软件外包中分包商选择的优化模型及算法

软件企业常作为发包方将软件项目的某些部分外包给其他企业来转移风险,与多方合作共同承担软件项目的开发,但分包方选择不当同样会给企业带来巨大的风险。为规避分包商选择失误带来的风险,提出了分包商选择的多目标规划模型,该模型以发包方企业成本最小和风险最小为目标对多个软件分包商进行选择。针对模型非线性复杂化整数规划的特点,设计了混合粒子群算法(GA-PSO)对模型进行求解。通过对一个算例的测试,证明了该模型及算法的有效性和可行性。     

艾叶精油化学成分研究

本文用水蒸气蒸馏法提取了不同产地艾叶精油,采用GC-MS技术分析了艾叶精油的化学成分。结果不同产地艾叶精油的质量收率为0.29%～0.56%,都含有特征成分:α-蒎烯、β-蒎烯、α-松油烯、γ-松油烯、桉叶素、蒿酮、蒿醇、2-环己烯-1-醇、樟脑、龙脑、4-松油醇、反式-石竹烯、丁子香酚。其中具有药效作用的成分有桉叶素(14.32%～26.12%,质量百分数,下同),樟脑(3.66%～14.97%)、龙脑(0.51%～10.53%)、甘菊环(0.00%～23.95%)等,有毒成分侧柏酮含量为0.32%～3.62%。     

Piezoresistivities of vapor‐grown carbon fiber/silicone foams for tactile sensor applications

Due to the growing demand for tactile sensors, the possibility of detecting an external uniaxial pressure by the piezoresistive measuring of a conductive filler/elastomer composite was investigated. A series of piezoresistive models are discussed. Novel highly sensitive piezoresistive foams with excellent elasticity were fabricated using vapor‐grown carbon fiber (VGCF), two‐component silicone elastomer and a new type of thermally expandable micro beads foaming agent to overcome the disadvantages of the silicone elastomer in the utilization of a tactile sensor. Deformations of the foams caused by uniaxial pressure were observed using scanning electron microscopy from cross‐sections. Effects of the VGCF and the foaming agent on the piezoresistivitiy were investigated. The piezoresistive mechanisms of the foams are discussed according to the measurements, and good fit was found between the theoretical calculations and the experimental piezoresistivity measurements. It is found that the addition of the micro beads foaming agent can improve the piezoresistivity of the VGCF/silicone foam and increase the sensitivity and repeatability for its application in a tactile sensor. © 2016 Society of Chemical Industry     

Multi-classifier ensemble based on dynamic weights

Multimedia Tools and Applications - In this study, a novel multi-classifier ensemble method based on dynamic weights is proposed to reduce the interference of unreliable decision information and...     

Water sorption and cooking time of red kidney beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.): part I – Effect of freezing and drying conditions on water sorption and cooking time

Water sorption and cooking time of kidney beans were determined. The beans were manually harvested at 19.2 ± 0.1% moisture content and stored at ?20 and ?10 °C for about half a year. The beans were further dried at 30, 40 and 50 °C inside a thin‐layer drier for 7.5 h or under room conditions for 4 week. The freezing storage temperature before the beans were dried did not influence their cooking time and water sorption. The saturated kernel volumes decreased approximately 7% after drying. The beans decreased their sphericity during water sorption and had a larger swelling ratio in the thickness direction than in other directions. Lower initial moisture content, especially with a higher drying temperature, decreased water sorptivity and resulted in higher percentage of uncooked kernels if the beans were not soaked before cooking. However, there was no relationship between initial moisture content and uncooked percentage if the beans were soaked before cooking. High drying temperature resulted in hard‐to‐cook (HTC) phenomenon.     

Optimal Digital Controller Design for a Servo Motor Taking Account of Intersample Behavior

A continuous‐time plant with a discretized continuous‐time controller does not yield stability if the sampling rate is lower than some certain level. Thus far, high‐performance electronic control has made use of expensive hardware needed to implement discretized continuous‐time controllers; low‐cost hardware generally does not have a sufficiently high sampling rate. This technical note presents results comparing performance indexes with and without intersample behavior, and provides some answers to the question of how a low‐specification device can control a plant effectively. We consider a machine simulating wafer handling robots, which is an electromechanical system driven by a direct drive motor, at a semiconductor factory. We illustrate the controller design for the robot with and without intersample behavior, and present simulations and experimental results using these controllers. Taking intersample behavior into account proves to be effective in improving control performance and makes it possible to choose a relatively long sampling period. Controller design in terms of the performance index with intersample behavior makes it possible to deal with situations in which a sufficiently short sampling period may not be employed, and freedom of controller design may be widened, especially regarding the choice of the sampling period.     

