Twenty years of artificial life art

This essay begins with discussion of four relatively recent works which are representative of major themes and preoccupations in Artificial Life Art: ‘Propagaciones’ by Leo Nuñez; ‘Sniff’ by Karolina Sobecka and Jim George; ‘Universal Whistling Machine’ by Marc Boehlen; and ‘Performative Ecologies’ by Ruari Glynn. This essay is an attempt to contextualise these works by providing an overview of the history and forms of Artificial Life Art as it has developed over two decades, along with some background in the ideas of the Artificial Life movement of the late 1980s and 1990s.1 A more extensive study of the theoretical history of Artificial Life can be found in my paper ‘Artificial Life Art—A Primer’, in the Proceedings of DAC09 and also at http://www.ace.uci.edu/Penny. Excerpts from that essay are included here.      

纳微米聚合物调驱渗流理论模型研究及其应用

纳微米聚合物作为一种新型的逐级调驱剂,可在油层深部发生物理和化学变化,实现液流改向。根据纳微米聚合物调驱渗流特点,此文建立了三维三相三组分纳微米聚合物调驱数学模型,考虑了对流扩散和调驱渗流特性,采用隐压、显饱、隐浓的差分方法求解数学模型,并编制了相应的数值模拟软件。对纳微米聚合物调驱矿场试验区进行了数值模拟研究,分析了纳微米聚合物浓度、段塞长度、段塞组合对开发指标的影响,并制定合理的注入方案,实施后达到了增油降水和提高采收率的目的,与数值模拟预测指标基本符合。     

典型P2P流媒体模型

分析和比较了几种典型的P2P流媒体模型,介绍了P2P流媒体不同模型常用的数据调度算法,并指出了基于应用层多播的树模型和基于Gossip协议的网状模型的区别,最后指出了P2P流媒体的研究方向。     

基于WINDOWS下的数据恢复

在这个越来越依赖计算机的时代,数据的重要性可想而知,对于存储计算机中的这些重要数据,它们是否万无一失呢？答案是否定的,由于种种原因导致数据丢失的现象时有发生。而对于每个曾有过数据丢失经历的人来说,这都算是一场噩梦。本文主要是基于WINDOWS下的数据恢复,通过数据恢复工具对存储介质中的数据进行恢复。     

利用脚本控制ASF流媒体同步的应用

ASF文件的特性使得用户可以通过编辑ASF文件来实现媒体流间的同步.     

How do different types of intragroup conflict affect group potency in virtual compared with face-to-face teams? A longitudinal study

The number of organizations using teamwork is increasing. In this context, group potency has emerged as a key construct in group research. Moreover, in the last decades, information and communication technologies (ICT) have allowed organizations to form virtual teams. Consequently, a considerable amount of research has analysed the functioning of virtual teams. We focus on intragroup conflict as a relevant antecedent of potency in computer-mediated communication groups. Specifically, the aim of this research is to examine the role of ICT in the relationship between intragroup conflict and group potency in a longitudinal study. A laboratory experiment was carried out comparing 44 groups working in two communication media (face-to-face and computer-mediated communication). The groups developed a project over a one-month period. The results show that communication media play a moderator role between intragroup conflict (relationship and task conflict) and group potency. Implications of these results are discussed.     

Evalvid-RA: trace driven simulation of rate adaptive MPEG-4 VBR video

Due to the increasing deployment of conversational real-time applications like VoIP and videoconferencing, the Internet is today facing new challenges. Low end-to-end delay is a vital QoS requirement for these applications, and the best effort Internet architecture does not support this natively. The delay and packet loss statistics are directly coupled to the aggregated traffic characteristics when link utilization is close to saturation. In order to investigate the behavior and quality of such applications under heavy network load, it is therefore necessary to create genuine traffic patterns. Trace files of real compressed video and audio are text files containing the number of bytes per video and audio frame. These can serve as material to construct mathematical traffic models. They can also serve as traffic generators in network simulators since they determine the packet sizes and their time schedule. However, to inspect perceived quality, the compressed binary content is needed to ensure decoding of received media. The EvalVid streaming video tool-set enables this using a sophisticated reassembly engine. Nevertheless, there has been a lack of research solutions for rate adaptive media content. The Internet community fears a congestion collapse if the usage of non-adaptive media content continues to grow. This paper presents a solution named Evalvid-RA for the simulation of true rate adaptive video. The solution generates real rate adaptive MPEG-4 streaming traffic, using the quantizer scale for adjusting the sending rate. A feedback based VBR rate controller is used at simulation time, supporting TFRC and a proprietary congestion control system named P-AQM. Example ns-2 simulations of TFRC and P-AQM demonstrate Evalvid-RA’s capabilities in performing close-to-true rate adaptive codec operation with low complexity to enable the simulation of large networks with many adaptive media sources on a single computer.     

基于QoS的P2P网络服务及流媒体传输

现有的P2P网络服务缺乏服务质量保证,很难应用于商业领域。将服务质量属性引入P2P网络服务,提出了P2P网络中服务组合模型,提出了基于P2P的数字音视频流媒体传输的问题及解决办法。     

Struts＋Hibemate框架模型在媒体资源库中的应用

针对传统的B／S模式媒体资源库系统代码可重用性低、维护困难、可扩展性差等问题,引入MVC设计模式,结合持久化工具Hibernate的功能特点和Struts框架的优势,提出采用Struts＋Hibernate框架的媒体资源库设计思想,以构建一个媒体资源库的音乐子分库为例,验证了基于Struts＋Hibernate模型的媒体资源库系统具有扩展性好、结构灵活、易于维护等特点。     

基于实时传输协议的教学直播系统的分析与设计

随着网络传输技术、图像编码技术的成熟,以流媒体技术为基础的RTP协议的视频实时传输有着快速的发展。文章介绍了用于流媒体传输的RTP/RTCP协议格式,给出了一个基于RTP协议的教学直播系统的框架和设计。