Global exponential stability of neural networks with discrete and distributed delays and general activation functions on time scales

By employing time scale calculus theory, free weighting matrix method and linear matrix inequality (LMI) approach, several delay-dependent sufficient conditions are obtained to ensure the existence, uniqueness and global exponential stability of the equilibrium point for the neural networks with both infinite distributed delays and general activation functions on time scales. Both continuous-time and discrete-time neural networks are described under the same framework by the reported method. Illustrated numerical examples are given to show the effectiveness of the theoretical analysis. It is noteworthy that the activation functions are assumed to be neither bounded nor monotone.     

Stability analysis for discrete delayed Markovian jumping neural networks with partly unknown transition probabilities

This paper addresses the analysis problem of asymptotic stability for a class of uncertain neural networks with Markovian jumping parameters and time delays. The considered transition probabilities are assumed to be partially unknown. The parameter uncertainties are considered to be norm-bounded. A sufficient condition for the stability of the addressed neural networks is derived, which is expressed in terms of a set of linear matrix inequalities. A numerical example is given to verify the effectiveness of the developed results.     

Outliers detection in environmental monitoring databases

Environmental monitoring is nowadays an important task in many industrial operations. In order to comply with strong environmental laws, they have implemented monitoring systems based on a network of air quality and meteorological stations providing real-time measurements of key variables associated to the distribution of pollutants in surrounding areas. These measurements can be contaminated by outliers, which must be discarded in order to have a consistent set of data. This work presents a nonlinear procedure for outliers detection based on residual analysis of regression with Partial Least Squares and Artificial Neural Networks. In order to minimize the negative effect of outliers in the training dataset a learning algorithm with regularization is proposed. This algorithm is based on a Quasi-Newton optimization method and it was tested on a simulated nonlinear process, on real data from environmental monitoring contaminated with synthetic outliers, and finally applied to a real environmental monitoring data obtained from a monitoring station and having natural outliers. The results are encouraging and further developments are foreseen for including information from neighboring stations and emission source operation.     

An agent-based signal processing in-node environment for real-time human activity monitoring based on wireless body sensor networks

Nowadays wireless body sensor networks (WBSNs) have great potential to enable a broad variety of assisted living applications such as human biophysical/biochemical control and activity monitoring for health care, e-fitness, emergency detection, emotional recognition for social networking, security, and highly interactive games. It is therefore important to define design methodologies and programming frameworks which enable rapid prototyping of WBSN applications. Several effective application development frameworks have been already proposed for WBSNs designed for TinyOS-based sensor platforms, e.g. CodeBlue, SPINE, and Titan. In this paper we present an application of MAPS, an agent framework for wireless sensor networks based on the Java-programmable Sun SPOT sensor platform, for the development of a real-time WBSN-based system for human activity monitoring. The agent-oriented programming abstractions provided by MAPS allow effective and rapid prototyping of the sensor-side software. In particular, the architecture of the developed system is a typical star-based WBSN composed of a coordinator node and two sensor nodes located respectively on the waist and the thigh of the monitored assisted living. The coordinator relies on a JADE-based enhancement of the SPINE coordinator and allows configuring sensors, receiving their data, and recognizing pre-defined human activities. On the other hand, each sensor node runs a MAPS-based agent that performs sensing of the 3-axial accelerometer sensor, computation of significant features on the acquired data, feature aggregation and transmission to the coordinator. The experimentation phase of the prototype, which allows evaluating the obtainable monitoring performances and activity recognition accuracy, is described. Moreover, a comparison of the monitoring system based on MAPS, AFME and SPINE in terms of programming effectiveness and system performances is discussed.     

Exploring comprehensible classification rules from trained neural networks integrated with a time-varying binary particle swarm optimizer

Purpose

Extracting comprehensible classification rules is the most emphasized concept in data mining researches. In order to obtain accurate and comprehensible classification rules from databases, a new approach is proposed by combining advantages of artificial neural networks (ANN) and swarm intelligence.

Method

Artificial neural networks (ANNs) are a group of very powerful tools applied to prediction, classification and clustering in different domains. The main disadvantage of this general purpose tool is the difficulties in its interpretability and comprehensibility. In order to eliminate these disadvantages, a novel approach is developed to uncover and decode the information hidden in the black-box structure of ANNs. Therefore, in this paper a study on knowledge extraction from trained ANNs for classification problems is carried out. The proposed approach makes use of particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm to transform the behaviors of trained ANNs into accurate and comprehensible classification rules. Particle swarm optimization with time varying inertia weight and acceleration coefficients is designed to explore the best attribute-value combination via optimizing ANN output function.

Results

The weights hidden in trained ANNs turned into comprehensible classification rule set with higher testing accuracy rates compared to traditional rule based classifiers.     

普适多媒体信息发布系统的构建

设计了一种基于龙芯2F的低成本多媒体信息发布系统,并提出了一种基于请求属性的更新调度算法。硬件体系结构以龙芯2F作为服务器CPU,CDMA、WiFi和有线多模更新模块,蓝牙推送模块等构成,软件环境为Linux操作系统。更新调度算法依据应用场景对请求加权予以最优调度,较好地降低了由于等待延迟而产生的系统开销。实验结果表明,系统运行稳定,更新响应实时性高,能够较好地满足用户需求,而且更新调度算法使系统各项指标均好于传统的FCFS算法。     

应用相对变换的无线传感器网络分簇算法

针对无线传感器网络节点负载不均衡的问题,提出了一种应用相对变换的无线传感器网络分簇算法(RTCH)。在成簇阶段,节点将簇头剩余能量、簇头与节点和簇头与基站的传输能耗等参数利用该模型先进行相对变换,再计算簇头适宜度来选择加入簇头成簇,并通过簇头的反馈信息来控制簇的规模来优化网络性能。仿真实验结果表明,RTCH算法能更有效地均衡网络中的能量消耗,延长网络生命周期。     

动态节点质心定位改进算法

为降低无线传感器网络的定位误差,提高动态节点的定位精度和定位覆盖度,使节点定位能够应用于动态环境下,基于传统的定位算法,提出了一种新的动态节点定位改进算法。该算法通过未知节点接收、保存的分组信息来循环组成虚拟三角形,同时依靠内点测试方法来判断未知节点自身位置,最后根据质心算法来进行最终定位。将仿真结果与传统算法进行比较,结果表明,改进算法可以大大提高无线传感器网络的定位精度和覆盖度。     

基于伪幂函数的离散粒子群算法及其应用

针对概率贪婪离散粒子群算法不能兼顾收敛速度与收敛率的缺点,提出一种基于伪幂函数的离散粒子群算法.该方法对贪婪度函数进行伪幂化处理,提高了较远离散位置的选择概率,降低了较近离散位置的选择概率,能有效避免早熟收敛,提高收敛率.对该算法的性能进行了分析.无线传感网络路由优化结果表明,该算法可以获得较好的优化结果.