Board-Level Information Technology Governance Effects on Organizational Performance: The Roles of Strategic Alignment and Authoritarian Governance Style

ABSTRACT

We report on two empirical studies that explore key factors that help translate information technology governance by the board of directors into organizational performance. The first study shows that strategic alignment partially mediates the effect of board-level information technology governance on performance. The second study demonstrates that authoritarian governance style negatively moderates the effect of board-level information technology governance on performance. Together, these studies open up the black box between board-level information technology governance and organizational performance.     

Boundary Control of a Flexible Robotic Manipulator With Output Constraints

In this study, we consider a boundary control problem of a flexible manipulator with input disturbances and output constraints, achieving pre‐set performance attributes on position tracking error and the deflection error at the end of the beam. The dynamics of the system are represented by partial differential equations (PDEs). With the Lyapunov's direct method, a boundary controller with disturbance observer is designed to regulate the angular position and suppress elastic vibration simultaneously. The proposed control scheme allows the errors to converge to an arbitrarily small residual set, with convergence rate larger than a pre‐specified value. Numerical simulations demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.     

ARM平台电机矢量控制分析及性能评估

对ARM平台电机矢量控制模型进行了分析及性能评估,弥补了当前伺服控制系统中该评估工作的空白.分析了电机矢量控制模型和能实现该模型ARM平台的软硬件环境,给ARM平台电机矢量控制分析及性能评估奠定了基础.使用了一种利用建立空闲任务计算CPU负载率的方法,并用此方法进行了以CPU负载率为性能指标的评估实验,对不同条件下矢量控制策略的适用情况进行了分析.分析结果对ARM平台下矢量控制策略的选择有一定的指导意义.     

基于信号采样自相关的步进宽带频谱感知方法

采用步进频域能量检测法可以提高在软件无线电平台的频谱感知的带宽范围,但能量检测法易受噪声不确定性的影响,而信号采样自相关检测法对噪声不确定性有很好的鲁棒性。为进一步提高软件无线电的检测性能,提出了基于信号采样自相关的步进宽带频谱感知方法。首先阐述了信号采样自相关检测的原理,然后对基于该原理的步进宽带检测方法的流程进行了分析,最后利用MATLAB软件仿真其检测性能。仿真结果表明,在信噪比（Signal-noise-ratio, SNR）不同的情况下,基于信号采样自相关的步进宽带频谱检测方法能达到所要求的检测性能。此 外,为了兼顾频谱感知的检测速度和频带带宽分辨率之间的关系,进一步提出了在原本固定步进值的步进宽带信号采样自相关的频谱感知方法中采用可变步进值的两阶段检测方法,该方法可 以获得较高的频带带宽检测分辨率和较短的检测时间。     

综合考虑CVT动力性和经济性的整车控制策略集成优化

传统的无级变速器（Continuously Variable Transmission,CVT）的策略优化集中在CVT换挡策略优化上,因此在提升燃油经济性的同时往往损害动力性。针对这一问题,在分析换挡策略和踏板扭矩策略对整车动力性和燃油经济性影响的基础上,提出集成优化换挡策略和踏板扭矩策略的方法;设计优化流程,得到不同车速、不同加速踏板开度下换挡策略和踏板扭矩策略的优化结果。搭建整车虚拟仿真模型,并进行仿真与试验对比分析,结果表明：集成优化可在保证动力性不衰减甚至提升的条件下,燃油效率提高约4%。     

基于Spark的BIRCH算法并行化的设计与实现

在分布式计算和内存为王的时代,Spark作为基于内存计算的分布式框架技术得到了前所未有的关注与应用。着重研究BIRCH算法在Spark上并行化的设计和实现,经过理论性能分析得到并行化过程中时间消耗较多的Spark转化操作,同时根据并行化BIRCH算法的有向无环图DAG,减少shuffle和磁盘读写频率,以期达到性能优化。最后,将并行化后的BIRCH算法分别与单机的BIRCH算法和MLlib中的K-Means聚类算法做了性能对比实验。实验结果表明,通过Spark对BIRCH算法并行化,其聚类质量没有明显的损失,并且获得了比较理想的运行时间和加速比。     

一种面向大规模系统域网络性能管理系统

当前系统域网络规模日益庞大,如何监控系统域网络复杂的流量行为、发现性能瓶颈以及可能的网络故障点,为系统域网络性能优化提供有效支持的需求已经日益迫切。首先提出了一种系统域网络的性能管理体系结构SNPMA,SNPMA采用了松耦合的分层结构,通过各层之间的协同实现性能管理的自动化和可操作性。在此基础上提出了一种网络性能评估模型NPEM,解决大规模网络中对现有网络设备性能状况无法正确评估、对网络运行状态无法进行有效预测的问题,进而提出了自适应并发策略性能监控方法STM,能动态调整采集数据的策略,较好地提高了采集数据的效率。在"天河二号"真实的网络环境下,对网络设备的性能进行分级评估和分析,验证了网络性能评估和分析模型。     

A low‐complexity design for distributed containment control of networked pure‐feedback systems and its application to fault‐tolerant control

This paper addresses a low‐complexity distributed containment control problem and its extension to fault‐tolerant control for networked nonlinear pure‐feedback systems under a directed graph. The multiple dynamic leaders are neighbors of only a subset of the followers described by completely non‐affine multi‐input multi‐output pure‐feedback dynamics. It is assumed that all followers' nonlinearities are heterogeneous and unknown. The proposed containment controller is implemented by using only error surfaces integrated by performance bounding functions and does not require any differential equations for compensating uncertainties and faults. Thus, compared with the previous containment control approaches for multi‐agent systems with unknown non‐affine nonlinearities, the distributed containment control structure is simplified. In addition, it is shown that the proposed control scheme can be applied to the fault‐tolerant containment control problem in the presence of unexpected system and actuator faults, without reconstructing any control structure. It is shown from Lyapunov stability theorem that all followers nearly converge to the dynamic convex hull spanned by the dynamic leaders and the containment control errors are preserved within certain given predefined bounds. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

基于LabVIEW的控制阀性能测试评估系统设计

控制阀在工业控制领域扮演十分重要的角色,但目前国内对控制阀性能测试评估系统的研究十分薄弱,并且常规的仪器仪表很难精确测试控制阀的性能;针对这种情况,基于NI compactRIO硬件、各类传感器以及LabVIEW软件开发设计了一套控制阀性能测试评估系统,该系统能实时检测、采集处理数据,能够把阀门性能测试过程中的数据自动保存与分析处理,实现了控制阀的在线测试和功能评估,并且可将控制阀各项性能指标评估结果汇集于一张类似体检单的报表显示,给阀门厂商的出厂测试、维修检测以及日常维护提供参考依据;采用该系统对某公司的直通气开式薄膜调节阀S9044进行了性能测试评估,实验结果表明,该系统能够全面、精确地测试出调节阀的各项性能指标,且系统软件交互界面良好、扩展性强、精度高。     

一种改进的变步长自适应滤波算法

为了提高LMS自适应滤波算法的性能,在对传统LMS算法及其改进算法研究的基础上,提出了一种改进的变步长算法.在改进算法中,步长因子与误差信号自相关函数之间建立了一种改进的非线性函数关系.将改进算法应用到系统辨识中,通过计算机仿真结果看出,自适应滤波性能在收敛速度和稳态失调误差等方面得到改善.