硬实时系统中基于软件容错模型的容错调度算法

在硬实时系统中,由于任务超时完成将会导致灾难性后果,因此硬实时系统必须具有实时性和可靠性保障.软件容错模型是提高硬实时系统容错能力的一种有效方法.针对硬实时系统中容错优先级两种分配策略存在的不足,基于软件容错模型提出了一种容错优先级可提升的双重优先级分配策略.该方法通过为替代版本分配双重优先级,不仅能够提高硬实时系统的容错能力,同时还能够显著减少任务间的抢占次数.为了获得双重优先级分配的最佳策略,基于任务最坏响应时间的可调度性分析,首先提出了一种最大的双重优先级配置搜索算法(MDPCSA).然后结合MDPCSA算法,提出了一种最优的双重优先级配置搜索算法(ODPCSA).仿真实验表明,与两种分配策略相比,在提高系统容错能力和降低抢占开销方面更为有效.     

一种可行的容错实时系统可调度性分析

针对容错实时系统中容错优先级两种分配策略存在的不足,通过对容错实时任务进行基于最坏响应时间的可调度性分析,提出了允许容错优先级降低的分配策略以提高系统的容错能力.经过深入的分析和实验证明,这种容错优先级的分配策略能够在以前两种分配策略无法提高系统容错能力的情况下,有效地提高系统的容错能力,设计并实现了改进的最佳容错优先级分配因子的搜索算法,并通过模拟实验进行了验证.     

容错优先级可提升的抢占阈值容错调度算法

基于软件容错模型,提出了允许容错优先级提升的抢占阈值容错调度算法(extended fault-tolerantfixed-priority with preemption threshold,简称FT-FPPT*).该算法能够在抢占式容错调度算法(fault-tolerantfixed-priority preemptive,简称FT-FPP)和抢占阈值容错调度算法(fault-tolerant fixed-priority with preemptionthreshold,简称FT-FPPT)无法提高系统容错能力的情况下,进一步提高系统的容错能力.为了获得系统中任务优先级分配的最佳策略,基于任务最坏响应时间的可调度性分析,提出了一种最优的优先级配置搜索算法(priorityassignment search algorithm,简称PASA).经过深入分析和实验证明,与FT-FPPT算法相比,FT-FPPT*算法能够有效地提高硬实时系统的容错能力.     

容错优先级混合式分配搜索算法

在实时系统中,由于任务未能及时产生正确结果将导致灾难性后果,容错对于实时系统的有效性及可靠性至关重要.基于最坏响应时间计算的可调度性分析,提出了一种容错优先级混合式分配搜索算法.这种算法通过允许替代任务既能运行在高优先级别上,又可运行在低优先级别上,有效地提高了系统的容错能力.通过实验测试,与目前所知的同类算法相比,在提高系统容错能力方面更为有效.     

突发性故障模式下实时任务的优先级分配策略

在容错实时系统中,可调度性分析是确保实时任务在限定时间内完成的重要手段。分析了突发性故障模式的可调度性问题,针对该故障模式下已有策略的不足,设计了优先级分配策略,并根据策略的性质实现了容错优先级变迁因子的搜索算法。深入的分析和实验证明,这种策略能够有效地提高系统的容错能力。     

突发性故障模式下实时任务的优先级分配策略

在容错实时系统中,可调度性分析是确保实时任务在限定时间内完成的重要手段。分析了突发性故障模式的可调度性问题,针对该故障模式下已有策略的不足,设计了优先级分配策略,并根据策略的性质实现了容错优先级变迁因子的搜索算法。深入的分析和实验证明,这种策略能够有效地提高系统的容错能力。     

基于时间需求迭代和排队模型的开放式实时系统可调度性分析算法研究

基于RM调度策略和可延期服务器调度的开放式实时系统,以往的可调度性分析算法造成较低资源利用率.结合时间需求分析和服务台休假M/M/1/K排队模型,考虑带宽保留服务器,提出一种高资源利用率的可调度性分析算法,对系统中所有周期任务进行可调度性分析测试.给出其在临界点的响应时间;根据非周期事件到来率和接收缓冲定量分析非周期事件的平均响应时间和事件丢失率.实验表明,提出的可调度性分析方法通过估计任务的响应时间范围,能够在较高资源利用率下,验证多任务系统的可调度性.     

