微地震技术在银行监控系统中的应用

介绍了微地震监测技术及其研究和应用的现状,指出了当前银行监控系统中存在的不足。重点讨论了将微地震技术应用到银行金库监控系统中的优点和震源定位算法。     

Assessing creative problem-solving with automated text grading

The work aims to improve the assessment of creative problem-solving in science education by employing language technologies and computational–statistical machine learning methods to grade students’ natural language responses automatically. To evaluate constructs like creative problem-solving with validity, open-ended questions that elicit students’ constructed responses are beneficial. But the high cost required in manually grading constructed responses could become an obstacle in applying open-ended questions. In this study, automated grading schemes have been developed and evaluated in the context of secondary Earth science education. Empirical evaluations revealed that the automated grading schemes may reliably identify domain concepts embedded in students’ natural language responses with satisfactory inter-coder agreement against human coding in two sub-tasks of the test (Cohen’s Kappa = .65–.72). And when a single holistic score was computed for each student, machine-generated scores achieved high inter-rater reliability against human grading (Pearson’s r = .92). The reliable performance in automatic concept identification and numeric grading demonstrates the potential of using automated grading to support the use of open-ended questions in science assessments and enable new technologies for science learning.     

<Emphasis Type="Italic">HumanPT</Emphasis>: An Open-source,HumanPT Architecture-based,Robotic Application for Low Cost Robotic Tasks

In this paper, first HumanPT architecture for low cost robotic applications is presented. HumanPT architecture differs than other architectures because it is implemented on existing robotic systems (robot  robotic controller) and exploits the minimum communication facilities for real-time control that these systems provide. It is based on well-known communication methods like serial communication (USB, RS232, IEEE-1394) and windows sockets (server–client model) and permits an important number of different type of components like actuators, sensors and particularly vision systems to be connected in a robotic system. The operating system (OS) used is Microsoft Windows, the most widely spread OS. The proposed architecture exploits features of this OS that is not a real-time one, to ensure – in case that the robotic system provide such a facility – control and real time communication with the robotic system controller and to integrate by means of sensors and actuators an important number of robotic tasks and procedures. As implementation of this architecture, HumanPT robotic application and experimental results concerning its performance and its implementation in real tasks are provided. HumanPT robotic application, developed in Visual C++, is an integrated, but simultaneously an open-source software that can be adapted in different types of robotic systems. An important number of robotic tasks or procedures including sensors and particularly vision systems can be generated and executed. Small enterprises by means of the proposed architecture and the open source software can be automated at low cost enhancing in this way their production.     

An efficient hybrid multicast transport protocol for collaborative virtual environment with networked haptic

In recent years, we have witnessed a growing interest in the synchronous collaboration based class of applications. Several techniques for collaborative virtual environments (CVE), haptic, audio and visual environments (C-HAVE) have been designed. However, several challenging issues remain to be resolved before CVE and C-HAVE become a common place. In this paper, we focus on applications that are based on closely coupled and highly synchronized haptic tasks that require a high-level of coordination among the participants. Four main protocols have been designed to resolve the synchronization issues in such environments: the synchronous collaboration transport protocol, the selective reliable transmission protocol, the reliable multicast transport protocol and the scalable reliable multicast. While these four protocols have shown good performance for CVE and C-HAVE class of applications, none of these protocols has been able to meet all of the basic CVE requirements, i.e., scalability, reliability, synchronization, and minimum delay. In this paper, we present a hybrid protocol that is able to satisfy all of the CVE and C-HAVE requirements and discuss its implementation and results in two tele-surgery applications. This work is partially supported by Grants from Canada Research Chair Program, NSERC, OIT/Ontario Distinguished Researcher Award, Early Research Award and ORNEC Research Grant.     

网格应用程序执行时间预测系统

为了合理利用网格资源和改进应用程序的执行性能,需要对应用程序的执行时间进行实时预测,为任务调度系统和网格用户提供调度依据.本文工作建立了执行时间预测系统,周期性的产生预测信息并转换为统一格式注册到网格信息服务中.本文使用资源映射方法预测应用程序执行时间,并且设计一组实验测试系统性能.实验结果表明,本系统能够低开销,灵敏地预测执行时间,并且预测误差较小.     

分布式高可扩展负载平衡中间件技术研究

现有的负载平衡中间件大多采用单一的基于对象的负载平衡粒度,更多地关注同一对象组的不同副本之间的平衡,复杂的分布式应用往往存在多种不同类型的服务对象组共存的情况。该文基于CORBA技术,论述提高负载平衡中间件可扩展性的关键问题、解决方法及其实现,给出了相关的测试结果。     

管理信息系统通用模块的设计

对管理信息系统进行研究,给出通用模块的设计和实现。针对现存管理信息系统对需求变化响应不足的缺点,结合其共性提出通用模块的设计思路和实现方法,并通过定制进行业务的调整。通用模块分为6个业务子模块和1个控制子模块,在B/S和C/S架构下得以实现,并已经在实际中使用。     

一种基于良构应用的多级安全策略模型

安全系统的重要目标是完整性和保密性,BLP模型是经典的保密性模型,Clark-Wilson模型是最能反映完整性保护需求的模型。该文提出一种基于良构应用的多级安全策略模型,利用良构应用完成信息从低保密等级流向高保密等级的工作,利用基于角色的方法完成在使用良构应用的用户间的职责隔离,从而保证了系统的保密性和完整性。在模型的具体实施中,模型的执行规则和保证规则明确了操作系统和应用系统在实现该模型中所扮演的角色。     

“宏”的应用

VB是大家较熟悉的计算机编程语言,而在不少的应用软件中已嵌套了面向对象的VBA,如果能掌握了VBA的使用将会使工作效率达到事半功倍的效果,这对工程技术人员非常重要,该文简要介绍了VBA的使用方法。     

虚拟教室中的共享电子白板的设计和实现

电子白板是虚拟教室中的一个重要工具。该文介绍了基于JAVA语言设计的一个电子白板系统,并对电子白板的设计与实现过程当中的各种关键技术进行了讨论。