A hybrid multicast connectivity solution for multi-party collaborative environments

In multi-party collaborative environments, a group of users can share multiple media streams via IP multicasting. However, despite of the efficiency of IP multicast, it is not widely available and alternative application-layer multicast approaches are introduced. Application-layer multicast is advantageous, however, it incurs additional processing delays. In this paper, we present a new hybrid-style application-layer multicast solution that satisfies both network efficiency and easy deployment. We achieve this goal by connecting multicast islands through UDP tunnels employing UMTP (UDP multicast tunneling protocol). We also design a MPROBE protocol to remove multicast loop among multicast island in real Internet. We verify the feasibility of the proposed solution by implementing a prototype tool, AG Connector, that works on Access Grid multi-party collaborative environment.

Cognitive-Mathematical Approaches for Evaluating Architectural Contextual Fit

The main goal of this study is to apply a scientific quantitative approach to the investigation of contextual fit. This is approached mathematically within the framework of cognitive science and research on categorization and prototypes. Two experiments investigated two leading mathematical-cognitive approaches for explaining people’s judgment of contextual fit of a new building with an architectural/urban context: prototype approach and feature frequency approach. The basic concept is that people represent the built environment via architectural prototypes and/or frequencies of encountered architectural features. In the first experiment, a group of twelve participants performed rank order tasks on artificially created architectural patterns, for the purpose of psychological scaling. Perceptual distances among all patterns were mathematically determined. In the second experiment, three groups of architectural patterns were constructed to represent assumed architectural contexts. The prototype of each context was mathematically determined according to prototype cognitive model, and based on the distances calculated in the first experiment. Fifty-six students participated in the main experiment, in which they rank ordered a group of fifteen architectural patterns in terms of contextual fit to each of the three architectural contexts. Participants’ rank order data of the fifteen patterns were regressed on both the perceptual distances from prototypes, and numbers of features shared with each architectural context. Results indicated that both prototype and feature frequency approaches significantly accounted for important portions of participants’ judgments. However, participants tended to prefer one approach to the other according to context composition. Results have implications for both research on utilizing cognitive-mathematical models in architectural research and on urban design guidelines and control.     

初探广西玉林新民居建筑研究

在现代社会的发展中,世界经济全球化拉近了不同国家,不同民族之间的距离,全球文明一体化已经成为世界发展的必然趋势,世界越来越趋向于在各个领域方面相互依存,日益趋同的不可分割的整体。它一方面推动了社会的进步和发展,而另一方面却破坏了文化的多样性,导致建筑风格的雷同,地域特色文化的消失。如何在建筑的发展中创造出适应时代需求而又体现自身特色的建筑,本文针对广西玉林民居现存的状况,初探营造体现具"岭南都会"特色精神意义的场所,让玉林民居焕发新活力,新形象。     

The cost of approximate controllability for semilinear heat equations

We consider the semilinear heat equation with globally Lipschitz non-linearity involving gradient terms in a bounded domain of R^n. In this paper, we obtain explicit bounds of the cost of approximate controllability, i.e., of the minimal norm of a control needed to control the system approximately. The methods we used combine global Carleman estimates, the variational approach to approximate controllability and Schauder＇s fixed point theorem.     

城市雕塑在景观设计中的应用与发展趋势探讨

雕塑是一个古老的艺术种类,随着景观设计的发展,雕塑在现代景观设计中的应用也越来越广泛。本文主要介绍了城市雕塑在景观设计中的应用,论述了当前我国景观雕塑的现状、存在问题和发展趋势,并针对其中的不足和弊端提出了解决问题的办法。     

人文主义影响下的城市家具设计

本文阐述了人文主义影响下的城市家具发展趋势,从人性化角度对城市家具设计的层面进行了分析,并通过设计语言论述了城市家具人性化设计的表现要素。     

城市街区空间引导系统的设计思考

城市街区空间引导系统与人们的日常生活息息相关,为人们的出行提供了便捷的标识引导,同时它也是城市形象的重要组成部分之一。本文分析总结了该系统的设计原则,并从视觉传达学科入手分析其视觉元素的设计。为了设计无语言障碍和有个性、地域化的城市街区空间引导系统,从符号、文字、色彩三方面对其进行设计思考。     

浅谈城市雕塑创作中的文化语言

现代城市雕塑,不单纯是一件艺术品或是一种设施,更是一种意识形态和文化标志。本文从城市雕塑创作的地域文化、社会文化以及历史文化三个方面入手并进行阐述,为城市雕塑创作中艺术魅力的扩展和审美意味的延伸提供依据。     

固态功率组件热耦合效应研究

文中基于热叠加原理研究了固态功率组件中多个离散分布的集中热源的热耦合效应,并证明强迫对流下应用热叠加原理计算的温度场与整场系统数值模拟的结果相当吻合,用它来进行热耦合效应的分析研究是有效的.     

用量子化学参数预测烯烃聚合物热容变化

在B3LYP/6-31G(d)水平上对烯烃聚合物单体进行密度泛函理论计算,得到2个量子化学参数,即分子的等容摩尔热容(Cv)和偶极矩(μ),并用来预测烯烃聚合物在玻璃化转变温度的热容变化(Cp,change).从训练集用逐步线性回归方法得到的、物理意义非常明确的结构与性能定量关系模型由测试集进行检验.预测值与实验值的相关系数为0.937.这结果表明由这些量子化学参数所建立的关于性能Cp,change的定量关系模型能用于聚合物Cp,change值的预测,这也证明了量子化学参数能在聚合物结构与性能定量关系研究中能起重要作用.