Among natural disasters,flash floods are the most destructive events,causing signif-icant damage to the economy and posing a serious threat to human life and property.Comprehensive risk assessment of these sudden floo...Among natural disasters,flash floods are the most destructive events,causing signif-icant damage to the economy and posing a serious threat to human life and property.Comprehensive risk assessment of these sudden floods is a key strategy to mitigate their impact.Accurate analysis of flash flood hazards can greatly enhance prevention efforts and inform critical decision-making processes,ultimately improving our ability to protect communities from these fast-onset disasters.This study analyzed the driving forces of flash flood disaster-causing factors in Heilongjiang Province.Meanwhile,nine different categories of variables affecting the occurrence of flash floods were selected,and the degree of influence of each driving factor on flash floods was quantitatively analyzed,and the driving force analysis of the driving factors of flash floods in Hei-longjiang Province was carried out by using the geographic probe model.This paper employs an uncertainty approach,utilizing a statistical-based interval weight deter-mination technique for evaluation indices and a two-dimensional information-based interval number sorting method.These methodologies are combined to construct a comprehensive flash flood risk assessment model.On this basis,the model was implemented in six regions within China's Heilongjiang province to evaluate and prioritize flash flood risks.The resulting risk ranking for these areas was as follows:Bayan≻Shuangcheng≻Boli≻Suibin≻Hailun≻Yian.The findings demonstrate that the interval number-based evaluation method effectively handles uncertainty,providing a more reliable risk grading system.This approach,by leveraging modern scientific advances and risk quantification techniques,is crucial for improving disaster management and mitigating flash flood impacts.展开更多
Purpose:Citation-based assessments of countries’research capabilities often misrepresent their ability to achieve breakthrough advancements.These assessments commonly classify Japan as a developing country,which cont...Purpose:Citation-based assessments of countries’research capabilities often misrepresent their ability to achieve breakthrough advancements.These assessments commonly classify Japan as a developing country,which contradicts its prominent scientific standing.The purpose of this study is to investigate the underlying causes of such inaccurate assessments and to propose methods for conducting more reliable evaluations.Design/methodology/approach:The study evaluates the effectiveness of top-percentile citation metrics as indicators of breakthrough research.Using case studies of selected countries and research topics,the study examines how deviations from lognormal citation distributions impact the accuracy of these percentile indicators.A similar analysis is conducted using university data from the Leiden Ranking to investigate citation distribution deviations at the institutional level.Findings:The study finds that inflated lower tails in citation distributions lead to undervaluation of research capabilities in advanced technological countries,as captured by some percentile indicators.Conversely,research-intensive universities exhibit the opposite trend:a reduced lower tail relative to the upper tail,which causes percentile indicators to overestimate their actual research capacity.Research limitations:The descriptions are mathematical facts that are self-evident.Practical implications:The ratios between the number of papers in the global top 10%and 1%by citation count to the total number of papers are commonly used to describe research performance.However,due to variations in citation patterns across countries and institutions with reference to the global pattern,these ratios can be misleading and lose their value as research indicators.Originality/value:Size-independent research performance indicators,obtained as the ratios between paper counts in top percentiles and the total numbers of publications,are widely used by public and private institutions.This study demonstrates that the use of these ratios for research evaluations and country rankings can be highly misleading.展开更多
In the last decade,ranking units in data envelopment analysis(DEA) has become the interests of many DEA researchers and a variety of models were developed to rank units with multiple inputs and multiple outputs.These ...In the last decade,ranking units in data envelopment analysis(DEA) has become the interests of many DEA researchers and a variety of models were developed to rank units with multiple inputs and multiple outputs.These performance factors(inputs and outputs) are classified into two groups:desirable and undesirable.Obviously,undesirable factors in production process should be reduced to improve the performance.Also,some of these data may be known only in terms of ordinal relations.While the models developed in the past are interesting and meaningful,they didn t consider both undesirable and ordinal factors at the same time.In this research,we develop an evaluating model and a ranking model to overcome some deficiencies in the earlier models.This paper incorporates undesirable and ordinal data in DEA and discusses the efficiency evaluation and ranking of decision making units(DMUs) with undesirable and ordinal data.For this purpose,we transform the ordinal data into definite data,and then we consider each undesirable input and output as desirable output and input,respectively.Finally,an application that shows the capability of the proposed method is illustrated.展开更多
