Vegetation plays an important role in the environmental transport behavior of organic pollutants,however,the different roles of crops and natural vegetation have been ignored in most previous studies.In this study,we ...Vegetation plays an important role in the environmental transport behavior of organic pollutants,however,the different roles of crops and natural vegetation have been ignored in most previous studies.In this study,we developed the BETR-Urban-Rural-Veg model to quantitatively evaluate the influences of both natural vegetation and crops on the multimedia transport processes of Phenanthrene(PHE)and Benzo(a)pyrene(BaP)in mainland of China.The geographic distribution of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon(PAH)emissions and concentrations were consistent,displaying higher levels in northern China while lower levels in southern China.Under seasonal simulations,for both natural vegetation and crops,PAH concentrations in winter and spring were 1.5 to 27-fold higher than in summer and autumn,especially for PHE.Owing to the higher leaf area index(LAI)of natural vegetation and harvesting of crops,the filter and sequestration effect of natural vegetation was stronger than crops,while the seasonal changes of PAH concentrations in crops were more significant than natural vegetation.Temperature,precipitation rates and LAI might have important influences on seasonal concentrations and overall persistence of PAHs.PHE was more sensitive to the impacts of seasonal environmental parameters.Under different landscape scenarios,average annual PAH concentrations in natural vegetation were always a little higher than those in crops,and the overall persistence of BaP was greatly affected increasing by 15.15%-16.47%.This improved model provides a useful tool for environmental management.The results of this study are expected to support land use plans and decision-making in China's mainland.展开更多
Urban areas are generally regarded as major sources of some semivolatile organic compounds and other persistent organic pollutants（POPs） to the surrounding regions. Huge differences in contaminant emissions between ...Urban areas are generally regarded as major sources of some semivolatile organic compounds and other persistent organic pollutants（POPs） to the surrounding regions. Huge differences in contaminant emissions between urban and rural areas directly affect their fate in environmental media. Little is known about POPs behavior between urban and rural areas at a regional scale. A spatially resolved Berkeley-Trent-Urban-Rural Fate Model（BETR-UR） was designed by coupling land cover information to simulate the transport of POPs between urban and rural areas, and the Bohai Rim was used as a case study to estimate Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon（PAH） fate. The processes of contaminant fate including emission, inter-compartmental transfer, advection and degradation in urban and rural areas were simulated in the model. Simulated PAH concentrations in environmental media of urban and rural areas were very close to measured values. The model accuracy was highly improved, with the average absolute relative error for PAH concentrations reduced from 37% to 3% compared with unimproved model results. PAH concentrations in urban soil and air were considerably higher than those in rural areas. Sensitivity analysis showed temperature was the most influential parameter for Phen rather than for Bap, whose fate was more influenced by emission rate, compartment dimension, transport velocity and chemical persistence. Uncertainty analysis indicated modeled results in urban media had higher uncertainty than those in rural areas due to larger variations of emissions in urban areas. The differences in urban and rural areas provided us with valuable guidance on policy setting for urban–rural POP control.展开更多
Part I of this study develops an enhanced environmental multimedia modeling system （EMMS） based on fuzzy-set approach. Once the model development is complete, the composite module and the entire modeling system need...Part I of this study develops an enhanced environmental multimedia modeling system （EMMS） based on fuzzy-set approach. Once the model development is complete, the composite module and the entire modeling system need to be tested and validated to ensure that the model can simulate natural phenomena with reasonable and reliable accuracy. The developed EMMS is first tested in a complete case study. And then verification results are conducted to compare with extensively researched litera- ture data. In the third step, the data from an experimental landfill site is used for a pilot-scale validation. The comparisons between EMMS outputs and the literature data indicate that the EMMS can perform accurate modeling simulation. The modules of EMMS could support the entire environmental multimedia modeling system. Further field-scale validation is finished. The results are satisfactory. Most of the modeling yields closely match the monitoring data collected from sites. In addition, with the aid of fuzzy-set approach, EMMS can be a reliable and powerful tool to address the complex environmental multimedia pollution problems and provide an extensive support for decision makers in managing the contaminated environmental systems.展开更多
