Suitability evaluation of urban construction land based on geo-environmental factors of Hangzhou, China

Suitability evaluation of urban construction land based on geo-environmental factors is the process of determining the fitness of a given tract of land for construction. This process involves a consideration of the geomorphology, geology, engineering geology, geological hazards, and other geological factors and is the basis of urban construction land planning and management. With the support of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), grid analysis, and geo-spatial analysis techniques, four factor groups comprising nine separate subfactors of geo-environmental attributes were selected to be used in the evaluation of the suitability level for construction land in Hangzhou. This was based on K-means clustering and back-propagation (BP) neural network methods due to their advantages in fast computing, unique adaptive capacity, and self-organization. Simultaneously, the evaluation results based on K-means clustering and BP neural network were compared and analyzed, and the accuracy evaluation was set. The results showed that the geo-environmental suitability evaluation results of construction land based on K-means clustering and BP neural network were similar in terms of the distribution and scale of construction land suitability level. At the same time, the results of the two evaluation methods were consistent with the variability in suitability level, engineering geology, and hydrogeology of Hangzhou. The results also showed that the real advantage of the methods proposed in this paper lies in their capacity to streamline the mapping process and to ensure that the results are consistent throughout. The suitability level of the urban construction land based on the geo-environment in Hangzhou was divided into four construction sites: land for building super high-rise and high-rise buildings, land for building multistorey buildings, land for low-rise buildings, and nonbuilding land. The results of the suitability evaluation for each category will provide a scientific basis for decision-making in urban development in Hangzhou.     

Development and application of a simulation model for changes in land-use patterns under drought scenarios

In arid and semiarid areas of northern China, one of the most vulnerable regional environments, water resources are a key constraint on socioeconomic development. We constructed a simulation model for land-use patterns under a drought transition (i.e., the increased frequency and duration of drought since the late 1970s in the Yongding River Basin study area) to account for the complexity of both the driving factors behind land-use change and the micro-level changes in land-use patterns. This model was a combination of the “top-down” system dynamics model, the “bottom-up” cellular automaton model, and the artificial neural network model. In this model, we considered the socioeconomic development and water resource restrictions, as well as the balance between the land-use requirements and the land supply. We then verified the model through a case study. The results demonstrated the value of constructing a simulation model driven by water resource constraints under the influence of drought. The spatial distribution of land uses in future scenarios will help support decision-making for sustainable regional development.     

A novel bacterial foraging technique for edge detection

A new approach for edge detection using a combination of bacterial foraging algorithm (BFA) and probabilistic derivative technique derived from Ant Colony Systems, is presented in this paper. The foraging behavior of some species of bacteria like Escherichia coli can be hypothetically modeled as an optimization process. A group of bacteria search for nutrients in a way that maximizes the energy obtained per unit time spent during the foraging. The proposed approach aims at driving the bacteria through the edge pixels. The direction of movement of the bacteria is found using a direction probability matrix, computed using derivatives along the possible directions. Rules defining the derivatives are devised to ensure that the variation of intensity due to noise is discarded. Quantitative analysis of the feasibility of the proposed approach and its comparison with other standard edge detection operators in terms of kappa and entropy are given. The effect of initial values of parameters of BFA on the edge detection is discussed.     

Admission control for a responsive distributed middleware using decision trees to model run-time parameters

The software in modern systems has become too complex to make accurate predictions about their performance under different configurations. Real-time or even responsiveness requirements cannot be met because it is not possible to perform admission control for new or changing tasks if we cannot tell how their execution affects the other tasks already running. Previously, we proposed a resource-allocation middleware that manages the execution of tasks in a complex distributed system with real-time requirements. The middleware behavior can be modeled depending on the configuration of the tasks running, so that the performance of any given configuration can be calculated. This makes it possible to have admission control in such a system, but the model requires knowledge of run-time parameters. We propose the utilization of machine-learning algorithms to obtain the model parameters, and be able to predict the system performance under any configuration, so that we can provide a full admission control mechanism for complex software systems. In this paper, we present such an admission control mechanism, we measure its accuracy in estimating the parameters of the model, and we evaluate its performance to determine its suitability for a real-time or responsive system.     

