Simulated environments with animated agents: effects on visual attention,emotion, performance,and perception

This research assessed how emotive animated agents in a simulation‐based training affect the performance outcomes and perceptions of the individuals interacting in real time with the training application. A total of 56 participants consented to complete the study. The material for this investigation included a nursing simulation in which participants interacted with three animated agents. The results of this investigation indicated that both experienced and novice participants focused more visual attention time on the body of the animated agent than the other defined areas of interest in the simulated environment. The results also indicated that novice participants conveyed more neutral facial expressions during the interaction with the animated agents than experience participants. The results of the simulation performance scores indicated that novice participants achieved higher simulation performance scores on the simulation task than experienced participants. Lastly, the results of the agent persona instrument showed that experienced and novice participants perceived the animated agents as facilitators of learning, credible, human‐like and engaging.     

The role of creation mode and social networking mode in knowledge creation performance: Mediation effect of creation process

This study proposes and empirically examines a research model that incorporates the knowledge creation mode and social networking mode to describe knowledge creation performance. The mediation effect of the knowledge creation process is explored in terms of socialization, externalization, combination, and internalization (SECI). The data collected from the manufacturing and service industries in Taiwan were analyzed. The goal-driven mode and web topology are found to be significantly associated with product or service creation primarily because of the creation efficacy aspect. The SECI with web topology has a mediation function when the goal-driven mode is adopted. Implications and suggestions are also provided.     

Optimal back-off point determination and controller weight selection for multivariate systems under finite-horizon control

Plant economic performance is most often related to the operating point, specifically the mean values of the process variables; meanwhile, most existing performance assessment techniques involve examining the variances or covariances of the controlled variables. A combined approach is to determine the appropriate trade-off between variances of different process variables in order to operate the plant at the point that provides maximum economic benefit while satisfying the operating constraints. This problem is referred to as the minimum backed-off operating point selection, and previous works have formulated it as a non-convex constrained optimization problem. In the current work, a new technique is introduced that can provide the optimal plant operating point. Additionally, this method provides the weights for a finite horizon controller that results in the optimal trade-off in process variable variances that will allow satisfaction of the operating constraints at the optimal operating point. In this method, the plant and disturbance models for the given process are used to generate data representing possible trade-offs between process variable standard deviations. Employing a piecewise linear regression to describe the sample points of this standard deviations data allows for the operating point selection problem to be solved as a small number of linear programs. The advantages of this approach are demonstrated through the use of mathematical and simulation case studies.     

面向电网流式数据处理的性能测试平台

提出一种面向电网流式数据处理的性能测试平台的系统架构及关键技术.针对电网流式数据的业务场景特点,测试平台支持基于浏览器的测试脚本设计和测试场景设计,并支持测试任务的全生命周期管理和高可用保障.为了满足大规模负载测试需求,测试平台提供基于Linux容器的虚拟化测试资源池,实现了测试资源的轻量化、弹性管理.     

面向在线支付业务的容器资源弹性管理框架

随着在线支付业务的大规模应用,系统运维人员需要更便捷的服务器资源管理机制来满足系统扩展需求.本文提出一种基于容器技术的轻量化、弹性资源管理框架,并给出应用服务的性能诊断方法以及集群规模的动态调整方法.利用在线支付业务的典型数据处理场景进行实验,实验结果验证了方法的有效性.     

面向HBase的大规模数据加载研究

分布式数据库HBase在大规模数据加载中较传统关系型数据库有较大的优势但也存在很大的优化空间.基于Hadoop分布式平台搭建HBase环境,并优化自定义数据加载算法.首先,分析HBase底层数据存储,实验得出HBase自带数据加载方式在效率和灵活性方面存在不足;进而,提出了自定义并行数据加载算法,并针对集群进行优化.实验结果表明,优化后的自定义并行数据加载方式能充分发挥集群性能,具有较好的加载效率和数据操作能力.     

基于程序分析的分布式应用自动化追踪方法

提出了一种零配置的端到端细粒度追踪的方法-EasyTrace,应用于分布式系统发生性能降级时的问题诊断.传统工具往往存在监测粒度与服务组件源码紧耦合或配置信息复杂、修改代价高等不足,EasyTrace能够做到零配置下性能问题的准确定位.基于开源电子商务系统的实验结果表明,EasyTrace相对传统监测工具对系统造成的扰动很小.     

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.