The creation of value-added services by automatic composition of existing ones is gaining a significant momentum as the potential silver bullet in service-oriented architecture. However, service composition faces two ...
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The creation of value-added services by automatic composition of existing ones is gaining a significant momentum as the potential silver bullet in service-oriented architecture. However, service composition faces two aspects of difficulties. First, users' needs present such characteristics as diversity, uncertainty and personalisation; second, the existing services run in a real-world environment that is highly complex and dynamically changing. These difficulties may cause the emergence of nondeterministic choices in the process of service composition, which has gone beyond what the existing automated service composition techniques can handle. According to most of the existing methods, the process model of composite service includes sequence constructs only. This article presents a method to introduce conditional branch structures into the process model of composite service when needed, in order to satisfy users' diverse and personalised needs and adapt to the dynamic changes of real-world environment. UML activity diagrams are used to represent dependencies in composite service. Two types of user preferences are considered in this article, which have been ignored by the previous work and a simple programming language style expression is adopted to describe them. Two different algorithms are presented to deal with different situations. A real-life case is provided to illustrate the proposed concepts and methods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
A multi-cluster tool is composed of a number of single-cluster tools linked by buffering modules. The capacity of a buffering module can be one or two. Aiming at finding an optimal one-wafer cyclic schedule, this work...
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Interacting with a random environment, Learning Automata (LAs) are automata that, generally, have the task of learning the optimal action based on responses from the environment. Distinct from the traditional goal of ...
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(纸本)9781479938414
Interacting with a random environment, Learning Automata (LAs) are automata that, generally, have the task of learning the optimal action based on responses from the environment. Distinct from the traditional goal of Learning Automata to select only the optimal action out of a set of actions, this paper considers a multiple-action selection problem and proposes a novel class of Learning Automata for selecting an optimal subset of actions. Their objective is to identify the optimal subset: the top k out of r actions. Based on conventional continuous pursuit and discretized pursuit learning schemes, this paper introduces four pursuit learning schemes for selecting the optimal subset, called continuous equal pursuit, discretized equal pursuit, continuous unequal pursuit and discretized unequal pursuit learning schemes, respectively. In conjunction with a reward-inaction learning paradigm, the above four schemes lead to four versions of pursuit Learning Automata for selecting the optimal subset. The simulation results present a quantitative comparison between them.
In this paper, we investigate the synchronization problem for nonlinearly coupled networks under periodically intermittent pinning control, where the coupling matrix denoting network topology is assumed to be symmetri...
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(纸本)9781467355339
In this paper, we investigate the synchronization problem for nonlinearly coupled networks under periodically intermittent pinning control, where the coupling matrix denoting network topology is assumed to be symmetric. A sufficient condition to guarantee global synchronization is presented. Moreover, a centralized adaptive intermittent control is designed and its validity is rigorously proved. Finally, some numerical examples are presented to demonstrate the correctness of obtained theoretical results.
In this paper,the cluster synchronization problem for nonlinearly coupled networks under periodically intermittent pinning control is *** first,a sufficient condition to guarantee cluster synchronization is ***,an ada...
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(纸本)9781479900305
In this paper,the cluster synchronization problem for nonlinearly coupled networks under periodically intermittent pinning control is *** first,a sufficient condition to guarantee cluster synchronization is ***,an adaptive intermittent control algorithm is designed to the control strength and its validity is rigorously ***,some numerical examples are presented to demonstrate the correctness of obtained theoretical results.
The real-time traffic parameters are necessary to dynamic traffic light control at intersection due to the serious traffic congestion. In this paper, we describe an approach for the real-time vehicle queue length meas...
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Occupants' comfort is the primary target in a building operation. However their efforts are often neglected and ruled out from traditional control strategies of energy-efficient building management systems. Occupa...
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Occupants' comfort is the primary target in a building operation. However their efforts are often neglected and ruled out from traditional control strategies of energy-efficient building management systems. Occupant-engaged control strategies have recently attracted many research attentions and demonstrated great potentials for energy saving. With them, occupants' behavior is incorporated into the closed-loop control methods in which their initiatives actively contribute to building services and energy utility by explicitly expressing their preferences. This work proposes an occupant-engaged demand response (DR) strategy for building automation in which occupants are actively engaged to adapt their energy consumption in response to incentive opportunities designed by facility managers. A model-based study and a Nash-Equilibrium-based solution are provided to assist facility managers with the design of social incentive policies to promote occupant participation, along with the guarantee of lucrativeness for a DR event.
Growth of NaCl and Fe/NaCl/Fe Magnetic tunneling junctions on Si (100) has been achieved by using a high vacuum electron-beam deposition system. Epitaxial tunnel junctions turn out to be prone to pinholes as well as e...
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(纸本)9781479956234
Growth of NaCl and Fe/NaCl/Fe Magnetic tunneling junctions on Si (100) has been achieved by using a high vacuum electron-beam deposition system. Epitaxial tunnel junctions turn out to be prone to pinholes as well as electrode oxidation. Instead, the best tunneling magnetoresistance we have achieved in this system is on polycrystalline tunnel barriers with thin Mg insertion, and reaching 22.3% at room temperature.
A multi-cluster tool is composed of a number of single-cluster tools linked by buffering modules. The capacity of a buffering module can be one or two. Aiming at finding an optimal one-wafer cyclic schedule, this work...
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A multi-cluster tool is composed of a number of single-cluster tools linked by buffering modules. The capacity of a buffering module can be one or two. Aiming at finding an optimal one-wafer cyclic schedule, this work explores the effect of two-space buffering modules on the performance of a multi-cluster tool. The tool is modeled by a kind of Petri nets. The dynamic behavior of robot waiting and tasks, process modules, and buffers is well captured by the net model. With the model, this work shows that there is always a one-wafer cyclic schedule that reaches the lower bound of the cycle time of a process-dominant tool. Furthermore, a constant-time algorithm is revealed to find such a schedule for the first time for such multi-cluster tools. An illustrative example is given to show the application and power of this new method.
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