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Process Simulation And Optimization On Giant Block Erection Of Longitudinal Staggered Arrangement, Wenmin Zhu, Minghua Zhu, Xiumin Fan Apr 2019

Process Simulation And Optimization On Giant Block Erection Of Longitudinal Staggered Arrangement, Wenmin Zhu, Minghua Zhu, Xiumin Fan

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: The process of giant block erection of longitudinal staggered arrangement is complicated. If the design of process and tooling are not reasonable, the adjustment work in the construction site, which affects the shipbuilding cycle seriously, will be abundant. To solve these problems, the method of process simulation and optimization on giant block erection were researched. Simulation models were established for carrying out the process simulation, and the simulation process was detected in real time by establishing collision detection model and virtual human model. Based on the measured data of the ship hull, the automatic calculation method of raising height …


Robust Adaptive Rate Control Algorithm And Its Simulation For P2p-Tv Streaming Media Systems, Fengjie Yin, Yang Hui, Zhang Ying Apr 2019

Robust Adaptive Rate Control Algorithm And Its Simulation For P2p-Tv Streaming Media Systems, Fengjie Yin, Yang Hui, Zhang Ying

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: A control algorithm proposed to control the upstream rate based on sliding mode control in P2P-TV streaming media node. Through the rational design of sliding mode controller, the algorithm can adaptively control the numbers of signaling threads between neighbor pairs connected simultaneously and then control the upload rate. Further, it can achieve the fair use of resources. Due to the sliding mode control has strong robust with modeling uncertainties, time varying parameter fluctuations and external disturbances, it can avoid the system congestion under network condition change. Simulation results demonstrate that it can lead to the convergence of the …


Distribution Routing Optimization Of Fresh Agricultural Products Based On Road Conditions, Wang Heng, Yaxing Xu, Zhenfeng Wang, Tianpeng Zhou, Dechun Tian Apr 2019

Distribution Routing Optimization Of Fresh Agricultural Products Based On Road Conditions, Wang Heng, Yaxing Xu, Zhenfeng Wang, Tianpeng Zhou, Dechun Tian

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Reasonable arrangement of distribution route of fresh agricultural product can effectively guarantee the freshness of products, improve the distribution efficiency, and reduce the distribution cost. In practical distribution, the road condition is an important factor affecting the arrangement of the distribution route. According to the different road conditions, the speed characteristic models are set up. Meanwhile, considering the perishable and vulnerable characteristics of fresh agricultural products, the function of time window penalty cost and the function of customer satisfaction are established. Based on the comprehensive consideration of factors, such as road condition, time window and fresh consumption, a multi-objective …


Simulation Of Domestic Hot Water Using Behavior Of College Students Based On Group Characteristics, Zhou Jin, Xiaoping Yin, Xu Feng Apr 2019

Simulation Of Domestic Hot Water Using Behavior Of College Students Based On Group Characteristics, Zhou Jin, Xiaoping Yin, Xu Feng

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: The use of domestic hot water is influenced by user’s gender and living habits, so the composition and behavior characteristics of user group have great influence on the design and operation control of domestic hot water system. The classification of hot water user group of college students was made by means of statistical analysis of original data, and the parameters related to the probability distributions of hot water use behavior were obtained. The simulation of domestic hot water using by college students was conducted and compared with the data generated from original recorded data, and the results show good …


Modeling And Simulation Of Health Degradation Trend For Wind Turbine Bearing, Xinghui Dong, Xiaoshuang Ma, Youxing Cheng, Wang Shuai Apr 2019

Modeling And Simulation Of Health Degradation Trend For Wind Turbine Bearing, Xinghui Dong, Xiaoshuang Ma, Youxing Cheng, Wang Shuai

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: By taking a wind turbine bearing as research object, the model of bearing temperature health’s degradation trend is established through using least squares surface fitting and the monitored parameters from Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA). Bearings’ degradation trend with unsteady characteristics is decomposed by modified Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition(EEMD) to obtain several relatively steady components. Components are predicted respectively by time series neural network and the predicted results of all the components are added to obtain final prediction result. Comprehensive simulations and comparisons show that the proposed method can predict the health degradation trend of wind turbine bearings …


