledge about their customers’ preferences, which can be applied for personalized product recommendations, individual customer service, or one-to-one marketing.     

3D television: Developing a multi‐modal multi‐viewer TV system of the future

Abstract— Under the European Union funded Advanced Three‐dimensional Television System Technologies (ATTEST) project, De Montfort University (DMU) is developing a 3D display system targeted specifically at domestic television applications. This system uses a modified transmissive LCD panel together with novel backlighting and optics to project multiple viewing regions, or exit pupils, into the viewing space. These exit pupils are located in space using a head tracker. The display accommodates multiple viewers simultaneously and imposes no physical constraints, such as special eyewear. Viewers may move freely over a “typical” room‐sized area. The design of the backlighting facilitates many other display regimes beyond the “standard” 3DTV mode in which each viewer sees the same image pair.     

Temperature measurement in orthogonal metal cutting

Orthogonal cutting experiments were carried out on steel at different feedrates and cutting speeds. During these experiments the chip temperatures were measured using an infrared camera. The applied technique allows us to determine the chip temperature distribution at the free side of the chip. From this distribution the shear plane temperature at the top of the chip as well as the uniform chip temperature can be found. A finite-difference model was developed to compute the interfacial temperature between chip and tool, using the temperature distribution measured at the top of the chip.Nomenclature contact length with sticking friction behaviour [m] - c specific heat [J kg^–1 K^–1] - contact length with sliding friction behaviour [m] - F _P feed force [N] - F _V main cutting force [N] - h undeformed chip thickness [m] - h _c deformed chip thickness [m] - i,j denote nodal position - k thermal conductivity [W m^–2 K^–1] - L chip-tool contact length [m] - p defines time—space grid, Eq. (11) [s m^–2] - Q _C heat rate entering chip per unit width due to friction at the rake face [W m^–1] - Q _T total heat rate due to friction at the rake face [W m^–1] - Q _% percentage of the friction energy that enters the chip - q ₀ peak value ofq(x) [W m^–2] - q _e heat rate by radiation [W] - q(x) heat flux entering chip [W m^–2] - t time [s] - T temperature [K] - T _C uniform chip temperature [°C] - T _max maximum chip—tool temperature [°C] - T _mean mean chip—tool temperature [°C] - T _S measured shear plane temperature [°C] - x,y Cartesian coordinates [m] - V cutting speed [m s^–1] - V _C chip speed [m/s] - rake angle - ,, control volume lumped thermal diffusivity [m² s^–1] - emmittance for radiation - exponent, Eq. (3) - density [kg m^–3] - Stefan-Boltzmann constant [W m^–2 K⁴] - (x) shear stress distribution [N m^–2] - shear angle     

Tool path generation for machining free-form pockets using Voronoi diagrams

Voronoi diagrams for closed shapes have many practical applications, ranging from numerical control machining to mesh generation. Curve offsetting based on Voronoi diagrams avoids the topological problems encountered in the traditional offsetting algorithms. In this paper, we propose a procedure using Voronoi diagram-based tool-path generation for machining pockets with free-form boundaries. A pocket can be bounded by 2D free-form curve elements that are differentiable twice. The procedure consists of three steps:

中低压直流配电系统的分散式统一控制策略

中低压直流配电系统由中压直流母线、低压直流母线、直流变压器等组成,具有多电压等级、多直流母线、多变换器的特点,系统的运行方式与协调控制策略更加复杂。文中以中低压直流配电系统为研究对象,提出了一种基于直流母线电压信号的分散式统一控制策略。直流母线上的光伏发电单元、储能单元、燃料电池单元均采用分散式控制策略,根据直流母线电压调整各自的工作模式。直流变压器采用统一控制策略,集功率控制、中压与低压直流母线电压调节功能于一身,直流变压器根据中压与低压直流母线电压偏差的标幺值,自动调节传输功率的大小与方向,从而实现系统的全局功率均衡。最后,在MATLAB/Simulink中搭建了中低压直流配电系统的仿真模型,并对多种运行状态和场景进行了仿真分析,验证了所提控制策略的有效性。     

低频数字式移相信号发生器的设计

介绍了低频数字式移相信号发生器的原理,系统利用AVRmega8515配合16 384MHz的高速晶振,采用软件DDFS实现双路数字式移相信号发生器,由于使用优化算法,实现了6 5536×105次/s的双路相位计算,从而实现了20Hz的频率步进和从20Hz到20 48kHz的可移相的0～360°的信号输出,系统硬件结构简单,频率、相位稳定度高。采用数码管显示和按键设置频率及相位差,使用方便。     

Gurson-Tvergaard模型的发展及在韧性断裂分析中的应用

介绍了G -T模型提出的历史背景及其发展过程 ,并对G -T模型在韧性断裂分析中的应用进行了阐述 ,还介绍了国内外研究状况及最新发展。对G -T模型在应用中所表现出的优缺点进行了探讨 ,并展望其扩大应用的前景 ,利用基于G -T模型所开发出的软件 ,对韧性断裂的过程进行更加准确的模拟和预测。     

砂黄土塔基边坡破坏机理研究

以陕北定边县砂黄土塔基边坡为研究对象,通过室内试验手段研究了砂黄土的物理力学特性,并与西安粘黄土的物理力学性质进行了对比。在此基础上,借助有限元软件MIDAS模拟不同工况下塔基边坡的应力应变特征,进而揭示了砂黄土地区塔基边坡的破坏机理。结果表明:砂黄土的天然密度与干密度较低,孔隙比较高,粗粉粒含量较多,摩擦强度明显较大,粘聚力较小;有限元模拟表明,随着影响因素的增加,坡肩拉应力不断增加,坡脚剪应力不断集中,边坡稳定性逐渐减小,最终形成潜在滑动面并发生破坏,其中风荷载和降雨是影响边坡稳定性和应力应变的主要因素。