A DEA-TOPSIS method for multiple criteria decision analysis in emergency management

A hybrid approach of DEA (data envelopment analysis) and TOPSIS (technique for order performance (preference) by similarity to ideal solution) is proposed for multiple criteria decision analysis in emergency management. Two DEA-based optimization models are constructed to facilitate identifying parameter information regarding criterion weights and quantifying qualitative criteria in TOPSIS. An emergency management case study utilizing data from the Emergency Management Australia (EMA) Disasters Database is provided to demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed analysis procedure.     

DDFS spurious signals due to amplitude quantization in absence of phase-accumulator truncation

Spurious signals in direct digital frequency synthesizers (DDFSs) are partly caused by amplitude quantization and phase truncation, which affect their application to many wireless telecommunication systems. Thee signals are deterministic and periodic in the time domain, so they appear as line spectra in the frequency domain. Two types of spurious signals due to amplitude quantization are exactly formulated and compared in thetime and frequency domains respectively. Then the frequency spectra and power levels of the spurious signals due to amplitude quantization in the absence of phase-accumulator truncation are emphatically analyzed, and the effects of the DDFS parameter variations on the spurious signals are thoroughly studied by computer simulation. And several important conclusions are derived which can provide theoretical support for parameter choice and spurious performance evaluation in the application of DDFSs.     

A multiyear lags input-holding-output model on education with excluding idle capital

This paper develops a multi-year lag Input-Holding-Output (I-H-O) Model on education with exclusion of the idle capital to address the reasonable education structure in support of a sustainable development strategy in China. First, the model considers the multiyear lag of human capital because the lag time of human capital is even longer and more important than that of fixed capital. Second, it considers the idle capital resulting from the output decline in education, for example, student decrease in primary school. The new generalized Leonitief dynamic inverse is deduced to obtain a positive solution on education when output declines as well as expands. After compiling the 2000 I-H-O table on education, the authors adopt modifications-by-step method to treat nonlinear coefficients, and calculate education scale, the requirement of human capital, and education expenditure from 2005 to 2020. It is found that structural imbalance of human capital is a serious problem for Chinese economic development. This research was supporting by the Key Project of National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 60874119, Innovation Funds of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Research Fund for Humanities and Social Sciences in colleges under Grant No. 06BJY102, Key project in Jiangxi Soft Science Project under Grant No. [2006]188, Jiangxi Research Fund for Humanities and Social Sciences in colleges under Grant No. 03JJ01, and Henan Research Fund for Humanities and Social Sciences in colleges under Grant No. 2008-ZD-002.     

基于多策略搜索的出租车服务仿真模型

为更细致、精确地描述出租车服务规律,提出一种依据历史信息和路网供求信息模拟出租车空车搜索行为的动态仿真模型,出租车根据以往的驾驶经验和对路网供求信息的掌握程度决定空车时如何寻找新乘客.仿真结果表明,向出租车提供路网供求信息不能有效提高出租车的空车效率,但有助于缩短乘客平均等待时间;依据平均历史信息的搜索策略能够有效提高空车效率.模型有助于城市交通管理部门更有效地规划和管理出租车运营系统,为其决策提供参考依据.     

High efficient moving object extraction and classification in traffic video surveillance

Moving object extraction and classification are important problems in automated video surveillance systems. A background model based on region segmentation is proposed. An adaptive single Gaussian background model is used in the stable region with gradual changes, and a nonparametric model is used in the variable region with jumping changes. A generalized agglomerative scheme is used to merge the pixels in the variable region and fill in the small interspaces. A two-threshold sequential algorithmic scheme is used to group the background samples of the variable region into distinct Gaussian distributions to accelerate the kernel density computation speed of the nonparametric model. In the feature-based object classification phase, the surveillance scene is first partitioned according to the road boundaries of different traffic directions and then re-segmented according to their scene localities. The method improves the discriminability of the features in each partition. AdaBoost method is applied to evaluate the relative importance of the features in each partition respectively and distinguish whether an object is a vehicle, a single human, a human group, or a bike. Experimental results show that the proposed method achieves higher performance in comparison with the existing method.     

基于非线性内电位构造函数的抗伪状态联想记忆

针对传统Hopfield神经网络在联想记忆中存在的大量伪状态,设计出一种以非线性内电位函数构造为核心的抗伪状态方案,以取代传统的Hebb规则及其外积法,建立了一种抗伪状态的联想记忆网络(ASS-SSNN),并通过吸引域的变化研究抗伪状态方案的正确性和有效性.仿真结果表明:ASS-SSNN比采用传统Hebb规则及其外积法的Hopfield联想记忆网络(HNN)在容错性上更优,记忆状态的吸引域明显增大,存储容量也有所增加.     

基于协方差矩阵重构的单基地MIMO阵列无网格DOA估计方法

提出了一种单基地多输入多输出(multiple-input multiple-output, MIMO)阵列中的协方差矩阵重构的无网格波达方向(direction-of-arrival, DOA)估计方法。该方法通过降维处理将MIMO阵列等效为信噪比(signal-to-noise ratio, SNR)提升的均匀线列阵,将目标方位估计问题转化为混合范数最小化(mixed norm minimization, MixNM)稀疏信号重构问题。进一步给出了与该稀疏重构问题等价的基于网格的凸优化问题,并模型化为半定规划来求解。为了解决网格大小影响估计性能的问题,利用了等价均匀线列阵的托普利兹结构,模型化为半定规划问题来重构无噪声协方差矩阵,最后通过范德蒙分解来估计目标方位。与传统的基于MixNM方位估计方法相比,该方法减少了优化变量个数。与其他离网格方法相比,该方法估计精度不受网格大小的影响,且能够估计相干源目标。实验仿真验证了该方法的有效性。     

无线自组织通信中基于前导符号的定时同步

传统的基于自相关的和基于互相关的定时同步算法具有相关峰的旁瓣较宽或对载波频率偏移(carrier frequency offset, CFO)敏感的问题,均无法满足无线自组织通信系统对快速准确的定时同步的需求。针对这一问题,提出了一种新的基于改进互相关的定时同步算法,通过将一个长的相关器拆分为两个较短子相关器的乘积,使度量函数的主峰更加尖锐、次峰更低,理论分析了算法的抗频偏性和计算复杂度。对所提算法和传统互相关算法的蒙特卡罗仿真结果表明,在复杂度相当的前提下,所提算法在检测准确率上具有1.1 dB的性能增益,且对频偏的鲁棒性较好。     

育种目标性状间的同一关系分析方法研究

借助集对分析理论,提出了一种新的育种目标性状间的关系分析方法,阐明了其基本原理与分析步骤,并结合小麦育种实例,介绍了这种分析方法的具体应用。在此基础上,讨论了这种分析方法的优越性及尚待改进之处。表3,参9。     

分布式协作虚拟样机可视化框架

基于微型计算机的分布式协作虚拟样机可视化框架具有低成本、体系结构开放的特点。通过模型对象的层次化设计，利用全局场景和本地场景的概念，不仅能够保证虚拟样机对象分布式渲染的实时性，同时也能够实现分布式系统中对象的同步处理。在可视化框架中，Microsoft DirectX提供了优秀的渲染引擎，CORBA技术在分布式环境中构成系统软总线。实验原型系统验证了DirectX能够在微型机算机上满足虚拟样机的3D渲染需求。