Prototypical implementation of location-aware services based on a middleware architecture for super-distributed RFID tag infrastructures

We provide evidence of the feasibility and effectiveness of a middleware architecture for mobile devices (MoDs), which employs dense distributions of small computerized entities for providing fault-tolerant location-aware services. We do so by describing exemplary implementations based on radio frequency identification as an enabling technology. Firstly, we present prototypical implementations of the hardware abstraction layer and of selected core middleware services. The latter enable a MoD to store and retrieve data and position information in physical places in a fault-tolerant manner, and to identify places based on a location abstraction which is robust against failure of individual tags. Secondly, we investigate the feasibility of some higher-level services and applications by developing and evaluating prototypical systems for tracing and tracking, self-positioning, and collaborative map-making.

Modeling contextual security policies

As computer infrastructures become more complex, security models must provide means to handle more flexible and dynamic requirements. In the Organization Based Access Control (OrBAC) model, it is possible to express such requirements using the notion of context. In OrBAC, each security rule (permission, prohibition, obligation or dispensation) only applies in a given context. A context is viewed as an extra condition that must be satisfied to activate a given security rule. In this paper, we present a taxonomy of different types of context and investigate the data the information system must manage in order to deal with these different contexts. We then explain how to model and evaluate them in the OrBAC model.

创意是广告的灵魂

广告创作中最重要、并且将影响到最终传播效果的就是广告创意这一环节。它是一个广告创作的开端,并决定了广告其他因素的选择。创意是广告的灵魂,广告创意是对广告作家能力的挑战,它要求广告作家要思考而不能乞求于灵感,要遵循一定的创意原则。     

多媒体虚拟现实——网络品牌店感知体验设计

随着新媒体、新技术的不断涌现,网络品牌店正在经历着从视听传达到多感官全面体验的升级。网络品牌利用色彩、声音、质感甚至气味等感性元素,模拟并且再造实体品牌店,使得网络品牌更具娱乐性、交互性,更加人性化、情感化。     

服装产品的后续设计研究

在西方发达国家,服装产品的后续设计已经司空见惯,品牌公司在服装产品推向市场之时,已经全方位地考虑到服装产品的后续设计。近年来,国内的服装品牌咨询专家、服装产品设计师也提出过类似相关的概念。服装产品的后续设计内容宽泛,涉及服装产品与饰品的组合状态,以及服装产品的系列化特征、陈列展示和后续配套形式等方面内容,这几个部分内容彼此互联,互相影响。服装产品的后续设计研究具有重要的理论和现实意义,它能够引导服装产品设计师、服装品牌咨询专家、消费者更深入地了解服装产品设计的实质目的。     

优秀服装设计人才的培养——服装设计教学方法之探讨

本论文以"服装设计教育应该立足于市场"作为出发点,基于目前我国服装企业发展的现状,以及我国服装设计教育教学方法本身的创新要求;再对国外一些服装院校的先进教学方法进行借鉴的基础之上,从而对我国服装设计教育的教学方法进行了探讨,以为我国服装设计人才的培养提供新的思路。     

中国期待设计师品牌

随着产品同质化、品牌竞争白热化,工业品牌已被消费者高情感的心理需求所厌恶,初见端倪的设计师品牌,作为一股新生力量,开始兴起,引领中国设计。本文从品牌与设计师品牌的概念出发,分析了国内设计师品牌的现状及发展迟缓的原因,在此基础上,预估了中国的设计师品牌未来的发展方向,并提出设计师品牌的发展不仅需要更多国家政策的扶持,而且更需要一个完整的团队支撑。     

设计不安于“弃”——永续性环保设计

工业设计主要研究的是人、产品、环境三者之间的关系。所以好的工业设计产品要同时满足环境和人的心理的需要。本文以此为出发点,基于现在环境的恶化和人们之间的冷漠提出"永续性环保设计(Sustainable design)"的理念。通过介绍现今社会环境,提出此设计理念并提出了其设计方法。     

Optimal Routing in a Small-World Network

Substantial research has been devoted to the modelling of the small-world phenomenon that arises in nature as well as human society. Earlier work has focused on the static properties of various small-world models. To examine the routing aspects, Kleinberg proposes a model based on a d-dimensional toroidal lattice with long-range links chosen at random according to the d-harmonic distribution. Kleinberg shows that, by using only local information, the greedy routing algorithm performs in O（lg^2 n） expected number of hops. We extend Kleinberg＇s small-world model by allowing each node x to have two more random links to nodes chosen uniformly and randomly within （lg n）2/d Manhattan distance from x. Based on this extended model, we then propose an oblivious algorithm that can route messages between any two nodes in O（lg n） expected number of hops. Our routing algorithm keeps only O（（lgn）β＋1） bits of information on each node, where 1 〈 β 〈 2, thus being scalable w.r.t, the network size. To our knowledge, our result is the first to achieve the optimal routing complexity while still keeping a poly-logarithmic number of bits of information stored on each node in the small-world networks.     

Acoustic environment as an indicator of social and physical context

Acoustic environments provide many valuable cues for context-aware computing applications. From the acoustic environment we can infer the types of activity, communication modes and other actors involved in the activity. Environmental or background noise can be classified with a high degree of accuracy using recordings from microphones commonly found in PDAs and other consumer devices. We describe an acoustic environment recognition system incorporating an adaptive learning mechanism and its use in a noise tracker. We show how this information is exploited in a mobile context framework. To illustrate our approach we describe a context-aware multimodal weather forecasting service, which accepts spoken or written queries and presents forecast information in several forms, including email, voice and sign languages.