Visualising a knowledge mapping of information systems investment evaluation

Information systems (IS) facilitate organisations to increase responsiveness and reduce the costs of their supply chain. This paper seeks to make a contribution through exploring and visualising knowledge mapping from the perspective of IS investment evaluation. The evaluation of IS is regarded as a challenging and complex process, which becomes even more difficult with the increased complexity of IS. The intricacy of IS evaluation, however, is due to numerous interrelated factors (e.g. costs, benefits and risks) that have human or organisational dimensions. With this in mind, there appears to be an increasing need to assess investment decision-making processes, to better understand the often far-reaching implications associated with technology adoption and interrelated knowledge components (KC). Through the identification and extrapolation of key learning issues from the literature and empirical findings, organisations can better improve their business processes and thereby their effectiveness and efficiency, while preventing others from making costly oversights that may not necessarily be only financial. In seeking to enlighten the often obscure evaluation of IS investments, this paper attempts to inductively emphasise the dissemination of knowledge and learning through the application of a fuzzy Expert System (ES) based knowledge mapping technique (i.e. Fuzzy Cognitive Map [FCM]). The rationale for exploring knowledge and IS investment evaluation is that a knowledge map will materialise for others to exploit during their specific technology evaluation. This is realised through conceptualising the explicit and tacit investment drivers. Among the several findings drawn from this research, the key resulting knowledge mapping through FCM demonstrated the complex, multifaceted and emergent behaviour of causal relationships within the knowledge area. The principal relationships and knowledge within IS investment evaluation are illustrated as being determined by a blend of managerial and user perspectives.     

用于虚拟现实的360度视频编码技术新进展*

随着虚拟现实技术不断发展,360度视频编码开始成为研究热点。应用于虚拟现实的360度视频与传统的视频相比分辨率更高,编码数据量更大,在实际应用中面临传输带宽有限的瓶颈,编码效率问题有待解决。归纳分析了国际标准组织联合视频研究组（joint video exploration team, JVET）正在制定的360度视频编码投影变换技术及其编码优化方法,综合对比了各变换技术的编码性能。根据当前最新研究成果,对下一步研究需要解决的问题进行了探讨总结,给出未来的研究方向和思路。     

Dynamic thread mapping of shared memory applications by exploiting cache coherence protocols

In current computer architectures, the communication performance between threads varies depending on the memory hierarchy. This performance difference must be considered when mapping parallel applications to processor cores. In parallel applications based on the shared memory paradigm, the communication is difficult to detect because it is implicit. Furthermore, dynamic mapping introduces several challenges, since it needs to find a suitable mapping and migrate the threads with a low overhead during the execution of the application. We propose a mechanism to detect the communication pattern of shared memory applications by monitoring cache coherence protocols. We also propose heuristics that, combined with our communication detection mechanism, allow the mapping to be performed dynamically by the operating system. Experiments with the NAS Parallel Benchmarks showed a reduction of up to 13.9% of the execution time, 30.5% of the cache misses and 39.4% of the number of invalidation messages.     

Performance Histogram Curve: Abstractive Visualization and Analysis of NBA Games

NBA game is one of the world’s most exciting sports. Multiple datasets for a NBA game are available, e.g., play-by-play data, shot-position data, twitter and videos. Existing methods for visualizing game data commonly focus on the composition of multi-variate information of a game process. In this paper, we introduce a new parametric modeling approach, Performance Histogram Curve (PHC), that locally and adaptively encodes the game progression with game-related features derived from the play-by-play data. By transforming a PHC into the two-dimensional space with a two-phase projection technique, we create a unique 2D line representation. The 2D representation and auxiliary views abstracts the progress of a game and the performance of each team along the timeline. Our integrated system favor browsing a single play, analyzing game performance, and comparing multiple games. We conducted two case studies to demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach.     

