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Adaptive Risk Network Dependency Analysis Of Complex Hierarchical Systems, Katherine L. Smith

Computational Modeling & Simulation Engineering Theses & Dissertations

Recently the number, variety, and complexity of interconnected systems have been increasing while the resources available to increase resilience of those systems have been decreasing. Therefore, it has become increasingly important to quantify the effects of risks and the resulting disruptions over time as they ripple through networks of systems. This dissertation presents a novel modeling and simulation methodology which quantifies resilience, as impact on performance over time, and risk, as the impact of probabilistic disruptions. This work includes four major contributions over the state-of-the-art which are: (1) cyclic dependencies are captured by separation of performance variables into layers which …

Is Artificial Intelligence A Double-Edged Sword? Insights From Three Essays On Its Impacts, Ankur Arora

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

"If we do it right, we might be able to evolve a form of work that taps into our uniquely human capabilities and restores our humanity. The ultimate paradox is that this technology may become a powerful catalyst that we need to reclaim our humanity." - John Hagel

Artificial intelligence (AI) is viewed as a disruptive technology that some executives believe will take over a lot of jobs. However, others believe that AI will bolster growth, improve business processes, and create new business opportunities. This dissertation focuses on the tension arising from such contrasting expected impacts of AI. Extant research …

Scheduling, Complexity, And Solution Methods For Space Robot On-Orbit Servicing, Susan E. Sorenson

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This research proposes problems, models, and solutions for the scheduling of space robot on-orbit servicing. We present the Multi-Orbit Routing and Scheduling of Refuellable On-Orbit Servicing Space Robots problem which considers on-orbit servicing across multiple orbits with moving tasks and moving refuelling depots. We formulate a mixed integer linear program model to optimize the routing and scheduling of robot servicers to accomplish on-orbit servicing tasks. We develop and demonstrate flexible algorithms for the creation of the model parameters and associated data sets. Our first algorithm creates the network arcs using orbital mechanics. We have also created a novel way to …

Deep Learning Applications In Industrial And Systems Engineering, Winthrop Harvey

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Deep learning - the use of large neural networks to perform machine learning - has transformed the world. As the capabilities of deep models continue to grow, deep learning is becoming an increasingly valuable and practical tool for industrial engineering. With its wide applicability, deep learning can be turned to many industrial engineering tasks, including optimization, heuristic search, and functional approximation. In this dissertation, the major concepts and paradigms of deep learning are reviewed, and three industrial engineering projects applying these methods are described. The first applies a deep convolutional network to the task of absolute aerial geolocalization - the …

Meta-Detr: Image-Level Few-Shot Detection With Inter-Class Correlation Exploitation, Gongjie Zhang, Zhipeng Luo, Kaiwen Cui, Shijian Lu, Eric P. Xing

Machine Learning Faculty Publications

Few-shot object detection has been extensively investigated by incorporating meta-learning into region-based detection frameworks. Despite its success, the said paradigm is still constrained by several factors, such as (i) low-quality region proposals for novel classes and (ii) negligence of the inter-class correlation among different classes. Such limitations hinder the generalization of base-class knowledge for the detection of novel-class objects. In this work, we design Meta-DETR, which (i) is the first image-level few-shot detector, and (ii) introduces a novel inter-class correlational meta-learning strategy to capture and leverage the correlation among different classes for robust and accurate few-shot object detection. Meta-DETR works …

Semantic-Aligned Matching For Enhanced Detr Convergence And Multi-Scale Feature Fusion, Gongjie Zhang, Zhipeng Luo, Yingchen Yu, Jiaxing Huang, Kaiwen Cui, Shijian Lu, Eric Xing

Machine Learning Faculty Publications

The recently proposed DEtection TRansformer (DETR) has established a fully end-to-end paradigm for object detection. However, DETR suffers from slow training convergence, which hinders its applicability to various detection tasks. We observe that DETR's slow convergence is largely attributed to the difficulty in matching object queries to relevant regions due to the unaligned semantics between object queries and encoded image features. With this observation, we design Semantic-Aligned-Matching DETR++ (SAM-DETR++) to accelerate DETR's convergence and improve detection performance. The core of SAM-DETR++ is a plug-andplay module that projects object queries and encoded image features into the same feature embedding space, where …

