A comprehensive approach to evaluating watershed models for predicting river flow regimes critical to downstream ecosystem services

Selection of strategies that help reduce riverine inputs requires numerical models that accurately quantify hydrologic processes. While numerous models exist, information on how to evaluate and select the most robust models is limited. Toward this end, we developed a comprehensive approach that helps evaluate watershed models in their ability to simulate flow regimes critical to downstream ecosystem services. We demonstrated the method using the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT), the Hydrological Simulation Program–FORTRAN (HSPF) model, and Distributed Large Basin Runoff Model (DLBRM) applied to the Maumee River Basin (USA). The approach helped in identifying that each model simulated flows within acceptable ranges. However, each was limited in its ability to simulate flows triggered by extreme weather events, owing to algorithms not being optimized for such events and mismatched physiographic watershed conditions. Ultimately, we found HSPF to best predict river flow, whereas SWAT offered the most flexibility for evaluating agricultural management practices.     

Comparative analysis of two different middleware approaches for reconfiguration of distributed real-time systems

Software-based reconfiguration of distributed real-time systems is a complex problem with many sides to it ranging from system-wide concerns down to the intrinsic non-robust nature of the specific middleware layer and the used programming techniques. In a completely open distributed system, mixing reconfiguration and real-time is not possible; the set of possible target states can be very large threatening the temporal predictability of the reconfiguration process. Over the last years, middle ware solutions have appeared mainly for general purpose systems where efficient state transitions are sought for, but real-time properties are not considered. One of the few contributions to run-time software reconfiguration in distributed real-time environments has been the iLAND middleware, where the germ of a solution with high potential has been conceived and delivered in practice.¹ The key idea has been the fact that a set of bounds and limitations to the structure of systems and to their open nature needs to be imposed in order to come up with practical solutions. In this paper, the authors present the different sides of the problem of software reconfiguration from two complementary middleware perspectives comparing two strategies built inside distribution middleware. We highlight the lessons learned in the iLAND project aimed at service-based reconfiguration and compare it to our experience in the development of distributed real-time Java reconfiguration based on distributed tasks rescheduling. Authors also provide a language view of both solutions. Lastly, empirical results are shown that validate these solutions and compare them on the basis of different programming language realizations.     

Context-aware adaptive IP mobility anchoring

The novel distributed mobility management trend is a promising direction to cope with the increasing mobile data traffic and flatten network architectures. Most of the novel mobility approaches distribute the mobility anchors through the access level, as opposed to the centralized mobility anchoring model. Other recent approaches argue that mobility anchors closer to the content servers may be the solution to optimize the mobility performance. However, none of the mobility anchoring models is ideal for all scenarios, since it depends on the user, the session and the network. Hence, we propose an IP mobility approach driven by the context of the user, sessions and the network, where the mobility anchors for IP address allocation and for routing/forwarding are distributed through the network nodes, while the mobility context is managed by the mobile devices. Although each session is properly anchored in the establishment phase, the routing/forwarding is adapted over time, according to the user, the session and the network context: the proposed approach is able to signal different mobility anchors to optimize the routing path to new and ongoing sessions of the user. The outcome of the evaluation shows that the proposed approach overall reduces the data cost, the data delay, the tunneled packets and the tunnel length, when compared with other anchoring models.     

An approach for selecting seed URLs of focused crawler based on user-interest ontology

Seed URLs selection for focused Web crawler intends to guide related and valuable information that meets a user's personal information requirement and provide more effective information retrieval. In this paper, we propose a seed URLs selection approach based on user-interest ontology. In order to enrich semantic query, we first intend to apply Formal Concept Analysis to construct user-interest concept lattice with user log profile. By using concept lattice merger, we construct the user-interest ontology which can describe the implicit concepts and relationships between them more appropriately for semantic representation and query match. On the other hand, we make full use of the user-interest ontology for extracting the user interest topic area and expanding user queries to receive the most related pages as seed URLs, which is an entrance of the focused crawler. In particular, we focus on how to refine the user topic area using the bipartite directed graph. The experiment proves that the user-interest ontology can be achieved effectively by merging concept lattices and that our proposed approach can select high quality seed URLs collection and improve the average precision of focused Web crawler.     