Traditional DEA-based ranking techniques have some pitfalls such as ignoring the inherent differences among decision making units (DMUs), or lacking a common weight-based ranking, etc. To overcome these obstacles, t...Traditional DEA-based ranking techniques have some pitfalls such as ignoring the inherent differences among decision making units (DMUs), or lacking a common weight-based ranking, etc. To overcome these obstacles, the paper first examines the possible differences among all DMUs such as the technical efficiency difference, the preference structure difference and the within-group position difference. Based upon the above differences this paper induces an integrated ranking measurement which helps to give a fair and full ranking for all DMUs under evaluation. Following the three types of differences, this approach behaves greatly elaborately, accurately and reasonably. Finally, the results from the Olympics achievement evaluation approve the acceptability of this approach.展开更多
In order to rank searching results according to the user preferences,a new personalized web pages ranking algorithm called PWPR(personalized web page ranking)with the idea of adjusting the ranking scores of web page...In order to rank searching results according to the user preferences,a new personalized web pages ranking algorithm called PWPR(personalized web page ranking)with the idea of adjusting the ranking scores of web pages in accordance with user preferences is proposed.PWPR assigns the initial weights based on user interests and creates the virtual links and hubs according to user interests.By measuring user click streams,PWPR incrementally reflects users’ favors for the personalized ranking.To improve the accuracy of ranking, PWPR also takes collaborative filtering into consideration when the query with similar is submitted by users who have similar user interests. Detailed simulation results and comparison with other algorithms prove that the proposed PWPR can adaptively provide personalized ranking and truly relevant information to user preferences.展开更多
The presence of pesticide residues in pears is a serious health concern. This study presents the results from a 2-year investigation (2013-2014) that used gas chromatography, GS/MS and UPLC/MS-MS to measure the leve...The presence of pesticide residues in pears is a serious health concern. This study presents the results from a 2-year investigation (2013-2014) that used gas chromatography, GS/MS and UPLC/MS-MS to measure the levels of 104 pesti- cides in 310 pear samples. In 93.2% of the samples, 43 pesticides were detected, of which the maximum residue levels (MRLs) were exceeded in 2.6% of the samples. Multiple residues (two to eight compounds) were present in 69.7% of the samples; one sample contained nine pesticides and one sample contained 10. Only 6.8% of the samples did not contain residues. To assess the health risks, the pesticide residue data have been combined with daily pear consumption data for children and adult populations. A deterministic model was used to assess the chronic and acute exposures based on the Joint Meeting on Pesticide Residues (JMPR) method. A potential acute risk was demonstrated for children in the case of bifenthrin, which was found to be present at 105.36% of the acute reference dose (ARfD) value. The long- term exposure of the Chinese consumer to pesticide residues through the consumption of raw pears was far below the acceptable daily intake (ADI) criterion. Additionally, the matrix ranking scheme was used to classify risk subgroups of pesticides and pear samples. In general, 95.5% of samples were deemed to be safe and nine pesticides were classified as being of a relatively high risk. The findings indicated that the occurrence of pesticide residues in pears should not be considered a serious public health problem. Nevertheless, a more detailed study is required for vulnerable consumer groups, especially children. Continuous monitoring of pesticides in pears and tighter regulation of pesticide residue standards are recommended.展开更多
