Agent-based architecture for context-aware and personalized event recommendation

In order to offer context-aware and personalized information, intelligent processing techniques are necessary. Different initiatives considering many contexts have been proposed, but users preferences need to be learned to offer contextualized and personalized services, products or information. Therefore, this paper proposes an agent-based architecture for context-aware and personalized event recommendation based on ontology and the spreading algorithm. The use of ontology allows to define the domain knowledge model, while the spreading activation algorithm learns user patterns by discovering user interests. The proposed agent-based architecture was validated with the modeling and implementation of eAgora? application, which was illustrated at the pervasive university context.     

水下拖曳体多源信息监控系统设计与实现

基于海洋电法探测系统中水下拖曳体对多源信息实时监控的需求,设计了一种准实时监测拖曳体的运动状态与环境信息的监控系统。该系统可与水面监控器保持命令与数据沟通,并在监控器的指令下启动水下电法仪执行参数设置、数据采集等操作。经系统样机的海上测试结果表明,系统性能稳定可靠,能够在其他水下信息采集作业中得到推广应用。     

Managing knowledge on communication and information flow in global software projects

Communication is a key success factor of distributed software projects. Poor communication has been identified as a main obstacle to successful collaboration. Global projects are especially endangered by information gaps between collaborating sites. Different communication styles, technical equipment, and missing awareness of each other can cause severe problems. Knowledge about actual and desired channels, paths, and modes of communication is required for improving communication in a globally distributed project. However, many project participants know little about communication and information flow in their projects. In this contribution, we focus on knowledge about communication and information flow. It is acquired by modelling on‐going and desired flows of information, including documented and non‐documented channels of information flow. We analyzed a distributed software project from the information flow perspective. Based on the findings, we developed specific techniques to improve information flow in distributed software development according to the FLOW Method. In a second distributed project, we evaluated one of the techniques. We found the FLOW mapping technique to be suitable for effectively spreading knowledge about communication and information flow in global software projects.     

Event-driven,pattern-based methodology for cost-effective development of standardized personal health devices

Experiences applying standards in personal health devices (PHDs) show an inherent trade-off between interoperability and costs (in terms of processing load and development time). Therefore, reducing hardware and software costs as well as time-to-market is crucial for standards adoption. The ISO/IEEE11073 PHD family of standards (also referred to as X73PHD) provides interoperable communication between PHDs and aggregators. Nevertheless, the responsibility of achieving inexpensive implementations of X73PHD in limited resource microcontrollers falls directly on the developer. Hence, the authors previously presented a methodology based on patterns to implement X73-compliant PHDs into devices with low-voltage low-power constraints. That version was based on multitasking, which required additional features and resources. This paper therefore presents an event-driven evolution of the patterns-based methodology for cost-effective development of standardized PHDs. The results of comparing between the two versions showed that the mean values of decrease in memory consumption and cycles of latency are 11.59% and 45.95%, respectively. In addition, several enhancements in terms of cost-effectiveness and development time can be derived from the new version of the methodology. Therefore, the new approach could help in producing cost-effective X73-compliant PHDs, which in turn could foster the adoption of standards.     

结合相关规则和本体加权图的查询扩展

针对现有信息检索系统查询性能的不足,提出了一种结合相关规则和WordNet本体信息的查询扩展方法.该方法借助相关规则挖掘和WordNet本体信息构建加权词语关系图,并根据加权图的结构和权重信息计算扩展词的重要性.查询时,从这个图中取原查询词的最邻近词作为扩展词来源,选取其中权重最大的p个词返回并进行二次检索.在实现算法的基础上,通过Lucene全文检索器进行实验,将所得的结果值F1与其他算法的结果作比较.比较结果表明,该方法比不作扩展的检索有约16.93％的性能提升.     

基于边缘信息车流量检测方法的研究

针对边缘检测中阈值很难确定导致不能准确提取背景边缘信息的问题,提出一种改进的基于边缘信息车流量检测方法。该方法预先对路况边缘图像作削顶处理获取一个恰当的阈值,从而可以准确地提取背景边缘信息;且在车辆计数过程中,结合固定窗法和浮动窗法二者的优点,设计一种新的浮动窗法进行车辆计数。实验结果表明,该方法在实时性、检测速度、正确率等方面得到很大的改进,能够在不同环境下进行正确有效地车流量检测。     

随机环境下带有私人信息的单机能力分配策略

本文研究随机环境下考虑私人信息的单机能力分配问题.该问题中各部门的单位产品收益、需求信息及加工设备各时段的能力为私人信息,且各时段中产品的加工时间为随机变量.本文采用设备方与各部门协商的方法对问题进行求解,首先利用随机规划理论将能力分配问题清晰化,然后利用拉格朗日松弛和泰勒级数展开方法进行协商机制设计,接着给出基于偏转次梯度方法的协商参数更新法则,最后综合上述过程给出最终的问题求解算法.数值算例验证了算法的有效性并分析了关键参数对能力分配结果的影响.     

基于视频数据和传递熵的鱼群信息传递网络构建

鱼群中的个体如何通过信息传递从而达到一致的群体运动状态,至今还没有刻画这一现象的统一数学模型.本文阐述了一种利用视频数据和传递熵构建鱼群中个体间信息传递网络的方法.首先用实验获取斑马鱼集群的视频数据,并采用计算机视觉跟踪的方法获取鱼群中每个个体的位置和运动速度,然后利用传递熵计算个体两两之间的信息传递关系,在此基础上构建了鱼群信息传递网络.通过网络分析,揭示了鱼群中个体间的信息交互个数与信息传播速度之间的关系,进一步发现了鱼群信息传递网络中的频繁子结构.本文提供了一种利用探测时间序列间因果关系建立鱼群信息传递网络的方法,为鱼群信息传递研究提供了一种新的思路.