Disquiet in the plasma

The metaphor of plasma is taken up to present and discuss movement and engagement by participants in mixed reality installation arts. Two works involving full body video portraits exhibited through large plasma screens in a variety of public settings are covered. Machinic mediations of video realism are considered in terms of embodied interaction in which viewer-participants contribute to the ‘disquiet’ of gendered figuring. Processural, proximal and personal aspects of responsive engagement are discussed. This is extended to performativity that may lead us to critical reflection of our own actions and responses in mixed reality arts.     

Efficient SAT-based bounded model checking for software verification

This paper discusses our methodology for formal analysis and automatic verification of software programs. It is applicable to a large subset of the C programming language that includes pointer arithmetic and bounded recursion. We consider reachability properties, in particular whether certain assertions or basic blocks are reachable in the source code, or whether certain standard property violations can occur. We perform this analysis via a translation to a Boolean circuit representation based on modeling basic blocks. The program is then analyzed by a back-end SAT-based bounded model checker, where each unrolling is mapped to one step in a block-wise execution of the program.     

WSN 中基于粒子滤波的目标跟踪研究

针对无线传感器网络中仅有角度测量的目标跟踪问题,详细分析其定位过程,提出一种基于改进粒子滤波算法的新解决方案.方案采用高斯混合模型(GMM)代替单一模型近似概率密度分布,融入粒子滤波算法,提议分布采用SRUKF-PF算法更新粒子.算法中增加改进措施以提高滤波性能如:残差重采样算法用于重采样、K-means算法用于构建预估起始点、EM算法用于拟合GMM近似等.仿真结果验证了方案的有效性.     

An integral system‐ergonomic approach for IT‐based process management in complex work environments by example of manufacturing and health care

Recent trends in manufacturing and health care move these two work systems closer together from a system ergonomics point of view. Individual treatment of products, especially patients, by specialists in a distributed environment demand information technology (IT)‐based support suitable for complex systems. IT‐based support of processes in complex systems is difficult due to the lack of standard processes. IT support also means to rethink processes to use efficiency potentials. Close cooperation of users and software developers is needed to increase the ergonomic quality of the system. Therefore, suitable tools are needed: UML is available as the standard industry modeling language, Zope/Plone as the quasi‐standard for content management systems, SimPy as an object‐oriented simulation tool for event‐triggered processes, and ACT‐R as a powerful cognitive architecture for simulation of human information processes. The integration of these tools enables system‐ergonomic support of processes in the complex work system as well as of the development and deployment process. It is the base of an integral system‐ergonomic approach for IT‐based process management. Knowledge gained during process analysis either enters models or leads to the extension and adaptation of the tool chain. The models serve as basis for discussion among system ergonomists, programmers, and specialists from the work system. Further, they are understood by simulation and process support tools. Transcoding efforts between humans with different professional backgrounds and machines are reduced, and the flexibility demanded by complex systems is met. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.     

Extension of domains of states

We deal with categorical aspects of the extensions of generalized probability measures. In particular, we study various domains of fuzzy sets, describe the relationships between σ-fields of crisp sets and generated Łukasiewicz tribes of measurable functions, and mention some probabilistic aspects. D-posets and sequential continuity play an important role. This work was supported by the Slovak Research and Development Agency under the contract No. APVV-0071-06, Protocol for Scientific and Technological Collaboration between the Republic of Italy and Slovak Republic, Project No. 15: Algebraic and Logical Systems of Soft Computing, and VEGA 2/6088/26.     

Thermal images generated by a line-scanning technique: statistical properties

The analysis of statistical parameters of computer-generated therfial images by a line-scanning technique indicates an approach to efficient image transmission.     

Mode-selective dynamic light scattering: theory versus experimental realization

We present a quantitative experimental comparison of fiber-based, single- and few-mode dynamic light scattering with the classical pinhole-detection optics. The recently presented theory of mode-selective dynamic light scattering [Appl. Opt. 32, 2860 (1993)] predicts a collection efficiency and a signal-tobaseline ratio superior to that of a classical pinhole setup. These predictions are confirmed by our experiments. Using single-mode optical fibers with different cutoff wavelengths and commercially available mechanical components, we have constructed a mode-selective detection optics in a simple and compact dynamic light-scattering spectrometer that permits an optimal compromise between signal intensity and dynamical resolution.     

The influence of temperature and grain size on substructure evolution in stainless steel 316L

The flow stress of polycrystals is controlled by the processes occurring in the grain interior as well as in the mantle, i.e. at the grain boundary and its immediate vicinity. The early stages of evolution of dislocation substructure in these two regions with strain in 316L stainless steel polycrystals have been studied at 293 K, 673 K and 1123 K representing the low temperature thermal, the intermediate temperature athermal and the high temperature thermal regimes respectively. Specimens with grain sizes of 4 and 12 m were employed to determine the effect of grain size.Transmission electron microscopy studies on deformed specimens show the different roles of grain boundary and grain interior in different temperature regimes. In the low temperature regime grain boundaries act as obstacles to moving dislocations and as such high density of dislocation is found in the grain boundary vicinity. In the intermediate temperature regime the dislocations which are easily spread into the grain interior rearrange to form cell walls. In the high temperature regime grain boundaries transform to the equilibrium state and do not contain any grain boundary dislocations, and the distribution of dislocations within grains is homogeneous at all strains. Significantly higher values of dislocation densities in the vicinity as well as in the grain interior were found in the finer grain size material in the whole strain region employed.