Guanting Reservoir, one of the drinking water supply sources of Beijing, suffers from water eutrophication. It is mainly supplied by Guishui River. Thus, to investigate the reasons of phosphorus (P) loss and improve...Guanting Reservoir, one of the drinking water supply sources of Beijing, suffers from water eutrophication. It is mainly supplied by Guishui River. Thus, to investigate the reasons of phosphorus (P) loss and improve the P management strategies in Guishui River watershed are important for the safety of drinking water in this region. In this study, a Revised Field P Ranking Scheme (PRS) was developed to reflect the field vulnerability of P loss at the field scale based on the Field PRS. In this new scheme, six factors are included, and each one was assigned a relative weight and a determination method. The affecting factors were classified into transport factors and source factors, and, the standards of environmental quality on surface water and soil erosion classification and degradation of the China were used in this scheme. By the new scheme, thirty-four fields in the Guishui River were categorized as "low", "medium" or "high" potential for P loss into the runoff. The results showed that the P loss risks of orchard and vegetable fields were higher than that of corn and soybean fields. The source factors were the main factors to affect P loss from the study area. In the study area, controlling P input and improving P usage efficiency are critical to decrease P loss. Based on the results, it was suggested that more attention should be paid on the fields of vegetable and orchard since they have extremely high usage rate of P and high soil test of P. Compared with P surplus by field measurements, the Revised Field PRS was more suitable for reflecting the characteristics of fields, and had higher potential capacity to identify critical source areas of P loss than PRS.展开更多
To ensure flight safety,the complex network method is used to study the influence and invulnerability of air traffic cyber physical system(CPS)nodes.According to the rules of air traffic management,the logical couplin...To ensure flight safety,the complex network method is used to study the influence and invulnerability of air traffic cyber physical system(CPS)nodes.According to the rules of air traffic management,the logical coupling relationship between routes and sectors is analyzed,an air traffic CPS network model is constructed,and the indicators of node influence and invulnerability are established.The K-shell algorithm is improved to identify node influence,and the invulnerability is analyzed under random and selective attacks.Taking Airspace in Eastern China as an example,its influential nodes are sorted by degree,namely,K-shell,the improved K-shell(IKS)and betweenness centrality.The invulnerability of air traffic CPS under different attacks is analyzed.Results show that IKS can effectively identify the influential nodes in the air traffic CPS network,and IKS and betweenness centrality are the two key indicators that affect the invulnerability of air traffic CPS.展开更多
With the fast growth of Chinese economic, more and more capital will be invested in environmental projects. How to select the environmental investment projects (alternatives) for obtaining the best environmental qua...With the fast growth of Chinese economic, more and more capital will be invested in environmental projects. How to select the environmental investment projects (alternatives) for obtaining the best environmental quality and economic benefits is an important problem for the decision makers. The purpose of this paper is to develop a decision-making model to rank a finite number of alternatives with several and sometimes conflicting criteria. A model for ranking the projects of municipal sewage treatment plants is proposed by using exports' information and the data of the real projects. And, the ranking result is given based on the PROMETHEE method. Furthermore, by means of the concept of the weight stability intervals (WSI), the sensitivity of the ranking results to the size of criteria values and the change of weights value of criteria are discussed. The result shows that some criteria, such as “proportion of benefit to project cost”, will influence the ranking result of alternatives very strong while others not. The influence are not only from the value of criterion but also from the changing the weight of criterion. So, some criteria such as “proportion of benefit to project cost” are key critera for ranking the projects. Decision makers must be cautious to them.展开更多
In the traditional data envelopment analysis (DEA) structure, the efficiency score for one decision making unit (DMU) is calculated by measuring the distance of the evaluated DMU to the best practice frontier. Rec...In the traditional data envelopment analysis (DEA) structure, the efficiency score for one decision making unit (DMU) is calculated by measuring the distance of the evaluated DMU to the best practice frontier. Recent researches have provided the reasonability of considering the worst practice frontier as a supple- ment to the traditional DEA techniques. The existing researches take only one type of frontier into account, and they cannot com- pare the evaluated DMU with both the best and the worst perform- ing DMUs. A DEA-based procedure is developed to consider the best and the worst frontiers in the same scenario where the ratio of two distances (RDS) measure is proposed. The principal appli- cation of this approach is for ranking, and, as a complement tool, for performance evaluation. The proposed approach can be used in a wide range of applications such as the performance evaluation of employees and others. Finally, a bookstore data set is used to illustrate the proposed approach.展开更多
