This paper proposes a model, Recommendation of Appropriate Partners (RAP), used on a Social Networking Service (SNS) for locating appropriate “helpers” for users based on individual users’ Chain of Friends (CoF) relationships. Using the RAP model, individual users can participate in a collaborative online community in remote locations, whereby helpers are willing to help other users solve their tasks/problems, and it is intended that both the users and helpers gain knowledge from these interactive online sessions. An example of the RAP-based system was implemented to invite Program Committee members to an international conference. The system was evaluated and the experimental results show that our model is very effective for discovering collaboration partners and finding users with similar interests in order to create communities for providing future and longer-term helping exchange.
We present a framework for a parallel programming model by remote procedure calls, which bridge large-scale computing resource
pools managed by multiple Grid-enabled job scheduling systems. With this system, the user can exploit not only remote servers
and clusters, but also the computing resources provided by Grid-enabled job scheduling systems located on different sites.
This framework requires a Grid remote procedure call (RPC) system to decouple the computation in a remote node from the Grid
RPC mechanism and uses document-based communication rather than connection-based communication. We implemented the proposed
framework as an extension of the OmniRPC system, which is a Grid RPC system for parallel programming. We designed a general
interface to easily adapt the OmniRPC system to various Grid-enabled job scheduling systems, including XtremWeb, CyberGRIP,
Condor and Grid Engine. We show the preliminary performance of these implementations using a phylogenetic application. We
found that the proposed system can achieve approximately the same performance as OmniRPC and can handle interruptions in worker
programs on remote nodes.
Yoshihiro Nakajima is a Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science 相似文献
We present translational lemmas for the three standard models of parallel computation, and apply them to obtain tight hierarchy
results. It is shown that, for arbitrarily small rational constant , (i) there is a language which can be accepted by a -uniform circuit family of depth and size but not by any -uniform circuit family of depth and size , (ii) there is a language which can be accepted by a -time -space ATM with l worktapes but not by any -time -space ATM with the same l worktapes if the number of tape symbols is fixed, and (iii) there is a language which can be accepted by a -time PRAM with processors but not by any -time PRAM with processors. Here, c > 0, d ≥ 1, r1 > 1, and r2 ≥ 1 are arbitrary rational constants, and l ≥ 2 is an arbitrary integer.
Preliminary versions of different parts of this paper appeared in Proc. MCU 2004 (LNCS 3354) and Proc. FCT 2005 (LNCS 3623). 相似文献
The evaluation of centralised wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) in planning and management is sometimes based solely on effluent pollutant concentrations or pollutant loads. For sanitation purposes, the effluent pollutant concentrations/loads of WWTPs are important; of course, but from the point of view of wastewater treatment, the pollutant removal performance should also be evaluated. Focussing on low- and middle-income countries, especially those in tropical regions, published kinetics studies on biological WWTPs (such as oxidation ditches and aerated lagoons) are summarised in this paper. In most studies, effluent pollutant concentrations/loads are described as first-order linear functions of influent pollutant concentrations/loads. Therefore, pollutant removal efficiencies can be expressed as first-order linear functions of the reciprocal of influent pollutant concentrations/loads with negative coefficients. This implies that pollutant removal efficiencies increase with influent pollutant concentration/load increases. Based on pollutant removal efficiency functions, biological or ecological WWTPs when operating with small influent pollutant concentrations/loads should change their management to increase influent pollutant concentrations/loads in order to increase pollutant removal efficiencies. It may, however, be possible for technological development in wastewater treatment to overcome this problem. 相似文献
This letter presents a new algorithm for blind dereverberation and echo cancellation based on independent component analysis (ICA) for actual acoustic signals. We focus on frequency domain ICA (FD-ICA) because its computational cost and speed of learning convergence are sufficiently reasonable for practical applications such as hands-free speech recognition. In applying conventional FD-ICA as a preprocessing of automatic speech recognition in noisy environments, one of the most critical problems is how to cope with reverberations. To extract a clean signal from the reverberant observation, we model the separation process in the short-time Fourier transform domain and apply the multiple input/output inverse-filtering theorem (MINT) to the FD-ICA separation model. A naive implementation of this method is computationally expensive, because its time complexity is the second order of reverberation time. Therefore, the main issue in dereverberation is to reduce the high computational cost of ICA. In this letter, we reduce the computational complexity to the linear order of the reverberation time by using two techniques: (1) a separation model based on the independence of delayed observed signals with MINT and (2) spatial sphering for preprocessing. Experiments show that the computational cost grows in proportion to the linear order of the reverberation time and that our method improves the word correctness of automatic speech recognition by 10 to 20 points in a RT??= 670 ms reverberant environment. 相似文献
The pH on the surface of an ion-exchange membrane was measured with a microprobe in a laboratory scale chlor-alkali cell to study the leakage of OH– through the membrane. The solution pH in the vicinity of the membrane facing the anode was found to be considerably higher than that in the bulk solution because of penetration and leakage of OH–. The pH varied with the membrane type. This explains why the carboxylate membrane is not protonated and can be used as a separator in chlor-alkali cells.Deceased. 相似文献
Bismuth titanate (BiT) based composites containing silver particles are fabricated by a solution chemical process. Incorporation
of silver particles does not result in unwanted reaction phase. SEM micrographs reveal fine silver particles distribute at
BiT grain boundaries and into larger BiT plate-like grains. With the addition of silver, the dielectric constant increases
up to ∼10 times higher than that of pure BiT ceramic, which can be attributed to the effective electric fields developed around
the dispersed metal particles and the percolation effect. Additionally, the dielectric losses are significantly reduced by
incorporating silver particles, and the values of BiT/Ag composites are lower than 0.5%. The dielectric properties of BiT/Ag
composites are nearly frequency independent in the measured frequency range (1 kHz to 1 MHz). 相似文献
The trend in die/mold manufacturing at present is towards the hard machining at high speed to replace the electron discharge machining. Failure forms of the A1TiN-coated micro-grain carbide endmill when used for the machining of/IS SKD61 (HRC 53), a widely used material in die/mold manufacturing, are investigated. The endmill shows a characteristic that tool life decreases greatly due to the chipping when overload occurs or the rapid increase of wear when over-heat accumulation in cutting edges. As a consequence of the investigation, a strategy to regulate heat generation in the end milling process is proposed. This is accomplished by controlling the cutting arc length, i.e. the length of each flute engaging workpiece in a cutting cycle. Case studies on the slot end milling and comer rounding are conducted. The results show that the proposed strategy suggests the optimal tool path as well as the optimal pitch between successive tool paths under the cutting time criterion. 相似文献