Ming Li

Prof. Dr. Ming Li

Zhejiang University
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Academic Career Length

34Years (1993-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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3 December 2009 in Mathematical Problems in Engineering
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Ming LiMing Li
Ming Li
Fractal time series substantially differs from conventional one in its statistic properties. For instance, it may have a heavy‐tailed probability distribution function (PDF), a slowly decayed autocorrelation function (ACF), and a power spectrum function (PSD) of 1/f type. It may have the statistical dependence, either long‐range dependence (LRD) or short‐range dependence (SRD), and global or local self‐similarity. This article will give a tutorial review about those concepts. Note that a conventional time series can be regarded as the solution to a differential equation of integer order with the excitation of white noise in mathematics. In engineering, such as mechanical engineering or electronics engineering, engineers may usually consider it as the output or response of a differential system or filter of integer order under the excitation of white noise. In this paper, a fractal time series is taken as the solution to a differential equation of fractional order or a response of a fractional system or a fractional filter driven with a white noise in the domain of stochastic processes.

1 October 2008 in Physics Letters A
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SLS.C. Lim
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Ming LiMing Li
Ming Li
LTL.P. Teo
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19 April 2017 in Entropy
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YGYangde Gao
Yangde Gao
Francesco VilleccoFrancesco Villecco
Francesco Villecco
Ming LiMing Li
Ming Li
Song WanqingSong Wanqing
Song Wanqing
Based on the combination of improved Local Mean Decomposition (LMD), Multi-scale Permutation Entropy (MPE) and Hidden Markov Model (HMM), the fault types of bearings are diagnosed. Improved LMD is proposed based on the self-similarity of roller bearing vibration signal by extending the right and left side of the original signal to suppress its edge effect. First, the vibration signals of the rolling bearing are decomposed into several product function (PF) components by improved LMD respectively. Then, the phase space reconstruction of the PF1 is carried out by using the mutual information (MI) method and the false nearest neighbor (FNN) method to calculate the delay time and the embedding dimension, and then the scale is set to obtain the MPE of PF1. After that, the MPE features of rolling bearings are extracted. Finally, the features of MPE are used as HMM training and diagnosis. The experimental results show that the proposed method can effectively identify the different faults of the rolling bearing.

1 April 2008 in Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
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Ming LiMing Li
Ming Li
SLS.C. Lim
S.C. Lim

1 January 2015 in Mathematical Problems in Engineering
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JJJian Jin
Jian Jin
Ming LiMing Li
Ming Li
LJLong Jin
Long Jin
When pure linear neural network (PLNN) is used to predict tropical cyclone tracks (TCTs) in South China Sea, whether the data is normalized or not greatly affects the training process. In this paper, min.-max. method and normal distribution method, instead of standard normal distribution, are applied to TCT data before modeling. We propose the experimental schemes in which, with min.-max. method, the min.-max. value pair of each variable is mapped to (−1, 1) and (0, 1); with normal distribution method, each variable’s mean and standard deviation pair is set to (0, 1) and (100, 1). We present the following results: (1) data scaled to the similar intervals have similar effects, no matter the use of min.-max. or normal distribution method; (2) mapping data to around 0 gains much faster training speed than mapping them to the intervals far away from 0 or using unnormalized raw data, although all of them can approach the same lower level after certain steps from their training error curves. This could be useful to decide data normalization method when PLNN is used individually.

1 May 2006 in Computers & Security
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Ming Li