Probabilistic assessment of seismic performance(SPPA)is a crucial aspect of evaluating the seismic behavior of structures.For complex bridges with inherent uncertainties,conducting precise and efficient seismic reliab...Probabilistic assessment of seismic performance(SPPA)is a crucial aspect of evaluating the seismic behavior of structures.For complex bridges with inherent uncertainties,conducting precise and efficient seismic reliability analysis remains a significant challenge.To address this issue,the current study introduces a sample-unequal weight fractional moment assessment method,which is based on an improved correlation-reduced Latin hypercube sampling(ICLHS)technique.This method integrates the benefits of important sampling techniques with interpolator quadrature formulas to enhance the accuracy of estimating the extreme value distribution(EVD)for the seismic response of complex nonlinear structures subjected to non-stationary ground motions.Additionally,the core theoretical approaches employed in seismic reliability analysis(SRA)are elaborated,such as dimension reduction for simulating non-stationary random ground motions and a fractional-maximum entropy single-loop solution strategy.The effectiveness of this proposed method is validated through a three-story nonlinear shear frame structure.Furthermore,a comprehensive reliability analysis of a real-world long-span,single-pylon suspension bridge is conducted using the developed theoretical framework within the OpenSees platform,leading to key insights and conclusions.展开更多
Polynomial-time randomized algorithms were constructed to approximately solve optimal robust performance controller design problems in probabilistic sense and the rigorous mathematical justification of the approach wa...Polynomial-time randomized algorithms were constructed to approximately solve optimal robust performance controller design problems in probabilistic sense and the rigorous mathematical justification of the approach was given. The randomized algorithms here were based on a property from statistical learning theory known as (uniform) convergence of empirical means (UCEM). It is argued that in order to assess the performance of a controller as the plant varies over a pre-specified family, it is better to use the average performance of the controller as the objective function to be optimized, rather than its worst-case performance. The approach is illustrated to be efficient through an example.展开更多
The phenomenon of data explosion represents a severe challenge for the upcoming big data era.However,the current Internet architecture is insufficient for dealing with a huge amount of traffic owing to an increase in ...The phenomenon of data explosion represents a severe challenge for the upcoming big data era.However,the current Internet architecture is insufficient for dealing with a huge amount of traffic owing to an increase in redundant content transmission and the end-point-based communication model.Information-centric networking(ICN)is a paradigm for the future Internet that can be utilized to resolve the data explosion problem.In this paper,we focus on content-centric networking(CCN),one of the key candidate ICN architectures.CCN has been studied in various network environments with the aim of relieving network and server burden,especially in name-based forwarding and in-network caching functionalities.This paper studies the effect of several caching strategies in the CCN domain from the perspective of network and server overhead.Thus,we comprehensively analyze the in-network caching performance of CCN under several popular cache replication methods(i.e.,cache placement).We evaluate the performance with respect to wellknown Internet traffic patterns that follow certain probabilistic distributions,such as the Zipf/Mandelbrot–Zipf distributions,and flashcrowds.For the experiments,we developed an OPNET-based CCN simulator with a realistic Internet-like topology.展开更多
基金Sichuan Science and Technology Program under Grant No.2024NSFSC0932the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.52008047。
文摘Probabilistic assessment of seismic performance(SPPA)is a crucial aspect of evaluating the seismic behavior of structures.For complex bridges with inherent uncertainties,conducting precise and efficient seismic reliability analysis remains a significant challenge.To address this issue,the current study introduces a sample-unequal weight fractional moment assessment method,which is based on an improved correlation-reduced Latin hypercube sampling(ICLHS)technique.This method integrates the benefits of important sampling techniques with interpolator quadrature formulas to enhance the accuracy of estimating the extreme value distribution(EVD)for the seismic response of complex nonlinear structures subjected to non-stationary ground motions.Additionally,the core theoretical approaches employed in seismic reliability analysis(SRA)are elaborated,such as dimension reduction for simulating non-stationary random ground motions and a fractional-maximum entropy single-loop solution strategy.The effectiveness of this proposed method is validated through a three-story nonlinear shear frame structure.Furthermore,a comprehensive reliability analysis of a real-world long-span,single-pylon suspension bridge is conducted using the developed theoretical framework within the OpenSees platform,leading to key insights and conclusions.
文摘Polynomial-time randomized algorithms were constructed to approximately solve optimal robust performance controller design problems in probabilistic sense and the rigorous mathematical justification of the approach was given. The randomized algorithms here were based on a property from statistical learning theory known as (uniform) convergence of empirical means (UCEM). It is argued that in order to assess the performance of a controller as the plant varies over a pre-specified family, it is better to use the average performance of the controller as the objective function to be optimized, rather than its worst-case performance. The approach is illustrated to be efficient through an example.
基金supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea(NRF)funded by the Ministry of Education(2014R1A1A2057796)and(2015R1D1A1A01059049)
文摘The phenomenon of data explosion represents a severe challenge for the upcoming big data era.However,the current Internet architecture is insufficient for dealing with a huge amount of traffic owing to an increase in redundant content transmission and the end-point-based communication model.Information-centric networking(ICN)is a paradigm for the future Internet that can be utilized to resolve the data explosion problem.In this paper,we focus on content-centric networking(CCN),one of the key candidate ICN architectures.CCN has been studied in various network environments with the aim of relieving network and server burden,especially in name-based forwarding and in-network caching functionalities.This paper studies the effect of several caching strategies in the CCN domain from the perspective of network and server overhead.Thus,we comprehensively analyze the in-network caching performance of CCN under several popular cache replication methods(i.e.,cache placement).We evaluate the performance with respect to wellknown Internet traffic patterns that follow certain probabilistic distributions,such as the Zipf/Mandelbrot–Zipf distributions,and flashcrowds.For the experiments,we developed an OPNET-based CCN simulator with a realistic Internet-like topology.
