MNav: A Markov Model-Based Web Site Navigability Measure

Web site success is significantly associated with navigability, an important attribute of usability that denotes the ease with which users find desired information as they move through a Web site. Navigable Web sites allow users to form a mental model of the type and location of information in the Web site and an expectation of where and to what a particular hyperlink will lead. Existing navigability measures are based mainly on the static hyperlink structure of a Web site. Such measures, however, have two main drawbacks: 1) the effect on navigability of a hyperlink structure cannot be well characterized and 2) the effect on navigability of the navigation aids (such as the "Back" button provided by a browser) is ignored. In this paper, we abstract a dynamic Web surfing behavior as a Markov model which synthesizes typical surfing actions. Based on this model, we propose a novel navigability measure MNav. The experimental results show that MNav can be efficiently computed and it provides an effective and useful measurement of Web site navigability.     

Accurate Depth of Field Simulation in Real Time

We present a new post processing method of simulating depth of field based on accurate calculations of circles of confusion. Compared to previous work, our method derives actual scene depth information directly from the existing depth buffer, requires no specialized rendering passes, and allows easy integration into existing rendering applications. Our implementation uses an adaptive, two‐pass filter, producing a high quality depth of field effect that can be executed entirely on the GPU, taking advantage of the parallelism of modern graphics cards and permitting real time performance when applied to large numbers of pixels.     

10Gbit/s甚短距离传输系统接收模块研究

本文研究了符合OIF—VSR4—01．0规范的甚短距离（VSR）并行光传输系统转换器集成电路，实现了接收部分转换器集成电路中帧同步、8B／10B解码、12路通道去斜移、检错纠错等模块的设计。在Altera的Stratix GX系列的FPGA上实现了接收部分转换器集成电路。仿真分析的结果表明所设计的各个模块能正确的实现接收部分转换器集成电路的功能，给出了仿真结果。     

大堤背水侧压盖处理相关理论研究

研究大堤背水侧压盖处理相关理论问题,这方面的专家学者很多,也有许多理论和实验分析成果,但在作压盖的长度和宽度分析时,常会遇到二次入渗或多次入渗的问题,由此带来流量迭加和收敛问题;在计算方法方面这些问题如何解决,国内外专家在这方面还未做过相关研究工作。文章在以上方面作了一些研究。     

Handling degenerate cases in exact geodesic computation on triangle meshes

The computation of exact geodesics on triangle meshes is a widely used operation in computer-aided design and computer graphics. Practical algorithms for computing such exact geodesics have been recently proposed by Surazhsky et al. [5]. By applying these geometric algorithms to real-world data, degenerate cases frequently appear. In this paper we classify and enumerate all the degenerate cases in a systematic way. Based on the classification, we present solutions to handle all the degenerate cases consistently and correctly. The common users may find the present techniques useful when they implement a robust code of computing exact geodesic paths on meshes.     

Optimization techniques for curved path computing

Participating media with an inhomogeneous index of refraction make light follow curved paths. Simulating this in a global illumination environment has usually been neglected due to the complexity of the calculations involved, sacrificing accurate physical simulations for efficient visual results. This paper aims to simulate non-linear media in a more reasonable time than previous works without losing physical correctness. Accuracy is achieved by solving the Eikonal equation of geometrical optics, which describes the path followed by a light beam that traverses a non-linear medium. This equation is used in the context of a photon mapping extension.     

Antiwear Action of Mineral Lubricants Modified by Conventional and Uncoventional Additives

The authors of this paper investigated the influence of esters of rapeseed oil fatty acids on the lubricating properties of mineral lubricants containing chosen AW/EP additives. Methyl esters, ethylene glycol esters, and glycerol esters as well as some commercial AW/EP packages based on zinc dialkyldithiophosphate, S–P organic compounds, and sulphurized esters of fatty acids were tested. The tribological tests were carried out with the use of a four-ball machine. Antiwear (AW) properties of tested compositions were determined using their limiting load of wear (G_oz(40)). It appears that the AW action of esters of rapeseed oil fatty acids depends on their structure. The best AW action is shown by compositions of mineral oil lubricants containing AW/EP additives and methyl esters of rapeseed oil fatty acids. The SEM/EDS analysis of the scar surface layer indicated that the presence of these esters in lubricants causes a change in the interaction between AW/EP additives and the metal surface. These observations were confirmed by the XPS surface analysis.     

OCT-M FCC 汽油深度加氢脱硫技术的研究及工业应用

比较研究了MIP汽油与常规FCC汽油的特点，考察了抚顺石油化工研究院(FRIPP)开发的OCT-M催化汽油选择性加氢脱硫技术由MIP汽油与FCC汽油生产硫含量≯50µg/g汽油的情况下的辛烷值损失。工业应用结果表明，OCT-M技术将MIP汽油硫含量由417～442µg/g降低到24～53µg/g，RON损失0.7～1.8个单位。因此，OCT-M技术可为我国炼厂生产硫含量≯50µg/g的清洁汽油提供经济、灵活的技术方案。     

Response time variability

Response time variability is a new optimization problem with a broad range of applications and a distinctive number of theoretic flavour. The problem occurs whenever events, jobs, clients or products need to be sequenced so as to minimize the variability of time for which they wait for the next turn in obtaining the resources necessary for their advance. The problem has numerous real-life applications. We study its computational complexity, present efficiency, polynomial time algorithms for some cases, and the NP-hardness proof for a general problem. We propose a position exchange heuristic and apply it to improve the total response time variability of an initial sequence. The latter is the optimum bottleneck sequence, Webster or Jefferson sequence of the apportionment, or a random sequence. We report on computational experiments with the heuristic.