Development and evaluation of the Air Travel Stress Scale.

Despite anecdotal evidence suggesting that air travel is personally demanding, little research has examined air travel stress. To address these issues, the author developed and evaluated the 1st known measure of air travel stress--the Air Travel Stress Scale--in 3 studies. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis indicated 3 components: (a) anxious reactions to adverse air travel events, (b) angry reactions to other passengers as well as an antecedent of air travel stress, and (c) the lack of trust that the airlines/airports will ensure one's comfort and safety. Each component had good internal reliability and test-retest reliability over a 6- to 7-week interval. Each component showed evidence for discriminant and convergent validity. Implications for research into understanding and intervening on air travel stress are discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Odyssey: a high‐performance clustered video server

Video servers are essential in video‐on‐demand and other multimedia applications. In this paper, we present our high‐performance clustered CBR video server, Odyssey. Odyssey is a server connecting PCs with switched Ethernet. It provides efficient support for normal play and interactive browsing functions such as fast‐forward and fast‐backward. We designed a set of algorithms for scheduling, synchronization and admission control, which results in a high utilization of resources. Odyssey is able to deliver a large number of video streams. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

园区网建设及有关技术分析

从系统工程方法出发，阐述园区网工程规划、设计、实施的一般性方法及各阶段目标和任务；分析了园区网建设中若干技术问题。     

提高虚拟空间会议系统服务质量QoS的若干技术

虚拟空间会议系统是视频会汉系统发展的最高形式．本文结合作者研究工作，通过分析与视频会议系统服务质量相关的技术，提出了基于VST系统的相关技术策略，这些策略能够有效地提高VST系统的服务质量．     

面向服务的系统集成模型研究

在对系统集成以及传统模型的分析基础上,介绍了面向服务的思想、面向服务的体系结构以及面向集成的应用,提出了面向服务的 集成的两种模型,并结合实例进行了一定的研究探讨。     

基于移动代理的信息收集方法研究

传统的用软盘收集信息的方法存在一些不足之处，本文介绍了移动代理技术，给出了用移动代理技术来实现信息收集的方法，对该方法进行了安全性分析，并说明了该方法的优点。     

Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce

Electronic commerce has been one of the traditional arenas for agent technology. The complexity of these applications has been a challenge for researchers that have developed methodologies, products, and systems, having in mind the specificities of trade, the interaction particularities of commerce, the strict notion of commitment and contract, and the clearly shaped conventions and norms that structure the field. In this paper I survey some key areas for agent technology which, although general, are of special importance in electronic commerce, namely, solid development methodologies, negotiation technologies and trust-building mechanisms. I give examples of systems in which I have directly participated, although I also try to refer to the work of other AgentLink Special Interest Group members over the last few years.     

Perturbation Analysis of Multiclass Stochastic Fluid Models

We use a stochastic fluid model (SFM) to capture the operation of finite-capacity queueing systems with multiple customer classes. We derive gradient estimators for class-dependent loss and workload related performance metrics with respect to any one of several threshold parameters used for buffer control. These estimators are shown to be unbiased and directly observable from a sample path without any knowledge of underlying stochastic characteristics of the traffic processes. This renders them computable in on-line environments and easily implementable in settings such as communication networks.     

3G业务与3G支撑系统

通过分析3G网络特点，3G业务特点和3G网络管理需求，从建立支撑系统的统一接入平台、话音与数据的协调一致以及3G计费系统建设等3个方面提出了3G支撑系统的建设需求，希望对运营商更好地进行3G支撑系统建设起到比较好的指导作用。     

浅析铝电解槽下料器的发展趋势

介绍了铝电解槽用下料器的发展过程，对现阶段使用的有刷和无刷定容下料器的结构，特点及优缺点进行了对比，着重介绍了无刷下料器的工作原理及其实用性。