the literatures have indicated that cooperative learning facilitates enhancing learning performance, which focuses on (1) the interaction and the collaboration between grouping members, and (2) one member helping othe...
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the literatures have indicated that cooperative learning facilitates enhancing learning performance, which focuses on (1) the interaction and the collaboration between grouping members, and (2) one member helping other members to be successful. the literatures have shown that the grouping organization is a critical issue for promoting learning achievement in cooperative learning. To evaluate the differences between the self-organized groups and the designated groups, this paper has conducted a serial of experiments and assessments to study the differences of learning performance, participation and satisfaction degree. In the self-organized groups the grouping members are decided by the grouping members, whereas the grouping members in the designated group are composited of the considering conditions. the experiment have demonstrated that the learning achievement of the designated group is high than the self-organized group. For the participation and the satisfaction degree of the curriculum, the self-organized group is high than the designated group.
As the scale of a cloud data center becomes larger and larger, the energy consumption of the data center also grows rapidly. Dynamic consolidation of Virtual Machines (VMs) presents a significant opportunity to save e...
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As the scale of a cloud data center becomes larger and larger, the energy consumption of the data center also grows rapidly. Dynamic consolidation of Virtual Machines (VMs) presents a significant opportunity to save energy by turning off unused Physical Machines (PMs) in data centers. In this paper, we present a distributed controller to perform dynamic VM consolidation to improve the resource utilizations of PMs and to reduce their energy consumption. Moreover, we use the ant colony system to find a near-optimal VM placement solution based on the specified objective function. Experimental results on the real workload traces from more than a thousand PlanetLab VMs show that the proposed approach reduces energy consumption and maintains required performance levels in a large-scale data center.
the problem of inadequate allocation of car parking spaces to users in the campus environment is a major concern for planning managers and traffic engineers. Parking users could prefer either reserved spaces or unrese...
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the problem of inadequate allocation of car parking spaces to users in the campus environment is a major concern for planning managers and traffic engineers. Parking users could prefer either reserved spaces or unreserved spaces. this makes the campus parking manager to be faced with two basic problems which are: the problem of allocating the actual number of available reserved spaces to users without any conflict over the same parking space, and the problem of determining the number of parking permit to be issued for parking lot with unreserved spaces. Hence, this paper investigates the use of two heuristic algorithms, Pattern search(PS) algorithm and Particle swarm pattern search (PSwarm) algorithm, on the model for allocating car parking spaces in the university environment with an improvement in the constraints. the results obtained shows that the hybrid algorithm, particle swarm pattern search, outperforms the pattern search algorithm.
Early hardware limitations of GPU (lack of synchronization primitives and limited memory caching mechanisms) can make GPU-based computation inefficient. Now Bio-technologies bring more chances to Bioinformatics and Bi...
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(纸本)9781479958399
Early hardware limitations of GPU (lack of synchronization primitives and limited memory caching mechanisms) can make GPU-based computation inefficient. Now Bio-technologies bring more chances to Bioinformatics and Biological Engineering. Our paper introduces a way to solve the longest overlap region of non-coding DNA sequences on using the Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA) platform Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-3110m quad-core. Compared to standard CPU implementation, CUDA performance proves the method of the longest overlap region recognition of noncoding DNA is an efficient approach to high-performance bioinformatics applications. Studies show the fact that efficiency of GPU performance is more than 20 times speedup than that of CPU serial implementation. We believe our method gives a cost-efficient solution to the bioinformatics community for solving longest overlap region recognition problem and other related fields.
Segmentation of medical image, as the most essential and important step in the computer-aided diagnosis system, can greatly influence the system performance. Better segmentation to a great extent means better performa...
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(纸本)9781479958399
Segmentation of medical image, as the most essential and important step in the computer-aided diagnosis system, can greatly influence the system performance. Better segmentation to a great extent means better performance. Among many proposed segmentation algorithms, graph-based segmentation has become a hot one in the past few years because of the simple structure and rich theories. After the robust graph-based segmentation method (RGB) was introduced in 2010, a parameter-automatically-optimized robust graph-based segmentation method (PAORGB) was presented in 2013 as well, to optimize the two key parameters of RGB utilizing the particle swarm optimization algorithm (PSO). However, single-objectively-optimized PAORGB cannot well guarantee the global optimization. therefore, this paper continues the work of PAORGB and proposes a multi-objectively-optimized robust graph-based segmentation method (MOORGB) to further improve the performance of RGB. Experimental results have shown that MOORGB can get better segmentation results from breast ultrasound images compared to PAORGB.
