Day-ahead DSM techniques in the smart grid allow the supply-side to know in advance an estimation of the amount of energy to be provided to the demand-side during the upcoming day. However, a pure day-ahead optimizati...
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Day-ahead DSM techniques in the smart grid allow the supply-side to know in advance an estimation of the amount of energy to be provided to the demand-side during the upcoming day. However, a pure day-ahead optimization process cannot accommodate potential real-time deviations from the expected energy consumption by the demand-side users, neither the randomness of their renewable sources. This paper proposes a day-ahead bidding system based on a pricing model that combines: i) a price per unit of energy depending on the day-ahead bid energy needs of the demand-side users, and ii) a penalty system that limits the real-time fluctuations around the bid energy loads. In this day-ahead bidding process, demand-side users, possibly having energy production and storage capabilities, are interested in minimizing their expected monetary expense. The resulting optimization problem is formulated as a noncooperative game and is solved by means of suitable distributed algorithms. Finally, the proposed procedure is tested in a realistic setup.
Geometry-based optimal power control was proposed in [14] to transform the power-control problem to a new geometrical problem on the position relationship between a line and some points. This scheme provides a novel v...
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Geometry-based optimal power control was proposed in [14] to transform the power-control problem to a new geometrical problem on the position relationship between a line and some points. This scheme provides a novel visual perspective and lowers the complexity of optimization. We generalize this scheme to a larger class of power-control optimization problems so as to maximize the network utility with multiple average and peak power constraints in wireless networks. To facilitate the handling of the geometrical model, we define a subset of geometrical models with specified characteristics, called a regular geometrical model, and derive the type of power-control problems eligible for the regular geometrical model. For such a type of problems, two strategies are proposed for the construction of the regular geometrical model. Utilizing geometrical properties, we propose a novel geometry-based optimization scheme for the general power-control problem. Its computational complexity is significantly lower than the conventional algorithms. We also provide a further discussion on irregular geometrical model cases. Finally, we provide two examples of deploying the proposed geometry-based power-control scheme.
Contextual question answering (CQA), in which user information needs are satisfied through an interactive question answering (QA) dialog, has recently attracted more research attention. One challenge is to fuse co...
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Contextual question answering (CQA), in which user information needs are satisfied through an interactive question answering (QA) dialog, has recently attracted more research attention. One challenge is to fuse contextual information into the understanding process of relevant questions. In this paper, a discourse structure is proposed to maintain semantic information, and approaches for recognition of relevancy type and fusion of contextual information according to relevancy type are proposed. The system is evaluated on real contextual QA data. The results show that better performance is achieved than a baseline system and almost the same performance as when these contextual phenomena are resolved manually. A detailed evaluation analysis is presented.
Tissue P systems are distributed parallel and non-deterministic computing models in the framework of membrane computing, which are inspired by intercellular communication and cooperation between neurons. Recently, cel...
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Tissue P systems are distributed parallel and non-deterministic computing models in the framework of membrane computing, which are inspired by intercellular communication and cooperation between neurons. Recently, cell separation is introduced into tissue P systems, which enables systems to generate an exponential workspace in a polynomial time. In this work, the computational power of tissue P systems with cell separation is investigated. Specifically, a uniform family of tissue P systems with cell separation is constructed for effciently solving a well-known NP-complete problem, the partition problem.
Medicine intake detection and feature selection algorithm are proposed in this paper. A precise medicine intake detection method is crucial in medicine intake monitoring system;it is an important factor in order to pr...
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Medicine intake detection and feature selection algorithm are proposed in this paper. A precise medicine intake detection method is crucial in medicine intake monitoring system;it is an important factor in order to prevent the harm in the case of medicine non adherence for elderly patients or any people with chronic diseases and need to take medicine regularly. Wrist movement is the main function of intake gesture detection using a wearable 3-axis accelerometer. Activities of interest for medicine taking monitoring are drinking gesture, picking and taking medicine by hand and palm. This paper applied the eigenvalues and covariance for change detection and features selection. Eigenvalues are considered to solve the improper data truncation issue caused by a fixed window size, because respective time during those activities is very varying. Its results are satisfactory. The gestures were classified by feature characteristics with an accuracy as high as 96.7% in the case of medicine taking by palm.
Given the geographical characteristics of Bordeaux, the coastal radar installed in this region offers an opportunity to put in evidence the ocean-coast-continent interaction and the observation of the rain fields at t...
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Given the geographical characteristics of Bordeaux, the coastal radar installed in this region offers an opportunity to put in evidence the ocean-coast-continent interaction and the observation of the rain fields at the landsea transition. To this effect, the study site was divided into three windows of 60x180 km delimiting the ocean west of the radar and the continent to the east. A Comparative analysis of daily surfaces of rain echoes for the three study areas showed that during a very dry period the rainfall over the sea is reduced of half compared to those of the coast. On the other hand, the surfaces of rain echoes are evolving in the same way for all three areas and are more important over coast and continent that over sea, the difference is 23%. Almost the same difference was found for the rainfall rate recorded during the summer (June-September), the observation period the most favorable for our study. This difference was also verified using the model defined in recommendation ITU-R P.837-3 to calculate the rain intensity exceeded for p% for the average year and for a given location.
It is a significant challenges to deal with the noise data in data mining and knowledge discovery applications. Most of previous works on data cleansing and correction have been focused on addressing class noise or at...
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This paper addresses the denoising problem associated with diffusion MR imaging. Building on previous approaches to this problem, this paper presents a new method for joint denoising of a sequence of diffusion-weighte...
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This paper addresses the denoising problem associated with diffusion MR imaging. Building on previous approaches to this problem, this paper presents a new method for joint denoising of a sequence of diffusion-weighted (DW) magnitude images. The proposed method uses a maximum a posteriori (MAP) estimation formulation to incorporate a Rician likelihood (for modeling the noisy magnitude data), a low rank model (for the DW image sequences) and a spatial prior (for imposing joint edge constraints). An efficient algorithm to solve the associated optimization problem is also described. The proposed method has been evaluated using both simulated and experimental diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) data, which yields very encouraging results both qualitatively and quantitatively.
Fighting shots are the highlights of action movies and an effective approach to discriminating fighting shots is very useful for many applications, such as movie trailer construction, movie content filtering, and movi...
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Fighting shots are the highlights of action movies and an effective approach to discriminating fighting shots is very useful for many applications, such as movie trailer construction, movie content filtering, and movie content retrieval. In this paper, we present a novel method for this task. Our approach first extracts the reliable motion information of local invariant features through a robust keypoint tracking computation; then foreground keypoints are distinguished from background keypoints by a sophisticated voting process; further, the parameters of the camera motion model is computed based on the motion information of background keypoints, and this model is then used as a reference to compute the actual motion of foreground keypoints; finally, the corresponding feature vectors are extracted to characterizing the motions of foreground keypoints, and a support vector machine (SVM) classifier is trained based on the extracted feature vectors to discriminate fighting shots. Experimental results on representative action movies show our approach is very effective.
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