Yueqi Hou¹, Xiaolong Liang^{1, 2}, Lyulong He¹, Jiaqiang Zhang^{1, *}, Jie Zhu³, Baoxiang Ren³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.62, No.3, pp. 1335-1349, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.06869

Abstract Consensus control of multi-agent systems has attracted compelling attentions from various scientific communities for its promising applications. This paper presents a discrete-time consensus protocol for a class of multi-agent systems with switching topologies and input constraints based on distributed predictive control scheme. The consensus protocol is not only distributed but also depends on the errors of states between agent and its neighbors. We focus mainly on dealing with the input constraints and a distributed model predictive control scheme is developed to achieve stable consensus under the condition that both velocity and acceleration constraints are included More >

R. Mythili^{1, *}, P. Kalpana²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.62, No.3, pp. 1097-1107, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.08396

Abstract NIDS (Network Intrusion Detection Systems) plays a vital role in security threats to computers and networks. With the onset of gigabit networks, hardware-based Intrusion Detection System gains popularity because of its high performance when compared to the software-based NIDS. The software-based system limits parallel execution, which in turn confines the performance of a modern network. This paper presents a signature-based lookup technique using reconfigurable hardware. Content Addressable Memory (CAM) is used as a lookup table architecture to improve the speed instead of search algorithms. To minimize the power and to increase the speed, precomputation based… More >

Jinlin Wang¹, Xing Wang^{1, *}, Yuchen Yang¹, Hongli Zhang¹, Binxing Fang¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.62, No.3, pp. 1053-1075, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.08675

Abstract Web information system (WIS) is frequently-used and indispensable in daily social life. WIS provides information services in many scenarios, such as electronic commerce, communities, and edutainment. Data cleaning plays an essential role in various WIS scenarios to improve the quality of data service. In this paper, we present a review of the state-of-the-art methods for data cleaning in WIS. According to the characteristics of data cleaning, we extract the critical elements of WIS, such as interactive objects, application scenarios, and core technology, to classify the existing works. Then, after elaborating and analyzing each category, we More >

Tian Li^{1, *}, Xiaohan Zhang¹, Yao Jiang², Weihua Zhang¹

FDMP-Fluid Dynamics & Materials Processing, Vol.16, No.1, pp. 121-130, 2020, DOI:10.32604/fdmp.2020.07976 - 01 February 2020

Abstract The so-called Evacuated Tube Train (ETT) is currently being proposed as a high-speed transportation system potentially competitive with airplane transportation. Aerodynamic resistance is one of the most crucial factors for the successful design of an ETT. In the present work, a three-dimensional concept ETT model has been elaborated. The aerodynamic characteristics of the subsonic ETT have been numerically simulated under different conditions. The train’s running speed varies from 600 km/h up to 1200 km/h, and the blockage ratio is in the range between 0.1 and 0.3. As the blocking ratio and running speed increase, the More >

Maosen Lian¹, Yi Li¹, Xiaohui Gu¹, Shouhua Luo^1,*

Molecular & Cellular Biomechanics, Vol.17, No.1, pp. 41-48, 2020, DOI:10.32604/mcb.2019.07383

Abstract Motion artifacts of in vivo imaging, due to rapid respiration rate and respiration displacements of the mice while free-breathing, is a major challenge in micro computed tomography(micro-CT). The respiratory gating is often served for either projective images acquisition or per projection qualification, so as to eliminate the artifacts brought by in vivo motion. In this paper, we propose a novel respiratory gating method, which firstly divides one rotation cycle into a number of segments, and extracts the respiratory signal from the projective image series of current segment by the value of the epipolar consistency conditions (ECC),… More >

Fan Liu¹, Jianwei Yan², Wantao Wang², Jian Liu^{2, *}, Junying Li³, Alan Yang⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.62, No.2, pp. 801-816, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.07039

Abstract Skin lesion recognition is an important challenge in the medical field. In this paper, we have implemented an intelligent classification system based on convolutional neural network. First of all, this system can classify whether the input image is a dermascopic image with an accuracy of 99%. And then diagnose the dermoscopic image and the non-skin mirror image separately. Due to the limitation of the data, we can only realize the recognition of vitiligo by non-skin mirror. We propose a vitiligo recognition based on the probability average of three structurally identical CNN models. The method is More >

Yun Wang¹, Fazli Subhan², Shahaboddin Shamshirband^{3, 4, *}, Muhammad Zubair Asghar⁵, Ikram Ullah⁵, Ammara Habib⁵

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.62, No.2, pp. 631-655, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.07920

Abstract The feedback collection and analysis has remained an important subject matter for long. The traditional techniques for student feedback analysis are based on questionnaire-based data collection and analysis. However, the student expresses their feedback opinions on online social media sites, which need to be analyzed. This study aims at the development of fuzzy-based sentiment analysis system for analyzing student feedback and satisfaction by assigning proper sentiment score to opinion words and polarity shifters present in the input reviews. Our technique computes the sentiment score of student feedback reviews and then applies a fuzzy-logic module to More >

Sang-Min Park¹, Young-Gab Kim^{2, *}

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.62, No.2, pp. 569-590, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.08666

Abstract Emotions of users do not converge in a single application but are scattered across diverse applications. Mobile devices are the closest media for handling user data and these devices have the advantage of integrating private user information and emotions spread over different applications. In this paper, we first analyze user profile on a mobile device by describing the problem of the user sentiment profile system in terms of data granularity, media diversity, and server-side solution. Fine-grained data requires additional data and structural analysis in mobile devices. Media diversity requires standard parameters to integrate user data More >

Sooeun Song¹, Minsu Choi¹, Yunyeong Goh¹, Jusik Yun¹, Wonsuk Yoo¹, Wonsik Yang¹, Jaewook Jung¹, Jong-Moon Chung^{1, *}

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.62, No.2, pp. 473-494, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.09052

Abstract As next generation communication technologies emerge, new high data rate applications and high-definition large-screen video streaming have become very popular. As a result, network traffic has been increasing so much that existing backhaul networks soon will not be able to support all traffic demands. To support these needs in future 6G mobile systems, the establishment of an additional backhaul wireless network is considered essential. As one of the solutions, a wireless backhaul network based on an aerial platform has been proposed. In order to explore the potential of aerial platforms as wireless backhaul networks, in More >

Kai Liu^{1, 2}, Zheng Hou^{2, *}, Zhiyong She², Jian Guo²

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.122, No.1, pp. 131-148, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2020.08124 - 01 January 2020

Abstract This paper studies the reentry attitude tracking control problem for hypersonic vehicles (HSV) equipped with reaction control systems (RCS) and aerodynamic surfaces. The attitude dynamical model of the hypersonic vehicles is established, and the simplified longitudinal and lateral dynamic models are obtained, respectively. Then, the compound control allocation strategy is provided and the model predictive controller is designed for the pitch channel. Furthermore, considering the complicated jet interaction effect of HSV during RCS is working, an improved model predictive control approach is presented by introducing the online parameter estimation of the jet interaction coefficient for More >