Negotiation support systems: roots, progress and needs

Abstract. This paper identifies game theories and social behavior science as important roots for negotiation support systems (NSS) research. As these are not typically cited in the NSS literature, summary reviews of them are provided with indications of their relevance to NSS study. On the other hand, neither offers a sufficiently general-purpose formal model of negotiation that could serve as a backbone for NSS research. A survey of that research is provided, indicating that prugress to date has been somewhat eclectic and devoid of such a model. Our central contention is that a theoretical foundation for NSS study is much needed. Desirable characteristics of a suitable negotiation model are identified as guidance for future research that will aim to devise (and subsequently apply and test) such a model.     

低位放顶煤液压支架的改造

对ZFSB4 0 0 0 / 18.5 / 2 8、ZFG4 4 0 0 / 18.5 / 2 9型液压支架在新集一矿使用中存在的问题进行了分析 ,提出了改进措施。通过改造 ,解决了支架在顶板支护、后溜拉移中存在的问题 ,消除安全隐患 ,为设备检修创造条件。     

Tree-based partitioning of date for association rule mining

The most computationally demanding aspect of Association Rule Mining is the identification and counting of support of the frequent sets of items that occur together sufficiently often to be the basis of potentially interesting rules. The task increases in difficulty with the scale of the data and also with its density. The greatest challenge is posed by data that is too large to be contained in primary memory, especially when high data density and/or low support thresholds give rise to very large numbers of candidates that must be counted. In this paper, we consider strategies for partitioning the data to deal effectively with such cases. We describe a partitioning approach which organises the data into tree structures that can be processed independently. We present experimental results that show the method scales well for increasing dimensions of data and performs significantly better than alternatives, especially when dealing with dense data and low support thresholds. Shakil Ahmed received a first class BSc (Hons) degree from Dhaka University, Bangladesh, in 1990; and an MSc (first class), also Dhaka University, in 1992. He received his PhD from The University of Liverpool, UK, in 2005. From 2000 onwards he is a member of the Data Mining Group at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Liverpool, UK. His research interests include data mining, Association Rule Mining and pattern recognition. Frans Coenen has been working in the field of Data Mining for many years and has written widely on the subject. He received his PhD from Liverpool Polytechnic in 1989, after which he took up a post as a RA within the Department of Computer Science at the University of Liverpool. In 1997, he took up a lecturing post within the same department. His current Data Mining research interests include Association rule Mining, Classification algorithms and text mining. He is on the programme committee for ICDM'05 and was the chair for the UK KDD symposium (UKKDD'05). Paul Leng is professor of e-Learning at the University of Liverpool and director of the e-Learning Unit, which is responsible for overseeing the University's online degree programmes, leading to degrees of MSc in IT and MBA. Along with e-Learning, his main research interests are in Data Mining, especially in methods of discovering Association Rules. In collaboration with Frans Coenen, he has developed efficient new algorithms for finding frequent sets and is exploring applications in text mining and classification.     

火电仿真技术研究

在电力行业中，计算机仿真一直是不可缺少的工具，它在减少损失、节约经费、提高效率、确保安全经济运行等方面发挥了巨大作用。主要介绍了计算机仿真技术在660MW火电站中的具体应用情况。以邯峰发电厂^#1机为对象，采用STAR-90仿真支撑系统，建立起660MW火电机组1：1仿真机，并在机组投产前建成，取得了良好的培训效果。论述了火电站仿真机未来的发展趋势，包括开发高精度机理性仿真数学模型以及真实的DCS仿真模型、进行性能计算与故障诊断、应用于热工人员培训及机组调试等。     

基于MPC850 VxWorks系统的BSP设计

首先介绍嵌入式系统VxWorks及其启动过程;分析了基于MPC 850最小系统的硬件和BSP的执行流程;重点研究了MPC850BSP的设计与应用程序加载,包括其硬件驱动程序的设计、应用程序加载、建立调试环境和target server的配置等;基于MPC850系统的Vxworks BSP调试平台的实现,对Vxworks上层应用软件和底层硬件驱动的并行开发有着很重要的意义。     

