State Vector: A New Approach to Prediction of the Failure of Brittle Heterogeneous Media and Large Earthquakes

The concept of state vector stems from statistical physics, where it is usually used to describe activity patterns of a physical field in its manner of coarsegrain. In this paper, we propose an approach by which the state vector was applied to describe quantitatively the damage evolution of the brittle heterogeneous systems, and some interesting results are presented, i.e., prior to the macro-fracture of rock specimens and occurrence of a strong earthquake, evolutions of the four relevant scalars time series derived from the state vectors changed anomalously. As retrospective studies, some prominent large earthquakes occurred in the Chinese Mainland (e.g., the M 7.4 Haicheng earthquake on February 4, 1975, and the M 7.8 Tangshan earthquake on July 28, 1976, etc) were investigated. Results show considerable promise that the time-dependent state vectors could serve as a kind of precursor to predict earthquakes.

一种实时异构系统的集成动态调度算法

提出了一种实时异构系统的集成动态调度算法.该算法通过一个新的任务分配策略以及软实时任务的服务质量QoS(quality of service)降级策略,不仅以统一方式完成了对实时异构系统中硬、软实时任务的集成动态调度,而且提高了算法的调度成功率.同时,还进行了大量的模拟研究.这些模拟以传统的近视算法为基准,将其应用在实时异构系统集成动态调度时的调度成功率与新算法进行比较,模拟结果表明,在多种任务参数取值下,新算法的调度成功率均高于传统的近视算法.

实时异构系统的动态调度算法研究

实时多处理器系统是解决复杂实时应用的有效手段.然而,目前对实时多处理器调度算法的研究却大多集中在同构系统上,对实时异构系统的调度则研究得比较少.提出了一种新的实时异构系统的动态调度算法.该算法采用了集中式的调度方案,同时,引入了一个新的任务分配策略,从而通过提高任务可行性而提高了算法的调度成功率.此外,为了评估该算法的性能,还进行了大量的模拟研究.由于近视算法经简单修改便可以被应用到实时异构系统的动态调度中,因此,在模拟研究中,以近视算法作为基准,将其应用于实时异构系统动态调度时的性能与新算法进行了比较.模拟结果显示,在多种任务参数的取值下,新算法的调度成功率均高于近视算法.