QANUS: An Open-source Question-Answering Platform

In this paper, we motivate the need for a publicly available, generic software framework for question-answering (QA) systems. We present an open-source QA framework QANUS which researchers can leverage on to build new QA systems easily and rapidly. The framework implements much of the code that will otherwise have been repeated across different QA systems. To demonstrate the utility and practicality of the framework, we further present a fully functioning factoid QA system QA-SYS built on top of QANUS.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figures, demo paper describing QANU

Wearable Affective Robot

With the development of the artificial intelligence (AI), the AI applications have influenced and changed people's daily life greatly. Here, a wearable affective robot that integrates the affective robot, social robot, brain wearable, and wearable 2.0 is proposed for the first time. The proposed wearable affective robot is intended for a wide population, and we believe that it can improve the human health on the spirit level, meeting the fashion requirements at the same time. In this paper, the architecture and design of an innovative wearable affective robot, which is dubbed as Fitbot, are introduced in terms of hardware and algorithm's perspectives. In addition, the important functional component of the robot-brain wearable device is introduced from the aspect of the hardware design, EEG data acquisition and analysis, user behavior perception, and algorithm deployment, etc. Then, the EEG based cognition of user's behavior is realized. Through the continuous acquisition of the in-depth, in-breadth data, the Fitbot we present can gradually enrich user's life modeling and enable the wearable robot to recognize user's intention and further understand the behavioral motivation behind the user's emotion. The learning algorithm for the life modeling embedded in Fitbot can achieve better user's experience of affective social interaction. Finally, the application service scenarios and some challenging issues of a wearable affective robot are discussed

A New Condition for the Concavity Method of Blow-up Solutions to Semilinear Heat Equations

In this paper, we consider the semilinear heat equations under Dirichlet boundary condition u_{t}\left(x,t\right)=\Delta u\left(x,t\right)+f(u(x,t)), & \left(x,t\right)\in \Omega\times\left(0,+\infty\right), u\left(x,t\right)=0, & \left(x,t\right)\in\partial \Omega\times\left[0,+\infty\right), u\left(x,0\right)=u_{0}\geq0, & x\in\overline{\Omega}, where $\Omega$ is a bounded domain of $\mathbb{R}^{N}$ $(N\geq1)$ with smooth boundary $\partial\Omega$. The main contribution of our work is to introduce a new condition $$(C) \alpha \int_{0}^{u}f(s)ds \leq uf(u)+\beta u^{2}+\gamma,\,\,u>0$$ for some $\alpha, \beta, \gamma>0$ with $0<\beta\leq\frac{\left(\alpha-2\right)\lambda_{0}}{2}$, where $\lambda_{0}$ is the first eigenvalue of Laplacian $\Delta$, and we use the concavity method to obtain the blow-up solutions to the semilinear heat equations. In fact, it will be seen that the condition (C) improves the conditions known so far.Comment: 7 page

A New Condition for the Concavity Method of Blow-up Solutions to p-Laplacian Parabolic Equations

In this paper, we consider an initial-boundary value problem of the p-Laplacian parabolic equations \begin{equation} \begin{cases} u_{t}\left(x,t\right)=\mbox{div}(|\nabla u\left(x,t\right)|^{p-2}\nabla u(x,t))+f(u(x,t)), & \left(x,t\right)\in \Omega\times\left(0,+\infty\right), \newline u\left(x,t\right)=0, & \left(x,t\right)\in\partial \Omega\times\left[0,+\infty\right), \newline u\left(x,0\right)=u_{0}\geq0, & x\in\overline{\Omega}, \end{cases} \end{equation} where $p\geq2$ and $\Omega$ is a bounded domain of $\mathbb{R}^{N}$ $(N\geq1)$ with smooth boundary $\partial\Omega$. The main contribution of this work is to introduce a new condition \mbox{$(C_{p})$$\hspace{1cm} \alpha \int_{0}^{u}f(s)ds \leq uf(u)+\beta u^{p}+\gamma,\,\,u>0$} for some $\alpha, \beta, \gamma>0$ with $0<\beta\leq\frac{\left(\alpha-p\right)\lambda_{1, p}}{p}$, where $\lambda_{1, p}$ is the first eigenvalue of p-Laplacian $\Delta_{p}$, and we use the concavity method to obtain the blow-up solutions to the above equations. In fact, it will be seen that the condition $(C_{p})$ improves the conditions ever known so far.Comment: 15 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1706.0349

