分解MP3：一种节俭的收听装置技术

在我买了一个激光打印机碳粉盒之后,一张“赠送价值75美元物品”优惠券还给我家带来了一台O D-128MP3,也就是人们熟知的MP3-818便携式数字音频播放器。这个价格在我听来如同音乐,特别是考虑到OfficeDe-pot对这种播放器的正常标价是69.99美元。它的特性也不算太平庸:对MP3和WMA(     

领会无成本之路

之前,EDN分析了一个削价至20美元(原价为50美元)的USB音频外设。这次我们继续对ABS打折后的NW-203-RT 802．11g与四端口开关式路由器进行财务分析。在这个淡紫色塑料壳内都有些什么东西?卖20美元ABS还赚钱吗?     

WASTE FLOW ALLOCATION PLANNING THROUGH A GREY FUZZY QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING APPROACH

This paper proposes a grey fuzzy quadratic programming (GFQP) approach as a means for optimization analysis under uncertainty. The method combines the ideas of grey fuzzy linear programming (GFLP) and fuzzy quadratic programming (FQP) within a general optimization famework. It improves upon the previous GFLP method by using n grey control variables, ® (A,j (i = 1,2,..., n), for n constraints instead of one ® (X) for n constraints in order to incorporate the independent properties of the stipulation uncertainties; it also improves upon the FQP method by further introducing grey numbers for coefficients in A and C to effectively reflect the lefthand side uncertainties. Compared with the GFLP method, the GFQP approach is helpful for better satisfying model objective/constraints and providing grey solutions with higher system certainty and lower system cost; compared with the FQP method, more information of the independent uncertain features of not only the stipulations but also the lefthand side coefficients are effectively reflected in the GFQP method.

The GFQP modelling approach is applied to a hypothetical case study of waste flow allocation planning under uncertainty, with the input model stipulations fluctuating within wide intervals and having independent uncertain characteristics. The results indicated that reasonable solutions have been generated. Comparisons between the GFQP and FQP/GFLP solutions are also provided, which demonstrate that the GFQP method could better reflect system uncertainties and provide more realistic and applicable solutions with lower system uncertainties and higher system benefits.     

THE LOGIC OF AUTOMATA

Automata are the prime example of general systems over discrete spaces, and yet the theory of automata is fragmentary and it is not clear what makes a general structure an automaton. This paper investigates the logical foundations of automata relating it to the semantics of our notions of uncertainty, state and state-determined. A single framework is established for the conventional spectrum of automata: deterministic, probabilistic, fuzzy, and non-deterministic, which shows this set to be, in some sense, complete. Counter-examples are then developed to show that this spectrum alone is inadequate to describe the behaviour of certain forms of uncertain system. Finally a general formulation is developed based on the fundamental semantics of our notion of a state that shows that the logical Structure of an automaton must be at least a positive ordered semiring. The role of probability logic, its relationship to fuzzy logic, the rotes of topological models of automata, and the symmetry between inputs and outputs in hyperstate/hyperinput-determinedsystems are also discussed.     

THE LOGIC OF AUTOMATA

Automata are the prime example of general systems over discrete spaces, and yet the theory of automata is fragmentary and it is not clear what makes a general structure an automaton. This paper investigates the logical foundations of automata relating it to the semantics of our notions of uncertainty, state and state-determined. A single framework is established for the conventional spectrum of automata: deterministic, probabilistic, fuzzy, and non-deterministic, which shows this set to be, in some sense, complete. Counter-examples are then developed to show that this spectrum alone is inadequate to describe the behaviour of certain forms of uncertain system. Finally a general formulation is developed based on the fundamental semantics of our notion of a state that shows that the logical structure of an automaton must be at least a positive ordered semiring. The role of probability logic, its relationship to fuzzy logic, the roles of topological models of automata, and the symmetry between inputs and outputs in hyperstate/hyperinput-determined systems are also discussed.