Multimedia environmental modeling is extremely complex due to the intricacy of the systems with the consideration of many related factors. Traditional environmental multimedia models （EMMs） are usually based on one-...Multimedia environmental modeling is extremely complex due to the intricacy of the systems with the consideration of many related factors. Traditional environmental multimedia models （EMMs） are usually based on one-dimensional and first-order assumptions, which may cause numerical errors in the simulation results. In this study, a new user-friendly fuzzy-set enhanced environmental multimedia modeling system （FEEMMS） is developed, and includes four key modules： an air dispersion module, a polluting source module, an unsaturated zone module, and a groundwater module. Many improvements over previous EMMs have been achieved through dynamically quantifying the intermedia mass flux; incorporating fuzzy-set approach into environmental multimedia modeling system （EMMS）; and designing a user-friendly graphic user interface （GUI）. The developed FEEMMS can be a useful tool in estimating the timevarying and spatial-varying chemical concentrations in air, soil, and groundwater; characterizing the potential risk to human health presented by contaminants released from a contaminated site; and quantifying the uncertainties associated with modeling systems and subsequently providing robustness and flexibility for the remediationrelated decision making.展开更多
The multimedia synchronization is used to coordinate the timing of each multimedia object in the multimedia system. After studying different multimedia synchronization systems that have been published, an Interactive ...The multimedia synchronization is used to coordinate the timing of each multimedia object in the multimedia system. After studying different multimedia synchronization systems that have been published, an Interactive Synchronization multimedia based on Petri Nets model （ISPN） is proposed in this paper. The system is capable of describing the dynamic timing actions of multimedia objects vividly as well as controlling them interactively to maintain the system level synchronization balance.展开更多
An approach to implementing the multimedia database system NHMDB based on NF2(Non-First-Normal-Form) data model is presented. This approach is easily implemented because NF2 structure can efficiently store various med...An approach to implementing the multimedia database system NHMDB based on NF2(Non-First-Normal-Form) data model is presented. This approach is easily implemented because NF2 structure can efficiently store various media data such as formatted data, text,graphics, image and voice. The main idea is to expand conceptual schema to maintain the consistency of tbreelevel schema in system NHMDB. We developed, implemented and experimented the storage structure and the multimedia data representation by an object identifier.implementation techniques are also discussed.展开更多
This paper provides a survey of selection of most common existing temporal models for multimedia synchronization, which are based on CSP, CCS, path expressions, and Petri net. Multimedia refers to the integrated gener...This paper provides a survey of selection of most common existing temporal models for multimedia synchronization, which are based on CSP, CCS, path expressions, and Petri net. Multimedia refers to the integrated generation, representation, processing, storage, and dissemination of information expressed in multiple time dependent and time independent media such as data, text, graphics, images, audio, and video. Synchronization assures a temporal order of events, which is a well-studied topic in the area of operating systems, parallel programming languages, and database technology.展开更多
Ireproving the quality and experience perceived by the user is fundamental when de- veloping multimedia technologies, products, and services. Quality of experience （QoE） involves subjective perception, user behavior...Ireproving the quality and experience perceived by the user is fundamental when de- veloping multimedia technologies, products, and services. Quality of experience （QoE） involves subjective perception, user behavior and needs, appropriateness, con- text, and usability of delivered content. Modeling QoE is critical for enhancing QoE in various nmhimedia applications. In this special issue,展开更多
Emission intensity and climate change control the transport flux and fate of persistent organic pollutants(POPs)inmultiple environmental compartments.This study applied amultimedia model(BETR model)to explore alternat...Emission intensity and climate change control the transport flux and fate of persistent organic pollutants(POPs)inmultiple environmental compartments.This study applied amultimedia model(BETR model)to explore alternations in the spatio-temporal trends of concentrations and transport flux of benzopyrene(BaP),phenanthrene(Phe),perfluorooctane sulfonates(PFOS)and polychlorinated biphenyls(PCBs)in the Chaohu watershed,located in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River,China in response to changes in source emissions and climate.The potential historic and future risks of these pollutants also were assessed.The results suggest that current trends in concentrations and transport were similar to that of their emissions between 2005 and 2018.During the next 100 years,temporal trends and spatial patterns were not predicted to change significantly,which is consistent with climate change.Based on sensitivity and correlation analyses,climate change had significant effects on multi-media concentrations and transport fluxes of BaP,Phe,PFOS and PCBs,and rainfall intensity was the predominant controlling factor.Risk quotients(RQs)of BaP and Phe-in soil increased from 0.42 to 0.95 and 0.06 to 0.35,respectively,from 2005 to 2090,indicating potential risks.The RQs of the other examined contaminants exhibited little potential risk in soil,water,or sediment.Based on spatial patterns,it was inferred that the ecosystem around Lake Chaohu is the most at risk.The study provides insights needed for local pollution control of POPs in the Chaohu watershed.In addition,the developed approach can be applied to other watersheds world-wide.展开更多