Network virtualization(NV)is a highprofile way to solve the ossification problem of the nowadays Internet,and be able to support the diversified network naturally.In NV,Virtual Network Embedding(VNE)problem has been w...Network virtualization(NV)is a highprofile way to solve the ossification problem of the nowadays Internet,and be able to support the diversified network naturally.In NV,Virtual Network Embedding(VNE)problem has been widely considered as a crucial issue,which is aimed to embed Virtual Networks(VNs)onto the shared substrate networks(SNs)efficiently.Recently,some VNE approaches have developed Node Ranking strategies to drive and enhance the embedding efficiency.Node Ranking Strategy rank/sort the nodes according to the attributes of the node,including both residual local attributes(CPU,Bandwidth,storage,Etc.)and the global topology attributes(Number of neighborhood Nodes,Delay to other nodes,Etc.).This paper presents an overview of Node Ranking Strategies in Virtual Network Embedding,and possible directions of VNE Node Ranking Strategy.展开更多
Cloud computing is becoming popular technology due to its functional properties and variety of customer-oriented services over the Internet.The design of reliable and high-quality cloud applications requires a strong ...Cloud computing is becoming popular technology due to its functional properties and variety of customer-oriented services over the Internet.The design of reliable and high-quality cloud applications requires a strong Quality of Service QoS parameter metric.In a hyperconverged cloud ecosystem environment,building high-reliability cloud applications is a challenging job.The selection of cloud services is based on the QoS parameters that play essential roles in optimizing and improving cloud rankings.The emergence of cloud computing is significantly reshaping the digital ecosystem,and the numerous services offered by cloud service providers are playing a vital role in this transformation.Hyperconverged software-based unified utilities combine storage virtualization,compute virtualization,and network virtualization.The availability of the latter has also raised the demand for QoS.Due to the diversity of services,the respective quality parameters are also in abundance and need a carefully designed mechanism to compare and identify the critical,common,and impactful parameters.It is also necessary to reconsider the market needs in terms of service requirements and the QoS provided by various CSPs.This research provides a machine learning-based mechanism to monitor the QoS in a hyperconverged environment with three core service parameters:service quality,downtime of servers,and outage of cloud services.展开更多
Heavy-duty machine tools are composed of many subsystems with different functions,and their reliability is governed by the reliabilities of these subsystems.It is important to rank the weaknesses of subsystems and ide...Heavy-duty machine tools are composed of many subsystems with different functions,and their reliability is governed by the reliabilities of these subsystems.It is important to rank the weaknesses of subsystems and identify the weakest subsystem to optimize products and improve their reliabilities.However,traditional ranking methods based on failure mode effect and critical analysis(FMECA)does not consider the complex maintenance of products.Herein,a weakness ranking method for the subsystems of heavy-duty machine tools is proposed based on generalized FMECA information.In this method,eight reliability indexes,including maintainability and maintenance cost,are considered in the generalized FMECA information.Subsequently,the cognition best worst method is used to calculate the weight of each screened index,and the weaknesses of the subsystems are ranked using a technique for order preference by similarity to an ideal solution.Finally,based on the failure data collected from certain domestic heavy-duty horizontal lathes,the weakness ranking result of the subsystems is obtained to verify the effectiveness of the proposed method.An improved weakness ranking method that can comprehensively analyze and identify weak subsystems is proposed herein for designing and improving the reliability of complex electromechanical products.展开更多
An eigenvector method for ranking alternatives whose measurements are given as vague values is provided. Firstly, a positive matrix is constructed which is defined as evaluation information matrix (EIM). Based on fo...An eigenvector method for ranking alternatives whose measurements are given as vague values is provided. Firstly, a positive matrix is constructed which is defined as evaluation information matrix (EIM). Based on four assumptions for evaluating alternatives, a ranking eigenvector is defined. And then it is proved, based on positive matrix theory, that the EIM's eigenvector corresponding to the maximal eigenvalue is the ranking vector. For alternatives whose characteristics are presented by vague sets, the proposed techniques can evaluate the degree of suitability to which an alternative satisfies the decision-maker' s requirement efficiently.展开更多
