PAIDD: a hybrid P2P-based architecture for improving data distribution in social networks

Rapid growth in social networks(SNs)presents a unique scalability challenge for SN operators because of the massive amounts of data distribution among large number of concurrent online users.A request from any user may trigger hundreds of server activities to generate a customized page and which has already become a huge burden.Based on the theoretical model and analytical study considering realistic network scenarios,this article proposes a hybrid P2P-based architecture called PAIDD.PAIDD fulfills effective data distribution primarily through P2P connectivity and social graph among users but with the help of central servers.To increase system efficiency,PAIDD performs optimized content prefetching based on social interactions among users.PAIDD chooses interaction as the criteria because user’s interaction graph is measured to be much smaller than the social graph.Our experiments confirm that PAIDD ensures satisfactory user experience without incurring extensive overhead on clients’network.More importantly,PAIDD can effectively achieve one order of magnitude of load reduction at central servers.     

Relay selection with feedback beamforming information through designed sector sweep report frame for mmWave WPANs

This paper proposes a novel relay selection strategy based on the feedback beamforming （BF） information through designed sector sweep （SSW） report frame for millimeter-wave （mmWave） wireless personal networks （WPANs）. First, an SSW report frame compatible with IEEE 802.11ad standard is designed. Second, an approach collecting instantaneous channel state information （CSI） overheard during BF is devised. Third, with the aim of minimizing the outage probability and maximizing the overall network throughput capacity, the optimal relay selection issue for non-line-of-sight （NLoS） links is formulated as a bipartite graph, and Kuhn Munkres （KM） algorithm is provided to resolve it. Both theoretical analysis and simulation results show, with CSI considering NLoS conditions and selected relays according to the overall network throughput capacity maximization principle, the improvements achieved over opportunistic relay selection strategy in terms of overall network throughput capacity and outage probability with minimal modifications to IEEE 802.1lad.     

Requirements model driven adaption and evolution of Internetware

Today’s software systems need to support complex business operations and processes.The development of the web-based software systems has been pushing up the limits of traditional software engineering methodologies and technologies as they are required to be used and updated almost real-time,so that users can interact and share the same applications over the internet as needed.These applications have to adapt quickly to the diversified and dynamic changing requirements in the physical,technological,economical and social environments.As a consequence,we are expecting a major paradigm shift in software engineering to reflect such changes in computing environment in order to better address the fundamental needs of organisations in this new era.Existing software technologies,such as model driven development,business process engineering,online(re-)configuration,composition and adaptation of managerial functionalities are being repurposed to reduce the time taken for software development by reusing software codes.The ability to dynamically combine contents from numerous web sites and local resources,and the ability to instantly publish services worldwide have opened up entirely new possibilities for software development.In retrospect to the ten years applied research on Internetware,we have witnessed such a paradigm shift,which brings about many changes to the developmental experience of conventional web applications.Several related technologies,such as cloud computing,service computing,cyber-physical systems and social computing,have converged to address this emerging issue with emphasis on different aspects.In this paper,we first outline the requirements that the Internetware software paradigm should meet to excel at web application adaptation;we then propose a requirement model driven method for adaptive and evolutionary applications;and we report our experiences and case studies of applying it to an enterprise information system.Our goal is to provide high-level guidelines to researchers and practitioners to meet the challenges of building adaptive industrial-strength applications with the spectrum of processes,techniques and facilities provided within the Internetware paradigm.     

Towards evolvable Internet architecture-design constraints and models analysis

There is a general consensus about the success of Internet architecture in academia and industry. However, with the development of diversified application, the existing Internet architecture is facing more and more challenges in scalability, security, mobility and performance. A novel evolvable Internet architecture framework is proposed in this paper to meet the continuous changing application requirements. The basic idea of evolvability is relaxing the constraints that limit the development of the architecture while adhering to the core design principles of the Internet. Three important design constraints used to ensure the construction of the evolvable architecture, including the evolvability constraint, the economic adaptability constraint and the manageability constraint, are comprehensively described. We consider that the evolvable architecture can be developed from the network layer under these design constraints. What＇s more, we believe that the address system is the foundation of the Internet. Therefore, we propose a general address platform which provides a more open and efficient network environment for the research and development of the evolvable architecture.     

