Cluster Analysis Based on T‐transitive Interval‐Valued Fuzzy Relations

In this paper, we consider cluster analysis based on T‐transitive interval‐valued fuzzy relations. A fuzzy relation with its partitional tree for obtaining an agglomerative hierarchical clustering has been studied and applied. In general, these fuzzy‐relation‐based clustering approaches are based on real‐valued memberships of fuzzy relations. Since interval‐valued memberships may be better than real‐valued memberships to represent higher order imprecision and vagueness for human perception, in this paper we first extend fuzzy relations to interval‐valued fuzzy relations and then construct a clustering algorithm based on the proposed T‐transitive interval‐valued fuzzy relations. We use two examples to demonstrate the efficiency and usefulness of the proposed method. In practical application, we apply the proposed clustering method to performance evaluations for academic departments of higher education by using actual engineering school data in Taiwan.     

Incorporating Intra‐Query Term Dependencies in an Aspect Query Language Model

Query language modeling based on relevance feedback has been widely applied to improve the effectiveness of information retrieval. However, intra‐query term dependencies (i.e., the dependencies between different query terms and term combinations) have not yet been sufficiently addressed in the existing approaches. This article aims to investigate this issue within a comprehensive framework, namely the Aspect Query Language Model (AM). We propose to extend the AM with a hidden Markov model (HMM) structure to incorporate the intra‐query term dependencies and learn the structure of a novel aspect HMM (AHMM) for query language modeling. In the proposed AHMM, the combinations of query terms are viewed as latent variables representing query aspects. They further form an ergodic HMM, where the dependencies between latent variables (nodes) are modeled as the transitional probabilities. The segmented chunks from the feedback documents are considered as observables of the HMM. Then the AHMM structure is optimized by the HMM, which can estimate the prior of the latent variables and the probability distribution of the observed chunks. Our extensive experiments on three large‐scale text retrieval conference (TREC) collections have shown that our method not only significantly outperforms a number of strong baselines in terms of both effectiveness and robustness but also achieves better results than the AM and another state‐of‐the‐art approach, namely the latent concept expansion model. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.     

一种动态自适应HTTP流媒体码率切换算法

近年来,基于HTTP的动态自适应流媒体技术,已经被各种网络视频播放服务广泛采用.针对客户端缓冲区受限和网络环境不稳定的情况,提出一种基于客户端缓冲区长度的动态自适应码率选择算法.该算法通过对缓冲区进行分级实现了带宽的不同比例的缩放,并采用滑动窗口技术对带宽进行平滑处理.同时,通过设置每个缓冲区等级的带宽持续上升或下降时间的限制和采用高低带宽的中间码率等级,使码率等级不会剧烈变化.实验结果表明,该算法能在带宽利用和视频质量的平滑之间取得较好的平衡,提供良好的视频播放用户体验.     

An orthogonal analysis method for decoupling the nozzle geometrical parameters of microthrusters

This paper proposes an orthogonal analysis method for decoupling the multiple nozzle geometrical parameters of microthrusters, thus an reconfigured design can be implemented to generate a proper thrust. In this method, the effects of various nozzle geometrical parameters, including throat width W _t , half convergence angle θ _in , half divergence angle θ _out , exit-to-throat section ratio W _e /W _t and throat radius of the curvature R _t /W _t , on the performance of microthrusters are sorted by range analysis. Analysis results show that throat width seriously affects thrust because range value of 67.53 mN is extremely larger than the range value of other geometry parameters. For average specific impulse (ASI), the range value of exit-to-throat section ratio W _e /W _t and half divergence angle θ _out are 4.82 s and 3.72 s, respectively. Half convergence angle with the range value of 0.39 s and throat radius with 0.32 s have less influence on ASI compared with exit-to-throat section ratio and half divergence angle. When increasing the half convergence angle from 10° to 40° and throat radius of the curvature from 3 to 9, average specific impulse initially decreases and then increases. A MEMS solid propellant thruster (MSPT) with the reconfigured geometrical parameters of nozzle is fabricated to verify the feasibility of the proposed method. The thrust of the microthruster can reach 25 mN. Power is estimated to be 0.84 W. This work provides design guideline to reasonably configure geometry parameters of microthruster.     

一种微博用户影响力的计算方法

针对微博中用户影响力分析这个问题,提出用户影响力的计算方法。该方法首先提出用户自身影响力以及用户被影响力的概念,并根据用户自身特征与用户粉丝情况得出其计算公式,从而可以综合考虑用户在微博中的所有信息,计算出用户影响力。实验结果表明,这种计算方法能比较好地反映用户在其粉丝中的影响力。     

云计算环境下异构数据节点冗余存储模式的优化

现有的纠删码假设存储节点的可用性是相同的,而现实的应用系统往往由可用性不同的异构存储节点组成,这使得系统的实际可用性与设计的最优值之间存在一定的差异。为了减小系统的实际可用性与设计最优值的差异,将存储节点看作是异构的,提出一种异构存储节点下的可用性分析框架,以及优化的纠删码部署方法。实验表明,所提出的纠删码部署方法的可用性与系统实际可用性的差异小,性能明显优于现有的相关工作。     

一种可配置数据结构模型在汽车工程数据库中的应用

为了建立支撑汽车研发的数据库平台,在分析汽车工程数据特点基础上,提出一种数据库结构设计方法。该方法借鉴部分面向对象思想,首先对技术指标体系进行抽象及划分,然后配置对象模型,最后实例化产生实体。基于此思路设计数据库表结构模型,并在汽车工程数据库建设项目中使用该模型作为基础架构。应用情况表明该模型能够有效地描述工程数据,并能满足扩展需求。     

一种改进的超轻量级RFID认证协议

针对当前超轻量级RFID认证协议中存在的安全缺陷,提出一种改进的超轻量级RFID双向认证协议。通过引入新的函数,使消息之间的数学关联性更加复杂,避免了泄露标签标识符,提高了阅读器和标签在开放环境中通信的保密性。对该协议的安全性和效率进行分析,并利用OPNET软件对该协议仿真实验,结果表明,该协议能抵抗代数攻击,重传攻击,假冒攻击等多种常见恶意攻击,在同等计算量下具有更高的安全性,可用于实际的移动身份认证环境。     

一种视频流畅度优先的带宽自适应方法

由于现有基于平均接收质量的带宽自适应方法,在自适应过程中会出现视频质量振荡,且在可用带宽急剧恶化时会出现中断的问题,提出了一种流畅度优先的带宽自适应方法。该方法引入了图着色优先级算法,在带宽自适应过程中,在保证视频的流畅播放的前提下,通过判断是否振荡调整,改变平均质量范围,以达到减少视频振荡次数的效果。仿真结果表明,该方法在自适应调整传输速率、有效利用带宽的同时,保证了流畅度并减少视频质量振荡,符合预期目标。