浅谈智能建筑弱电工程防雷接地

目前在智能建筑弱电工程中一些工程商及业主往往忽视防雷接地，给工程遗留下安全隐患；鉴于大多从事智能建筑弱电工程的工程商来自与IT行业的转型，不太了解弱电工程防雷接地技术及施工，本文较深入地探讨了智能建筑弱电工程防雷接地设计和施工，供相关工程商及技术人员参考，以起抛砖引玉之效。     

A self-adaptation scheme for workflow management in multi-agent systems

Business processes, operational environment, variability of resources and user needs may change from time to time. An effective workflow management software system must be able to accommodate these changes. The ability to dynamically adapt to changes is a key success factor for workflow management systems. Holonic multi-agent systems (HMS) provide a flexible and reconfigurable architecture to accommodate changes based on dynamic organization and collaboration of autonomous agents. Although HMS provides a potential architecture to accommodate changes, the dynamic organization formed in HMS poses a challenge in the development of a new software development methodology to dynamically compose the services and adapt to changes as needed. This motivates us to study and propose a methodology to design self-adaptive software systems based on the HMS architecture. In this paper, we formulate a workflow adaptation problem (WAP) and propose an interaction mechanism based on contract net protocol (CNP) to find a solution to WAP to compose the services based on HMS. The interaction mechanism relies on a service publication and discovery scheme to find a set of task agents and a set of actor agents to compose the required services in HMS. We propose a viable self-adaptation scheme to reconfigure the agents and the composed services based on cooperation of agents in HMS to accommodate the changes in workflow and capabilities of actors. We propose architecture for our design methodology and present an application scenario to illustrate our idea.     

集群负载均衡--CSM的实现

对于现在的互联网络通信状况,负载均衡显示其越来越多的重要性,通常实现负载均衡是使用软件并结合相应的算法,该文所描述的是利用Cisco公司的CSM模块来实现安全可靠的负载均衡,CSM模块将客户机的请求分发到不同的虚拟服务器,配合Cisco MSFC模块并合理地进行DNS的配置,实现网络服务的负载均衡。简要介绍了CSM模块的工作原理,如何配置DNS,如何设置虚拟主服务器,以及如何对系统CSM模块进行设置做了描述。     

A luddite in cyberland,or how to avoid being snared by the web

Advocates of the World Wide Web speak in glowing terms of its ability to provide greater access to information resources and to promote active reading and learning. Furthermore, students are now encouraged to construct Web pages, using hypertext as an alternative to traditional linear written documents. Although the ability to navigate the Web and to construct Web pages is not without merit, instructors who emphasize these skills are likely to sacrifice the stated objectives of most composition programs: to help students learn to write clear, coherent prose, to read critically and analytically, and to conduct meaningful research.     

浅析边远地区政府信息化的发展

电子政务是指政府机构运用现代网络通讯与计算机技术,将政府管理和服务职能通过精简、优化、整合、重组后在互联网上实现,以打破时间、空间以及条块分割的制约,从而加强对政府业务运作的有效监管,提高政府的运作效率,并为社会公众提供高效、优质、廉洁的一体化管理和服务。电子政务强调政府业务通过电子化手段运作及其实现过程,而电子政府则是通过电子化手段来运作政府业务特征的政府形态的描述。本文以位于内蒙古最西部的兴安盟为例,对边远地区发展政府信息化的重要性、现状、存在的问题和困难以及今后的发展提出了阐述。     

Design, fabrication, and testing of silicon microgimbals forsuper-compact rigid disk drives

This paper documents results related to design optimization, fabrication process refinement, and micron-level static/dynamic testing of silicon micromachined microgimbals that have applications in super-compact computer disk drives as well as many other engineering applications of microstructures and microactuators requiring significant out-of-plane motions. The objective of the optimization effort is to increase the in-plane to out-of-plane stiffness ratio in order to maximize compliance and servo bandwidth and to increase the displacement to strain ratio to maximize the shock resistance of the microgimbals, while that of the process modification effort is to simplify in order to reduce manufacturing cost. The testing effort is to characterize both the static and dynamic performance using precision instrumentation in order to compare various prototype designs     

低碳经济时代的建筑之道

低碳建筑是营造可持续发展未来的关键。本文通过对低碳建筑的全面分析以及对全球知名的设计实例的分析,探讨适应低碳经济时代的建筑发展的方向、目标,指出低碳建设和设计要走向集约型、走向自然、走向效率设计、走向适应性设计、走向循环设计、走向智能化设的发展途径,以及低碳建筑未来的发展方向。     

Self-administered preventive programme for sedentary workers: reducing musculoskeletal symptoms or increasing awareness?