基金Basic Scientific Research Expense Project of IWHR-Extreme rainstorm development trends and prediction techniques,Grant/Award Number:JZ0145B142024National Natural Science Foundation of China,Grant/Award Number:42271095。
文摘Among natural disasters,flash floods are the most destructive events,causing signif-icant damage to the economy and posing a serious threat to human life and property.Comprehensive risk assessment of these sudden floods is a key strategy to mitigate their impact.Accurate analysis of flash flood hazards can greatly enhance prevention efforts and inform critical decision-making processes,ultimately improving our ability to protect communities from these fast-onset disasters.This study analyzed the driving forces of flash flood disaster-causing factors in Heilongjiang Province.Meanwhile,nine different categories of variables affecting the occurrence of flash floods were selected,and the degree of influence of each driving factor on flash floods was quantitatively analyzed,and the driving force analysis of the driving factors of flash floods in Hei-longjiang Province was carried out by using the geographic probe model.This paper employs an uncertainty approach,utilizing a statistical-based interval weight deter-mination technique for evaluation indices and a two-dimensional information-based interval number sorting method.These methodologies are combined to construct a comprehensive flash flood risk assessment model.On this basis,the model was implemented in six regions within China's Heilongjiang province to evaluate and prioritize flash flood risks.The resulting risk ranking for these areas was as follows:Bayan≻Shuangcheng≻Boli≻Suibin≻Hailun≻Yian.The findings demonstrate that the interval number-based evaluation method effectively handles uncertainty,providing a more reliable risk grading system.This approach,by leveraging modern scientific advances and risk quantification techniques,is crucial for improving disaster management and mitigating flash flood impacts.
文摘Purpose:Citation-based assessments of countries’research capabilities often misrepresent their ability to achieve breakthrough advancements.These assessments commonly classify Japan as a developing country,which contradicts its prominent scientific standing.The purpose of this study is to investigate the underlying causes of such inaccurate assessments and to propose methods for conducting more reliable evaluations.Design/methodology/approach:The study evaluates the effectiveness of top-percentile citation metrics as indicators of breakthrough research.Using case studies of selected countries and research topics,the study examines how deviations from lognormal citation distributions impact the accuracy of these percentile indicators.A similar analysis is conducted using university data from the Leiden Ranking to investigate citation distribution deviations at the institutional level.Findings:The study finds that inflated lower tails in citation distributions lead to undervaluation of research capabilities in advanced technological countries,as captured by some percentile indicators.Conversely,research-intensive universities exhibit the opposite trend:a reduced lower tail relative to the upper tail,which causes percentile indicators to overestimate their actual research capacity.Research limitations:The descriptions are mathematical facts that are self-evident.Practical implications:The ratios between the number of papers in the global top 10%and 1%by citation count to the total number of papers are commonly used to describe research performance.However,due to variations in citation patterns across countries and institutions with reference to the global pattern,these ratios can be misleading and lose their value as research indicators.Originality/value:Size-independent research performance indicators,obtained as the ratios between paper counts in top percentiles and the total numbers of publications,are widely used by public and private institutions.This study demonstrates that the use of these ratios for research evaluations and country rankings can be highly misleading.
文摘In the last decade,ranking units in data envelopment analysis(DEA) has become the interests of many DEA researchers and a variety of models were developed to rank units with multiple inputs and multiple outputs.These performance factors(inputs and outputs) are classified into two groups:desirable and undesirable.Obviously,undesirable factors in production process should be reduced to improve the performance.Also,some of these data may be known only in terms of ordinal relations.While the models developed in the past are interesting and meaningful,they didn t consider both undesirable and ordinal factors at the same time.In this research,we develop an evaluating model and a ranking model to overcome some deficiencies in the earlier models.This paper incorporates undesirable and ordinal data in DEA and discusses the efficiency evaluation and ranking of decision making units(DMUs) with undesirable and ordinal data.For this purpose,we transform the ordinal data into definite data,and then we consider each undesirable input and output as desirable output and input,respectively.Finally,an application that shows the capability of the proposed method is illustrated.