面向增量同生主题的维吾尔文爬虫的研究

针对传统的主题爬虫对网页信息缺乏在知识层面上的处理和理解的问题进行了研究,提出了一种面向增量同生主题的维吾尔文爬虫,通过建立一个增量主题词库优化传统的主题模型,来描述维吾尔文关键词的应用语境及场景,提高了计算网页相关度的准确率。用改进的IC主题敏感算法来预测子页面优先级,过滤无关的网页地址。依据上述方法编写爬虫系统,用构建的维吾尔文语料库进行实验,表明了基于此模型的爬虫具有更好的稳定性和准确度。     

无线传感器网络不确定数据PT-Top k查询处理技术

在无线传感器网络现实应用中,感知数据普遍存在不确定性。由于不确定数据引入了概率维度,使得不确定数据查询种类更加丰富,同时也给查询处理带来困难。不确定数据Top-k查询是一个典型的不确定数据查询任务。考虑到无线传感器网络查询处理技术对查询响应时间和网络通信消耗的高要求,研究了面向层次聚簇结构的无线传感器网络不确定数据Top-k查询处理技术。通过分析不确定数据特点,基于x-tuple规则元组模型,采用簇内与簇间的两阶段数据查询处理机制,提出了基于Poisson分布的分布式不确定数据PT-Top k查询处理近似算法TPQP。通过实验,从总体通信消耗、与概率阈值p相关分析、与排序数k相关分析以及数据敏感度分析等方面,说明了TPQP算法在通信消耗、查询响应时间上的优越性。     

一种分布式大数据管理系统的设计与实现

随着云计算、物联网、移动互联网等技术的飞速发展,海量数据在这些崭新的领域迅猛地生长着,大数据作为一项颠覆性技术,为处理海量数据提供了无限可能。而传统的关系型数据库的不再适用,导致了分布式数据库NoSQL的应运而生。针对大数据领域面临的种种现实难题,设计并实现了一种基于Hadoop和NoSQL的新型分布式大数据管理系统(DBDMS),其提供大数据的实时采集、检索以及永久存储的功能。实验表明,DBDMS可以显著提高大数据处理能力,适用于海量日志备份和检索、海量网络报文抓取和分析等领域。     

基于组件的大数据分析服务平台

随着数据规模的快速增长,单机的数据分析工具已经无法满足需求。针对大数据的分析问题,设计并实现了一种基于组件的大数据分析服务平台Haflow。Haflow自定义了业务流程模型和可扩展的组件接口,组件接口支持各种异构工具的集成。系统接收用户定义的业务流程,将其翻译成执行流程实例,提交到Hadoop分布式集群上执行。Haflow是一个可扩展的、分布式的、支持异构分析工具的、面向服务的大数据分析服务平台。提出该平台有两重意义:一方面平台将与数据分析业务无关的工作封装起来,支持各种异构组件,以加快分析应用的开发速度;另一方面,平台后端使用Hadoop分布式系统来实现多任务的并发,从而提高应用的平均执行速度。     

Distributed attitude synchronization using backstepping and sliding mode control

We consider the problem of attitude synchronization for systems of rigid body agents with directed topologies. Two different scenarios for the rotation matrices of the agents are considered. In the first scenario, the rotations are contained in a convex subset of SO(3), which is a ball of radius less than π/2, whereas in the second scenario the agents are contained in a subset of SO(3), which is a ball of radius less than π. Using a control law based on backstepping and sliding mode control, we provide distributed, semi-global, torque control laws for the agents so that the rotations asymptotically synchronize. The control laws for the agents in the first scenario only depend on the relative rotations between neighboring agents, whereas the control laws in the second scenario depend on rotations defined in a global coordinate frame. Illustrative examples are provided where the synchronization is shown for both scenarios.     

组织机构代码信息公众查询平台防治网络爬虫问题

随着互联网技术的逐渐成熟,公共部门通过公共网络服务平台对外提供服务已成为趋势,但这也造成源自网络的安全威胁的增加。本文对组织机构代码信息公众查询平台防治网络爬虫问题进行了分析,并针对该问题提出一些防护措施。