副版本不可抢占的全局容错调度算法

容错是硬实时系统的关键能力,容错调度算法可以在有错误发生的情况下满足任务的实时性需求.在主副版本机制的容错调度算法中,主版本出错后留给副版本运行的时间窗口小,副版本容易错失截止期.针对副版本需要快速响应的问题,提出副版本不可抢占的全局容错调度算法FTGS-NPB（fault-tolerant global scheduling with non-preemptive backups）,赋予副版本全局最高优先级,使副版本在主版本出错后可以立刻获得处理器资源,并且在运行过程中不会被其他任务抢占.这样,副版本可以在最短时间内响应.分别基于截止期分析和响应时间分析建立了FTGS-NPB的可调度性测试,并分析了两种可调度性测试分别适用于不同的优先级分配算法.仿真实验结果表明,FTGS-NPB可以有效地减少实现容错的代价.     

改进的基于抢占阈值调度的任务响应时间分析方法

基于抢占阈值调度的任务响应时间分析方法是一种新型实时系统任务可调度性判定技术。然而已有的研究工作,有时对以前的任务请求检查过少,可能导致对响应时间估计过低。同时对任务响应时间的分析忽略了任务释放抖动和时钟嘀嗒调度对任务响应时间的影响,造成任务错过期限的现象,系统任务可调度性判定存在潜在的不精确因素。针对上述缺点不足,本文提出改进的基于抢占阈值调度的任务响应时间分析方法,在修正已有方法缺陷的同时,考虑任务释放抖动和时钟嘀嗒调度的影响,引入额外的时间需求,使用改进的任务参数计算系统任务时间需求函数。仿真对比结果表明,改进后的方法较单纯固定优先级抢占阈值调度下的任务响应时间分析方法得到更加精确可调度性分析结果。     

基于EDF调度策略的端到端实时系统可调度性分析算法

端到端实时任务调度模型可用于描述许多分布式实时系统.提出一种基于EDF调度策略的端到端实时任务调度模型,给出了端到端实时系统的可调度性判定条件,并提出其可调度性分析算法,该可调度性判定条件及可调度性分析算法适用于采用非连续工作型同步协议和连续工作型同步协议控制下的端到端实时系统.与固定优先级的端到端实时任务调度模型及其算法相比,基于EDF调度策略的端到端实时任务调度模型和算法更加简单和易于实现,仿真结果也表明具有较高的性能.     

European Community policy and the market

Abstract This paper starts with some reflections on the policy considerations and priorities which are shaping European Commission (EC) research programmes. Then it attempts to position the current projects which seek to capitalise on information and communications technologies for learning in relation to these priorities and the apparent realities of the marketplace. It concludes that while there are grounds to be optimistic about the contribution EC programmes can make to the efficiency and standard of education and training, they are still too technology driven.     

一种自适应子融合集成多分类器方法

融合集成方法已经广泛应用在模式识别领域,然而一些基分类器实时性能稳定性较差,导致多分类器融合性能差,针对上述问题本文提出了一种新的基于多分类器的子融合集成分类器系统。该方法考虑在度量层融合层次之上通过对各类基多分类器进行动态选择,票数最多的类别作为融合系统中对特征向量识别的类别,构成一种新的自适应子融合集成分类器方法。实验表明,该方法比传统的分类器以及分类融合方法识别准确率明显更高,具有更好的鲁棒性。     

Explanation and prediction: an architecture for default and abductive reasoning

Although there are many arguments that logic is an appropriate tool for artificial intelligence, there has been a perceived problem with the monotonicity of classical logic. This paper elaborates on the idea that reasoning should be viewed as theory formation where logic tells us the consequences of our assumptions. The two activities of predicting what is expected to be true and explaining observations are considered in a simple theory formation framework. Properties of each activity are discussed, along with a number of proposals as to what should be predicted or accepted as reasonable explanations. An architecture is proposed to combine explanation and prediction into one coherent framework. Algorithms used to implement the system as well as examples from a running implementation are given.     

Three Process Perspectives: Organizations, Teams, and People

This paper provides the author's personal views and perspectives on software process improvement. Starting with his first work on technology assessment in IBM over 20 years ago, Watts Humphrey describes the process improvement work he has been directly involved in. This includes the development of the early process assessment methods, the original design of the CMM, and the introduction of the Personal Software Process (PSP)^SM and Team Software Process (TSP){^SM}. In addition to describing the original motivation for this work, the author also reviews many of the problems he and his associates encountered and why they solved them the way they did. He also comments on the outstanding issues and likely directions for future work. Finally, this work has built on the experiences and contributions of many people. Mr. Humphrey only describes work that he was personally involved in and he names many of the key contributors. However, so many people have been involved in this work that a full list of the important participants would be impractical.     

