Robust optimization of supply chain network design in fuzzy decision system

This paper presents a new robust optimization method for supply chain network design problem by employing variable possibility distributions. Due to the variability of market conditions and demands, there exist some impreciseness and ambiguousness in developing procurement and distribution plans. The proposed optimization method incorporates the uncertainties encountered in the manufacturing industry. The main motivation for building this optimization model is to make tools available for producers to develop robust supply chain network design. The modeling approach selected is a fuzzy value-at-risk (VaR) optimization model, in which the uncertain demands and transportation costs are characterized by variable possibility distributions. The variable possibility distributions are obtained by using the method of possibility critical value reduction to the secondary possibility distributions of uncertain demands and costs. We also discuss the equivalent parametric representation of credibility constraints and VaR objective function. Furthermore, we take the advantage of structural characteristics of the equivalent optimization model to design a parameter-based domain decomposition method. Using the proposed method, the original optimization problem is decomposed to two equivalent mixed-integer parametric programming sub-models so that we can solve the original optimization problem indirectly by solving its sub-models. Finally, we present an application example about a food processing company with four suppliers, five plants, five distribution centers and five customer zones. We formulate our application example as parametric optimization models and conduct our numerical experiments in the cases when the input data (demands and costs) are deterministic, have fixed possibility distributions and have variable possibility distributions. Experimental results show that our parametric optimization method can provide an effective and flexible way for decision makers to design a supply chain network.     

An effective algorithm to detect both smoke and flame using color and wavelet analysis

Fire detection is an important task in many applications. Smoke and flame are two essential symbols of fire in images. In this paper, we propose an algorithm to detect smoke and flame simultaneously for color dynamic video sequences obtained from a stationary camera in open space. Motion is a common feature of smoke and flame and usually has been used at the beginning for extraction from a current frame of candidate areas. The adaptive background subtraction has been utilized at a stage of moving detection. In addition, the optical flow-based movement estimation has been applied to identify a chaotic motion. With the spatial and temporal wavelet analysis, Weber contrast analysis and color segmentation, we achieved moving blobs classification. Real video surveillance sequences from publicly available datasets have been used for smoke detection with the utilization of our algorithm. We also have conducted a set of experiments. Experiments results have shown that our algorithm can achieve higher detection rate of 87% for smoke and 92% for flame.     

PolSAR image compression based on online sparse K-SVD dictionary learning

we present a novel polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) image compression scheme. PolSAR data contains lots of similar redundancies in single-channel and massively correlation between polarimetric channels. So these features make it difficult to represent PolSAR data efficiently. In this paper, discrete cosine transform (DCT) is adopted to remove redundancies between polarimetric channels, simple but quite efficient in improving compressibility. Sparse K-singular value decomposition (K-SVD) dictionary learning algorithm is utilized to remove redundancies within each channel image. Double sparsity scheme will be able to achieve fast convergence and low representation error by using a small number of sparsity dictionary elements, which is beneficial for the task of PolSAR image compression. Experimental results demonstrate that both numerical evaluation indicators and visual effect of reconstructed images outperform other methods, such as SPIHT, JPEG2000, and offline method.     

The subspace global skyline query processing over dynamic databases

The global skyline, as an important variant of the skyline, has been widely applied in multi-criteria decision making, business planning and data mining. In this paper, we extend our early work and propose the maintenance methods to process the subspace global skyline (SGS) queries in dynamic databases. In the previous work, we proposed the index structure RB-tree, which can effectively manage the data to accelerate the subspace global skyline calculation. Also, the basic single SGS algorithm based on RB-tree (SSRB) and the optimized single SGS algorithm (OSSRB) were proposed to process a single SGS query. In addition, the multiple SGS algorithm (MSRB) was proposed to calculate multiple SGS queries by sharing the scan spaces of different queries. In this paper, we design some data structures and propose the maintenance approaches of SSRB, OSSRB and MSRB to cope with updates that happen to data sets. Thus our extended algorithms can be adopted for dynamic data sets. Finally, the experimental results show that the proposed algorithms OSSRB and MSRB have good performance to process SGS queries and they can be easily maintained with dynamic datasets.     

A fuzzy control system with application to production planning problems

A considerable part of the literature on fuzzy sets is devoted to the field of fuzzy control system. In this paper, an alternative control system is introduced to describe a dynamic system with fuzzy white noise. In order to find optimal ways to control such a system, fuzzy optimal control theory is further developed. Specifically, a linear quadratic model is formulated and solved as a fuzzy optimal control problem. The formulation and solution of this model provide an economic interpretation of a production planning model both in the finite horizon and in the infinite horizon.     

A quantitative model for software engineering trends

Many decision-makers in industry, government and academia routinely make decisions whose outcome depends on the evolution of software technology trends. Even though the stakes of these decisions are usually very high, decision makers routinely depend on expert opinions and qualitative assessments to model the evolution of software technology; both of these sources of decision-making information are subjective, are based on opinions rather than facts, and are prone to error. In this paper, we report on our ongoing work to build quantitative models of the evolution of software technology trends. In particular, we discuss how we took specific evolutionary models and merged them into a single (general-purpose) model. The original specific models are derived empirically using statistical methods on trend data we had collected over several years, and have been validated individually; in this paper we further validate the generic (general-purpose) model.     

基于嵌入式ARM9痕量毒气检测系统的研究

基于卟啉阵列传感器和毒气接触发生化学反应导致其色谱变化的“指纹”特性原理,提出了一种以嵌入式ARM9 S3C2440A为核心、以Linux为操作系统、QT/Embedded为开发工具并利用卟啉化学传感器的痕量毒气检测装置.阐述了系统总体设计,实现了卟啉传感阵列光谱信号采集、信号处理、反应环境监控等主要功能模块及控制软件...     

面向薄带传输的电磁驱动纠偏辊数字控制设计与实验

描述了一种基于DSP、CPLD及计算机串口通信,针对薄带传输过程中出现的跑偏问题的电磁纠偏数字控制系统,并在理论分析基础上通过实验验证了该系统运行可靠、纠偏控制精度高。为电磁纠偏辊的进一步发展奠定基础。     

3种不同产地生地黄近红外图谱的判别分析

目的:采用近红外漫反射光谱技术对3种不同产地的生地黄进行近红外漫反射指纹图谱判别分析,建立基于近红外漫反射图谱的快速、简便的鉴别方法.方法:用Nico1et6700型傅里叶变换近红外光谱仪采集光谱,在OPUS5.5分析软件上用二阶导数+矢量归一化法进行产地聚类.结果:3种不同产地的生地黄距离在0.6以上时被分开,15批验证集的样品中2份判断错误,预测集正确率为86.67%.结论:此方法简便可行,可为地黄产地鉴别方法提供1种新技术.     

基于模式转换的分布式多媒体系统的结构模型

对于分布式多媒体系统,创建合适的结构模型是其重要的研究课题之一。文章在基于模式转换的思想基础上,提出了一种分布式多媒体系统的结构模型,该模型可有效地支持多媒体对象的表现和通信。