Application In Medicine: Has Artificial Intelligence Stood The Test Of Time, Mir Ibrahim Sajid, Shaheer Ahmed, Usama Waqar, Javeria Tariq, Mohsin Chundrigar, Samira Shabbir Balouch, Sajid Abaidullah

Medical College Documents

Artificial intelligence (AI) has proven time and time again to be a game-changer innovation in every walk of life, including medicine. Introduced by Dr. Gunn in 1976 to accurately diagnose acute abdominal pain and list potential differentials, AI has since come a long way. In particular, AI has been aiding in radiological diagnoses with good sensitivity and specificity by using machine learning algorithms. With the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, AI has proven to be more than just a tool to facilitate healthcare workers in decision making and limiting physician-patient contact during the pandemic. It has guided governments and key policymakers …

Towards Smart City Security: Violence And Weaponized Violence Detection Using Dcnn, Toluwani Aremu, Li Zhiyuan, Reem Alameeri, Moayad Aloqaily, Mohsen Guizani

Machine Learning Faculty Publications

In this ever connected society, CCTVs have had a pivotal role in enforcing safety and security of the citizens by recording unlawful activities for the authorities to take actions. In a smart city context, using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNN) to detection violence and weaponized violence from CCTV videos will provide an additional layer of security by ensuring real-time detection around the clock. In this work, we introduced a new specialised dataset by gathering real CCTV footage of both weaponized and non-weaponized violence as well as non-violence videos from YouTube. We also proposed a novel approach in merging consecutive video …

Computational Models To Detect Radiation In Urban Environments: An Application Of Signal Processing Techniques And Neural Networks To Radiation Data Analysis, Jose Nicolas Gachancipa

Beyond: Undergraduate Research Journal

Radioactive sources, such as uranium-235, are nuclides that emit ionizing radiation, and which can be used to build nuclear weapons. In public areas, the presence of a radioactive nuclide can present a risk to the population, and therefore, it is imperative that threats are identified by radiological search and response teams in a timely and effective manner. In urban environments, such as densely populated cities, radioactive sources may be more difficult to detect, since background radiation produced by surrounding objects and structures (e.g., buildings, cars) can hinder the effective detection of unnatural radioactive material. This article presents a computational model …

Self-Distilled Vision Transformer For Domain Generalization, Maryam Sultana, Muzammal Naseer, Muhammad Haris Khan, Salman Khan, Fahad Shahbaz Khan

Computer Vision Faculty Publications

In recent past, several domain generalization (DG) methods have been proposed, showing encouraging performance, however, almost all of them build on convolutional neural networks (CNNs). There is little to no progress on studying the DG performance of vision transformers (ViTs), which are challenging the supremacy of CNNs on standard benchmarks, often built on i.i.d assumption. This renders the real-world deployment of ViTs doubtful. In this paper, we attempt to explore ViTs towards addressing the DG problem. Similar to CNNs, ViTs also struggle in out-of-distribution scenarios and the main culprit is overfitting to source domains. Inspired by the modular architecture of …

Reinforcement Actor-Critic Learning As A Rehearsal In Microrts, Shiron Manandhar

Master's Theses

Real-time strategy (RTS) games have provided a fertile ground for AI research with notable recent successes based on deep reinforcement learning (RL). However, RL remains a data-hungry approach featuring a high sample complexity. In this thesis, we focus on a sample complexity reduction technique called reinforcement learning as a rehearsal (RLaR), and on the RTS game of MicroRTS to formulate and evaluate it. RLaR has been formulated in the context of action-value function based RL before. Here we formulate it for a different RL framework, called actor-critic RL. We show that on the one hand the actor-critic framework allows RLaR …

A Modified Point Matching Method For Non-Rigid Image Registration, Jintai Shangguan, Yawen Dang, Wei Lian

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Aiming at the problem that the registration results tend to converge to local minima due to the complexity of the relative position changes between two point sets in the non-rigid body point matching process, a joint estimation method for non-rigid body point matching based on precenter alignment is proposed, a modified matching method for non-rigid image registration based on centre preregistration is proposed. To better achieve the point matching accuracy between two point sets, a centre preregistration step is applied before the iterative closest point matching algorithm, which converges to a solution more close to a global optimum and …

