Monte Carlo and variance reduction methods for structural reliability analysis: A comprehensive review

Monte Carlo methods have attracted constant and even increasing attention in structural reliability analysis with a wide variety of developments seamlessly presented over decades. Along the way, a number of specialized reviews and benchmark studies have been provided from time to time, aiming at summarizing and comparing selected few approaches in detail, mainly from an implementation point of view. In contrast, the aim of the present survey is to play a comprehensive role as a methodological guidebook on Monte Carlo simulation and its related, especially variance reduction, techniques through a covering of 444 references in the relevant literature. To achieve this goal, we present an extensive review of formulations and techniques along with insightful summaries of developments of existing numerical methods, ranging from the general formulation, sub-categories and variants, to their combined uses with other simulation techniques and surrogate models, as well as the key advantages and assumptions.     

创新实践教学模式,培养复合型人才

针对目前高校现行实践教学体制存在的弊端,在分析产生原因的基础上,提出一种科学的实践教学模式,该模式与信息与计算科学专业培养的目标以及社会发展的内在需求相结合,在信息处理和软件开发能力培养方面取得一定效果,增强了学生就业竞争力。     

计算机信息管理系统课程的实践教学体系

本文结合我校教学的实际情况,探讨了计算机信息管理系统课程实践教学的改革,主要包括"三阶段"的技术要求、"企业化"的分组管理、"过程化"的项目运行和"合理化"的考核评价办法。     

基于CBS模式的档案管理数字化系统的研究

随着我国经济和社会的飞速发展.人民对信息的要求日益提高.档案管理在这种新的形势下.面临巨大的挑战.传统的档案管理已经不能适应新形势的发展,档案管理数字化系统进行研究势在必行.本文主要对档案管理的涵义、数字化系统方案设计.文档图像处理和系统软件部分等进行了相应的阐述.本文的研究对以后指导档案管理工作具有一定的理论意义和现实意义.     

Embedding multi-dimensional meshes into twisted cubes

The twisted cube is an important variant of the most popular hypercube network for parallel processing. In this paper, we consider the problem of embedding multi-dimensional meshes into twisted cubes in a systematic way. We present a recursive method for embedding a family of disjoint multi-dimensional meshes into a twisted cube with dilation 1 and expansion 1. We also prove that a single multi-dimensional mesh can be embedded into a twisted cube with dilation 2 and expansion 1. Our work extends some previously known results.     

Video analysis based on volumetric event detection

During the past decade, feature extraction and knowledge acquisition based on video analysis have been extensively researched and tested on many applications such as closed-circuit television(CCTV)data analysis, large-scale public event control, and other daily security monitoring and surveillance operations with various degrees of success. However, since the actual video process is a multi-phased one and encompasses extensive theories and techniques ranging from fundamental image processing, computational geometry and graphics, and machine vision, to advanced artificial intelligence, pattern analysis, and even cognitive science, there are still many important problems to resolve before it can be widely applied. Among them, video event identification and detection are two prominent ones. Comparing with the most popular frame-to-frame processing mode of most of today's approaches and systems, this project reorganizes video data as a 3D volume structure that provides the hybrid spatial and temporal information in a unified space. This paper reports an innovative technique to transform original video frames to 3D volume structures denoted by spatial and temporal features. It then highlights the volume array structure in a so-called "pre-suspicion" mechanism for a later process. The focus of this report is the development of an effective and efficient voxel-based segmentation technique suitable to the volumetric nature of video events and ready for deployment in 3D clustering operations. The paper is concluded with a performance evaluation of the devised technique and discussion on the future work for accelerating the pre-processing of the original video data.     

一种可行的可用性测试过程

文章综述用户模型法、用户调查法、专家评审法和观察法4类可用性测试方法,根据可用性测试的经验,总结出一套合理实用的可用性测试过程,使得可用性测试的效率高、代价低,尽可能发现更多的可用性问题;提出在程序设计类课程的教学中,应适当向学生介绍可用性测试的方法和过程,以培养学生对自己开发的软件系统进行可用性测试的能力。     

工业设计之创新思维方法浅析

工业设计是科学和艺术的综合体,创新思维在工业设计中具有十分重要的作用。它不仅决定了产品的外观,甚至还影响着产品的制造和使用过程。我国著名教育家陶行知先生认为,"处处是创造之地""天天是创造之时""人人是创造之人"。中国是制造大国,却不是设计大国。中国设计的原创性产品很少,中国的创新能力也亟待加强。但是随着科技的进步,中国的设计能力也在突飞猛进地发展。可以相信,未来的中国一定会成为一个设计大国。     

A simple model for laser drilling

A simple mathematical model of laser drilling is proposed. Assuming axi-symmetry of the process around the axis of the laser beam, a one-dimensional formulation is obtained after cross-sectional averaging. The novelty of the approach relies on the fact that even after dimension reduction, the shape of the hole can still be described. The model is derived, implemented and validated for drilling using lasers with intensities in the GW/cm² range and microsecond pulses.