The objective of this study was to evaluate an auto-instructional preventive programme designed to allow the subjects to identify critical aspects related to their work and musculoskeletal comfort, and provide them with some simple alternatives for controlling the identified problems. The programme was evaluated by 36 secretaries and bank clerks through their symptom perception before and after the programme. The results showed that the symptoms increased in number and severity. The programme seemed to have helped the participants to become aware of the ergonomic problems present in their job and to link these problems to physical symptoms. Self-administered preventive programmes can lead to clearly negative results when applied as the only measure to control musculoskeletal symptoms.     

Product selection for promotion planning

This paper addresses a very important question—how to select the right products to promote in order to maximize promotional benefit. We set up a framework to incorporate promotion decisions into the data-mining process, formulate the profit maximization problem as an optimization problem, and propose a heuristic search solution to discover the right products to promote. Moreover, we are able to get access to real supermarket data and apply our solution to help achieve higher profits. Our experimental results on both synthetic data and real supermarket data demonstrate that our framework and method are highly effective and can potentially bring huge profit gains to a marketing campaign.     

Would I lie to you? Self-serving lies and other-oriented lies told across different media

This study set out to investigate the type of media individuals are more likely to tell self-serving and other-oriented lies, and whether this varied according to the target of the lie. One hundred and fifty participants rated on a likert-point scale how likely they would tell a lie. Participants were more likely to tell self-serving lies to people not well-known to them. They were more likely to tell self-serving lies in email, followed by phone, and finally face-to-face. Participants were more likely to tell other-oriented lies to individuals they felt close to and this did not vary according to the type media. Participants were more likely to tell harsh truths to people not well-known to them via email.     

FaBiO and CiTO: Ontologies for describing bibliographic resources and citations

Semantic publishing is the use of Web and Semantic Web technologies to enhance the meaning of a published journal article, to facilitate its automated discovery, to enable its linking to semantically related articles, to provide access to data within the article in actionable form, and to facilitate integration of data between articles. Recently, semantic publishing has opened the possibility of a major step forward in the digital publishing world. For this to succeed, new semantic models and visualization tools are required to fully meet the specific needs of authors and publishers. In this article, we introduce the principles and architectures of two new ontologies central to the task of semantic publishing: FaBiO, the FRBR-aligned Bibliographic Ontology, an ontology for recording and publishing bibliographic records of scholarly endeavours on the Semantic Web, and CiTO, the Citation Typing Ontology, an ontology for the characterization of bibliographic citations both factually and rhetorically. We present those two models step by step, in order to emphasise their features and to stress their advantages relative to other pre-existing information models. Finally, we review the uptake of FaBiO and CiTO within the academic and publishing communities.     

Automatic generation of variants depending on changes of product properties in a flexible manufacturing environment

Competition forces manufacturing systems to be flexible and to increase product variety and process complexity. These tasks depend on the flexible design of a bill of materials (BOM), one of the most important inputs in manufacturing planning and control systems. Product variety forces systems to generate BOMs with regard to product properties through a BOM pattern. A variant bill of materials provides a structure to manage product variability. In this study, an algorithm is designed to build a BOM pattern using computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacturing (CAD/CAM) data, and another algorithm is designed to generate variants with regard to product specifications. Genetic algorithm is used to generate new products to provide high product variability for testing algorithms. After the test, both algorithms are applied to a real industry problem. The BOM pattern is built automatically using CAD/CAM data, and variants are generated with regard to the pattern, and the results are discussed.     

Voices that cannot be heard: Can shyness explain how we communicate on Facebook versus face-to-face?

Social networking sites have gained popularity among all populations, especially young adults. Personality traits were found to be predictive of how individuals use social media. Therefore, this study sought to examine the association between shyness and self-disclosure to a Facebook friend as well as self-disclosure to a face-to-face friend. Two studies were conducted. The first study tested how shyness and social loneliness are related to self-disclosure to a Facebook friend to whom an individual talks most often. The second, follow-up study tested how shyness is related to self-disclosure to a Facebook friend to whom a person speaks to only though Facebook, and also to a face-to-face friend to whom the participants talk only face-to-face and never through Facebook. Participants were college students from a large research university in the United States. Study 1 found a negative association between shyness and self-disclosure to a Facebook friend. Study 2 found a negative association between shyness and self-disclosure to a face-to-face friend. The theoretical implications and limitations are discussed.     

