Managing Role-Based Access Control Policies for Grid Databases in OGSA-DAI Using CAS

In this paper, we present a role-based access control method for accessing databases through the Open Grid Services Architecture – Data Access and Integration (OGSA-DAI) framework. OGSA-DAI is an efficient Grid-enabled middleware implementation of interfaces and services to access and control data sources and sinks. However, in OGSA-DAI, access control causes substantial administration overhead for resource providers in virtual organizations (VOs) because each of them has to manage a role-map file containing authorization information for individual Grid users. To solve this problem, we used the Community Authorization Service (CAS) provided by the Globus Toolkit to support the role-based access control (RBAC) within OGSA-DAI. CAS uses the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML). Our method shows that CAS can support a wide range of security policies using role-privileges, role hierarchies, and constraints. The resource providers need to maintain only the mapping information from VO roles to local database roles and the local policies in the role-map files, so that the number of entries in the role-map file is reduced dramatically. Also, unnecessary authentication, mapping and connections can be avoided by denying invalid requests at the VO level. Thus, our access control method provides increased manageability for a large number of users and reduces day-to-day administration tasks of the resource providers, while they maintain the ultimate authority over their resources. Performance analysis shows that our method adds very little overhead to the existing security infrastructure of OGSA-DAI.     

Development and preliminary evaluation of a pediatric measure of community integration: The Pediatric Community Participation Questionnaire (PCPQ).

Objective: To develop and evaluate a new pediatric measure of community integration: the Pediatric Community Participation Questionnaire (PCPQ). Participants: 105 youths with physical disabilities. Measures: In addition to the PCPQ, demographic and disability-related questions and the Functional Disability Inventory (FDI) were administered. Results: The PCPQ demonstrated convergent validity through its high association with functional ability, discriminant validity through its ability to discriminate between ambulatory and nonambulatory participants, and excellent internal consistency. Conclusions: Community participation, an important component of positive overall development, may be particularly important for youths with physical disabilities. The findings from this study provide preliminary support for the validity and reliability of the PCPQ, supporting its use as a measure of community participation with this population. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

智能小区秘书台系统解决方案研究

秘书台作为一种新型增值业务在通信行业中发展迅速,已经成为信息化建设的一个重要方面。本文提出了一种小区秘书台系统解决方案,对智能小区秘书台等信息化建设有一定的指导作用。     

不同表达粒度对城市路网结构健壮性评价的影响

城市道路网络结构的健壮性评价需要定量化分析不同类型攻击对路网结构的影响.然而,城市路网拓扑结构在不同表达粒度下具有不同特征,对各种类型攻击的敏感性也存在差异.本文对城市道路网络进行不同表达粒度下的对偶图建模,并借鉴复杂网络中基于网络结构特征刻画的持续性模拟攻击方法,通过观测随机攻击和目的性攻击过程中城市路网结构的变化过程,评估不同表达粒度对城市路网结构健壮性评价的影响.研究选择了6个不同空间形态的城市路网作为实验路网.结果表明,在相同表达粒度下,对于随机攻击或目的性攻击,不同形态的城市路网结构变化过程具有相似特征,但同一城市路网在不同表达粒度下,受到攻击时的结构演变特征有较大差异.因此面向不同应用时需要选择合适的表达粒度来评价路网健壮性.路段粒度适用于评价点状事件造成的交通中断对路网的影响,可以为突发事故应急方案的制定提供依据;路链粒度适用于评价线状事件如整条道路交通管制或改为单行线时对路网的影响,可以辅助交通管理部门制定合理的交通管制方案;社区粒度适用于评价影响范围较大的交通事件如大型文体活动等面状事件对城市交通的影响,同时该表达粒度顾及了道路交通的区域联动,更适用于动态交通环境下的路网健壮性评价.     

