高强度锌铝合金齿轮挤压铸造成形

介绍了用挤压铸造技术制造高强度锌铝合金齿轮特别是有防爆、阻燃要求的齿轮的方法。挤压铸造高强度锌铝合金齿轮模具结构、制造工艺简便可靠，生产成本低，经济效益高。     

高铝锌基合金直齿圆锥齿轮的挤压铸造工艺

利用挤压铸造技术生产高铝锌基合金直齿圆锥齿轮，齿面精度能够得到保证。适用于工作环境较好，载荷不是很大条件下的高铝锌基合金直齿圆锥齿轮，可减少设备投资、减少工序工时，从而大大降低生产成本，具有很高的经济效益和社会效益。     

网状阴极法在碳钢表面沉积氮化钽薄膜的研究

介绍了一种在钢铁基体上制备氮化钽薄膜的新方法———网状阴极法。其设备简单、价格低廉。实验中发现 ,在工艺参数调配合适的条件下 ,可制备出结构为面心立方和密排六方结构的氮化钽薄膜。薄膜较致密且均匀 ,与基体结合良好。分析了优选工艺参数条件下合成的氮化钽膜的成分、组织、表面和断口形貌及结合力。     

LiBH4／Mg复合氢化物的储氢性能研究

通过球磨LiBHdMg，使得镁的吸放氢性能得到明显改善。活化结果显示，在氩气气氛下，球磨1h的LiBHdMg混合物经250℃，60min处理后的吸氢量可以达到6．7％（质量分数，下同）。200℃，80min处理后的吸氢量可以达到3．0％。而纯镁粉在相同条件下几乎不吸氢。PCT结果显示，LiBH4也明显改善镁氢化后的放氢性能。     

Power of the Swipe: Why Mobile Websites Should Add Horizontal Swiping to Tapping,Clicking, and Scrolling Interaction Techniques

Horizontal swiping has become a common interaction technique on smartphones, yet many mobile websites do not incorporate this functionality, instead requiring users to scroll down or click on buttons, arrow keys, and other hotspots. This is perhaps because user studies comparing swiping with other interaction techniques are scarce. An experiment was conducted (N = 252) to inform this issue by investigating whether and how adding the swiping functionality to a tap-only mobile website influences users’ intentions to use the website. The data revealed that the addition of swiping technique positively affected behavioral intentions to use the website. Perceived enjoyment was a key variable that explained this effect. These findings have design implications for mobile websites.     

A two-time-scale load balancing framework for minimizing electricity bills of Internet Data Centers

Internet Data Center (IDC) is one of important emerging cyber-physical systems. To guarantee the quality of service for their worldwide users, large Internet service providers usually operate multiple geographically distributed IDCs. The enormous power consumption of these data centers may lead to both huge electricity bills and considerable carbon emissions. To mitigate these problems, on-site renewable energy plants are emerging in recent years. Since the renewable energy is intermittent, greening geographical load balancing (GGLB for short) has been proposed to reduce both the electricity bills and carbon emissions by following the renewables. However, GGLB is not able to well deal with the wildly fluctuating wind power when applied into IDCs with on-site wind energy plants. It may either fail to minimize the total electricity bills or incur the costly frequent on–off switching of servers. In order to minimize the total electricity bills of geographically distributed IDCs with on-site wind energy plants, we formulate the total electricity bills minimization problem and propose a novel two-time-scale load balancing framework TLB to solve it. First, TLB models the runtime cooling efficiency for each IDC. Then it predicts the future fine-grained (e.g., 10-min) on-site wind power output at the beginning of each scheduling period (e.g., an hour). After that, TLB transforms the primal optimization problem into a typical mixed-integer linear programming problem and solves it to finally obtain the optimal scheduling policy including the open server number as well as the request routing policy. It is worth noting that the open server number of each IDC will remain the same during each scheduling period. As an application instance of TLB, we also design a two-time-scale load balancing algorithm TLB-ARMA for our experimental scenario. Evaluation results based on real-life traces show that TLB-ARMA is able to reduce the total electricity bills by as much as 12.58 % compared with the hourly executed GGLB without incurring the costly repeated on–off switching of servers.     

A scalable and automatic mechanism for resource allocation in self-organizing cloud

Taking advantage of the huge potential of consumers’ untapped computing power, self-organizing cloud is a novel computing paradigm where the consumers are able to contribute/sell their computing resources. Meanwhile, host machines held by the consumers are connected by a peer-to-peer (P2P) overlay network on the Internet. In this new architecture, due to large and varying multitudes of resources and prices, it is inefficient and tedious for consumers to select the proper resource manually. Thus, there is a high demand for a scalable and automatic mechanism to accomplish resource allocation. In view of this challenge, this paper proposes two novel economic strategies based on mechanism design. Concretely, we apply the Modified Vickrey Auction (MVA) mechanism to the case where the resource is sufficient; and the Continuous Double Auction (CDA) mechanism is employed when the resource is insufficient. We also prove that aforementioned mechanisms have dominant strategy incentive compatibility. Finally, extensive experiment results are conducted to verify the performance of the proposed strategies in terms of procurement cost and execution efficiency.     

基于二进制压缩的时间序列相似搜索

该文提出了一种基于二进制压缩(BC)的时间序列相似搜索的方法。该方法是把时间序列分段,提取每段上面的关键点把这些点转换成一个比特流,这些关键点是把每一段分成子段取这些子段的中间点,记录下比特流达到压缩的目的。该文证明了该方法在理论上具备非漏报的性质。然后使用天际线对时间序列进行索引。实验表明,该文提出的基于BC的方法比PAA方法有更小的边界,在相似度搜索的时候基于天际线索引的BC方法比基于R*树的PPA方法更有效率。