弹性多核学习

多核学习 (MKL) 的提出是为了解决多个核矩阵的融合问题, 多核学习求解关于多个核矩阵的最优的线性组合并同时解出对应于这个组合矩阵的支持向量机(SVM)问题. 现有的多核学习的框架倾向于寻找稀疏的组合系数, 但是当有信息的核的比例较高的时候, 对稀疏性的倾向会使得只有少量的核被选中而损失相当的分类信息. 在本文中, 我们提出了弹性多核学习的框架来实现自适应的多核学习. 弹性多核学习的框架利用了一个混合正则化函数来均衡稀疏性和非稀疏性, 多核学习和支持向量机问题都可以视作弹性多核学习的特殊情形. 基于针对多核学习的梯度下降法, 我们导出了针对弹性多核学习的梯度下降法. 仿真数据的结果显示了弹性多核学习方法相对多核学习和支持向量机的优势; 我们还进一步将弹性多核学习应用于基因集合分析问题并取得了有意义的结果; 最后, 我们比较研究了弹性多核学习与另一种利用了非稀疏思想的多核学习.     

基于.NET平台的海缆埋设机监控软件的设计和实现

为了实现海缆埋设中数据的存储和管理,设计了海缆埋设机监控软件.软件在.NET Framework2.0平台上开发,采用关系数据库Access进行数据存储,实现了数据的交互、查询,曲线的绘制和打印等功能.与传统管理软件相比,海缆埋设机监控软件采用定时器工具,增加了系统对数据的实时性操作.着重对系统中实时曲线打印和数据多日...     

MDA建模的AOP扩展策略及其比较

对于MDA横切于核心业务逻辑的关注点对封装的破坏的问题,本文给出把AOP引入到MDA的扩展策略和主要方法,并对不同的扩展策略进行了比较。     

基于免疫网络的异态电磁信号监测模型

针对人工免疫系统运用于信号密度适中的日常异态信号监测时,系统对检测器数量要求过高的问题,本文对现有的模型进行了改进,提出了基于免疫网络的异态电磁信号监测模型。模型引入数据正向压缩和检测器相互抑制的机制,使得系统对检测器数量的要求明显降低。本文采用实际无线电监测数据对模型进行了检验,并与基于阴性选择的模型进行对比,验证了该模型在信号密度适中的日常监测中可大幅减少对检测器数量的要求,提高了监测效率。     

基于干预规则挖掘因果关系与分段干预事件及对比不等式

为揭示亚复杂系统(SCS)在干预下的特殊行为,提出了对比不等式概念,提出并实现了分段干预规则的挖掘算法;通过在亚复杂系统中施加扰动式干预并分析其动力学效应,提出并实现了基于扰动因果关系挖掘算法。在真实数据上的实验表明,分段干预规则发现了传统挖掘方法难以发现的新干预事件,因果挖掘算法发现了传统方法难以发现的因果关系。     

基于多特征结合与加权支持向量机的图像去噪方法

在基于支持向量机(SVM)的图像去噪方法的基础上,提出了一种基于多特征结合与加权SVM的图像去噪方法。首先,根据图像中相邻像素的相关性及椒盐噪声的特点,提取含噪图像中的多种特征;然后,利用针对不平衡数据集所改进的加权SVM分类器,识别出含噪图像中的噪声点,再利用支持向量回归机(SVR)对噪声点的原始灰度值进行回归预测;最后,重构图像以达到去噪的目的。实验结果表明,该方法能提高SVM分类器对噪声点的识别率,改善分类器的性能,并能在去噪的同时较好地保留图像的边缘信息,获得较高的峰值信噪比(PSNR)。