In the past few years, inorganic fullerene-like WS2 and MOS2 nanoparticles (IF) with structures closely related to (nested) carbon fullerenes and nanotubes have been synthesized. Preliminary friction experiments with ...
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(纸本)9789806560833
In the past few years, inorganic fullerene-like WS2 and MOS2 nanoparticles (IF) with structures closely related to (nested) carbon fullerenes and nanotubes have been synthesized. Preliminary friction experiments with IF added to oil showed lubricating properties superior to those of layered commercially available WS2 and MOS2 solid lubricant powders in a definite range of operating conditions. The analysis of the IF nanoparticles showed that most, if not all pristine nanoparticles were closed and hollow, having nearly spherical shape the average size of which was close to 120 nm for IF-WS2, and about 50 nm for IF-MoS2- It was found that these nanoparticles are capable of withstanding a severe hydrostatic pressure, caused by compression. Detailed structural studies revealed a deformation of the IF nanoparticles and breakage of their outer shells under compression. The surface topography of the samples before and after the friction tests was studied with scanning probe microscope (SPM) DI Dimension 3100. Friction and wear of steel and ceramic pairs lubricated with oil+ IF lubricant have been studied. On the base of atomic force microscopy (AFM), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and X-ray photoemission spectroscopy (XPS) analysis it was concluded that the islands of destroyed IF nanoparticles could provide improved tribological properties of the contact under severe contact conditions.
In this paper we present a simple ray-sector model of signal strength for indoor 802.11 networks. Signal strength is an important parameter for a variety of important wireless networking tasks, such as localization an...
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Data clustering is a technique for grouping similar data items together for convenient understanding. Conventional data clustering methods, including agglomerative hierarchical clustering and partitional clustering al...
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A linear array of interconnected fuzzy automaton is called linear fuzzy cellular automaton. It is shown that the language class of linear fuzzy cellular automata strictly contains the language class of linear cellular...
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A linear array of interconnected fuzzy automaton is called linear fuzzy cellular automaton. It is shown that the language class of linear fuzzy cellular automata strictly contains the language class of linear cellular automata. This justifies the wide spread use of linear fuzzy cellular automaton as is evident from the literature. In this paper a special type of cellular automaton (CA) model is investigated. This CA model computes effect due to interaction of neighboring cells and effect due to external disturbance on the cells simultaneously. The transition due to both the effects may be represented by a single function which is the composition of two functions. Further it is shown that the class of language accepted by linear hybrid fuzzy cellular automata is included in the class of language accepted by linear hybrid fuzzy cellular automata with external input(HFCAI). HFCAI is useful for computing growth in evolutionary systems which are also affected by external cause.
The Observed Time Difference of Arrival (OTDOA) as a major positioning method in 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) specification has been deeply researched in Long Term Evolution Advanced (LTE-A) system. This ...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781467322010;9781467322034
The Observed Time Difference of Arrival (OTDOA) as a major positioning method in 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) specification has been deeply researched in Long Term Evolution Advanced (LTE-A) system. This paper analyzes the new interference scenarios in Heterogeneous Network (Het-Net) and the drawbacks of conventional OTDOA method which are caused by LPN (Low Power Nodes) deployed in Het-Net. In this paper, we propose a Time division multiplex (TDM) and a Code division multiplex (CDM) scheme for positioning reference signal (PRS) transmitting to solve these problems in Het-Net. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme can greatly improve the positioning accuracy compared with the conventional method and its performance meets the Federal communication commission (FCC) requirement.
In this paper we present an approach for the presentation of personalized advertisements on mobile devices, which is based on a user model that takes into account user39;s interests over time. The approach has been ...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9783642011115
In this paper we present an approach for the presentation of personalized advertisements on mobile devices, which is based on a user model that takes into account user's interests over time. The approach has been adopted within the LUNA wireless network project, which is targeted at realizing a business model such that the services provided in the area of Trento, in the North of Italy, are accessible and usable by everybody, at a very low cost. LUNA client-side mobile application relies on a dynamic user modeling technique. We describe the personalization component of the advertising management system employed and we explain how a user model is dynamically created, saved and updated on the basis of the latest interaction history and of the delivered contents.
