Towards improving an Area of Concern: Main-channel habitat rehabilitation priorities for the Maumee River

The Maumee River watershed in the Laurentian Great Lakes Basin has been impacted by decades of pollution and habitat modification due to human settlement and development. As such, the lower 35 km of the Maumee River and several smaller adjacent watersheds comprising over 2000 km² were designated the Maumee Area of Concern (AOC) under the revised Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement in 1987. As part of pre-rehabilitation assessments in the Maumee AOC, we assessed fish and invertebrate communities in river km 24–11 of the Maumee River to identify: 1) areas that exhibit the highest biodiversity, 2) habitat characteristics associated with high biodiversity areas, 3) areas in need of protection from further degradation, and 4) areas that could feasibly be rehabilitated to increase biodiversity. Based on benthic trawl data, shallow water habitats surrounding large island complexes had the highest fish diversity and catch per unit effort (CPUE). Electrofishing displayed similar fish diversity and CPUE patterns across habitat types early in the study but yielded no discernable fish diversity or CPUE patterns towards the end of our study. Although highly variable among study sites, macroinvertebrate density was greatest in shallow water habitats <2.5 m and around large island complexes. Our results provide valuable baseline data that could act as a foundation for developing rehabilitation strategies in the lower Maumee River and for assessing the effectiveness of future aquatic habitat rehabilitation projects. In addition to increasing in-channel habitat, watershed-scale improvements of water quality might be necessary to ensure rehabilitation strategies are successful.     

Performance and cost trade-off in Tracking Area reconfiguration: A Pareto-optimization approach

Tracking Area (TA) design is one of the key tasks in location management of Long Term Evolution (LTE) networks. TA enables to trace and page User Equipments (UEs). As UEs distribution and mobility patterns change over time, TA design may have to undergo revisions. For revising the TA design, the cells to be reconfigured typically have to be temporary torn down. Consequently, this will result in service interruption and “cost”. There is always a trade-off between the performance in terms of the overall signaling overhead of the network and the reconfiguration cost. In this paper, we model this trade-off as a bi-objective optimization problem to which the solutions are characterized by Pareto-optimality. Solving the problem delivers a host of potential trade-offs among which the selection can be based on the preferences of a decision maker. An integer programming model has been developed and applied to the problem. Solving the integer programming model for various cost budget levels leads to an exact scheme for Pareto-optimization. In order to deliver Pareto-optimal solutions for large networks in one single run, a Genetic Algorithm (GA) embedded with Local Search (LS) is applied. Unlike many commonly adopted approaches in multi-objective optimization, our algorithm does not consider any weighted combination of the objectives. Comprehensive numerical results are presented in this study, using large-scale realistic or real-life network scenarios. The experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.     

基于FIRA仿真足球守门员的决策设计

研究FIRA机器人足球守门员的准确性站位设计。由于守门员站位不精确,导致失败。为了提高守门员对于小球危险程度判断的准确性及其站位的精确性,提出了以球门线为公共弦长、不同半径大小的圆形区域来划分场地,提取小球、场地和守门员的综合信息,通过小球与球门线的距离、射门角度以及速度判断场地区域的危险等级,进而采取不同的防守策略。同时提出一种新的基于"角平分线—中点连线中点"站位方法,综合运用其它不同的站位法来修正守门员最佳位置,结合守门员的动作模型实现快速、准确、高效的防守。实验结果表明,证明防守策略提高了守门员防守的成功率,为足球仿真平台的设计提供了依据。     

基于Web数据挖掘的B2C推荐系统的设计

电子商务相对传统贸易具有成本上面的优势。随着互联网的普及,电子商务的一种重要分支,企业对个人的电子商务（BUSINESSTOCUSTOMER,B2C）被越来越多人们接受和使用。但是互联网上的信息量非常巨大,普通消费者往往不知道如何才能买到自己心仪的商品。利用WEB数据挖掘的相关技术,设计了一个可以在B2C贸易中推荐优惠商品给用户的系统。     

区位码/国标码输入法技术初探

计算机技术领域中,使用键盘输入汉字的方法实质是区位码/国标码输入法。本文介绍了区位码/国标码输入法的现实意义,IME的组成结构以及区位码/国标码输入法的发展动态。主要说明区位码/国标码输入法在中文键盘输入法的重要地位,并简单分析了中文键盘输入法编辑器的组成结构等技术。     

真空压铸的发展

真空系统是压铸过程中排除气体的最有效的方法之一。然而，真空压铸的发展几经起伏，现在则发展到一个新的阶段。从模具中抽出气体是几种抽气方法中较为简便的一种。真空气道的设计与常规气道则有所不同     

采矿法方案优选指标权数的动态分析

在采矿方案优选的研究中，其决策的正确与否，取决于参与计算的采矿法的定量、定性指标个数以及这些指标的权数。本文通过实例分析了指标权数的波动对采矿方案优劣排序的影响，以减小决策的风险。     

水泥原料矿山开采设备的现状和发展趋势

水泥工业作为原材料工业，正处于技术结构和产品结构调整期，作为水泥生产不可或缺的原料矿山，也正随着新型干法水泥的发展，逐渐从传统的小型化、分散化过渡到规模化、机械化，世界采矿设备的发展为我国水泥原料矿山采矿设备的技术进步带来了机遇。     

列车用CAN协议一致性测试平台的设计与实现

列车用CAN总线协议一致性测试是保证不同设备制造厂家生产的CAN通信设备之间实现互联、互通和互操作的前提。在对协议一致性测试原理和CAN总线协议特点进行简要分析的基础上,提出了针对CAN总线协议一致性测试的协同测试方法和相应的一致性测试内容,设计并构建了相应的一致性测试硬件平台,并对测试软件平台中可执行测试实例产生、测试执行、测试评估以及测试管理等诸多环节所涉及的基本功能软件进行了设计和实现,完成了CAN协议一致性测试的基本功能。实际运行和测试结果表明：所设计的测试平台达到了预期结果,为下一步列车用CAN总线协议的一致性测试打下了基础。     

一种面向金融数据的基于ARIMA的模糊时间序列预测模型

时序分析方法在金融数据挖掘中扮演着越来越重要的角色,然而,历史数据的不完整、不确切性制约着传统金融时间序列预测方法的准确性。创新地定义ARIMA模型的相似性和模,并融合模糊时间序列方法,提出新的基于ARIMA的模糊时间序列预测模型。该模型能够高效处理不完整的、含糊的历史数据,并对未来走势进行有效预测。一方面, ARIMA模型的简约灵活性使得对高维金融时间序列的特征提取大为简化;另一方面,由于结合模糊逻辑的理论,该方法能够有效发现历史数据中的相似模式。以人民币兑美元汇率为例,通过对预测结果的分析,验证了的新模型的有效性。