Privacy Quantification Model Based on the Bayes Conditional Risk in Location-Based Services

The widespread use of Location-Based Services(LBSs),which allows untrusted service providers to collect large quantities of information regarding users’locations,has raised serious privacy concerns.In response to these issues,a variety of LBS Privacy Protection Mechanisms(LPPMs)have been recently proposed.However,evaluating these LPPMs remains problematic because of the absence of a generic adversarial model for most existing privacy metrics.In particular,the relationships between these metrics have not been examined in depth under a common adversarial model,leading to a possible selection of the inappropriate metric,which runs the risk of wrongly evaluating LPPMs.In this paper,we address these issues by proposing a privacy quantification model,which is based on Bayes conditional privacy,to specify a general adversarial model.This model employs a general definition of conditional privacy regarding the adversary’s estimation error to compare the different LBS privacy metrics.Moreover,we present a theoretical analysis for specifying how to connect our metric with other popular LBS privacy metrics.We show that our privacy quantification model permits interpretation and comparison of various popular LBS privacy metrics under a common perspective.Our results contribute to a better understanding of how privacy properties can be measured,as well as to the better selection of the most appropriate metric for any given LBS application.     

多停泊基地约束下港口拖轮作业的一体化调度优化

在分析拖轮调度问题基本性质的基础上,结合多处理器任务调度理论,构建了以拖轮总作业时间最小化为目标函数、考虑多停泊基地条件下的一体化调度优化模型;针对问题特点设计了混合模拟退火算法并对其进行求解;以二维实整数的方式作为解的表现形式,在初始解的生成过程中加入首艘可用拖轮的启发式规则,并运用三点交叉的方式产生新解.数值实例结果表明,所提出的算法收敛性较好,求解结果比现行调度规则所得结果的优化率提高了20%.对系统参数的分析表明:移泊作业所占比例和到港船舶类型对目标函数的影响较大;在拖轮配备中,总作业时间对拖轮配备情况具有极弱的敏感性,而在不同装卸作业时间下总作业时间的变化无规律性.     

Infrared imaging as a means of visually characterizing the thermoacoustic onset process influenced by a Helmholtz resonator

A Helmholtz resonator can be used as a transmission part to connect the thermoacoustic engine (TE) with its load. However, the resonator can significantly influence the performance of the TE. In order to investigate the impact of a Helmholtz resonator on the onset process of a TE, infrared (IR) imaging is firstly used as a visualization method to characterize the onset mechanism. The influence of dimensions of the Helmholtz resonator on the onset process are analyzed experimentally and theoretically. Results show that the Helmholtz resonator reduces the pressure amplitude at the onset moment and increases the onset temperature of the TE, both of which depend on the acoustic power absorbed from the TE. Onset without a sudden increase of pressure amplitude is observed with the Helmholtz resonator at resonance length. This paper shows that IR imaging is an effective way to characterize the temperature distribution in a TE study.     

Evaluation of simulated reservoirs by using the oblique-incidence reflectivity difference technique

正Dear Editors,The evaluation of the oil-gas resources’potential depends on the characterization of reservoirs.The geometry of the pore-crack structures and the compositions of the pore walls have influence on hydrocarbon production about capillarity and permeability[1].Besides,it has been known that the adsorption phenomenon in micro-structure plays a significant role in oil-gas reservoirs.Some techniques have been applied to characterize conventional and unconventional reservoirs,     

Modeling fatigue of ascending stair evacuation with modified fine discrete floor field cellular automata

Fatigue even increases the complexity of the pedestrian dynamics which is regarded as a kind of nonlinear system, and might have a significant negative impact on the crowd evacuation. However, it has never been investigated completely and properly. Thus, the fine discrete floor field cellular automata model is modified by integrating the fatigue function to explore the influence of fatigue on the crowd ascending evacuation. The simulation fits well with the empirical data and the observations quantitatively and qualitatively, indicating the model captures the main features of evacuation considering fatigue impact. As a prediction, without merging streams, compared with the case of walking in constant speed, when fatigue is considered, it takes 71.4% longer for all persons to enter the stairs and 87.2% longer to evacuate. With merging streams, fatigue has little impact on the inflow, while it makes the total evacuation time 84.2% longer.     

Synthesis,characterization and electrocatalytic performance of a dinuclear triazenidosilver(I) complex for hydrogen production

Our group has developed a series of molecular electrocatalysts for hydrogen generation based on triazenido–metal complexes (cobalt, copper, etc.). In this paper, we first present the electrocatalytic performance of a new dinuclear silver complex, [Ag₂(L)₂], formed by the reaction of the triazenido ligand 1‐[(2‐carboxymethyl)benzene]‐3‐[(2‐methoxy)benzene]triazene (HL) with AgNO₃. At room temperature, the silver complex shows photoluminescence at 653 nm. The electrocatalytic systems based on this silver complex can afford 106.57 and 1536.36 moles of hydrogen per mole of catalyst per hour from acetic acid at an overpotential (OP) of 991.6 mV and from a neutral aqueous buffer (pH = 7.0) at an OP of 837.6 mV, respectively. Electrochemical investigations show that both silver ion and triazenido ligand play a role in determining the catalytic activities of the electrocatalytic system.     

Studies on Carbohydrates X. A New Method for the Preparation of Isopropylidene Saccharides

Cabohydrates reacting with acetone in the presence of molecular sieve and p—toluene sulfonic acid provided a simple, convenient, high yield and good selective process for preparation of isopropylidene carbohydrates.     

Isotopes and hydrochemistry of Daihai Lake recharging sources,Northern China

Daihai Lake has faced severe shrinkage in recent years due to over-exploitation. Stable isotopes (D and ¹⁸O) and hydrochemistry are employed to investigate the source of lake water to better understand its recharge dynamics. Results show that, in additional to local rainfall, groundwater is also an important water supply to the lake and accounts for a greater proportion. The groundwater is not recharged by local rainfall, but originates from other sources with significantly depleted isotope values. Combined with springs and artesian wells in the basin, it is consistent with the recent discover of external groundwater recharging in Northern China.     

Effects of Thieno[3,2-b]thiophene Number on Narrow-Bandgap Fused-Ring Electron Acceptors

Chinese Journal of Polymer Science - We synthesize and compare four near-infrared absorbing fused-ring electron acceptors named as nTTIC (n=2, 3, 4, and 5), based on different number of...