A geographical information system (GIS) is used to capture, store, retrieve, analyzed and display the spatial (locationally defined) data. In contrast to traditional GIS, multimedia GIS is not only able to collect, an...A geographical information system (GIS) is used to capture, store, retrieve, analyzed and display the spatial (locationally defined) data. In contrast to traditional GIS, multimedia GIS is not only able to collect, analyze and store the data in traditional formats i.e. text, images (pictures) and graphs but also audio (sound), animations and video (moving pictures) as well. In this paper the advantages of multimedia GIS over traditional GIS are explained. Multimedia GIS is fully capable of providing services to both technical and non technical users and users of multimedia GIS can retain more knowledge than users of traditional GIS. It can be applied to various fields such as tourism, environment, education etc. Some implementation issues such as data updating, information retrieval and data compression etc. are also addressed. Finally, future development of MMGIS (using new multimedia technologies such as Virtual Reality and Virtual Reality Modeling Language) is discussed.展开更多
Multimedia Interactive Informative Systems (MIIS) are software applications resulting from the convergence of multiples technologies such as audiovisual, computing and communication. They aim to transmit information t...Multimedia Interactive Informative Systems (MIIS) are software applications resulting from the convergence of multiples technologies such as audiovisual, computing and communication. They aim to transmit information to a large, diverse and dispersed public. As with other mass media, the fulfillment of MIIS goals depends largely on the quality of communication between the system and end users. Therefore, those systems should be developed in order to ensure that this quality requirement is satisfied. If MIIS are constructed according to usual software engineering practices, the analysis discipline of the development process includes requirements identification and specification;however, these techniques are focused on functional requirements, and they do not give much importance to non-functional requirements. In this paper, we propose a development process based on the production of videogames which has two different phases: preproduction and production. The first phase, corresponding to requirements identification, derives into the concept of system. In order to translate this concept into a specification, we propose the use of new communicational attributes and a MIIS metamodel. The establishment of MIIS non-functional specification is the result of analyzing class diagrams through quality attributes. In order to evaluate if the specifications are responding to communicational attributes, a functional prototype is built and evaluated with end users. The proposed methodology is applied to a real case study.展开更多
This paper describes the multimedia technology applied to the safety monitoring, management dispatching and production commanding system in the coal mine, analyzes and studies the methods of compression hased on model...This paper describes the multimedia technology applied to the safety monitoring, management dispatching and production commanding system in the coal mine, analyzes and studies the methods of compression hased on model data. In the system a multimedia computer is used to control a subsystem of safety monitoring, a subsystem of attendance management. and a subsystem of industrial TV. The multimedia computer will process the information of graphs. texts, sounds, pictures and images etc. It has the functions of real-time monitoring, emergency rescuing and accident analyzing.展开更多
Synchronization is a important issue in multimedia systems which integrate a variety oftemporally related media objects.One part of synchronization is the representation of tempo-ral information.With the emerging inte...Synchronization is a important issue in multimedia systems which integrate a variety oftemporally related media objects.One part of synchronization is the representation of tempo-ral information.With the emerging interaetive multimedia,deterministic temporal modelsare replaced by nondeterministic ones with more expressiveness.This paper classifies tempo-ral models by their expressiveness,and evaluates the relevant nondetermi.nistic temporal re-lations in multimedia data.Additionally,an interval-based nondeterministie model based ona complete temporal operator set is proposed,providing high-level abstractions and a highdegree of expressiveness for interactive multimedia systems.展开更多
A flexible and extendible control mechanism for invoking services is required for taking full advantage of the potential B--ISDN services. In this paper, a flexible specification of signaling protocol based on an obje...A flexible and extendible control mechanism for invoking services is required for taking full advantage of the potential B--ISDN services. In this paper, a flexible specification of signaling protocol based on an object-oriented call mode is proposed. The article’focuses on the protocol’s message syntax, message flow model, and applicability for defining multimedia and multiparty services.’展开更多
This report gives a view of a computer multimedia book of mechanical drawing. This electronic book is developed under Windows and Chinese Star to form an integrated system on a CD-ROM. In the electronic book, graphics...This report gives a view of a computer multimedia book of mechanical drawing. This electronic book is developed under Windows and Chinese Star to form an integrated system on a CD-ROM. In the electronic book, graphics, images, 3D animation, audio, video and text techniques of computer multimedia are applied. The techniques, methods, contents and purpose of developing this system are introduced.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.42107420,U23A20157,and U1910207)Shanxi Province Science Foundation for Young Scholars(No.20210302124363).
