Electricity companies have traditionally seen customers only as consumers but with the introduction of new metering technology the situation is about to change. As customer participation increases with the development...
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(纸本)9781479915194
Electricity companies have traditionally seen customers only as consumers but with the introduction of new metering technology the situation is about to change. As customer participation increases with the development of the Smart Grid environment, new concerns about privacy arise. In this article we introduce an architecture offering a clear, information-centered bird's-eye overview to the Smart Grid environment for privacy analysis purposes. To do this, we first seek out commonalities in the environment by dividing the topic into smaller elements in order to gain deeper understanding and to form abstract and functional models. From these we form a reference architecture representing a real-world situation. Our approach permits identification of the use of private information in the environment without implementation-dependent issues. We also present the privacy issues related to the architecture. The implementation strategies can vary, and we conclude with a discussion of the effects of the varying approaches.
Simultaneous place classification and object detection (SPCOD) is an algorithm which is able to categorize the environment (place) and detect the objects presented in the environment. Although both place classificatio...
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(纸本)9781467363563
Simultaneous place classification and object detection (SPCOD) is an algorithm which is able to categorize the environment (place) and detect the objects presented in the environment. Although both place classification and object detection problems have been in discussion in literature, as a concept SPCOD is still in its early stage of research. Focusing mainly on the discrimination ability of SPCOD, in this paper we have proposed a pairwise conditional random field (CRF) framework to integrate mature techniques on laser data based place classification and vision based off-the-shelf object descriptor. Extensive experimental results on a public data set demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.
This paper deals with the finite-horizon estimation of randomly occurring faults for a class of linear discrete time-varying systems. All the system parameters are time-varying and the failures are assumed to occur in...
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(纸本)9781479912360
This paper deals with the finite-horizon estimation of randomly occurring faults for a class of linear discrete time-varying systems. All the system parameters are time-varying and the failures are assumed to occur in a random way, and two sets of Bernoulli distributed white sequences are introduced to govern the failures probability. By using the completing squares method and stochastic analysis techniques, necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of the finite-horizon H_∞ fault estimator are derived, and then the time-varying fault estimator parameters are obtained by solving coupled backward recursive Riccati difference equations (RDEs). A simulation example is utilized to illustrate the usefulness of the proposed fault estimation method.
information and Communication Technologies have changed the way people live and work. In the education field, the ICT evolution is increasingly supporting innovative methods of learning and many universities are inves...
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(纸本)9781467347020
information and Communication Technologies have changed the way people live and work. In the education field, the ICT evolution is increasingly supporting innovative methods of learning and many universities are investing in creating their own e-Learning Environments. Besides, learners' performance still and issue, the social learning theory states that people can learn by observing the behavior of others and the outcome of those behaviors. Furthermore, the theory also mentions that other people will most likely exhibit the behavior if the outcome is positive. This research proposes a game theory based model to enhance learners' performance (in terms of rate of interaction, participation/contribution and attendance). Researchers presented a novel model (CEM) composed of three loosely-coupled components for enhancing the cooperation and communication levels between learners in e-Learning Environments (eLE). Each learner represents a player in a "game" within the eLE. The model used for setting the list of positive and negative activities, storing players' actions and evaluating players' behavior throughout the game. The performance of CEM has been evaluated based on the mean values and the ratio of positive actions taken by all groups in a particular class session.
Grid Manufacturing (GM) is a new production paradigm, based upon the use of standardized and modular Reconfigurable Manufacturing systems (RMS). In GM all systems have virtual software counterparts that act autonomous...
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(纸本)9781479914951
Grid Manufacturing (GM) is a new production paradigm, based upon the use of standardized and modular Reconfigurable Manufacturing systems (RMS). In GM all systems have virtual software counterparts that act autonomously. This includes both modular manufacturing equipment, as the products themselves. The control system required for this approach is based upon a distributed and hybrid architecture using agent technology. In this paper we look at the Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) part of this system. The paper discusses the proposed control architecture, introduces ways to standardize state representation and shows a solution to the challenge of representing and controlling the states of distributed systems, with a focus on safety.
Professional search in specific domains (e.g. patent, medical, scientific literature, media) usually needs an exploratory type of search which is characterized more often, in comparison to fact finding and question an...
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The paper outlines a model for theorizing about development practices, especially taking into account the intended rationale for, actual realization of, and resulting impacts from using particular practices in varying...
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The paper outlines a model for theorizing about development practices, especially taking into account the intended rationale for, actual realization of, and resulting impacts from using particular practices in varying contexts. This includes discussing of two different modes of thinking through which we can approach software development practices: technical rationality vs. reflection-in-action. By framing development practices taking place in software organizations as “organizational practices”, the paper also sketches previous practice research in organizations, which has profoundly informed this work. Finally, the paper compares the SEMAT approach to the outlined model, and suggests a few points of critique and complementary elements to the SEMAT initiative, especially in its capabilities towards theorizing.
A Cloud system, which is also often called a data center, may host a large number of application servers (termed as applications for short in this paper) that consume various types of resource, such as CPU, memory, an...
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The McCracken et al. working group paper is often cited for the proposition that students can't program. In that study, students from four different institutions were each assigned to implement one of three versio...
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Many companies have already adopted their business processes to be in accordance with defined and organized standards. Two standards that are sought after by companies are IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) and ISO 2700...
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