Effects of Atmospheric Composition on the Molecular Structure of Synthesized Silicon Oxycarbides

The dependence of silicon oxycarbides' chemical composition and molecular structure on their reaction conditions was tested by varying the atmosphere under which pyrolysis was performed. To obtain the silicon oxycarbides, densely cross‐linked silicone resin particles with an averaged diameter of 2 μm were pyrolyzed in various atmospheres of H₂, Ar, and CO₂, in the temperature range 700°C–1100°C. The residual mass of resin after pyrolysis was almost constant at 700°C, although their apparent colors varied distinctly. The sample obtained from the H₂ atmosphere was white, whereas that obtained from the CO₂ atmosphere was dark brown. Fourier‐transform infrared (FT‐IR) spectra of the residues suggested that the Si–O–Si network evolution was accelerated in the CO₂ atmosphere. Beyond 800°C, the chemical compositions of the compounds obtained from a H₂ atmosphere increasingly approached near‐stoichiometric SiO₂–xSiC composition with increasing the pyrolysis temperature. Compounds from a CO₂ atmosphere approached a composition of SiO₂–xC with no free SiC as the pyrolysis temperature increased. In the products from an Ar atmosphere, SiO₂–xSiC–yC compositions were typically obtained. The observed effects of the pyrolysis atmosphere on the resulting chemical compositions were analyzed in terms of thermodynamic calculations. Electron spin resonance (ESR) spectra revealed broad and intense signals from products obtained from either Ar or CO₂. Estimating from the signal intensity, the residual spin concentrations were in the range 10¹⁸–10¹⁹ g^?1. Meanwhile, the spectra from the samples obtained in H₂ showed weak and sharp signals with estimated spin concentrations ranging from 10¹⁶–10¹⁷ g^?1. This signal attenuation may have been due to the hydrogen capping of dangling bond formed during pyrolysis.     

TFSM‐based dialogue management model framework for affective dialogue systems

A new dialogue management model for affective dialogue system, which aims to provide a service of information inquiry and affective interaction, is proposed in this paper. First, we construct two finite state machines (TFSM) to model the user and the system, respectively, and simulate the dialogue process as an information exchange between the two state machines. All possible state transitions in dialogue and its probabilities of the user are summarized as a user model, which is helpful for the system to inference and predict the user's internal states. Second, we further discuss the implementation methods of information inquiry and emotional response modules. Finally, we employ the return function of partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDP) model to analyze and evaluate the TFSM‐based dialogue management model. The experimental results not only show the relationships between the average returns, recognition error rates, and state transition probabilities but also confirm that our TFSM‐based dialogue management model outperforms the conventional FSM model. © 2015 Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.     

Exploiting opinion distribution for topic recommendation in Twitter

The popular social networking service Twitter provides rapidly updated information and online trends, which enriches and benefits people's daily life. At the same time, how to find out the really interesting and relevant topics from the massive streams of tweets, to provide precise topic recommendation for users, becomes a challenging problem in the real world. Previous collaborative filtering methods give solutions to traditional recommendation tasks considering users' positive reviews to help recommend items. However, to the problem ‘what is interesting to whom’ in Twitter, positive opinions toward a topic do not imply that the user will be interested in it with high probability, for the user probably prefers to know those controversial topics or hot events with a large number of negative posts. In this paper, we exploit the characteristics of topical opinion distribution for improving the performance of recommendation. The experimental results on a real‐world Twitter dataset show that the proposed opinion‐distribution‐aware topic recommendation (ODA‐TR) approach outperforms the state‐of‐the‐art collaborative recommendation methods. © 2015 Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.     

Ag-28Cu钎焊TA2/BT20接头组织分析

采用 Ag-28Cu 钎料对 TA8 纯钛和 BT20 钛合金的管板组合构件进行真空钎焊连接试验,分析了不同钎焊温度及保温时间对接头界面结构的影响.结果表明,接头界面结构为 BT20/钛基固溶体/Ti2Cu 化合物/银基固溶体+TiCu 化合物/Ti2Cu 化合物/钛基固溶体/TA2;随着钎焊温度的升高,银基固溶体和 TiCu 化合物逐渐消失,Ⅰ区逐渐出现较明显的树枝状生长的组织,分析为 Ti2Cu 化合物;随着连接时间的延长,Ti2Cu 化合物逐渐增加,且靠近母材的钛基固溶体层增宽,Ⅱ区最终演变成一个 Ti2Cu 反应层.

Abstract：

The vacuum brazing of TA2/BT20 titanium alloy was carried out with Ag-28Cu brazing filler metal, and the effects of brazing temperature and holding time on interface structure of the joints were diseussed. The experimental results showed that the interface structure consisted of BT20/Ti (s,s)/Ti2Cu/Ag (s,s) +TiCu/Ti2Cu/Ti (s,s)/TA2. The Ag (s,s) and TiCu compound decreased gradually with the increasing of brazing temperature and holding time, and then Ti2 Cu compound increased corresponding.And the Ti (s,s) layer gradually became thick.