文摘Vegetation plays an important role in the environmental transport behavior of organic pollutants,however,the different roles of crops and natural vegetation have been ignored in most previous studies.In this study,we developed the BETR-Urban-Rural-Veg model to quantitatively evaluate the influences of both natural vegetation and crops on the multimedia transport processes of Phenanthrene(PHE)and Benzo(a)pyrene(BaP)in mainland of China.The geographic distribution of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon(PAH)emissions and concentrations were consistent,displaying higher levels in northern China while lower levels in southern China.Under seasonal simulations,for both natural vegetation and crops,PAH concentrations in winter and spring were 1.5 to 27-fold higher than in summer and autumn,especially for PHE.Owing to the higher leaf area index(LAI)of natural vegetation and harvesting of crops,the filter and sequestration effect of natural vegetation was stronger than crops,while the seasonal changes of PAH concentrations in crops were more significant than natural vegetation.Temperature,precipitation rates and LAI might have important influences on seasonal concentrations and overall persistence of PAHs.PHE was more sensitive to the impacts of seasonal environmental parameters.Under different landscape scenarios,average annual PAH concentrations in natural vegetation were always a little higher than those in crops,and the overall persistence of BaP was greatly affected increasing by 15.15%-16.47%.This improved model provides a useful tool for environmental management.The results of this study are expected to support land use plans and decision-making in China's mainland.
基金supported by the International Scientific Cooperation Program (No. 2012DFA91150)the Chinese Academy of Sciences (No. KZZD-EW-TZ-12)the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grants (Nos. 414201040045, 41501539)
文摘Urban areas are generally regarded as major sources of some semivolatile organic compounds and other persistent organic pollutants（POPs） to the surrounding regions. Huge differences in contaminant emissions between urban and rural areas directly affect their fate in environmental media. Little is known about POPs behavior between urban and rural areas at a regional scale. A spatially resolved Berkeley-Trent-Urban-Rural Fate Model（BETR-UR） was designed by coupling land cover information to simulate the transport of POPs between urban and rural areas, and the Bohai Rim was used as a case study to estimate Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon（PAH） fate. The processes of contaminant fate including emission, inter-compartmental transfer, advection and degradation in urban and rural areas were simulated in the model. Simulated PAH concentrations in environmental media of urban and rural areas were very close to measured values. The model accuracy was highly improved, with the average absolute relative error for PAH concentrations reduced from 37% to 3% compared with unimproved model results. PAH concentrations in urban soil and air were considerably higher than those in rural areas. Sensitivity analysis showed temperature was the most influential parameter for Phen rather than for Bap, whose fate was more influenced by emission rate, compartment dimension, transport velocity and chemical persistence. Uncertainty analysis indicated modeled results in urban media had higher uncertainty than those in rural areas due to larger variations of emissions in urban areas. The differences in urban and rural areas provided us with valuable guidance on policy setting for urban–rural POP control.