基于一次投影子空间追踪的压缩感知信号重构

为了降低信号重构算法的复杂度,实现对稀疏度未知信号的重构,提出了一种基于一次投影子空间追踪(OPSP)的信号重构方法。首先根据约束等距性质确定信号稀疏度的上下界,并将最接近上下界中值的整数作为稀疏度的估计值;然后在子空间追踪(SP)算法的框架下,去掉了迭代中观测向量在支撑集上的投影过程,降低了算法的复杂度。为了更准确地衡量算法的重构性能,提出用完整信号的重构概率作为衡量算法重构性能的指标。与传统的SP算法相比,所提算法可以重构稀疏度未知的信号,且重构时间短,重构概率高。仿真结果验证了该算法的有效性。     

高速以太网中实时相似性匹配算法的研究

在高速以太网中, 针对用户行为的特殊性及数据流五元组的特点, 提出了一种自适应相似性匹配算法(ASMA-HN)。该算法充分考虑了数据流五元组的随机性分布特点, 通过一种改进的XOR-SHIFT算法将数据流分类索引, 并提出了同类数据库(SD)及异类数据库(HD)的概念, 基于距离测度分别设计了加权相似性比较函数, 使得特征值能更精准地匹配到符合要求的数据文件, 提高了整体的匹配效率。通过对校园网实际流量的现场测试, 证明该算法具有较高的精准性及可适用性, 且匹配时间较低, 能很好地满足高速网络中相似性匹配业务的需求。     

多流形判别分析在人脸识别中的研究

局部保持投影LPP(Locality Preserving Projection)是一种有效的非线性降维方法,能够使投影降维后的数据与原输入空间中的相似局部结构保持一致,但是该方法没有充分利用类间样本点的权重等重要信息。为了解决这个问题,提出基于Fisher准则的多流形判别分析FMMDA(Fisher Multi-Manifold Discriminant Analysis)方法。结合Fisher准则训练样本类内拉普拉斯图和样本均值类间拉普拉斯图,既保持了原样本的相似局部结构,又充分地利用了不同类别之间的权重。在ORL及Yale人脸库上验证了该方法的有效性。与其他几种最先进的方法相比,FMMDA方法取得了更好的识别效果。     

印刷哈萨克斯拉夫粘连字符的切分方法

哈萨克斯拉夫图像文本经过行切分和列切分后,存在水平方向接触和垂直方向重叠的粘连字符。为提高字符识别率,依据字符连通域的最小外接矩形切分开垂直方向重叠的粘连字符图像块;利用判决条件:字符宽度概率密度分布图、字符图像块垂直投影的波峰数目和字符图像块垂直投影波峰的对称性,分离初始粘连字符图像块中正确的单个字符图像块和实际接触的粘连字符图像块;在允许的字符宽度范围内,寻找粘连字符图像垂直投影图的极小值点,以切分实际接触的粘连字符。实验结果表明,该方法泛化能力较好且识别率有明显提高。     

超快平面显微成像技术

快速成像技术在很多领域都有着重要的应用,本文基于超短光脉冲的时-空-频映射原理,提出并实现了一种超快平面显微成像技术。利用色散傅里叶变换及空间色散器件把光脉冲的宽带频谱信息分别映射到时域和空域,利用高速光电探测器进行串行单像素成像,最终获得了帧速率为20.9 MHz,空间分辨率为22 μm和55 μm的一维及二维平面成像系统。在实验中用标准的分辨率目标板验证了成像效果。该技术为超快成像提供了一种有效手段,并将应用于高速平面检测等多个领域。     

A comparison of atomic force microscope friction and phase imaging for the characterization of an immiscible polystyrene/poly(methyl methacrylate) blend film

Three different forms of atomic force microscope (AFM) measurement, topography, friction force and phase imaging, have been used to investigate the surface morphology and local composition of an immiscible polystyrene (PS)/poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) blend film. This sample forms discrete, micron-size domains in a continuous matrix, which is attributed to the segregation of PMMA in PS. When the samples were imaged in air, contrast in friction and phase images was caused by variations in sample topography only. When the samples were imaged under water, however, both friction and phase imaging yielded non-topographic contrast between domains. We ascribe the contrast in both of these imaging modes to preferential softening of the hydrophilic, PMMA-rich domains and to stronger tip-sample adhesive forces, highlighting the AFM's utility for probing local elastic properties and for compositional mapping of soft polymer samples.