Transfer Method Of Operational Simulation Experiment Scope Using Compromised Case-Based Reasoning, Jun Ma, Jingyu Yang, Xi Wu

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: The scope of operational simulation experiment is usually determined by experts, which costs relatively high. In order to transfer the knowledge of experimental scope selection from historical data of operational simulation experiment to new operational experiment cases, the method of compromised case-based reasoning is proposed. According to the data characteristics of the case, the representation method of the operational simulation experiment case is proposed; according to the structure and attribute characteristics of the case, the hybrid similarity calculation method of subjective and objective comprehensive weighting is proposed; aiming at the problems of retrieval failure and less information content …

Optimal Dispatch Of Integrated Energy System Considering Ladder-Type Carbon Trading, Liying Wang, Jialin Lin, Houqi Dong, Ming Zeng, Yuqing Wang

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: With the development of the electricity market and carbon market,the introduction of demand response and carbon trading mechanisms into the operation and dispatch of integrated energy systems will help guide users and system operators to optimize electricity consumption and dispatch plans.The comprehensive incentive measures such as time-of-use electricity prices and demand response incentive subsidies are used to guide users to participate in demand response.A two-layer stochastic optimal scheduling model for a comprehensive energy system considering the ladder-type carbon trading mechanism and demand response is constructed based on IGDT (information gap decision theory) theory.The two-layer model is converted …

Bi-Level Optimization Of Distribution Network For Hybrid Energy Storage System Of Storage Battery And Hydrogen Storage, Feibo Feng, Xingde Yan, Baoqiang Zheng, Xiaofeng Yin, Mengzhen Zhou, Xin Jiang

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Under the background of carbon neutralization and emission peaking goals and the utilization of clean hydrogen energy, aiming at the demand of distribution network configuring electrochemical energy storage and hydrogen energy storage system to form a hybrid energy storage system to improve power quality, a bi-level optimization model of the hybrid energy storage system is established. The upper level location and capacity model comprehensively considers the investment cost, network loss cost and voltage offset, while the lower level optimization operation model considers the operation cost of hybrid energy storage system, and the voltage stability index is introduced for evaluation. …

Modeling And Simulation Of Optimal Strategy For Electric Vehicles Participating In Power Grid Frequency Regulation, Li Yao, Junjie Hu, Wenshuai Ma, Zhile Yang

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Electric vehicles (EVs) have similar characteristics of distributed energy storage, and making full use of the flexibility of EVs can provide ancillary services to the grid and gain benefits. Considering the influence of uncertain factors, a bidding model for electric vehicle aggregator (EVA) to participate in the day-ahead energy market and frequency regulation ancillary service market is constructed with the maximum revenue expectation of EVA as the target. A real-time energy distribution incentive strategy based on contract theory is proposed to realize the distribution of EVA's frequency regulation demand under the condition of maximizing social welfare. Through case studies, …

Simulation Model Of Forest Fire Spread Based On Swarm Intelligence, Aibin Chen, Fubo Ding, Guoxiong Zhou, Bo Zhou

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Aiming at the shortcomings of high computational complexity and low simulation accuracy of traditional forest fire spread model, a forest fire spread simulation model based on swarm intelligence is proposed.By establishing fuel factor matrix and landform factor matrix, and combining with the real-time meteorological information, the computational complexity is reduced; the spread behavior of the forest fire is abstracted as the cluster behavior of each module fire point, and the correlation between modules is considered to improve the accuracy of forest fire spread simulation model.The model is compared with Wang Zhengfei model and two-dimensional cellular automata model. …

Two Stage Optimization Algorithm To Solve The Green Packing Vehicle Routing Problem, Rong Hu, Wen Jiang, Bin Qian, Naikang Yu