基于复小波噪声方差显著修正的SAR图像去噪

提出了一种基于复小波域统计建模与噪声方差估计显著性修正相结合的合成孔径雷达(Synthetic Aperture Radar,SAR)图像斑点噪声滤波方法。该方法首先通过对数变换将乘性噪声模型转化为加性噪声模型,然后对变换后的图像进行双树复小波变换(Dualtree Complex Wavelet Transform,DCWT),并对复数小波系数的统计分布进行建模。在此先验分布的基础上,通过运用贝叶斯估计方法从含噪系数中恢复原始系数,达到滤除噪声的目的。实验结果表明该方法在去除噪声的同时保留了图像的细节信息,取得了很好的降噪效果。     

How do children do mathematics with LOGO?

Abstract  This paper considers some results of a study designed to investigate the kinds of mathematical activity undertaken by children (aged between 8 and 11) as they learned to program in LOGO. A model of learning modes is proposed, which attempts to describe the ways in which children used and acquired understanding of the programming/mathematical concepts involved. The remainder of the paper is concerned with discussing the validity and limitations of the model, and its implications for further research and curriculum development.     

Editorial: Special issue on recent advances in hybrid control theory and applications

正The demands of a rapidly advancing technology for faster and more accurate controllers have always had a strong influence on the progress of automatic control theory.In recent years control problems have been arising with increasing frequency in widely different areas,which cannot be addressed using conventional control techniques.The principal reason for this is the fact that a highly competitive economy is forcing systems to operate in regimes where     

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正Aim The Journals of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE(A/B/C)areedited by the international board of distinguished Chinese andforeign scientists,and are aimed to present the latest devel-opments and achievements in scientific research in China andoverseas to the world’s scientific circles,especially to stimulateand promote academic exchange between Chinese and for-eign scientists everywhere.     

Enhancing a leaf radiative transfer model to estimate concentrations and in vivo specific absorption coefficients of total carotenoids and chlorophylls a and b from single-needle reflectance and transmittance

The relative concentrations of different pigments within a leaf have significant physiological and spectral consequences. Photosynthesis, light use efficiency, mass and energy exchange, and stress response are dependent on relationships among an ensemble of pigments. This ensemble also determines the visible characteristics of a leaf, which can be measured remotely and used to quantify leaf biochemistry and structure. But current remote sensing approaches are limited in their ability to resolve individual pigments. This paper focuses on the incorporation of three pigments—chlorophyll a, chlorophyll b, and total carotenoids—into the LIBERTY leaf radiative transfer model to better understand relationships between leaf biochemical, biophysical, and spectral properties.Pinus ponderosa and Pinus jeffreyi needles were collected from three sites in the California Sierra Nevada. Hemispheric single-leaf visible reflectance and transmittance and concentrations of chlorophylls a and b and total carotenoids of fresh needles were measured. These data were input to the enhanced LIBERTY model to estimate optical and biochemical properties of pine needles. The enhanced model successfully estimated reflectance (RMSE = 0.0255, BIAS = 0.00477, RMS%E = 16.7%), had variable success estimating transmittance (RMSE = 0.0442, BIAS = 0.0294, RMS%E = 181%), and generated very good estimates of carotenoid concentrations (RMSE = 2.48 µg/cm², BIAS = 0.143 µg/cm², RMS%E = 20.4%), good estimates of chlorophyll a concentrations (RMSE = 10.7 µg/cm², BIAS = − 0.992 µg/cm², RMS%E = 21.1%), and fair estimates of chlorophyll b concentrations (RMSE = 7.49 µg/cm², BIAS = − 2.12 µg/cm², RMS%E = 43.7%). Overall root mean squared errors of reflectance, transmittance, and pigment concentration estimates were lower for the three-pigment model than for the single-pigment model. The algorithm to estimate three in vivo specific absorption coefficients is robust, although estimated values are distorted by inconsistencies in model biophysics. The capacity to invert the model from single-leaf reflectance and transmittance was added to the model so it could be coupled with vegetation canopy models to estimate canopy biochemistry from remotely sensed data.     

Mr. Twinn’s bombes

This article discusses the history and design of the special versions of the bombe key-finding machines used by Britain’s Government Code & Cypher School (GC&CS) during World War II to attack the Enigma traffic of the Abwehr (the German military intelligence service). These special bombes were based on the design of their more numerous counterparts used against the traffic of the German armed services, but differed from them in important ways that highlight the adaptability of the British bombe design, and the power and flexibility of the diagonal board. Also discussed are the changes in the Abwehr indicating system that drove the development of these machines, the ingenious ways in which they were used, and some related developments involving the bombes used by the U.S. Navy’s cryptanalytic unit (OP-20-G).