This paper presents a neural network enhanced stereo vision obstacle detection and avoidance system for unmanned ground vehicle. In this paper, we build a neural network to learn the mapping for the left image to the right image under the assumption of a flat road. Using the trained neural network we...

We investigate Chinese near-synonyms (include synonyms and near-synonyms) based on complex network theory. In the study of near-synonyms network, scale-free effect and hierarchical structure features are found in this complex system. In particular, we find that n-node cliques exist widely in near-synonyms...

The sequencing of sports meeting is quite complicated due to the huge number of people and events. A new immune genetic algorithm aiming at solving the sports meeting sequencing problem is proposed in this paper, namely the chaos immune genetic algorithm, which combines the immune algorithm, chaos algorithm...

Web services (WS) are originally and typically SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) based. SOAP based web services offer a powerful architecture and communication protocol that allows model based marketing decisions support (MMDS) to be integrated, served and get discovered over the Internet. Lately...

This paper discusses on how the Kohonen Self-Organizing Map (KSOM) is used as a tool to cluster and classify the tropical wood species. Wood features have been extracted through the use of two features extractors; Basic Grey Level Aura Matrix (BGLAM) and Statistical Properties of Pores Distribution (SPPD)...

Component Based Software Engineering (CBSE) methodology deals with software systems by evaluation and selection of appropriate components. CBSE offers software developers a compact software development life cycle, reduce development times, cost effective and less strenuous efforts. In under development...

User interests drift modeling is the fundamental and key technology of Personal Recommendation System (PRS), and is arising more and more attention by researcher from home and abroad. At present, web user interests drift model is in its original phase for the reason of many aspects, and there also exist...

The increasing interest in historic architectural complex buildings and the need to understand the behavior of historical structures has led to development of computational methods used for analysis of the masonry vaults. The paper deals with some of the explicit and numerical methods used for modeling...

Auto repair is a process which solves the problem iteratively and constantly. It is required to establish the knowledge base model and the inference base model. Meanwhile, it develops the knowledge-based auto repair diagnostic system through the integration of the auto repair experience and the repair...

In the paper, we present and prove Castle Theorem of Convex Hull, design and realize the Fast Rampart Searching Algorithm. The algorithm can be treated as the preprocess of Convex Hull calculation of very large planar point set. When calculating the Convex Hull of a very large planar point set, we can...

Due to the immanent complexity of Information Technology Outsourcing (ITO) partnerships and their underlying service technology, a sustainable management proofs to be highly challenging and inefficient. Being confronted with multidimensional business relations and complex services meshes, the accounting...

Development of amorphous-material devices and specimen modification methods is closely related with the obviousness of high thermal stability and stability of relaxation, additionally general ground characteristic investigations of glass, transformation of the liquid-system to glass one is an enormous...

This work presents mechanics, tests, and finite element modeling results of a proposed steel dual-core self-centering brace (SCB) and a sandwiched buckling-restrained brace (BRB) for earthquake-resistant structures. The mechanics and cyclic behavior of these two braces are first explained, followed by...

A parameter estimation algorithm of direction of arrival (DOA), based on a nonuniform L-shaped array, is presented for plane-wave signals. According to relation of the two x-axis and y-axis subarrays, a set of rough but unambiguous direction cosines estimates in x and y direction are obtained. By disambiguating...

With the rise of the cloud computing, saving energy consumed by cloud systems has become a tricky issue nowadays. How to place data efficiently and schedule the nodes effectively in a cloud platform are very important issues from the view of the energy-saving. However, the state-of-the-art node-scheduling...

Extracting the optimal features from images is always required in face recognition algorithm to achieve high accuracy. In this paper we have presented an efficient face recognition algorithm based on Biogeography Based Optimization (BBO). First we extract the features using the principal Component Analysis...

The ever increasing demand for improvements in software maintainability and modernization cannot be met through traditional techniques of software development and modernization. Most approaches to software development and modernization do not explicitly address software reuse however new approaches that...