基于 RFID-SIM 的小区无线门禁系统

针对现代小区各种智能管理系统需要多种智能卡识别给用户带来使用不便、信息不能共享等问题,结合射频识别技术、SIM 技术和 ZigBee 技术,提出将 RFID 和 SIM 集成一卡,使用手机作为统一的小区门禁、停车场等识别卡。选用 PC 作为总控制平台,2440开发板外接RFID 模块作为身份识别,GSM 模块（内含 SIM 卡）作为信息同步、ZigBee 模块作为无线网络节点,在 C2440嵌入式开发平台上,采用 QT4模拟实现实现停车场、楼宇门禁一体化管理。     

社会语义网社区发现标签传递算法研究

针对在线社会网络的特性和现有社区发现算法的不足,提出一种基于语义网技术的在线社会网络社区发现算法ISLPA(Improved Semantic Label Propagation Algorithm),即一种适用于大规模在线社会网络的社区发现和标识算法。ISLPA算法对语义标签算法SemTagP进行改进,在社区划分过程中将在线社会网络视为有向加权图,通过语义网和社会化标签技术,充分结合在线社会网络丰富的语义信息和网络拓扑特征进行社区划分。ISLPA算法不需要预先设定社区数量和大小,就能实现社区发现,并能根据标签自动识别划分的社区。算法接近线性时间复杂度,具有较高的效率。通过实验表明,ISLPA算法能有效划分和标识真实在线社会网络。     

Robustness study of emerged communities from exchanges in peer-to-peer networks

The study of emerged community structure is an important challenge in networks analysis. In fact, several methods have been proposed in the literature to statistically determine the significance of discovered structures. Nevertheless, most of existing analysis models consider only the structural aspect of emerged communities. We are interested in studying the robustness of emerged communities in peer-to-peer (P2P) networks. More precisely, we consider the emerged communities in the induced graph by all the exchanges in these networks. Hence, rather than examining the robustness only on the structural properties of the graph, we will focus on the parameters that allow the emergence of community structures. In fact, perturbing these parameters might destroy most of the obtained properties at the emerged level. To the best of our knowledge, robustness of networks has never been considered from this angle before. In this paper, we study the impact of perturbing the content and the profile of nodes on the emerged communities in P2P networks. We show how these alterations affect both structure and information supported by the emerged structures.     

Effect of uranium (VI) on two sulphate-reducing bacteria cultures from a uranium mine site

This work was conducted to assess the impact of uranium (VI) on sulphate-reducing bacteria (SRB) communities obtained from environmental samples collected on the Portuguese uranium mining area of Urgeiriça. Culture U was obtained from a sediment, while culture W was obtained from sludge from the wetland of that mine. Temperature gradient gel electrophoresis (TGGE) was used to monitor community changes under uranium stress conditions. TGGE profiles of dsrB gene fragment demonstrated that the initial cultures were composed of SRB species affiliated with Desulfovibrio desulfuricans, Desulfovibrio vulgaris and Desulfomicrobium spp. (sample U), and by species related to D. desulfuricans (sample W). A drastic change in SRB communities was observed as a result of uranium (VI) exposure. Surprisingly, SRB were not detected in the uranium removal communities. Such findings emphasize the need of monitoring the dominant populations during bio-removal studies. TGGE and phylogenetic analysis of the 16S rRNA gene fragment revealed that the uranium removal consortia are composed by strains affiliated to Clostridium genus, Caulobacteraceae and Rhodocyclaceae families. Therefore, these communities can be attractive candidates for environmental biotechnological applications associated to uranium removal.     

美国面向公共交通的土地开发新理论及启示

针对我国当前发展家用小汽车及轨道交通建设所存在的问题，分析了美国二战后面向小汽车的城市规划存在的诸多弊端，介绍了其面向公共交通的土地开发新思想及规划设计总则，提出了优先发展公共交通的建议。     

理性增长十周年回顾及展望——以美国马里兰州为例

2007年10月在美国马里兰州举办了理性增长十周年（Smart Growth@10）会议。本文在回顾马里兰州理性增长十年发展历程基础上，严格审查马里兰州理性增长运动的实践成效，具体包括理性增长在土地利用变更、社区复兴、住宅偏好及选择、耕地保护、基础设施建设等领域所取得的成就和存在的不足，并总结了未来马里兰州理性增长运动进一步完善的政策建议，希望美国马里兰州的理性增长实践能够为中国未来城市规划、发展和管理的改革创新提供借鉴和启示．