文摘Part I of this study develops an enhanced environmental multimedia modeling system （EMMS） based on fuzzy-set approach. Once the model development is complete, the composite module and the entire modeling system need to be tested and validated to ensure that the model can simulate natural phenomena with reasonable and reliable accuracy. The developed EMMS is first tested in a complete case study. And then verification results are conducted to compare with extensively researched litera- ture data. In the third step, the data from an experimental landfill site is used for a pilot-scale validation. The comparisons between EMMS outputs and the literature data indicate that the EMMS can perform accurate modeling simulation. The modules of EMMS could support the entire environmental multimedia modeling system. Further field-scale validation is finished. The results are satisfactory. Most of the modeling yields closely match the monitoring data collected from sites. In addition, with the aid of fuzzy-set approach, EMMS can be a reliable and powerful tool to address the complex environmental multimedia pollution problems and provide an extensive support for decision makers in managing the contaminated environmental systems.
基金This work was partially supported by the National Grand Science and Technology Special Project of Water Pollution Control and Improvement （Nos. 2014ZX07204-006 and 2012ZX07210-006） and the National Natural Science Foundation of China （Grant No. 41106108）.
文摘Multimedia environmental modeling is extremely complex due to the intricacy of the systems with the consideration of many related factors. Traditional environmental multimedia models （EMMs） are usually based on one-dimensional and first-order assumptions, which may cause numerical errors in the simulation results. In this study, a new user-friendly fuzzy-set enhanced environmental multimedia modeling system （FEEMMS） is developed, and includes four key modules： an air dispersion module, a polluting source module, an unsaturated zone module, and a groundwater module. Many improvements over previous EMMs have been achieved through dynamically quantifying the intermedia mass flux; incorporating fuzzy-set approach into environmental multimedia modeling system （EMMS）; and designing a user-friendly graphic user interface （GUI）. The developed FEEMMS can be a useful tool in estimating the timevarying and spatial-varying chemical concentrations in air, soil, and groundwater; characterizing the potential risk to human health presented by contaminants released from a contaminated site; and quantifying the uncertainties associated with modeling systems and subsequently providing robustness and flexibility for the remediationrelated decision making.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (60572100)
文摘The multimedia synchronization is used to coordinate the timing of each multimedia object in the multimedia system. After studying different multimedia synchronization systems that have been published, an Interactive Synchronization multimedia based on Petri Nets model （ISPN） is proposed in this paper. The system is capable of describing the dynamic timing actions of multimedia objects vividly as well as controlling them interactively to maintain the system level synchronization balance.
文摘An approach to implementing the multimedia database system NHMDB based on NF2(Non-First-Normal-Form) data model is presented. This approach is easily implemented because NF2 structure can efficiently store various media data such as formatted data, text,graphics, image and voice. The main idea is to expand conceptual schema to maintain the consistency of tbreelevel schema in system NHMDB. We developed, implemented and experimented the storage structure and the multimedia data representation by an object identifier.implementation techniques are also discussed.
文摘This paper provides a survey of selection of most common existing temporal models for multimedia synchronization, which are based on CSP, CCS, path expressions, and Petri net. Multimedia refers to the integrated generation, representation, processing, storage, and dissemination of information expressed in multiple time dependent and time independent media such as data, text, graphics, images, audio, and video. Synchronization assures a temporal order of events, which is a well-studied topic in the area of operating systems, parallel programming languages, and database technology.
文摘Ireproving the quality and experience perceived by the user is fundamental when de- veloping multimedia technologies, products, and services. Quality of experience （QoE） involves subjective perception, user behavior and needs, appropriateness, con- text, and usability of delivered content. Modeling QoE is critical for enhancing QoE in various nmhimedia applications. In this special issue,
基金supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(No.2017YFA0605003)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.51922010,41521003).