最小支持度在教学质量评价系统中的数据挖掘应用

以当前的高职高专院校教育教学为平台,研究分析最小支持度关联规则挖掘技术与教学质量评价相结合的问题,针对教学质量评价结果中的盲目性、不易把握等问题,提出利用最小支持度来分析质量评价体系,获取以影响因素为条件,以评价分析为结论的关联规则来解决目前教学质量评价中的不合理性,使教学质量评价公平、公正、合理、高效,并给教学管理人员提供决策分析资料。     

Transformation of semantic knowledge into simulation-based decision support

Simulation is capable to cope with the uncertain and dynamic nature of industrial value chains. However, in-depth system expertise is inevitable for mapping objects and constraints from the real world to a virtual model. This knowledge-intensity leads to long development times of respective projects, which contradicts the need for timely decision support. Since more and more companies use industrial knowledge graphs and ontologies to foster their knowledge management, this paper proposes a framework on how to efficiently derive a simulation model from such semantic knowledge bases. As part of the approach, a novel Simulation Ontology provides a standardized meta-model for hybrid simulations. Its instantiation enables the user to come up with a fully parameterized formal simulation model. Newly developed Mapping Rules facilitate this process by providing guidance on how to turn knowledge from existing ontologies, which describe the system to be simulated, into instances of the Simulation Ontology. The framework is completed by a parsing procedure for an automated transformation of this conceptual model into an executable one. This novel modeling approach makes model development more efficient by reducing its complexity. It is validated in a use case implementation from semiconductor manufacturing, where cross-domain knowledge was required in order to model and simulate the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on a global supply chain network.     

Safe and intuitive manual guidance of a robot manipulator using adaptive admittance control towards robot agility

Key areas of robot agility include methods that increase capability and flexibility of industrial robots and facilitate robot re-tasking. Manual guidance can achieve robot agility effectively, provided that a safe and smooth interaction is guaranteed when the user exerts an external force on the end effector. We approach this by designing an adaptive admittance law that can adjust its parameters to modify the robot compliance in critical areas of the workspace, such as near and on configuration singularities, joint limits, and workspace limits, for a smooth and safe operation. Experimental validation was done with two tests: a constraint activation test and a 3D shape tracing task. In the first one, we validate the proper response to constraints and in the second one, we compare the proposed approach with different admittance parameter tuning strategies using a drawing task where the user is asked to guide the robot to trace a 3D profile with an accuracy or speed directive and evaluate performance considering path length error and execution time as metrics, and a questionnaire for user perception. Results show that appropriate response to individual and simultaneous activation of the aforementioned constraints for a safe and intuitive manual guidance interaction is achieved and that the proposed parameter tuning strategy has better performance in terms of accuracy, execution time, and subjective evaluation of users.     

液压支架工作状态模糊识别系统研究

针对目前综采工作面液压支架压力监测系统只能监测综采工作面压力,不能对液压支架工作状态进行识别的问题,设计了一种液压支架工作状态模糊识别系统。该系统可对现有的综采工作面液压支架压力监测系统监测到的压力数据进行模糊识别,根据模糊识别输出值即可判断液压支架的5种工作状态,即降架、移架、升架、增阻、卸压保持;当液压支架处于增阻工作状态且增阻时间过长时,该系统可及时通知液压支架操作工增大液压支架压力,辅助实现顶煤破碎。测试结果验证了该系统的可行性。     

遗传算法模糊PID测控系统在环控试验台中的应用

飞机环控试验台须模拟流量0～14000kg/h、压力0～2.5MPa和常温～500℃的空气环境;项目要求测控范围广、精度±1%且不超调;空气状态具有非线性、时变等特点,且控制参数之间存在复杂耦合;针对以上难点,设计了分布式测控系统,提出了改进的智能PID控制方案;通过遗传算法分段整定PID参数,离线建立PID数据库,使系统能够根据控制目标值选择最优PID初值;在此基础上,结合模糊推理在线调整PID参数,使系统具有了自适应性,能在具体工况和干扰下达到很好的控制效果;实际应用中完全满足了指标要求,解决了传统PID的控制难点,对类似的复杂系统有一定借鉴意义。