From ethnographic record to system design

This paper explores the issues involved in moving from ethnographic explorations of work in context to a practical contribution to system design. It does so using the example of an interdisciplinary research project involving sociologists and computer scientists in the domain of air traffic control systems. It forms a pair with another paper (Sommerville et al., 1992) exploring these questions from the perspective of our computer science partners. We characterise ethnography as a research method, and consider the differences between undertaking it for strictly sociological or anthropological purposes by contrast with interdisciplinary and design purposes. We summarise some of our results in ethnographic explications of the work of air traffic controllers, and the sociality which it manifests. We describe the dialogues involved in rendering these observations informative for systems design, and the mutual translations implied in attempting to reconcile sociological with software engineering questions about supporting the work. We conclude by specifying some features of cooperative work which an engineering approach is in danger of overlooking; the ways, and limits, in which ethnographers can form a bridge between users and designers; and some of the conflicts of interest entrained in generating technical change.The research is funded by the UK MRC/SERC/ESRC Cognitive Science/HCI Initiative with the title Social Analysis of Control Systems for HCI Design, grant number SPG 8931598. The computer science partners are Professor Ian Sommerville, Dr Tom Rodden, Dr Pete Sawyer and Mr Richard Bentley. Thanks are due to Val King, Kjeldt Schmidt, Ian Sommerville and Tom Rodden for very helpful comments on earlier drafts of this paper.     

混合交通下右转机动车信号配时方法

为了减少右转机动车与直行自行车之间的干扰,提高交叉口的运行效率,本文分析了两相位信号控制交叉口右转机动车与自行车之间的冲突规律以及自行车交通流的行驶特性,确定设置右转机动车信号的直行自行车流量临界值.以减少冲突和提高交叉口运行效率为目标,确定右转机动车相位绿灯起亮时刻和绿灯时长,并建立了相应的参数标定模型.以实际调查数据为基础,应用VISSIM模拟软件进行模拟验证,结果表明,设置右转机动车信号后,右转机动车延误和机非冲突明显减少.     

道路交通状态预测研究

针对道路交通状态预测的研究成果,综述了基于实时数据分析的道路交通状态预测理论和方法的相关研究.从分析基于实时数据分析的道路交通预测的基本流程、特点和要求和单一断面交通状态预测和多断面交通状态预测角度回顾了道路交通状态预测的研究现状.结果表明:在不断发展完善单一断面预测方法的同时,需要发展以多个断面交通状态为研究对象的多断面预测方法,以促进我国智能交通系统的基础理论发展及其应用水平的提高.     

信号交叉口影响区路边停车的交通流延误模型

为了提高路边停车带的利用率和减小其对路段交通流的影响,以城市一幅路为研究对象,从分析路边停车带的车辆驶出、汇入时对道路动态交通流的影响入手,考虑路边停放车辆及信号控制的共同作用,运用稳态理论分析车辆在信号交叉口的延误时间,建立了停车带第i个泊位车辆驶出影响下,单位时间内机动车流在信号交叉口的延误-Di与停车带离开停车线的距离L0、路段交通流量以及信号周期时长C和红灯时间r的关系模型.以南京市天津路路边停车带为例,重点分析了距离交叉口停车线最近停车位的车辆驶出引起的延误时间-D1随L0、信号周期时长C、红灯时间r变化的规律,结果表明,随着交叉口饱和流率的不同,停车带与交叉口的距离可分别在60m和90m区间设定,而交叉口信号周期长度和红灯时间比例均对延误结果存在显著影响.     

网络融合边界的电信DoS攻击检测*

为了检测网络融合边界的电信拒绝服务攻击,首先针对攻击的类型分别提出了基于呼叫统计或流量信号分析的检测方法,并采用分步骤的策略设计了检测系统,将两种检测算法分别应用于粗检测步骤,再通过精检测步骤确认攻击并找出攻击源.模拟实验结果表明,该方案能够有效地检测出典型的攻击,并能够实时在线检测,具有良好的实用价值,为应对网络融合所带来的新安全问题提供了一种解决方案.     

一种分布式拒绝服务攻击的检测方法

该文提出和实现了一种基于网络异常流量特征的检测模型。通过将多条链路或多个流的流量信号作为一个整体进行研究,构建了网络异常流量监控的系统模型。该模型包括了数据采集、分析、异常判断和警告等功能,并综合了异常信息融合及警告信息关联性分析技术。通过实验证明,该套系统模型对短时间段内的突发流量能提供有效的检测和报警服务。     

基于扩充的GIX/M/1/N排队系统的主动队列管理算法性能评价模型

为了评价主动队列管理(AQM Active Queue Management)算法的性能,通过在标准的排队系统GIX/M/1/N中嵌入主动队列管理(AQM)算法的方法,建立了一个扩充的GIX/M/1/N排队系统。利用该扩充的GIX/M/1/N排队系统和Internet业务流量自相似性的特征,提出了一种评价AQM算法在非响应业务流量下的性能的分析方法,并据此评价了TD,RED,GRED和Adaptive RED等4个经典的AQM算法。为了验证该分析方法的合理性,利用NS2进行了一系列的仿真实验。结果表明,该分析方法所得结果与仿真实验所得结果一致,因此该分析方法能用于评价AQM算法的性能。     

智能交通系统中的最短路径算法分析

智能交通涉及到交通领域的多个方面,如何寻找最短路径是其核心问题之一。文章着重讨论了智能交通系统功能实现中的关键技术一求解最短路径。对于国内外一些求解最短路径的经典算法的复杂度问题进行了分析。     

Vision-guidance of agricultural vehicles

A vision guidance system has been designed, built and commissioned which steers a tractor relative to the rows of a crop such as cotton. It was required to be insensitive to additional visual noise from weeds, while tolerating the fading out of one or more rows in a barren patch of the field. The system integrates data from several crop rows, testing for image quality. At the same time, the data processing requirements have been limited by the use of frame-sequential strategies to reduce the image space which must be processed. The design has been developed to the stage where six evaluation prototypes have been installed to test farmer-acceptance. The present prototypes employ a 486 PC motherboard embedded in a custom housing, together with a 68HC11 microcomputer to which the task of closing the steering servo loop is delegated. The system shows great promise for cost effective commercial exploitation.Experimental results are reported and further sensing systems are outlined for performing related guidance tasks when vision is inappropriate.