Cloud computing is emerging as a viable platform for scientific exploration. the ideas of on-demand access to resources, "unlimited" resources as well as interesting pricing models are making scientist to mo...
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Cloud computing is emerging as a viable platform for scientific exploration. the ideas of on-demand access to resources, "unlimited" resources as well as interesting pricing models are making scientist to move their workflows into cloud computing. However, the amount of services and different pricing models offered by the providers often overwhelm users when deciding which option is best for them. Moreover, interoperability across providers remains an open topic that forces users to develop specific solutions for each provider. In this paper, we present a service framework that enables the autonomic execution of dynamic workflows in multi-cloud environments. It also allows users to customize scheduling policies to use those resources that best fit their needs. To demonstrate the benefits of this framework, we study the execution of a real scientific workflow, with data dependencies across stages, in a multi-cloud federation using different policies and objective functions.
In this paper a new method has been proposed to select optimal switching angles based on Firefly algorithm. the resultant equations for the computation of output voltage total harmonic distortion (thD) of a multilevel...
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In this paper a new method has been proposed to select optimal switching angles based on Firefly algorithm. the resultant equations for the computation of output voltage total harmonic distortion (thD) of a multilevel inverter are used as the objective function. this objective function is used to minimize the thD in the output voltage of a multilevel inverter. While minimizing the objective function, the selective harmonics such as the 5th, 7th, 11th and 13th can be controlled by using the Firefly algorithm. the simulations are performed for an 11 level cascaded multilevel inverter with equal and nonequal dc sources to show the validity of the proposed method. the results show that the proposed firefly algorithm can eliminate selective harmonics in the output voltage of a multilevel inverter.
the existing solution to the privacy preserving linear programming, can leak the user’s private data when the data is much less. In this paper, the secure multiparty computation is generalized to the problem of priva...
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the existing solution to the privacy preserving linear programming, can leak the user’s private data when the data is much less. In this paper, the secure multiparty computation is generalized to the problem of privacy-preserving linear programming, and we present a computing protocol of privacy-preserving linear programming. the protocol is applied to consider the problem of linear programming with less and vertically distributed data, not only the maximum value of the original linear programming can be calculated in the case having optimal solution, but also the private data of all participants can be protected in the calculation.
ASIPs are designed in order to execute instructions of a particular domain of applications. the designing of ASIPs addresses the major challenges faced by a system on chip such as size, cost, performance and energy co...
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ASIPs are designed in order to execute instructions of a particular domain of applications. the designing of ASIPs addresses the major challenges faced by a system on chip such as size, cost, performance and energy consumption. the higher the number of similar instructions within the domain to be mapped the lesser the energy consumption, the smaller the size and the higher the performance of the ASIP. thus, designing processors for domains with more similar programs would overcome these issues. this paper describes the investigation of whether the domains of programmer specific programs have any significance like application specific program domains and thus, whether the approach of designing processors known as Programmer Specific Instruction Set Processors is worthwhile. We performed the evaluation at the instruction level by using four different measures to obtain the similarity of programs: (1) by the existence of each instruction, (2) by the frequency of each instruction, (3) by two consecutive instruction patterns and (4) by three consecutive instruction patterns of application specific and programmer specific programs. We found that although programmer specific instructions show some impact on the similarity measures, they are much smaller and therefore insignificant compared to the impact from application specific programs.
Given a set I = {i | i = 1, 2, . . . , n} of current n items (for example, n green peppers) withtheir weights w i and priorities r i , a lexicographic bi-criteria combinatorial food packing problem asks to find a su...
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Given a set I = {i | i = 1, 2, . . . , n} of current n items (for example, n green peppers) withtheir weights w i and priorities r i , a lexicographic bi-criteria combinatorial food packing problem asks to find a subset I' (⊆ I) so that the total weight Σ i∈I' w i is no less than a specified target bound b for each package, and it is minimized as the primary objective, and further the total priority Σ i∈I' r i is maximized as the second objective. the problem has been known to be NP-hard, while it can be solved exactly in O(nb) time if all the input data are assumed to be integral. For a given real ε > 0, an O(n 2 /ε) time heuristic algorithm with a data rounding technique has been designed and the heuristic total weight has been shown to be at most (2+ε) times the optimal total weight. In this paper, a modification of the data rounding heuristic is proposed, and it is shown that the proposed modification delivers a heuristic solution such that the total weight is at most (1 + ε) times the optimum.
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