Seeking powerful information initial spreaders in online social networks: a dense group perspective

The rapid growth of online social networks (OSNs) has ultimately facilitated information spreading and changed the economics of mobile networks. It is important to understand how to spread information as widely as possible. In this paper, we aim to seek powerful information initial spreaders with an efficient manner. We use the mean-field theory to characterize the process of information spreading based on the Susceptible Infected (SI) model and validate that the prevalence of information depends on the network density. Inspired by this result, we seek the initial spreaders from closely integrated groups of nodes, i.e., dense groups (DGs). In OSNs, DGs distribute dispersedly over the network, so our approach can be fulfilled in a distributed way by seeking the spreaders in each DG. We first design a DG Generating Algorithm to detect DGs, where nodes within the DG have more internal connections than external ones. Second, based on the detected DGs, we design a criterion to seek powerful initial spreaders from each DG. We conduct experiments as well as statistical analysis on real OSNs. The results show that our approach provides a satisfactory performance as well as computational efficiency.     

Design and control of a rotary dual-stage actuator positioning system

This paper presents the design and control of a rotary dual-stage actuator (DSA) positioning system, which has a flexure-based beam driven by a voice coil motor (VCM) and a piezoelectric (PZT) actuator simultaneously. The design goal is to enable the two actuators complementary to each other for the combined ability of high positioning accuracy and a large tangential displacement range. To achieve a high tracking speed, the flexure beam is designed via finite element method (FEM) analysis to have sufficiently high open-loop bandwidth. System identification and measurements on the DSA prototype are also presented to verify the FEM analysis. Finally, the composite nonlinear control (CNC) method is applied to the DSA system. Experimental results demonstrate that the DSA servo system significantly outperforms the single-stage servo system in both step tracking and disturbance rejection.     

An organic hydrogel film with micron-sized pillar array for real-time and indicator-free detection of Zn

A hydrogel sensing film for a real-time and indicator-free detection of Zn²⁺ is developed by embedding a fluorescent indicator 11,16-bis(phenyl)-6,6,21,21-tetramethyl-m-benzi-6,21-porphodimethene in a hydrogel host poly(2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate). The sensing film shows high stability and selectivity to Zn²⁺. The sensitivity of the sensing film is increased by fabricating a micron-sized pillar array on the surface of the sensing film to increase the surface area. For Zn²⁺ concentrations of 10⁻⁴ and 10⁻³ M, the response time is 30 and 3 s, respectively.     

热温差型微流量传感器的温度补偿方法研究

热温差型微流量传感器的性能受多个因素的影响,如环境温度的变化、供电电源的波动、加热电阻的冷却和导线电阻的引入等。通过ANSYS软件对环境温度及加热电阻温度的改变进行了有限元仿真,发现当两者的温度差值为恒定值时,传感器的输出信号偏差较小。从环境温度与加热电阻温度差值恒定的思路出发,结合目前补偿方法存在的不足——导线引入误差、环境温度检测电阻的自热效应使其检测出错误的环境温度、加热电阻受被测流体冷却后使测量发生偏差以及供电电源波动的影响等,提出了一种可行的补偿方案,包括对前端信号采集电路的优化和后续单片机电路的设计,使影响流量传感器测量性能的诸多因素被削弱,且控制也更灵活。通过分析验证,在相同测试条件下,所提出的方法比常用补偿方法的测试精度高出约1.2%,误差为0.2%。     

Transmitter Precoding for ICI Reduction in Closed-Loop MIMO OFDM Systems

The mitigation of intercarrier interference (ICI) in closed-loop single-input-single-output (SISO) and multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) is considered. The authors show that the ICI coefficient matrix is approximately unitary and exploit this property to design a nonlinear Tomlinson-Harashima precoder for the reduction of ICI in closed-loop SISO OFDM and orthogonal space-time block-coded (OSTBC) MIMO OFDM. With the proposed design, the transmitter does not need to know the frequency offsets, and hence, their impact on the bit error rate (BER) is significantly reduced. Moreover, for spatially correlated MIMO channels, the precoder and OSTBC OFDM perform with a negligible BER-performance loss     

Efficient three-stage auction schemes for cloudlets deployment in wireless access network

Wireless Networks - Cloudlet deployment and resource allocation for mobile users (MUs) have been extensively studied in existing works for computation resource scarcity. However, most of them...     

Adaptive decentralized control of robot manipulators driven by current-fed induction motors

In this paper, an adaptive decentralized control scheme with a rotor-flux observer is proposed for the tracking control of robot manipulators actuated by current-fed induction motors. To cope with all parametric uncertainties in the electromechanical systems, an adaptive law is designed so that all the signals of closed-loop systems are bounded, and the tracking errors in position, velocity and rotor fluxes converge to a residual set.     

Impact of Security on Power Systems Operation

This paper reviews the status of security analyses in vertically integrated utilities and discusses the impact of system security on the operation and the planning of restructured power systems. The paper is focused on the static security rather than the dynamic security of power systems. The paper also discusses assumptions, functions, and calculation tools that are considered for satisfying power systems security requirements. In addition, the security coordination among time-based scheduling models is presented. In particular, real-time security analysis, short-term operation,midterm operation planning, and long-term planning are analyzed. The paper highlights issues and challenges for implementing security options in electricity markets and concludes that global analyses of security options could provide additional opportunities for seeking optimal and feasible schedules in various time scales.     

Trigonometric polynomial interpolation for timing recovery

In an all-digital timing-adjustment system for digital modems, interpolation can be employed to recover samples that are synchronous with the data symbols. In this paper, a novel interpolation method is described for such systems. Instead of approximating a continuous-time signal with a conventional (algebraic) polynomial and computing the synchronized samples using a Farrow structure, a trigonometric polynomial is employed. It is demonstrated that this approach produces a particularly simple implementation structure, reduces computational delay and, for practical signals, can improve the interpolation performance. Moreover, to recover a synchronized sample from existing samples, given a timing offset, it is shown that the method can be optimized such that a recovered sample's interpolation error is minimized for that specific timing offset value. The input signal's spectrum is also taken into account. Simulation results indicate that the method can achieve the best performance among all state-of-the-art methods tested. In addition, the optimal interpolator can be implemented without increased hardware requirements.     

基于连续激光探测的脉冲激光热抛光能量密度实时控制系统

讨论了激光热抛光时工件表面上的能量密度的控制原理及实时控制方法,研制了一套激光能量密度实时控制系统.采用连续激光源和CCD-FPGA图像处理反馈模块,实时控制在待抛光物体上的光斑面积大小进而实现脉冲激光能量密度的恒定.利用激光抛光系统对316L不锈钢进行实验,分析了恒定脉冲激光能量密度的方法和研制的激光抛光系统的特性,研究表明经脉冲激光热抛光后其表面粗糙度大幅度降低,由292.3 nm降至146.6 nm.