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: The green open vehicle routing problem with two-dimensional loading constraints (2L-GOVRP) is integration of the green open vehicle routing problem and two-dimensional bin packing problem. The model of 2L-GOVRP is established and a two-stage optimization algorithm (TSOA) is proposed to minimize fuel consumption. In the first stage of TSOA, adaptive whale optimization algorithm (AWOA) is designed to solve the vehicle routing problem, which determine the initial delivery route of the vehicle (the initial solution of 2L-GOVRP). The algorithm has four kinds of variable neighborhoods local operation to perform a local search. In the second stage of TSOA, the skyline …

A Method Of Loose Coupling Entity Modeling Based On Variable Rules, Zheng Yang, Zhimin Xiang, Shiwen Ma

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Operational Entity Modeling is a hot research topic in the field of combat simulation. A loose coupling entity modeling method based on variable rules is proposed. The architecture of operational entity model based on variable rules and the internal and external interaction mechanism of the model are presented in terms of entity, mission, action, interaction, event and rule. On this basis, the running framework of operational entity model is designed, and the entity model uniform scheduling mechanism is standardized, which solves the problems of over-tight coupling of operational rules in the operational entity model and low reliability of the …

Research On Prediction Of Model Based On Multi-Scale Lstm, Junjie Qiu, Hong Zheng, Yunhui Cheng

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Aircraft engine remaining useful life (RUL) prediction is the core issue in equipmentfailure prognostics and health management (PHM). Aiming at the characteristics of high dimensionality, high lag and complexity of engine data, a multi-scale attention-based bidirectional long short-term memory neural network model based on self-training weights is proposed. Multi-scale features are extracted through bidirectional long short-term memory neural network (BiLSTM) of different scales. A fusion algorithm based on self-training weights is proposed, and an attention mechanism is introduced to screen features at different scales to improve prediction accuracy. Various models are compared on the NASA's C-MAPSS data set. The …

Space Science Satellite Data Processing Framework Research And System Implementation, Wenzhen Ma, Ziming Zou, Jianhui Li, Qinsi Yu, Jizhou Tong, Jingjing Li

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Based on the needs of China's space science strategy and series of on-orbit and forthcoming satellite missions in China's Strategic Priority Program on space science, data processing framework and key technologies of the satellite ground segment are studied. A general technical framework SDPF (space science satellite data processing framework) is proposed with two-layer scheduling engine, including mission-level and resource-level. The design and implementation of an automatic, efficient, real-time and standard space science satellite data processing system has been established. In this way, complicated processing procedures on large-scale data from multi-satellite missions and multi-payload can be completed quickly in parallel. …

Ultra-Real-Time Visual Simulation System For Multi-View Rendering Tasks, Xunyun Liu, Xinhai Xu, Chengzhang Zhu, Hao Li, Lei Zeng

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: For multi-view rendering tasks, a theoretical analysis of ultra-real-time visual simulation is given in terms of implementation principle and feasibility. Based on the theoretical results, an ultra-real-time visual simulation architecture is designed, which decouples the simulation and rendering computation. A parallel-rendering-based ultra-real-time visual simulation method is proposed to solve the problems of rendering task assignment, simulation world synchronization, and rendering-execution time selection. An ultra-real-time visual simulation system is implemented based on Unreal Engine 4 (UE4), the performance of which is demonstrated on a designated application case per rendering efficiency and ultra-real-time simulation.

Verification Of Transaction Ordering Dependence Vulnerability Of Smart Contract Based On Cpn, Hong Zheng, Zerun Liu, Jianhua Huang, Shihui Qian

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: The formal verification of smart contracts researches mainly focus on programming language-level vulnerabilities, and the transaction ordering dependence is more difficult to be detected as a blockchain-level vulnerability.The latent transaction ordering dependence vulnerability in smart contracts is formally verified based on colored Petri nets.The latent vulnerability in the Decode reward contractis analyzed, anda colored Petri net model of the contract itself and its execution environment is established from top to bottom.The attacker model is introduced to consider the situation that the contract is attacked. By running the model to verify the existence of transaction ordering dependence vulnerability in …

Modeling And Simulation Of Sofc System With Heat Transfer Among Bop Components, Ling Hong, Rongmin Wu, Jianwu Zhou, Tian Xia, Xiaojie Li, Pengjie Tian, Hao Peng, Chunhui Shou

