Impacts in multibody systems: modeling and experiments

This paper outlines a novel approach to the modeling and analysis of impact involving multibody systems. This approach is based on an analysis of energy absorption and restitution during impact, using a decomposition of the kinetic energy, which decouples the parts associated with the spaces of admissible and constrained motions of the underlying unilateral constraints. Such a decomposition turns out to be useful in the analysis of energy dissipation during impact, and leads to a generalized definition of the energetic coefficient of restitution, which targets particularly collisions in multibody systems. The applicability of the approach reported is investigated by conducting an experimental study on a robotic testbed. It is shown that impact between multibody systems is considerably affected not only by the local dynamics characteristics of the interacting bodies, but also the configuration of the whole multibody system. The results reported here show that our decomposition can offer a sound characterization of impact in several problems of multibody systems.     

广域大规模实验平台设计和研究

针对互联网实验床的特点,本文分析了传统互联网实验床的成功经验和不足,基于可扩展、可隔离和真实性三个基本原则,设计了一个新的广域大规模实验平台.该平台基于层次性结构,不同区域的节点设备形成自治的设备集群,每个集群通过管理节点进行管理和互联,接受中心管理器的统一管理.实验平台通过VLAN为实验提供隔离的网络环境,基于虚拟化技术为实验提供隔离的资源,并提供持久数据存储空间方便实验存储和共享数据.     

A simulation testbed for analyzing trust and reputation mechanisms in unreliable online markets

Modern online markets are becoming extremely dynamic, indirectly dictating the need for (semi-) autonomous approaches for constant monitoring and immediate action in order to satisfy one’s needs/preferences. In such open and versatile environments, software agents may be considered as a suitable metaphor for dealing with the increasing complexity of the problem. Additionally, trust and reputation have been recognized as key issues in online markets and many researchers have, in different perspectives, surveyed the related notions, mechanisms and models. Within the context of this work we present an adaptable, multivariate agent testbed for the simulation of open online markets and the study of various factors affecting the quality of the service consumed. This testbed, which we call Euphemus, is highly parameterized and can be easily customized to suit a particular application domain. It allows for building various market scenarios and analyzing interesting properties of e-commerce environments from a trust perspective. The architecture of Euphemus is presented and a number of well-known trust and reputation models are built with Euphemus, in order to show how the testbed can be used to apply and adapt models. Extensive experimentation has been performed in order to show how models behave in unreliable online markets, results are discussed and interesting conclusions are drawn.     

Modeling and Evaluation of a Policy Provisioning Architecture for Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks

The ability to dynamically configure mobile ad-hoc network (MANET) devices is critical for supporting complex services such as quality of service (QoS), security and access control in these networks. In our work, we address the problem of policy distribution and provisioning in MANETs. Previously, we have proposed a policy provisioning architecture that enables the operator, e.g., a military command and control center, to maintain a logically centralized control of the network as a whole, while allowing a physically decentralized and self-managing implementation essential for a MANET environment. In this paper, we present an analytical model of the availability of the policy distribution service in a MANET and analyze the performance using stochastic Petri nets (SPNs). We develop the model at two levels of complexity: as a simple Markovian model with Poisson assumptions and as a more accurate non-Markovian model with general distributions obtained using statistical parameterization. We compare and cross-validate the analytical results with simulation and experimental results. Finally, we illustrate the effectiveness of the architecture for managing QoS for soft real-time applications, using an emulated mobile ad-hoc network testbed.     

医学数据网格及其相关中间件的研究与实现

研究医学数据网格，以满足共享分布式异构医学图像等医学数据资源、医学仪器等医疗资源的需要，设计了医学数据网格的体系结构，研究了医学数据标准化，设计和实现了医学应用数据库，探究了资源管理、注册查找、工作流管理，以及数据管理和安全问题。实践证明，该网格研究系统GADITMER可以有效地促进临床辅助诊断和流行病学研究的发展。     

A testbed for performance evaluation of load‐balancing strategies for Web server systems

To improve response time of a Web site, one replicates the site on multiple servers. The effectiveness of a replicated server system will depend on how the incoming requests are distributed among replicas. A large number of load‐balancing strategies for Web server systems have been proposed. In this paper we describe a testbed that can be used to evaluate the performance of different load‐balancing strategies. The testbed uses a general architecture which allows different load‐balancing approaches to be supported easily. It emulates a typical World Wide Web scenario and allows variable load generation and performance measurement. We have performed some preliminary experiments to measure the performance of a few policies for load balancing using this testbed. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Interactive hypermedia applications: A model and its implementation

By referring to the object-oriented efforts of the Multimedia and Hypermedia information coding Expert Group (MHEG), and the augmented Petri net model, we present a formal definition of the multimedia hypermedia Petri net (MHPN) model. Through this proposed model, issues of authoring, rendering and synchronization of multimedia information (i.e. structure authoring, spatial temporal relationships, user interaction, etc.) can all be laid to rest. We have implemented a testbed system, the Petri net object information system (POIS), which offers considerable potential for the development of distributed hypermedia applications. The testbed has been implemented on an IBM-PC486 under Windows 3.1. We are now in the process of porting the testbed model to Windows NT.     

胶带电封闭试验台电控方案分析

本文对直流系统胶带电封闭试验台电控系统的可行性方案进行理论分析,从系统的原理、运行、调速、加载及能量回馈等方面进行分析比较,并提出和推荐我校研制的新型电封闭试验台的电控系统。     

实用无线网状网的设计、构建与测试

无线网状网是一种能够广泛应用于多种场合的无线网络结构。论文首先介绍丁无线网状网的特性,描述了在实际应用环境中,对无线网状网节点的设计和构建需求,并以此为依托给出了设计办案然后介绍了SJTU—MESH试验床的部署与碰用情况,以及在试验床上进行的对无线网状网系统的定量测试及其结果,最后给出了结论和对未来工作的展望。     

高低压压力继电器试验台CAT系统的开发

介绍高低压压力继电器试验台CAT系统的硬件和软件组成，并详细说明其在VB6．0环境下数据采集系统的设计及传感器校正软件的实现。