Aiming at the disadvantages of high fixing cost and partial observability of system environment in the process of repairing Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) software faults, a method was proposed based on micro-reboot mechanism and Partially Observable Markov Decision Process (POMDP) model for failure repair of AUV. To facilitate the implementation of the fine-grained self-repair micro-reboot strategy, a hierarchical structure was built based on micro-reboot combined with the characteristics of AUV software. Meanwhile, a self-repair model was put forward according to the theory of POMDP. With the goal of minimizing the fixing cost, the repair strategy was solved by Point Based Value Iteration (PBVI) algorithm to allow the repair action to execute in the partially observable environment at a lower cost.The simulation results show that the proposed repairing method can solve the AUV software failures caused by the software-aging and system calls. Compared with two-tier micro-repair strategy and three-tier micro-repair fixing strategy, this method is obviously superior to the contrast method in cumulative fault repair time and operational stability.
Conventional approaches for Common Weights (CW) generation in Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) are either non-linear or scale-relevant. To solve this problem, according to the demand of military training performance evaluation, a new method was proposed to generate CW in DEA. The new method took DEA efficient units as the basis of calculation. Firstly, training data were normalized, and then multi-objective programing was employed for CW generation, which can lead to a fairer and more reasonable ranking of performances. The proposed method is not only linear, but also scale-irrelevant. Lastly, a military application illustrates that the proposed method is scientific and effective.
A novel kernel-based non-negative sparse representation (KNSR) method was presented for face recognition. The contributions were mainly three aspects: First, the non-negative constraints on representation coefficients were introduced into the Sparse Representation (SR) and the kernel function was exploited to depict non-linear relationships among different samples, based on which the corresponding objective function was proposed. Second, a multiplicative gradient descent method was proposed to solve the proposed objective function, which could achieve the global optimum value in theory. Finally, local binary feature and the Hamming kernel were used to model the non-linear relationships among face samples and therefore achieved robust face recognition. The experimental results on some challenging face databases demonstrate that the proposed algorithm has higher recognition rates in comparison with algorithms of Nearest Neighbor (NN), Support Vector Machine (SVM), Nearest Subspace (NS), SR and Collaborative Representation (CR), and achieves about 99% recognition rates on both YaleB and AR databases.
Considering the demand of detecting Android malware and the redundancy of permission properties, a fast scheme was proposed to detect malware from the perspective of permission correlation. To eliminate the redundant permissions, Chi-square test was used to compute the influence of the permission on the classification results. Then some representative permissions were selected on the basis of permission clustering to further reduce redundancy. Finally an improved Naive Bayesian classification based on the weights of different permissions was proposed to classify the software. Results of the experiments conducted on 2000 software samples show that the miss rate of malware detection is 10.33% and the overall prediction accuracy is 88.98%. Experiments indicate that this scheme is capable of detecting malware on Android platform by using a few permission properties, which can provide a reference for further analysis and judgment.