Interface feature prioritization for web services: Case of online flight reservations

Acceptance, utility, and usability of system designs have become a focal interest in human–computer interaction (HCI) research, yet at present there is a lack detailed understandings of which system design features influence them. The purpose of the study is to examine the effects of five product design features; customization, adaptive behavior, memory load, content density, and speed on user preference through an experimental study by using conjoint analysis. In experimental study, instead of classical conjoint cards, prototypes were generated for products. Besides, desirability and market segments of product prototypes were identified. In line with the results, among the five product design features, speed is the most and customization is the least important features that affect user preference. Contrary to the expectations, customization has a relatively small importance value in this research. Subsequent design features that influence user preference after speed are minimal memory load, adaptive behavior, and content density, respectively. According to findings, interfaces that have high-speed, minimal memory load, adaptive behavior, low content density, and customization features are more preferable than those that do not.     

改进的基于目录的Cache一致性协议

介绍几种典型目录一致性协议并分析它们的优缺点。在综合全映射目录和有限目录优点的基础上,通过在存储器层上增加一个存储器高速缓存（Cache）层的方式,提出并讨论一种改进后的Cache一致性协议。该协议相对有限目录存储开销增加不多的情况下,提高了系统性能和可扩展性。     

Windows CE内存访问原理分析与研究

针对Windows CE流接171驱动程序,通过嵌入指针访问应用程序内存区域时出错的案例,分析错误产生的原因,阐述一些有关Windows CE内存访问的重要概念,包括指针参数、嵌入指针、同步访问、访问检查和内存整理,从而提出对嵌入指针进行内存整理的解决方法。结果证明该方法可以有效地解决异步内存访问出错的问题。     

并行计算模型参数动态分析软件包设计

并行计算模型的发展引入越来越多的模型参数。对并行计算模型参数动态采集分析软件包DEMPAT的整体框架进行研究,实现基于硬件性能计数器的存储层次参数采集模块。实验表明,该模块能够准确快速地获取存储层次参数且具有较好的可移植性。     

Self-consistent gradient flow for shape optimization

We present a model for image segmentation and describe a gradient-descent method for level-set based shape optimization. It is commonly known that gradient-descent methods converge slowly due to zig–zag movement. This can also be observed for our problem, especially when sharp edges are present in the image. We interpret this in our specific context to gain a better understanding of the involved difficulties. One way to overcome slow convergence is the use of second-order methods. For our situation, they require derivatives of the potentially noisy image data and are thus undesirable. Hence, we propose a new method that can be interpreted as a self-consistent gradient flow and does not need any derivatives of the image data. It works very well in practice and leads to a far more efficient optimization algorithm. A related idea can also be used to describe the mean-curvature flow of a mean-convex surface. For this, we formulate a mean-curvature Eikonal equation, which allows a numerical propagation of the mean-curvature flow of a surface without explicit time stepping.     

Flash memory efficient LTL model checking

As the capacity and speed of flash memories in form of solid state disks grow, they are becoming a practical alternative for standard magnetic drives. Currently, most solid-state disks are based on NAND technology and much faster than magnetic disks in random reads, while in random writes they are generally not.So far, large-scale LTL model checking algorithms have been designed to employ external memory optimized for magnetic disks. We propose algorithms optimized for flash memory access. In contrast to approaches relying on the delayed detection of duplicate states, in this work, we design and exploit appropriate hash functions to re-invent immediate duplicate detection.For flash memory efficient on-the-fly LTL model checking, which aims at finding any counter-example to the specified LTL property, we study hash functions adapted to the two-level hierarchy of RAM and flash memory. For flash memory efficient off-line LTL model checking, which aims at generating a minimal counterexample and scans the entire state space at least once, we analyze the effect of outsourcing a memory-based perfect hash function from RAM to flash memory.Since the characteristics of flash memories are different to magnetic hard disks, the existing I/O complexity model is no longer sufficient. Therefore, we provide an extended model for the computation of the I/O complexity adapted to flash memories that has a better fit to the observed behavior of our algorithms.     

内存缓存技术在门户网站开发中的应用研究

该文创造性地探讨了内存缓存技术在门户网站开发中的应用,介绍了Memcached这一杰出成果在truelife.com的应用情况,并就其实际存在的一些缺陷进行了深入分析。     

Prospective issues for error detection

From the literature on error detection, the authors select several concepts relating error detection mechanisms and prospective memory features. They emphasize the central role of intention in the classification of the errors into slips/lapses/mistakes, in the error handling process and in the usual distinction between action-based and outcome-based detection. Intention is again a core concept in their investigation of prospective memory theory, where they point out the contribution of intention retrievals, intention persistence and output monitoring in the individual's possibilities for detecting their errors. The involvement of the frontal lobes in prospective memory and in error detection is also analysed. From the chronology of a prospective memory task, the authors finally suggest a model for error detection also accounting for neural mechanisms highlighted by studies on error-related brain activity.     

Smart Electroceramics

"Smart" materials have the ability to perform both sensing and actuating functions. Passively smart materials respond to external change in a useful manner without assistance, whereas actively smart materials have a feedback loop which allows them to both recognize the change and initiate an appropriate response through an actuator circuit. Many smart materials are analogous to biological systems: piezoelectric hydrophones are similar in mechanism to the "ears" by which a fish senses vibrations. Piezoelectrics with electromechanical coupling, shape-memory materials that can "remember" their original shape, electrorheological fluids with adjustable viscosities, and chemical sensors which act as synthetic equivalents to the human nose are examples of smart electroceramics. "Very smart" materials, in addition to sensing and actuating, have the ability to "learn" by altering their property coefficients in response to the environment. Integration of these different technologies into compact, multifunction packages is the ultimate goal of research in the area of smart materials.     

一种16QAM调制实现技术的研究

讨论了16QAM调制时应用不同类型和参数的滤波器对系统性能的影响．针对16QAM的特点，采用了存储波形累加求和法来代替一般的滤波成形，提高了调制速度．并利用其相位对称的特点将波形存储表压缩为原容量的1／4，有效地节约了存储空间．