Systematic Error Analysis Based On Hardware-In-The-Loop Simulation Environment, Zhang Duo, Manguo Liu, Zhang Xiao, Pingan Liu, Yixuan He Apr 2019

Systematic Error Analysis Based On Hardware-In-The-Loop Simulation Environment, Zhang Duo, Manguo Liu, Zhang Xiao, Pingan Liu, Yixuan He

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Aiming at the complex and diverse components in the semi-physical simulation environment of a certain type of anti-tank missile, the errors present different types of problems, and a systematic error analysis method based on the environment is proposed. By analyzing the composition characteristics and the error characteristics of the simulation computer, flight motion simulator, target simulator and simulation dedicated interface; the delay error of the simulation computer, the mechanical installation error of the flight motion simulator, the delay error of the target simulator and the transmission error of the simulation dedicated interface are acquired. Furthermore, by comparing the local …


Design And Simulation Of Heterogeneous Magnetron Memristive Chua Circuit, Xiaohong Zhang, Lijuan Wan, Keliu Long Apr 2019

Design And Simulation Of Heterogeneous Magnetron Memristive Chua Circuit, Xiaohong Zhang, Lijuan Wan, Keliu Long

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: A nonlinear circuit containing two heterogeneous magnetron memristors which based on the three-order classic Chua circuit is designed, its dimensionless fifth-order mathematical model is proposed. Due to the difference in the design of the characteristic equation of the two magnetron memristors, their positions form a symmetrical structure with respect to the capacitor. The existence of chaotic properties is proved by analyzing the stability of the system equilibrium point and Lyapunov exponents. The model of five-order heterogeneous memristive Chua system and two heterogeneous magnetron memristors are implemented by Multisim. Numerical calculation and experimental results show that heterogeneous magnetron memristive Chua …


Active Disturbance Rejection Sliding Mode Control For Time-Delay Systems, Suzhen Wang, Guofa Sun, Shengrong Liu Apr 2019

Active Disturbance Rejection Sliding Mode Control For Time-Delay Systems, Suzhen Wang, Guofa Sun, Shengrong Liu

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Aiming at the time-delay systems with uncertainty, this paper designs a third-order nonlinear feedback extended state observer (ESO) by using the coordinate transformation. The ESO can estimate both the system states and the total disturbance signal, and the nonlinear feedback has fast convergence. By the first-order approximation of the time-delay, the output feedback control problem of the time-delay system is transformed into controlling the second-order nonlinear uncertain system with unknown function. On the basis of the tracking differentiator (TD) and the designed ESO, the second-order sliding mode controller (SMC) is designed to realize the fast and accurate tracking …


Evaluation Of Green Smart Cities In China Based On Entropy Weight - Cloud Model, Chen Li, Haixia Zhang Apr 2019

Evaluation Of Green Smart Cities In China Based On Entropy Weight - Cloud Model, Chen Li, Haixia Zhang

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Based on the research on green smart city at home and abroad; and aiming at the shortcomings and deficiencies of traditional evaluation methods, this paper proposes an evaluation method of combining entropy and cloud model based on the cloud model which can realize the conversion of qualitative concept and quantitative value. This method synthetically considers the subjective and objective factors; carries on the correlation analysis to the index; determines the set of evaluation indicators; uses the X-conditional cloud generator in cloud model to obtain the different levels of membership matrix corresponding to each evaluation object; and carries on the …


Reducing Memory Access Latencies Using Data Compression In Sparse, Iterative Linear Solvers, Neil Lindquist Apr 2019

Reducing Memory Access Latencies Using Data Compression In Sparse, Iterative Linear Solvers, Neil Lindquist

All College Thesis Program, 2016-2019

Solving large, sparse systems of linear equations plays a significant role in certain scientific computations, such as approximating the solutions of partial differential equations. However, solvers for these types of problems usually spend most of their time fetching data from main memory. In an effort to improve the performance of these solvers, this work explores using data compression to reduce the amount of data that needs to be fetched from main memory. Some compression methods were found that improve the performance of the solver and problem found in the HPCG benchmark, with an increase in floating point operations per second …