Thermal rectification and negative differential thermal conductance in harmonic chains with nonlinear system-bath coupling

Thermal rectification and negative differential thermal conductance were realized in harmonic chains in this work. We used the generalized Caldeira-Leggett model to study the heat flow. In contrast to the most previous studies considering only the linear system-bath coupling, we considered the nonlinear system-bath coupling based on recent experiment [A. Eichler \emph{et al.}, Nat. Nanotech. \textbf{6}, 339 (2011)]. When the linear coupling constant is weak, the multiphonon processes induced by the nonlinear coupling allow more phonons transport across the system-bath interface and hence the heat current is enhanced. Consequently, thermal rectification and negative differential thermal conductance are achieved when the nonlinear couplings are asymmetric. However, when the linear coupling constant is strong, the umklapp processes dominate the multiphonon processes. Nonlinear coupling suppresses the heat current. Thermal rectification is also achieved. But the direction of rectification is reversed comparing to the results of weak linear coupling constant.Comment: 27 pages, 8 figure

Withdrawing this manuscript

Recently Z. S. Zhang et al [Phys. Lett. A 356(2006)199] have proposed an one-way quantum identity authentication scheme and claimed that it can verify the user's identity and update securely the initial authentication key for reuse.Comment: 5 page

Joint Design of Optimal Cooperative Jamming and Power Allocation for Linear Precoding

Linear precoding and cooperative jamming for multiuser broadcast channel is studied to enhance the physical layer security. We consider the system where multiple independent data streams are transmitted from the base station to multiple legitimate users with the help of a friendly jammer. It is assumed that a normalized linear precoding matrix is given at the base station, whereas the power allocated to each user is to be determined. The problem is to jointly design the power allocation across different users for linear precoding and the cooperative jamming at the friendly jammer. The goal is to maximize a lower bound of the secrecy rate, provided that a minimum communication rate to the users is guaranteed. The optimal solution is obtained when the number of antennas at the friendly jammer is no less than the total number of antennas at the users and eavesdropper. Moreover, a suboptimal algorithm is proposed, which can be applied for all the scenarios. Numerical results demonstrate that the proposed schemes are effective for secure communications.Comment: accepted by IEEE Transactions on Communication

Exploring supersymmetry with machine learning

Investigation of well-motivated parameter space in the theories of Beyond the Standard Model (BSM) plays an important role in new physics discoveries. However, a large-scale exploration of models with multi-parameter or equivalent solutions with a finite separation, such as supersymmetric models, is typically a time-consuming and challenging task. In this paper, we propose a self-exploration method, named Machine Learning Scan (MLS), to achieve an efficient test of models. As a proof-of-concept, we apply MLS to investigate the subspace of MSSM and CMSSM and find that such a method can reduce the computational cost and may be helpful for accelerating the exploration of supersymmetry.Comment: 7 pages, 8 figures. Discussions, comments and CMSSM model are added. Accepted for publication in Nuclear Physics

Cluster algebra structure on the finite dimensional representations of Uq(A3^)U_q(\widehat{A_{3}}) for ll=2

In this paper, we prove one case of the conjecture given by Hernandez and Leclerc\cite{HL0}. Specifically, we give a cluster algebra structure on the Grothendieck ring of a full subcategory of the finite dimensional representations of a simply-laced quantum affine algebra U_q(\widehat{\g}). In the procedure, we also give a specific description of compatible subsets of type $E_{6}$. As a conclusion, for every exchange relation of cluster algebra there exists a exact sequence of the full subcategory corresponding to it.Comment: 58 pages, 2 figures. Correct some typoes and add a new example. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:0903.1452 by other author

Joint Doppler and Channel Estimation with Nested Arrays for Millimeter Wave Communications

Channel estimation is essential for precoding/combining in millimeter wave (mmWave) communications. However, accurate estimation is usually difficult because the receiver can only observe the low-dimensional projection of the received signals due to the hybrid architecture. We take the high speed scenario into consideration where the Doppler effect caused by fast-moving users can seriously deteriorate the channel estimation accuracy. In this paper, we propose to incorporate the nested array into analog array architecture by using RF switch networks with an objective of reducing the complexity and power consumption of the system. Based on the covariance fitting criterion, a joint Doppler and channel estimation method is proposed without need of discretizing the angle space, and thus the model mismatch effect can be totally eliminated. We also present an algorithmic implementation by solving the dual problem of the original one in order to reduce the computational complexity. Numerical simulations are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness and superiority of our proposed method