基金supported partly by the National Natural Science Fundation of China for Innovative Research Groups(T0821001)the National Natural Science Fundation of China(70801056)University of Science and Technology of China Science Funds for Young Scholars.
文摘Traditional DEA-based ranking techniques have some pitfalls such as ignoring the inherent differences among decision making units (DMUs), or lacking a common weight-based ranking, etc. To overcome these obstacles, the paper first examines the possible differences among all DMUs such as the technical efficiency difference, the preference structure difference and the within-group position difference. Based upon the above differences this paper induces an integrated ranking measurement which helps to give a fair and full ranking for all DMUs under evaluation. Following the three types of differences, this approach behaves greatly elaborately, accurately and reasonably. Finally, the results from the Olympics achievement evaluation approve the acceptability of this approach.
基金The Natural Science Foundation of South-Central University for Nationalities(No.YZZ07006)
文摘In order to rank searching results according to the user preferences,a new personalized web pages ranking algorithm called PWPR(personalized web page ranking)with the idea of adjusting the ranking scores of web pages in accordance with user preferences is proposed.PWPR assigns the initial weights based on user interests and creates the virtual links and hubs according to user interests.By measuring user click streams,PWPR incrementally reflects users’ favors for the personalized ranking.To improve the accuracy of ranking, PWPR also takes collaborative filtering into consideration when the query with similar is submitted by users who have similar user interests. Detailed simulation results and comparison with other algorithms prove that the proposed PWPR can adaptively provide personalized ranking and truly relevant information to user preferences.
基金financially supported by the National Program for Quality and Safety Risk Assessment of Agricultural Products of China (GJFP2014002, GJFP2015002)the Core Research Budget of the Non-Profit Governmental Research Institution of China (0032014013)
文摘The presence of pesticide residues in pears is a serious health concern. This study presents the results from a 2-year investigation (2013-2014) that used gas chromatography, GS/MS and UPLC/MS-MS to measure the levels of 104 pesti- cides in 310 pear samples. In 93.2% of the samples, 43 pesticides were detected, of which the maximum residue levels (MRLs) were exceeded in 2.6% of the samples. Multiple residues (two to eight compounds) were present in 69.7% of the samples; one sample contained nine pesticides and one sample contained 10. Only 6.8% of the samples did not contain residues. To assess the health risks, the pesticide residue data have been combined with daily pear consumption data for children and adult populations. A deterministic model was used to assess the chronic and acute exposures based on the Joint Meeting on Pesticide Residues (JMPR) method. A potential acute risk was demonstrated for children in the case of bifenthrin, which was found to be present at 105.36% of the acute reference dose (ARfD) value. The long- term exposure of the Chinese consumer to pesticide residues through the consumption of raw pears was far below the acceptable daily intake (ADI) criterion. Additionally, the matrix ranking scheme was used to classify risk subgroups of pesticides and pear samples. In general, 95.5% of samples were deemed to be safe and nine pesticides were classified as being of a relatively high risk. The findings indicated that the occurrence of pesticide residues in pears should not be considered a serious public health problem. Nevertheless, a more detailed study is required for vulnerable consumer groups, especially children. Continuous monitoring of pesticides in pears and tighter regulation of pesticide residue standards are recommended.
基金Project supported by the National Basic Research Program of China(No.2005CB121107)the Innovation Research Group of National Basic Research Program of China(No.2005).