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: High temperature solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) is a high temperature and efficient hydrogen-electric conversion device. Its high temperature operating environment puts forward higher requirements for thermal insulation of stack and balance of plants(BoP) in the system. In this paper, a lumped SOFC system model is established based on the thermal efficiency-heat transfer unit number method (ε-NTU method), in combination with limited measurable parameters for high-temperature system.Quantitative analysis of components temperature and heat transfer among components can be achieved by heat exchange simulation between components and BoP hot-box environment. A simple feedback controlleris designed for system self-starting and operation. …

Research On Multi-Robot Slam Map Fusionmethod Based On Heuristics, Tong Wang, Guangtao Shang, Shan Gao

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is a key technology for mobile robots to complete map construction and positioning tasks in an unknown environment. Aiming at the map fusion problem in multi-robot SLAM, a heuristic search method is proposed to guide the repeated regions of the local map for map fusion. Each robot can build a local map without knowing its relative position, and send the local map information to the same workstation, and use the similarity of the local map as the judgment index to fuse to obtain the optimal global map.Verified on the robot physical platform, the …

Aerial Target Threat Assessment Method Based On Deep Learning, Huimin Chai, Yong Zhang, Xinyue Li, Yanan Song

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Due to many factors of aerial target threat assessment and the lack of self-learning ability of current assessment methods, a deep neural network model for aerial target threat assessment is established using deep learning theory. In order to improve the fitting effect of the model training, a symmetric pre-training method is given. The hidden layers of the model are pre-trained layer by layer, and finally the whole model is trained. Sample data and air to air simulation scene experiments are carried out respectively. The experiments results show that the accuracy of the model using the symmetric pre-training method is …

Game-Based Resource Allocation And Task Offloading Scheme In Collaborative Cloud-Edge Computing System, Xuewen Wu, Jingxian Liao

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Considering the delay, energy consumption and computing resource cost, the utility maximization problem in collaborative cloud-edge system is constructed, and divided into three subproblems: computing resource allocation, uplink power allocation and task offloading strategy. A game-based resource allocation and task offloading(GRATO) scheme is proposed to solve those subproblems. The optimal solution of computing resource allocation is obtained by using convex optimization conditions; a low complexity uplink power allocation method is designed to reduce wireless interfere; a game-based distributed task offloading algorithm (GDTOA) is proposed to optimize the task offloading strategy. Simulation results show that the performance of GRATO is …

Research On Inpainting Algorithm Of Digital Murals Based On Enhanced Structural Information, Ziying Zhang, Hua Zhou

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: According to the fact that the murals of Fahai Temple in Beijing are missing in blocks and the missing area is structure information, a structure-enhancing digital image restoration algorithm is proposed to solve the problem of insufficient consideration of image structure information in Criminisi algorithm. When calculating the priority function of the filling block, the curvature calculation of the linear convolution is integrated into the data item, and the weight of the structure information is increased to achieve the goal of repairing the structure information-rich region in priority; the regional covariance method is introduced in the similarity calculation of …

Simulation Research On Covid-19 Transmission And Control Measures Based On SeiIRd Model, Jing Wang, Ying Dong

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: With the spread of the novel coronavirus pneumonia around the world, the data and transmission mechanism are analyzed. The SEI_iRD model is constructed based on the existing SEIRD model, and the infected population is divided into asymptomatic infections, mild infections, severe infections and critical infections. The impact of the transmission rate of different infected people on the development of the epidemic was analyzed. Simulation experiments were carried out on the basis of fitting real data, and it was found that the main infected populations that affected the discovery of the epidemic were asymptomatic and mildly infected. On …

Interactive Construction Of Scientific Workflow Based On Process Mining, Jun Liu, Yang Gao, Tao Xu, Qing Zhao, Guihua Shan, Xuebin Chi

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: When dealing with large-scale or complex workflows, the construction efficiency of traditional interactive workflow construction methods is very low. To solve this problem, a workflow construction method based on process mining is proposed. Heuristic methods are used to collect process fragments. The specially designed relation description language is used to record the process description of different levels and aspects in the workflow as text. The text is translated to generate process relational data, which will be output to the process discovery algorithm to generate a sound workflow network. An interactive workflow construction software has been developed and tested in …