We propose a biologically inspired mathematical model to simulate the personalized interactions of users with cultural heritage objects. The main idea is to measure the interests of a spectator w.r.t. an artwork by me...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9789897580352
We propose a biologically inspired mathematical model to simulate the personalized interactions of users with cultural heritage objects. The main idea is to measure the interests of a spectator w.r.t. an artwork by means of a model able to describe the behaviour dynamics. In this approach, the user is assimilated to a computational neuron, and its interests are deduced by counting potential spike trains, generated by external currents. The main novelty of our approach consists in resorting to clustering task to discover natural groups, which are used in the next step to verify the neuronal response and to tune the computational model. Preliminary experimental results, based on a phantom database and obtained from a real world scenario, are shown. To discuss the obtained results, we report a comparison between the cluster memberships and the spike generation;our approach resulted to perfectly model cluster assignment and spike emission.
Mobile games are characterized by the need to exploit responsive and reliable communication protocols, in order to guarantee that players can perceive a fluid and dynamic game-play evolution. Current approaches to the...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9789639799875
Mobile games are characterized by the need to exploit responsive and reliable communication protocols, in order to guarantee that players can perceive a fluid and dynamic game-play evolution. Current approaches to the provision of support for this kind of real-time applications are generally based on the use of a single wireless network, as the transit from a network to another (or even changing the network service provider, while using the same network interface) causes a temporary reconfiguration of both the operating system and the network interface it is exploiting. This indeed results in a pause of game events processing at the application (game) level, which may give rise to a jerky game evolution. In order to overcome this problem, in this paper we propose the use of a cross-layer architecture which allows mobile devices to concurrently exploit different network interfaces so as to offer seamless and uninterrupted communications among the entities involved in the game. A smart adaptation algorithm balances the load between different network interfaces, based on the performances these are offering. The proposed approach can be viably implemented in client/server as well as in mirrored game server architectures. Experimental results conducted on a real field confirm both the adequacy and the effectiveness of our proposal. Copyright 2010 ICST.
Task scheduling is a vital and challenging task in distributed computing specially in grid computing. The computational grid focuses on large-scale resource sharing. Because of heterogeneous resources in widely distri...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781424414932
Task scheduling is a vital and challenging task in distributed computing specially in grid computing. The computational grid focuses on large-scale resource sharing. Because of heterogeneous resources in widely distributed autonomous domains, which makes task scheduling even more challenging. In this paper, a hybrid and general resource algorithm for computational grid, MMOD is presented. MMOD, a general resource scheduling algorithm for computational grid is proposed for task scheduling with time-cost minimization and with maximum resource utilization. The experiments show the performance improvement for applications and better resource utilization by this algorithm raises the user satisfaction and minimizes time as well as cost.
Polymorphs or phases-different inorganic solids structures of the same composition usually have widely differing properties and applications, thereby synthesizing or predicting new classes of polymorphs for a certain ...
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Polymorphs or phases-different inorganic solids structures of the same composition usually have widely differing properties and applications, thereby synthesizing or predicting new classes of polymorphs for a certain compound is of great significance and has been gaining considerable interest. Herein, we perform a density functional theory based tight binding (DFTB) study on theoretical prediction of several new phases series of II-VI semiconductor material ZnO nanoporous phases from their bottom-up building blocks. Among these, three phases are reported for the first time, which could greatly expand the family of II-VI compound nanoporous phases. We also show that all these generally can be categorized similarly to the aluminosilicate zeolites inorganic open-framework materials. The hollow cage structure of the corresponding building block ZnkOk (k= 9, 12, 16) is well preserved in all of them, which leads to their low-density nanoporous and high flexibility. Additionally the electronic wide-energy gap of the individual ZnkOk is also retained. Our study reveals that they are all semiconductor materials with a large band gap. Further, this study is likely to be the common for II-VI semiconductor compounds and will be helpful for extending their range of properties and applications
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