Big Data And The Consumer, Seema Chokshi Apr 2019

Big Data And The Consumer, Seema Chokshi

MITB Thought Leadership Series

What is big data? The intuitive meaning of the phrase ‘big data’ might be “data that is huge in quantity”. But is that interpretation enough? Data of this type has existed for as long as humans have made records of their work. Some of the earliest writings, such as cuneiform, contain vast amounts of data covering areas as diverse as law, mapping and mathematical equations.


Automatic Short Answer Grading Using Siamese Bidirectional Lstm Based Regression, Arya Prabhudesai, Nguyen Binh Duong Ta Apr 2019

Automatic Short Answer Grading Using Siamese Bidirectional Lstm Based Regression, Arya Prabhudesai, Nguyen Binh Duong Ta

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Automatic student assessment plays an important role in education - it provides instant feedback to learners, and at the same time reduces tedious grading workload for instructors. In this paper, we investigate new machine learning techniques for automatic short answer grading (ASAG). The ASAG problem mainly involves assessing short, natural language responses to given questions automatically. While current research in the field has focused either on feature engineering or deep learning, we propose a new approach which combines the advantages of both. More specifically, we propose a Siamese Bidirectional LSTM Neural Network based Regressor in conjunction with handcrafted features for …


Alpha Insurance: A Predictive Analytics Case To Analyze Automobile Insurance Fraud Using Sas Enterprise Miner (Tm), Richard Mccarthy, Wendy Ceccucci, Mary Mccarthy, Leila Halawi Apr 2019

Alpha Insurance: A Predictive Analytics Case To Analyze Automobile Insurance Fraud Using Sas Enterprise Miner (Tm), Richard Mccarthy, Wendy Ceccucci, Mary Mccarthy, Leila Halawi

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Automobile Insurance fraud costs the insurance industry billions of dollars annually. This case study addresses claim fraud based on data extracted from Alpha Insurance’s automobile claim database. Students are provided the business problem and data sets. Initially, the students are required to develop their hypotheses and analyze the data. This includes identification of any missing or inaccurate data values and outliers as well as evaluation of the 22 variables. Next students will develop and optimize their predictive models using five techniques: regression, decision tree, neural network, gradient boosting, and ensemble. Then students will determine which model is the best fit …


Exploring And Visualizing Household Electricity Consumption Patterns In Singapore: A Geospatial Analytics Approach, Yong Ying Tan, Tin Seong Kam Apr 2019

Exploring And Visualizing Household Electricity Consumption Patterns In Singapore: A Geospatial Analytics Approach, Yong Ying Tan, Tin Seong Kam

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Despite being a small country-state, electricity consumption in Singa-pore is said to be non-homogeneous, as exploratory data analysis showed that the distributions of electricity consumption differ across and within administrative boundaries and dwelling types. Local indicators of spatial association (LISA) were calculated for public housing postal codes using June 2016 data to discover local clusters of households based on electricity consumption patterns. A detailed walkthrough of the analytical process is outlined to describe the R packages and framework used in the R environment. The LISA results are visualized on three levels: country level, regional level and planning subzone level. At …


Discursive Power In Contemporary Media Systems: A Comparative Framework, Andreas Jungherr, Oliver Posegga, Jisun An Apr 2019

Discursive Power In Contemporary Media Systems: A Comparative Framework, Andreas Jungherr, Oliver Posegga, Jisun An

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Contemporary media systems are in transition. The constellation of organizations, groups, and individuals contributing information to national and international news flows has changed as a result of the digital transformation. The 'hybrid media system' has proven to be one of the most instructive concepts addressing this change. Its focus on the mutually dependent interconnections between various types of media organizations, actors, and publics has inspired prolific research. Yet the concept can tempt researchers to sidestep systematic analyses of information flows and actors’ differing degrees of influence by treating media systems as a black box. To enable large-scale, empirical comparative studies …


