An ExPosition of multivariate analysis with the singular value decomposition in R

ExPosition is a new comprehensive R package providing crisp graphics and implementing multivariate analysis methods based on the singular value decomposition (svd). The core techniques implemented in ExPosition are: principal components analysis, (metric) multidimensional scaling, correspondence analysis, and several of their recent extensions such as barycentric discriminant analyses (e.g., discriminant correspondence analysis), multi-table analyses (e.g.,multiple factor analysis, Statis, and distatis), and non-parametric resampling techniques (e.g., permutation and bootstrap). Several examples highlight the major differences between ExPosition and similar packages. Finally, the future directions of ExPosition are discussed.     

Thermal conversion (visbreaking) of heavy Iraqi residue

A heavy Iraqi residue was thermally cracked using a soaker visbreaking process at temperatures between 435 and 480 °C, with a range of residence times of 43–109 s in the coil and 151–379 s in the soaker. The pressure was kept constant at 7 bar. Visbroken products were characterized, evaluated and fractionated into light, middle and heavy cuts. The stability of the visbroken products was compared with that of the original feedstock. Also an activation energy was calculated for the visbreaking process and related to the severity of the process. The results obtained show that the conditions used were not severe and could be applied to obtain a required conversion depending on the uses of the products.     

A Dantzig–Wolfe decomposition algorithm for linear economic model predictive control of dynamically decoupled subsystems

This paper presents a warm-started Dantzig–Wolfe decomposition algorithm tailored to economic model predictive control of dynamically decoupled subsystems. We formulate the constrained optimal control problem solved at each sampling instant as a linear program with state space constraints, input limits, input rate limits, and soft output limits. The objective function of the linear program is related directly to the cost of operating the subsystems, and the cost of violating the soft output constraints. Simulations for large-scale economic power dispatch problems show that the proposed algorithm is significantly faster than both state-of-the-art linear programming solvers, and a structure exploiting implementation of the alternating direction method of multipliers. It is also demonstrated that the control strategy presented in this paper can be tuned using a weighted ℓ₁-regularization term. In the presence of process and measurement noise, such a regularization term is critical for achieving a well-behaved closed-loop performance.     

一种基于局部保持的子流形可视化方法

针对多数流形学习算法是基于单一流形的假设,当高维数据集中存在多个流形,流形学习算法可视化效果差问题,借鉴流形曲面在二维平面空间展开的思想提出基于局部保持的的子流形可视化方法。利用奇异值分解和k均值聚类方法将流形数据划分为多块子流形,计算第一流形切块中心与其余切块中心的拓扑结构关系,在目标低维空间保持上述中心间拓扑结构下逐一对流形切块投影展开,最后在人脸数据集上进行实验。实验结果表明:该方法较好保持了子流形内的数据间的拓扑结构。     

EMD-IT去噪算法的阈值估计方法

为解决EMD-IT去噪算法中阈值难以确定的问题,提出一种基于高斯白噪声能量分布的阈值估计方法。将含噪信号进行经验模态分解并估计各固有模态函数(IMF)中噪声的能量;根据模态单元阈值的含义,在各IMF中利用去除掉的模态单元包含的总能量等于噪声能量这一准则估计阈值。合成数据和实际心电信号的去噪仿真实验验证了该方法的有效性,其是自适应的且避免了阈值选择的主观性。     

Decomposition of timed automata for solving scheduling problems

A decomposition algorithm for scheduling problems based on timed automata (TA) model is proposed. The problem is represented as an optimal state transition problem for TA. The model comprises of the parallel composition of submodels such as jobs and resources. The procedure of the proposed methodology can be divided into two steps. The first step is to decompose the TA model into several submodels by using decomposable condition. The second step is to combine individual solution of subproblems for the decomposed submodels by the penalty function method. A feasible solution for the entire model is derived through the iterated computation of solving the subproblem for each submodel. The proposed methodology is applied to solve flowshop and jobshop scheduling problems. Computational experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm compared with a conventional TA scheduling algorithm without decomposition.     

城市径流总量控制指标分解及实现路径探索与实践

针对海绵城市径流总量控制目标,提出一种在城市规划体系中控制性详细规划和修建性详细规划阶段分解落实年径流总量控制率的方法。在控制性详细规划阶段分解径流总量控制指标时,分步骤先后确定各项低影响开发措施的面积率和下沉深度;在修建性详细规划阶段,配合径流总量控制指标分解结果,给出适宜的各项低影响开发措施的技术实施导则,以保证各单项指标的正确实施,并以某项目为例介绍了技术实施导则的构建方法。     

一种改进型离散Hopfield学习算法

针对离散Hopfield 神经网络(DHNN) 的权值设计问题, 提出一种改进型学习算法, 并在DHNN动力学分析的基础上设计该学习算法. 利用矩阵分解的方法(MD) 得到正交矩阵, 并采用得到的正交矩阵直接计算DHNN的权值矩阵. 通过该学习算法得到的权值矩阵, 可以很好地存储训练样本的信息, 使测试样本收敛到稳定点. 该学习算法不需要进行分块计算, 减少了计算步骤和计算量, 降低了网络的迭代次数, 从而提高了网络运行速度. 最后, 将该学习算法应用于水质评价, 验证了其有效性和可行性.     

Coordination between strategic forest management and tactical logistic and production planning in the forestry supply chain

In this paper, we study the coordination mechanism in the forestry supply chain between strategic forest management and tactical production planning. We first formulate an integrated model to establish a theoretical benchmark for performance of the entire supply chain. It is a mixed integer programming model that involves harvesting, bucking, transportation, production, and sales decisions for both tactical and strategic planning levels. We then present two sequential approaches S‐A and S‐B where the coordination is done through internal pricing. S‐A is the approach currently used in practice where harvesting in the forest is the main driver of the supply chain activities and internal pricing is introduced to control bucking decision in a separate stage. In contrast, S‐B takes downstream demand information into consideration and internal pricing directly influences harvesting decision in the first stage. In order to find the appropriate setting of internal pricing that leads to the system optimum, we suggest two heuristics H‐I and H‐II. The internal pricing in H‐I is based on dual values and in H‐II, it is derived from a Lagrangian decomposition. A real‐life case study in the Chilean forestry industry is used to compare the results of different approaches. It is shown that the new sequential approach S‐B generates as good feasible solution as that obtained from the integrated approach but in much less time. Both heuristics H‐I and H‐II bring about near‐optimal feasible solutions. H‐II also provides optimistic bound of the optimal objective function value, which can be used as a measure of the solution quality.     

改进的局域均值分解在机械故障诊断中的应用

为了准确地提取出故障特征,把局域均值分解算法应用于机械故障振动信号的特征提取中.然而在对信号进行局域均值分解时,由于端点的趋势无法预知,在分解时会污染到整个信号序列,而且滑动平均造成了信号的过平滑处理,导致故障特征不能准确地提取.采用波形匹配解决端点处信号的走势,之后再利用线性插值求得信号的局域均值函数与包络函数,通过在Matlab环境下仿真调幅信号验证了该算法在端点处能很好的保持原有信号的特征;并采用实际的机械振动信号进行实验验证,引入端点效应评价指标,根据分解后的生产函数与原信号的相关系数验证了改进的局域均值分解更能准确地提取故障特征.