Meta-heuristic algorithms overcome the computational drawbacks of the existing numerical methods where they are commonly used to solve constrained engineering problems and find an optimum solution. Solving this kind of problems is considered of high value in many engineering and manufacturing processes....

In the Internet age, every computer user is likely to inadvertently encounter highly contagious viruses. Over the past several years, a new type of web attack has spread across the web, that is, when a client connects to a malicious remote server, the server responds to the request while simultaneously...

Evaluate the effectiveness of software protection technologies is still an unsolved problem. This paper presents a new evaluation method considering attack cost as the metric to evaluate the effectiveness of software protection under the circumstances of fulfilling assumptions that all software can be...

This paper discusses the dynamical model of the Forest Evolution System, and the Existence and Uniqueness of the equation are have been proved by applying the theory of integral equation. Furthermore, we discussed the stability of the solution by applying the stability theory of Lyapunov.

In mobile robot researches, path planning and obstacle avoidance plays a very important role and has been a very challenging research topic. For path planning, it should produce continuous path from the starting point to the destination without colliding obstacles. Therefore, we proposes a genetic algorithm...

In the article a computer simulation of vehicle collision was prepared using the PC-Crash 8.0 software. The results of this simulation were compared to analytical calculations by Routh method with the use of the coefficient of restitution for deformations or velocities. The equations of motion during...

This paper presents two accelerometer-based metabolic equivalent (MET) estimation methods: 1) MET regression models estimation; and 2) a mono-exponential MET estimation equation. The MET estimation methods can predict MET for the following seven categories of activities: sitting, standing, walking upstairs,...

Scientific Cloud Computing (SCC) applies the advantages of Clouds to computational science. We present the SC2IT Scientific Cloud Computing tools that abstract complex computational workflows and allow state-of-the-art scientific high-performance computing software to be distributed in a user-friendly...

OpenMP is a standard parallel programming lan-guage to develop parallel applications on shared memory ma-chines. OpenMP is very suitable for designing parallel algorithms for regular applications where the amount of work is known apriori and therefore, distribution of work among the threads can be done...

With the rapid development of economy, there are greater challenges in Venture Capital. In the face of the venture project selecting, scientific evaluation of investment venture has been an important issue in venture investment, and it directly influences the success or failure of investment. In this...

With the purpose of analyzing non-stationary time series, this paper introduced a novel nonlinear cointegration discriminate analysis by employing support vector machines to overcome existing limitations of two methods, that is, the statistical approach and the neural network used by the nonlinear cointegration...

This paper considers the user pairing algorithm for LTE (Long Term Evolution) femtocell uplink V-MIMO (Virtual Multiple Input Multiple Output) Systems, and propose a new simulated annealing based bit error rate pairing scheduling (SA-BPS) algorithm. The SA-BPS uses Round Robin (RR) criterion to decide...

When there are a lot of candidate component services in Web services composition, the suitable component services need to be selected. The service selection conflicts often occur due to the functional dependency relationships between component services. Therefore, a service selection conflict avoidance...

With the rapid development of Internet technology, the data of the users’ information have raised up largely, so internet storage became more and more important in today’s life. In this paper, a cloud storage system has been designed and implemented. By using Hiphop-php technology, the performance of...

With the rapid development of interaction technology, the digital sand table has gradually replaced the traditional sand table. In such fields as the real estate exhibition, the city planning exhibition, the tourist attractions showcase , the military training, the water conservancy and hydropower ,...

By using extended linear expenditure model this paper calculates per capita basic living demand expenditure of China's rural residents from 2004 to 2011 and forecasts the moderate demand level of rural basic pension from 2012 to 2020 on this basis. The conclusion thinks that the addition of both the...

As a public basic course of non computer, VB Programming has a strong theory and practicality and teaching difficulty. According to the actual situation in the course teaching and the features of this course, combining it with the teaching practices, this article emphasized on how to improve teaching...