Algorithms To Approximate Solutions Of Poisson's Equation In Three Dimensions, Ray Dambrose Mar 2019

Algorithms To Approximate Solutions Of Poisson's Equation In Three Dimensions, Ray Dambrose

Rose-Hulman Undergraduate Mathematics Journal

The focus of this research was to develop numerical algorithms to approximate solutions of Poisson's equation in three dimensional rectangular prism domains. Numerical analysis of partial differential equations is vital to understanding and modeling these complex problems. Poisson's equation can be approximated with a finite difference approximation. A system of equations can be formed that gives solutions at internal points of the domain. A computer program was developed to solve this system with inputs such as boundary conditions and a nonhomogenous source function. Approximate solutions are compared with exact solutions to prove their accuracy. The program is tested with an …


Data Analytics Pipeline For Rna Structure Analysis Via Shape, Quinn Nelson Mar 2019

Data Analytics Pipeline For Rna Structure Analysis Via Shape, Quinn Nelson

UNO Student Research and Creative Activity Fair

Coxsackievirus B3 (CVB3) is a cardiovirulent enterovirus from the family Picornaviridae. The RNA genome houses an internal ribosome entry site (IRES) in the 5’ untranslated region (5’UTR) that enables cap-independent translation. Ample evidence suggests that the structure of the 5’UTR is a critical element for virulence. We probe RNA structure in solution using base-specific modifying agents such as dimethyl sulfate as well as backbone targeting agents such as N-methylisatoic anhydride used in Selective 2’-Hydroxyl Acylation Analyzed by Primer Extension (SHAPE). We have developed a pipeline that merges and evaluates base-specific and SHAPE data together with statistical analyses that provides confidence …


Picking Flowers In An Ico Garden, Fam Guo Teng, Paul R. Griffin, Andrew Koh Mar 2019

Picking Flowers In An Ico Garden, Fam Guo Teng, Paul R. Griffin, Andrew Koh

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

The rise of Initial Coin Offerings (ICO) in recent times and their potential for investment opportunities have investors spending a lot of time researching ICOs or having to follow the crowd. This paper aims to explore four broad factors of ICOs: identity, credibility, investor sentiment, and price movement to develop a framework that is useful in determining ICO quality. Research is shown using data sources including public forums, chat groups, web sites, white papers as well as smart contract details. Finally, a system, based on the framework, is proposed that can be used to detect and regulate ICO activities and …


Confusion Prediction From Eye-Tracking Data: Experiments With Machine Learning, Joni Salminen, Mridul Nagpal, Haewoon Kwak, Jisun An, Soon-Gyo Jung, Bernard J. Jansen Mar 2019

Confusion Prediction From Eye-Tracking Data: Experiments With Machine Learning, Joni Salminen, Mridul Nagpal, Haewoon Kwak, Jisun An, Soon-Gyo Jung, Bernard J. Jansen

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Predicting user confusion can help improve information presentation on websites, mobile apps, and virtual reality interfaces. One promising information source for such prediction is eye-tracking data about gaze movements on the screen. Coupled with think-aloud records, we explore if user's confusion is correlated with primarily fixation-level features. We find that random forest achieves an accuracy of more than 70% when prediction user confusion using only fixation features. In addition, adding user-level features (age and gender) improves the accuracy to more than 90%. We also find that balancing the classes before training improves performance. We test two balancing algorithms, Synthetic Minority …


Rehabilitation Training System Based On Brain Computer Interface, Banghua Yang, Li Bo Feb 2019

Rehabilitation Training System Based On Brain Computer Interface, Banghua Yang, Li Bo

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Brain-computer interface (BCI) is a new communication and control method. The BCI rehabilitation training system was developed for rehabilitation training of post-stroke patients by using MATLAB and VC++ hybrid programming method. By decoding the EEG signal, the patient's movement intention can be recognized accurately in real time, then the work of the rehabilitation peripheral is triggered to give feedback from the visual, auditory, and tactile. The patient's active rehabilitation is achieved through the system. The system has the characteristics of user-friendly interface, modular algorithm, high online recognition rate; and it can be used as a reference for BCI-based …


