Semantic-based web service discovery and chaining for building an Arctic spatial data infrastructure

Increasing interests in a global environment and climate change have led to studies focused on the changes in the multinational Arctic region. To facilitate Arctic research, a spatial data infrastructure (SDI), where Arctic data, information, and services are shared and integrated in a seamless manner, particularly in light of today's climate change scenarios, is urgently needed. In this paper, we utilize the knowledge-based approach and the spatial web portal technology to prototype an Arctic SDI (ASDI) by proposing (1) a hybrid approach for efficient service discovery from distributed web catalogs and the dynamic Internet; (2) a domain knowledge base to model the latent semantic relationships among scientific data and services; and (3) an intelligent logic reasoning mechanism for (semi-)automatic service selection and chaining. A study of the influence of solid water dynamics to the bio-habitat of the Arctic region is used as an example to demonstrate the prototype.     

A novel linearly-weighted gradient smoothing method (LWGSM) in the simulation of fluid dynamics problem

This paper describes a novel linearly-weighted gradient smoothing method (LWGSM). The proposed method is based on irregular cells and thus can be used for problems with arbitrarily complex geometrical boundaries. Based on the analysis about the compactness and the positivity of coefficients of influence of their stencils for approximating a derivative, one favorable scheme (VIII) is selected among total eight proposed discretization schemes. This scheme VIII is successively verified and carefully examined in solving Poisson equations, subjected to changes in the number of nodes, the shapes of cells and the irregularity of triangular cells, respectively. Strong form of incompressible Navier–Stokes equations enhanced with artificial compressibility terms are tackled, in which the spatial derivatives are approximated by consistent and successive use of gradient smoothing operation over smoothing domains at various locations. All the test cases using LWGSM solver exhibits its robust, stable and accurate behaviors. The attained incompressible LWGSM solutions show good agreements with experimental and literature data. Therefore, the proposed LWGSM can be reliably used for accurate solutions to versatile fluid flow problems.     

Shrinkage-based regularization tests for high-dimensional data with application to gene set analysis

Traditional multivariate tests such as Hotelling’s test or Wilk’s test are designed for classical problems, where the number of observations is much larger than the dimension of the variables. For high-dimensional data, however, this assumption cannot be met any longer. In this article, we consider testing problems in high-dimensional MANOVA where the number of variables exceeds the sample size. To overcome the challenges with high dimensionality, we propose a new approach called a shrinkage-based regularization test, which is suitable for a variety of data structures including the one-sample problem and one-way MANOVA. Our approach uses a ridge regularization to overcome the singularity of the sample covariance matrix and applies a soft-thresholding technique to reduce random noise and improve the testing power. An appealing property of this approach is its ability to select relevant variables that provide evidence against the hypothesis. We compare the performance of our approach with some competing approaches via real microarray data and simulation studies. The results illustrate that the proposed statistics maintains relatively high power in detecting a wide family of alternatives.     

Real time 3D simulation for nose surgery and automatic individual prosthesis design

This paper presents an intuitive nose surgery planning and simulation system, using 3D laser scan image and lateral X-ray image, to provide high quality prediction of the postoperative appearance, and design the patient specific prosthesis model automatically. After initial registration, the internal surface of soft tissue at the nose region was generated by the statistical data for soft tissue thickness adapted by the individual thickness information from the X-ray image. Then, the sketch contour of the 3D scan data on the lateral X-ray image was modified manually or adjusted automatically according to some aesthetic statistical data, to drive the simulation in real time by the state-of-the-art Laplacian surface deformation method. When satisfied with the 3D postoperative appearance, the deformation was mapped to the internal surface of soft tissue, and the change before and after simulation was utilized to generate the patient specific prosthesis model automatically. The surgeons who used the system confirmed that this planning system is attractive and has potential for daily clinical practice.     

滑动频率估计算法在微波测量液位中的应用

在微波测量液位的系统中,正弦信号的频率估计是实现液位测量的关键.比较并分析了离散FFT变换的两种正弦信号频率估计方法:Rife比值法和三角形法,提出了一种滑动频率估计方法,通过实时确定比例因子,得到了滑动频谱校正算法.实验结果表明,该方法频率估计精度较高,估计性能优于单一的Rife法、三角形法,适合于低信噪比条件下的实...     

DEMCMC-GPU: An Efficient Multi-Objective Optimization Method with GPU Acceleration on the Fermi Architecture

In this paper, we present an efficient method implemented on Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), DEMCMC-GPU, for multi-objective continuous optimization problems. The DEMCMC-GPU kernel is the DEMCMC algorithm, which combines the attractive features of Differential Evolution (DE) and Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) to evolve a population of Markov chains toward a diversified set of solutions at the Pareto optimal front in the multi-objective search space. With parallel evolution of a population of Markov chains, the DEMCMC algorithm is a natural fit for the GPU architecture. The implementation of DEMCMC-GPU on the pre-Fermi architecture can lead to a ^~25 speedup on a set of multi-objective benchmark function problems, compare to the CPU-only implementation of DEMCMC. By taking advantage of new cache mechanism in the emerging NVIDIA Fermi GPU architecture, efficient sorting algorithm on GPU, and efficient parallel pseudorandom number generators, the speedup of DEMCMC-GPU can be aggressively improved to ^~100.     

基于易控的51系列单片机通用驱动程序设计

设计了一种基于易控(INSPEC)组态软件的51单片机外部设备的通用驱动程序,以解决基于51单片机的底层设备驱动问题.该通用驱动程序通过电压监测仪表进行了应用调试,证明了该驱动程序实用易行,并为其他的设备驱动程序设计提供了设计思路和程序框架.     

基于FPGA的高速自适应滤波器的实现

在LMS算法进行变步长处理的基础上,结合驰豫超前流水线技术和时序重构技术提出了创新结构和改进算法,在FPGA的仿真综合环境中设计实现了该高速自适应滤波器,并且在AlteraDE2-70开发板上进行了板级测试。     

基于GPS软件接收机的C/A码捕获算法

为了尽量减少导航电文数据比特跳变带来的影响,在基于FFT的并行码相位搜索算法的基础上,采用两相邻毫秒数据进行捕获,再利用DFT细化频率估计,得到C/A码相位和较精确的载波频率。利用实际采集的数据进行实验,结果证实了该方法能快速有效地对C/A码进行捕获,为后续跟踪环路提供了良好的初始条件。