An integrated emotional and physiological assessment for VR-based active shooter incident experiments

Unfortunately, active shooter incidents are on the rise in the United States. With the recent technological advancements, virtual reality (VR) experiments could serve as an effective method to prepare civilians and law enforcement personnel for such scenarios. However, for VR experiments to be effective for active shooter training and research, such experiments must be able to evoke emotional and physiological responses as live active shooter drills and events do. The objective of this study is thus to test the effectiveness of an active shooter VR experiment on emotional and physiological responses. Additionally, we consider different locomotion techniques (i.e., walk-in-place and controller) and explore their impact on users’ sense of presence. The results suggest that the VR active shooter experiment in this study can induce emotional arousal and increase heart rate of the participants immersed in the virtual environment. Furthermore, compared to the controller, the walk-in-place technique resulted in a higher emotional arousal in terms of negative emotions and a stronger sense of presence. The study presents a foundation for future active shooter experiments as it supports the ecological validity using VR for active shooter incident related work for the purposes of training or research.     

Evolutionary digital twin: A new approach for intelligent industrial product development

To fulfill increasingly difficult and demanding tasks in the ever-changing complex world, intelligent industrial products are to be developed with higher flexibility and adaptability. Digital twin (DT) brings about a possible means, due to its ability to provide candidate behavior adjustments based on received “feedbacks” from its physical part. However, such candidate adjustments are deterministic, and thus lack of flexibility and adaptability. To address such problem, in this paper an extended concept – evolutionary digital twin (EDT) and an EDT-based new mode for intelligent industrial product development has been proposed. With our proposed EDT, a more precise approximated model of the physical world could be established through supervised learning, based on which the collaborative exploration for optimal policies via parallel simulation in multiple cyberspaces could be performed through reinforcement learning. Hence, more flexibility and adaptability could be brought to industrial products through machine learning (such as supervised learning and reinforcement learning) based self-evolution. As a primary verification of the effectiveness of our proposed approach, a case study has been carried out. The experimental results have well confirmed the effectiveness of our EDT based development mode.     

基于RISC-V处理器的卷积加速SoC系统设计

为提高卷积神经网络（CNN）的计算效率和能效,以8 bit定点数据作为输入,设计一个支持激活、批标准化以及池化等CNN网络中常见计算类型的卷积加速器,优化循环计算顺序并将其与数据复用技术相结合,以提高卷积计算的效率。基于软硬件协同设计思想,构建包含RISC-V处理器和卷积加速器的SoC系统,RISC-V处理器基于开源的指令集标准,可以根据具体的设计需求扩展指令功能。将该SoC系统部署在Xilinx ZCU102开发板上,RISC-V处理器和卷积加速器分别工作在100 MHz和300 MHz频率下,测试结果表明,该加速器的算力达到153.6 GOP/s,运行VGG16网络进行图片推理计算时加速效果较好。     

无人机群目标搜索的主动感知方法

为提升蚁群搜索算法在规模大的栅格环境中对未知目标的搜索效率,提出基于蚁群算法的主动感知搜索框架。该框架通过应用历史环境信息来选择无人机的运动方式,并由无人机运动方式和感知域信息得到新的环境信息,从而实现无人机群的智能自动化搜索功能。新方法计算出一种具有探索偏好的未搜索概率,可使无人机搜索时偏向未搜索程度高的栅格,以此来提高算法的搜索能力。同时,以未搜索概率和信息素作为运动方式决策的依据来建立一种新的运动方式选择机制。该机制不仅考虑了目标可能出现的区域,又可兼顾未知区域,从而可实现无目标先验信息条件下的搜索过程。仿真结果表明,此算法在规模大的栅格环境中,与现有算法相比具有更高的搜索效率,并且得到的目标分布信息将更加全面。     

Task-wise attention guided part complementary learning for few-shot image classification

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基于BIM的钢筋骨架语义设计点云自动生成算法

当前预制构配件钢筋骨架质量检查主要依靠人工,存在效率低、容易出错的问题。建筑信息模 型(BIM)、三维重建等技术为改进预制构配件钢筋骨架质量检查方法提供可能。运用这些技术时,有必要由钢 筋骨架 BIM 模型生成可区分每根钢筋的点云。为此,提出了语义设计点云的概念,并构建了基于 BIM 的钢筋 骨架语义设计点云自动生成算法。该算法首先从钢筋骨架 BIM 模型中提取每根钢筋并分别存储于不同的文件, 然后对每根钢筋所在文件进行格式转换,接着生成每根钢筋的语义设计点云,最后基于每根钢筋的语义设计点 云生成钢筋骨架语义设计点云。分别用简单钢筋骨架和复杂钢筋骨架对基于 BIM 的钢筋骨架语义设计点云自 动生成算法进行实验验证,结果表明,该算法能够自动并快速地生成准确的钢筋骨架语义设计点云。