Simulation Algorithm Of Streak Tube Multi-Spectral Laser 3d Imaging System, Jingya Cao, Shaokun Han, Wenze Xia, Wang Liang Feb 2019

Simulation Algorithm Of Streak Tube Multi-Spectral Laser 3d Imaging System, Jingya Cao, Shaokun Han, Wenze Xia, Wang Liang

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: The streak tube laser three-dimensional imaging system is one of the most promising practical laser imaging systems, because of its high precision, large field of view and high frame frequency. A multispectral imaging simulation algorithm for multi-slit streak tube is proposed based on the research of the multi-spectral imaging. The derivation of the main structural parameters is given. The influence of the number of different detectors on the time resolution and spatial resolution of the system is analyzed. In the model of the simulation system, the laser echo signals of multiple wavelength bands are fed into the photocathode of …


Optimal Design And Implementation Of Fractal Dipole Antenna Based On Arc Of Trigeminal Tree Structure, Xiaohong Zhang, Xiaoxiao Nan, Yixian Yang Feb 2019

Optimal Design And Implementation Of Fractal Dipole Antenna Based On Arc Of Trigeminal Tree Structure, Xiaohong Zhang, Xiaoxiao Nan, Yixian Yang

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: A RFID fractal dipole antenna is designed with the arc of the trigeminal tree structure, which is fed by simple microstrip balun to achieve better impedance matching within employing double parallel line structure and by using the dielectric substrate withεr=4.4 and tan δ=0.035. The results of electromagnetic property simulation analysis of HFSS show that the return loss can reach 36dB, which is much higher than binary arc-shaped fractal antenna which is 16dB; and the impedance matching is very ideal. By physical processing and testing of the antenna, the measured results are in very good agreement with simulation …


High-Pass Difference Features Based Image Quality Assessment, Wang Rui, Li Ping, Bin Sheng, Congbin Qiao, Lizhuang Ma, Enhua Wu Feb 2019

High-Pass Difference Features Based Image Quality Assessment, Wang Rui, Li Ping, Bin Sheng, Congbin Qiao, Lizhuang Ma, Enhua Wu

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Current methods of image quality assessment only can assess the quality of images under the same type of image distortion. In order to fix such weaknesses, this paper is designed based on the image features of natural scene statistics and proposes a new metric method using high-pass filter for detecting features. The approach computes locally the normalized luminance; selects features such as the difference of RGB channels via high-pass filter, image gradient, sharpness, contrast, etc.; and analyzes and gathers features in the metric method trained by logistic regression. Experimental results show that the proposed method can work efficiently under …


Blind Separation Simulation System Of Sound Signals Based On Time-Frequency Analysis Of Short Time Fourier Transformation, Xiaorong Tong Feb 2019

Blind Separation Simulation System Of Sound Signals Based On Time-Frequency Analysis Of Short Time Fourier Transformation, Xiaorong Tong

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: In order to improve the ability of real-time and separation accuracy, a blind separation algorithm based on time-frequency (TF) analysis of short time Fourier transformation is proposed, and the problems of underdetermined sound signal sorting can be solved effectively. The proposed method avoids some of the drawbacks, relaxes the assumption by allowing the sources to be TF-non-disjoint to a certain extent, and the algorithm can be achieved in the condition of TF-non-disjoint. This method was successfully applied to sound signal sorting system; the time domain waves of signals can be got; and the whole signal sorting process can be …


Evaluation Of Flow Line Structure Of Hospital With Spatial Cognitive Agent, Yunfeng Wang Feb 2019

Evaluation Of Flow Line Structure Of Hospital With Spatial Cognitive Agent, Yunfeng Wang

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Hospital flow line is the result of the mutual adaptation of its spatial layout and business process, which should be regarded as an independent analysis unit in the spatial layout design. Aiming at the phenomenon that the flow lines have the characteristics of both space and flow and are difficult to analyze, a spatial cognitive process of agents is established by introducing structural elements from the spatial syntax analysis as the knowledge coding language of agents. Evaluation indexes of hospital flow line structure based on computational experiment are proposed and implemented. The framework of flow line analysis combining flow …