文摘Guanting Reservoir, one of the drinking water supply sources of Beijing, suffers from water eutrophication. It is mainly supplied by Guishui River. Thus, to investigate the reasons of phosphorus (P) loss and improve the P management strategies in Guishui River watershed are important for the safety of drinking water in this region. In this study, a Revised Field P Ranking Scheme (PRS) was developed to reflect the field vulnerability of P loss at the field scale based on the Field PRS. In this new scheme, six factors are included, and each one was assigned a relative weight and a determination method. The affecting factors were classified into transport factors and source factors, and, the standards of environmental quality on surface water and soil erosion classification and degradation of the China were used in this scheme. By the new scheme, thirty-four fields in the Guishui River were categorized as "low", "medium" or "high" potential for P loss into the runoff. The results showed that the P loss risks of orchard and vegetable fields were higher than that of corn and soybean fields. The source factors were the main factors to affect P loss from the study area. In the study area, controlling P input and improving P usage efficiency are critical to decrease P loss. Based on the results, it was suggested that more attention should be paid on the fields of vegetable and orchard since they have extremely high usage rate of P and high soil test of P. Compared with P surplus by field measurements, the Revised Field PRS was more suitable for reflecting the characteristics of fields, and had higher potential capacity to identify critical source areas of P loss than PRS.
基金This work was supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(No.3122019191).
文摘To ensure flight safety,the complex network method is used to study the influence and invulnerability of air traffic cyber physical system(CPS)nodes.According to the rules of air traffic management,the logical coupling relationship between routes and sectors is analyzed,an air traffic CPS network model is constructed,and the indicators of node influence and invulnerability are established.The K-shell algorithm is improved to identify node influence,and the invulnerability is analyzed under random and selective attacks.Taking Airspace in Eastern China as an example,its influential nodes are sorted by degree,namely,K-shell,the improved K-shell(IKS)and betweenness centrality.The invulnerability of air traffic CPS under different attacks is analyzed.Results show that IKS can effectively identify the influential nodes in the air traffic CPS network,and IKS and betweenness centrality are the two key indicators that affect the invulnerability of air traffic CPS.
基金Shanghai Leading Academic Discipline Project (T0502)Shanghai Municipal Educational Commission Project (05EZ32).
文摘With the fast growth of Chinese economic, more and more capital will be invested in environmental projects. How to select the environmental investment projects (alternatives) for obtaining the best environmental quality and economic benefits is an important problem for the decision makers. The purpose of this paper is to develop a decision-making model to rank a finite number of alternatives with several and sometimes conflicting criteria. A model for ranking the projects of municipal sewage treatment plants is proposed by using exports' information and the data of the real projects. And, the ranking result is given based on the PROMETHEE method. Furthermore, by means of the concept of the weight stability intervals (WSI), the sensitivity of the ranking results to the size of criteria values and the change of weights value of criteria are discussed. The result shows that some criteria, such as “proportion of benefit to project cost”, will influence the ranking result of alternatives very strong while others not. The influence are not only from the value of criterion but also from the changing the weight of criterion. So, some criteria such as “proportion of benefit to project cost” are key critera for ranking the projects. Decision makers must be cautious to them.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(7112106171271195+2 种基金71322101)the National Social Science Fund of China(13CTQ042)the USTC Foundation for Innovative Research Team(WK2040160008)
文摘In the traditional data envelopment analysis (DEA) structure, the efficiency score for one decision making unit (DMU) is calculated by measuring the distance of the evaluated DMU to the best practice frontier. Recent researches have provided the reasonability of considering the worst practice frontier as a supple- ment to the traditional DEA techniques. The existing researches take only one type of frontier into account, and they cannot com- pare the evaluated DMU with both the best and the worst perform- ing DMUs. A DEA-based procedure is developed to consider the best and the worst frontiers in the same scenario where the ratio of two distances (RDS) measure is proposed. The principal appli- cation of this approach is for ranking, and, as a complement tool, for performance evaluation. The proposed approach can be used in a wide range of applications such as the performance evaluation of employees and others. Finally, a bookstore data set is used to illustrate the proposed approach.