文摘Emission intensity and climate change control the transport flux and fate of persistent organic pollutants(POPs)inmultiple environmental compartments.This study applied amultimedia model(BETR model)to explore alternations in the spatio-temporal trends of concentrations and transport flux of benzopyrene(BaP),phenanthrene(Phe),perfluorooctane sulfonates(PFOS)and polychlorinated biphenyls(PCBs)in the Chaohu watershed,located in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River,China in response to changes in source emissions and climate.The potential historic and future risks of these pollutants also were assessed.The results suggest that current trends in concentrations and transport were similar to that of their emissions between 2005 and 2018.During the next 100 years,temporal trends and spatial patterns were not predicted to change significantly,which is consistent with climate change.Based on sensitivity and correlation analyses,climate change had significant effects on multi-media concentrations and transport fluxes of BaP,Phe,PFOS and PCBs,and rainfall intensity was the predominant controlling factor.Risk quotients(RQs)of BaP and Phe-in soil increased from 0.42 to 0.95 and 0.06 to 0.35,respectively,from 2005 to 2090,indicating potential risks.The RQs of the other examined contaminants exhibited little potential risk in soil,water,or sediment.Based on spatial patterns,it was inferred that the ecosystem around Lake Chaohu is the most at risk.The study provides insights needed for local pollution control of POPs in the Chaohu watershed.In addition,the developed approach can be applied to other watersheds world-wide.
文摘A geographical information system (GIS) is used to capture, store, retrieve, analyzed and display the spatial (locationally defined) data. In contrast to traditional GIS, multimedia GIS is not only able to collect, analyze and store the data in traditional formats i.e. text, images (pictures) and graphs but also audio (sound), animations and video (moving pictures) as well. In this paper the advantages of multimedia GIS over traditional GIS are explained. Multimedia GIS is fully capable of providing services to both technical and non technical users and users of multimedia GIS can retain more knowledge than users of traditional GIS. It can be applied to various fields such as tourism, environment, education etc. Some implementation issues such as data updating, information retrieval and data compression etc. are also addressed. Finally, future development of MMGIS (using new multimedia technologies such as Virtual Reality and Virtual Reality Modeling Language) is discussed.
文摘Multimedia Interactive Informative Systems (MIIS) are software applications resulting from the convergence of multiples technologies such as audiovisual, computing and communication. They aim to transmit information to a large, diverse and dispersed public. As with other mass media, the fulfillment of MIIS goals depends largely on the quality of communication between the system and end users. Therefore, those systems should be developed in order to ensure that this quality requirement is satisfied. If MIIS are constructed according to usual software engineering practices, the analysis discipline of the development process includes requirements identification and specification;however, these techniques are focused on functional requirements, and they do not give much importance to non-functional requirements. In this paper, we propose a development process based on the production of videogames which has two different phases: preproduction and production. The first phase, corresponding to requirements identification, derives into the concept of system. In order to translate this concept into a specification, we propose the use of new communicational attributes and a MIIS metamodel. The establishment of MIIS non-functional specification is the result of analyzing class diagrams through quality attributes. In order to evaluate if the specifications are responding to communicational attributes, a functional prototype is built and evaluated with end users. The proposed methodology is applied to a real case study.
文摘This paper describes the multimedia technology applied to the safety monitoring, management dispatching and production commanding system in the coal mine, analyzes and studies the methods of compression hased on model data. In the system a multimedia computer is used to control a subsystem of safety monitoring, a subsystem of attendance management. and a subsystem of industrial TV. The multimedia computer will process the information of graphs. texts, sounds, pictures and images etc. It has the functions of real-time monitoring, emergency rescuing and accident analyzing.
文摘Synchronization is a important issue in multimedia systems which integrate a variety oftemporally related media objects.One part of synchronization is the representation of tempo-ral information.With the emerging interaetive multimedia,deterministic temporal modelsare replaced by nondeterministic ones with more expressiveness.This paper classifies tempo-ral models by their expressiveness,and evaluates the relevant nondetermi.nistic temporal re-lations in multimedia data.Additionally,an interval-based nondeterministie model based ona complete temporal operator set is proposed,providing high-level abstractions and a highdegree of expressiveness for interactive multimedia systems.
文摘A flexible and extendible control mechanism for invoking services is required for taking full advantage of the potential B--ISDN services. In this paper, a flexible specification of signaling protocol based on an object-oriented call mode is proposed. The article’focuses on the protocol’s message syntax, message flow model, and applicability for defining multimedia and multiparty services.’
文摘This report gives a view of a computer multimedia book of mechanical drawing. This electronic book is developed under Windows and Chinese Star to form an integrated system on a CD-ROM. In the electronic book, graphics, images, 3D animation, audio, video and text techniques of computer multimedia are applied. The techniques, methods, contents and purpose of developing this system are introduced.