Modeling And Simulation Of Inter-City Passenger Travel Service Flow Based On Petri Net, Qipeng Sun, Guo Xin, Ma Fei Feb 2019

Modeling And Simulation Of Inter-City Passenger Travel Service Flow Based On Petri Net, Qipeng Sun, Guo Xin, Ma Fei

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: On the basis of inter-city passenger travel chain, the inter-city passenger transport service process is studied; the Petri net language is used for establishing and simulating the model of inter-city passenger transport service process based on the Visual Object Net++; and the simulation results are used for verifying the reliability of the established model with the theory of petri net, while the model is transformed into a homogeneous Markov chain with the process. The detailed analysis on the city subway of the inter-city passenger transport service process was carried out. By modeling and simulating, the derived value of …


Evaluation And Modeling Of Visual Fatigue In 3d Display Based On Ecg, Danli Wang, Xinpan Yang, Yue Kang, Haichen Hu Feb 2019

Evaluation And Modeling Of Visual Fatigue In 3d Display Based On Ecg, Danli Wang, Xinpan Yang, Yue Kang, Haichen Hu

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: This study investigates and models the correlation between visual fatigue and ECG data by collecting the ECG data of the participants during watching 3D movies, combining with the subjective scores, the reaction time, and the questionnaires before and after the experiment. ECG data of 12 subjects were analyzed in both time and frequency domain. The results showed that subjective score and HR increased with the duration of viewing, while PNN50 decreased. Linear model of subjective score is established, and the R² of model is 0.930. Subjective questionnaires show significant changes in overall visual fatigue, dry eyes and nausea symptoms …


Centroidal Voronoi Tessellation With Local Optimization, Tianyu Ye, Yiqun Wang, Dongming Yan, Junhai Yong Feb 2019

Centroidal Voronoi Tessellation With Local Optimization, Tianyu Ye, Yiqun Wang, Dongming Yan, Junhai Yong

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Centroidal Voronoi tessellation is a special geometric structure, which has many applications in various fields such as geographical information system, signal processing, mesh generation/optimization, visualization and so on. Due to the highly non-convex nature of the CVT energy function, the existing methods for computing CVT have several drawbacks, which always trap into local minima. We propose generation optimization and stochastic optimization schemes for further reducing the CVT energy. Experimental results show that the proposed method improves both quality and efficiency compared to the recent approaches.


Indoor Scene Generation Based On Case-Based Reasoning And Collaborative Filtering, Peihua Song, Jinyuan Jia Feb 2019

Indoor Scene Generation Based On Case-Based Reasoning And Collaborative Filtering, Peihua Song, Jinyuan Jia

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: To solve the problem of time-consuming and single scene generation in indoor scene generation, we propose an indoor scene generation algorithm based on case-based reasoning and collaborative filtering techniques. The algorithm of functional area division is performed on the two-dimensional room floor plan. Thecase-based reasoning is used to generate 3D scenes; and the collaborative filtering is used to generate diverse indoor scenes. A scene evaluation method based on user feedback information is proposed. Experiments were carried out on the living room and bedroom to generate scenes. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm is effective. The running time …


Visualization Platform Of Lightweight Toxic Gases Dispersion, Jinyuan Jia, Xinzhi Zhao, Panjing Li Feb 2019

Visualization Platform Of Lightweight Toxic Gases Dispersion, Jinyuan Jia, Xinzhi Zhao, Panjing Li

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: The sudden accidents usually emit large quantities of toxic gases and harmful pollutants in a short time. It is very necessary and meaningful to predict and visualize the dispersing trend of those toxic gases over Internet as accurate and fast as possible for people to evacuate safely and immediately. We propose a lightweight simulation for air pollution dispersion based on the Gaussian puff model. With this method, we can visualize the procedure of toxic gas dispersing on a webpage in real-time. we can also estimate the pollution of toxic gas dispersion trend and analyze their further pollution effects on …