基于并行搜索优化的指控系统自适应决策方法

指挥控制信息系统(指控系统)运行在动态变化的复杂环境中且任务需求时刻变更, 亟需一种自适应决策方法以动态产生调整系统的最优策略, 从而适应环境或任务变化, 确保系统长期稳定运行. 随着指控系统自身及其运行环境的持续复杂化, 自适应决策方法需具备应对多个非预期变化的在线权衡决策能力, 以避免造成冲突的调整后果或无法及时响...     

The relationship of learning to technology-based enhancements

The future of educational technology rests on the ability of educators to interpret and implement sound educational theory into creative and innovative uses of educational technology. Historically, as new technologies are introduced educators have debated their relevance to instructional methodology. They have asked this two part question: “Does technology improve learning?”, and if so “By how much?”. The purpose of this article is not to answer the question, but to elaborate on it and to offer a view that is at the same time a yes and a no. The problem seems not to be the technology, but the failure of proponents to adequately trace the variables of their respective technology techniques to clearly defined learning processes. This article discusses six basic educational components necessary to trace technology variables directly to specific learning processes. The purpose of this article is not to explain in detail all of the components, but to propose that an answer to the question on technology and improved learning can be done in part by showing the direct linkage of technological variables to specific learning conditions and processes.     

The reality of medical work: The case for a new perspective on telemedicine

This paper considers the nature of medical work and how new telemedicine technologies can be developed to support that work. Telemedicine developers attempt to increase communication and collaboration between medical practitioners and between patients and medics, with the goal being to make medical care and information more easily accessible. However, the focus of telemedicine systems appears to have so far been technology centred, and the work they are trying to support is often ignored. We argue that to develop appropriate telemedicine technologies, it is important to understand the nature of medical work, and to examine the manner in which medical practiceactually occurs. Only then will we be in a position to design appropriate telemedicine technologies to support these activities. Unless designers have an insight into the work itself, new technologies will continue to fail to support what telemedicine effectively aims to promote — collaboration and access to distributed knowledge.     

卫星伪距定位精度模拟评估软件设计

基于研发人员进行嵌入式导航型用户设备的研究工作中,需要全面考虑各种因素对定位精度的影响,研究提高用户设备定位精度的方法。本文提出设计卫星伪距定位精度评估软件的方法,该软件具有对影响伪距定位精度的多种算法进行评估功能,还具有选取用户机软硬件设备、研究选星方法等功能,为研发人员提高伪距定位精度提供了一种有效的手段。     

Development of a strategic research plan for an academic department through the use of quality function deployment

Quality Function Deployment (QFD) is a popular approach for formalizing the process of listening to “the voice of the customer,” and assigning responsibilities to members of an organization in an effort to respond effectively to customer needs, QFD is being used by the Department of Industrial Engineering at Mississippi State University to help identify key customers for departmental research efforts, to identify and track the research needs of those customers, to fashion a comprehensive strategic plan for departmental research activities based on customer needs, to deploy various research functions and responsibilities to specific faculty members or groups, and to track research performance relative to goals. This approach appears to be an excellent means of formalizing the process of strategic research planning.     

优化主机路由表限制网络访问的应用分析

随着互联网应用的普及和深入,网络攻击愈来愈严重,安全问题越来越突出,如何对提供特殊服务的服务器和专用主机防范IP地址攻击,以及如何控制主机的授权访问地址范围愈来愈受到重视。本文通过分析和优化主机路由表,对如何防范主机遭受互联网非授权IP地址攻击和控制主机的可访问范围进行了详细阐述。     

Employing computational intelligence to generate more intelligent and energy efficient living spaces

Our living environments are being gradually occupied with an abundant number of digital objects that have networking and computing capabilities. After these devices are plugged into a network, they initially advertise their presence and capabilities in the form of services so that they can be discovered and, if desired, exploited by the user or other networked devices. With the increasing number of these devices attached to the network, the complexity to configure and control them increases, which may lead to major processing and communication overhead. Hence, the devices are no longer expected to just act as primitive stand-alone appliances that only provide the facilities and services to the user they are designed for, but also offer complex services that emerge from unique combinations of devices. This creates the necessity for these devices to be equipped with some sort of intelligence and self-awareness to enable them to be self-configuring and self-programming. However, with this ＂smart evolution＂, the cognitive load to configure and control such spaces becomes immense. One way to relieve this load is by employing artificial intelligence （AI） techniques to create an intelligent ＂presence＂ where the system will be able to recognize the users and autonomously program the environment to be energy efficient and responsive to the user＇s needs and behaviours. These AI mechanisms should be embedded in the user＇s environments and should operate in a non-intrusive manner. This paper will show how computational intelligence （CI）, which is an emerging domain of AI, could be employed and embedded in our living spaces to help such environments to be more energy efficient, intelligent, adaptive and convenient to the users.