基金The authors would like to thank the reviewers for their detailed reviews and constructive comments,which have helped improve the quality of this paper.This work was supported by National Science Foundation of China under Grants 6187144。
文摘Network virtualization(NV)is a highprofile way to solve the ossification problem of the nowadays Internet,and be able to support the diversified network naturally.In NV,Virtual Network Embedding(VNE)problem has been widely considered as a crucial issue,which is aimed to embed Virtual Networks(VNs)onto the shared substrate networks(SNs)efficiently.Recently,some VNE approaches have developed Node Ranking strategies to drive and enhance the embedding efficiency.Node Ranking Strategy rank/sort the nodes according to the attributes of the node,including both residual local attributes(CPU,Bandwidth,storage,Etc.)and the global topology attributes(Number of neighborhood Nodes,Delay to other nodes,Etc.).This paper presents an overview of Node Ranking Strategies in Virtual Network Embedding,and possible directions of VNE Node Ranking Strategy.
文摘Cloud computing is becoming popular technology due to its functional properties and variety of customer-oriented services over the Internet.The design of reliable and high-quality cloud applications requires a strong Quality of Service QoS parameter metric.In a hyperconverged cloud ecosystem environment,building high-reliability cloud applications is a challenging job.The selection of cloud services is based on the QoS parameters that play essential roles in optimizing and improving cloud rankings.The emergence of cloud computing is significantly reshaping the digital ecosystem,and the numerous services offered by cloud service providers are playing a vital role in this transformation.Hyperconverged software-based unified utilities combine storage virtualization,compute virtualization,and network virtualization.The availability of the latter has also raised the demand for QoS.Due to the diversity of services,the respective quality parameters are also in abundance and need a carefully designed mechanism to compare and identify the critical,common,and impactful parameters.It is also necessary to reconsider the market needs in terms of service requirements and the QoS provided by various CSPs.This research provides a machine learning-based mechanism to monitor the QoS in a hyperconverged environment with three core service parameters:service quality,downtime of servers,and outage of cloud services.
基金Supported by National Nat ural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.51675227,51975249)Jilin Province Science and Technology Development Funds(Grant Nos.20180201007GX,20190302017GX)+2 种基金Technology Development and Research of Jilin Province(Grant No.2019C037-01)Changchun Science and Technology Planning Project(Grant No.19SS011)National Science and technology Major Project(Grant No.2014ZX04015031).
文摘Heavy-duty machine tools are composed of many subsystems with different functions,and their reliability is governed by the reliabilities of these subsystems.It is important to rank the weaknesses of subsystems and identify the weakest subsystem to optimize products and improve their reliabilities.However,traditional ranking methods based on failure mode effect and critical analysis(FMECA)does not consider the complex maintenance of products.Herein,a weakness ranking method for the subsystems of heavy-duty machine tools is proposed based on generalized FMECA information.In this method,eight reliability indexes,including maintainability and maintenance cost,are considered in the generalized FMECA information.Subsequently,the cognition best worst method is used to calculate the weight of each screened index,and the weaknesses of the subsystems are ranked using a technique for order preference by similarity to an ideal solution.Finally,based on the failure data collected from certain domestic heavy-duty horizontal lathes,the weakness ranking result of the subsystems is obtained to verify the effectiveness of the proposed method.An improved weakness ranking method that can comprehensively analyze and identify weak subsystems is proposed herein for designing and improving the reliability of complex electromechanical products.
基金Sponsored by the Basic Research Foundation of Beijing Institute of Technology(BIT-UBF-20070842009)
文摘An eigenvector method for ranking alternatives whose measurements are given as vague values is provided. Firstly, a positive matrix is constructed which is defined as evaluation information matrix (EIM). Based on four assumptions for evaluating alternatives, a ranking eigenvector is defined. And then it is proved, based on positive matrix theory, that the EIM's eigenvector corresponding to the maximal eigenvalue is the ranking vector. For alternatives whose characteristics are presented by vague sets, the proposed techniques can evaluate the degree of suitability to which an alternative satisfies the decision-maker' s requirement efficiently.