Density functional theory (DFT) was employed to evaluate the heats of formation (HOFs) for hexaazaadamantane (HAA) derivatives with OCN, ONC, and OONO 2 groups, respectively. This was done by designing isodesmic reactions at the B3LYP/6-31G* level of theory, where the HAA cage skeletons were kept unbroken to produce more accurate results, and all HOFs for the required reference compounds, NH 2 CN, NH 2 NC, NH 2 ONO 2 , and (CH 2 NH) 3 , were derived from the G 3 theory calculation based on the atomization energies. The calculation results show that the HOFs of HAA derivatives are mainly affected by the number and the position of substituent groups, all the obtained HOFs are positive, and the ONC derivatives have the most HOFs among the three types of derivatives with the same number of substituent groups. The detonation velocity (D) and detonation pressure (P) were obtained from the empirical Kamlet-Jacobs equations. All the ONC and OCN derivatives of HAA have lower densities (), heats of explosion (Q), D, and P. However, these properties of OONO 2 derivatives are rather high and vary with the number of OONO 2 groups. Considering the easiness for synthesis and relative stability, 2,4,6,8-hexaazaadamantanenitrate is finally recommended as a potential candidate of a high-energy density compound (HEDC).
Truth-finding is the fundamental technique for corroborating reports from multiple sources in both data integration and collective intelligent applications. Traditional truthfinding methods assume a single true value for each data item and therefore cannot deal will multiple true values (i.e., the multi-truth-finding problem). So far, the existing approaches handle the multi-truth-finding problem in the same way as the single-truth-finding problems. Unfortunately, the multi-truth-finding problem has its unique features, such as the involvement of sets of values in claims, different implications of inter-value mutual exclusion, and larger source profiles. Considering these features could provide new opportunities for obtaining more accurate truthfinding results. Based on this insight, we propose an integrated Bayesian approach to the multi-truth-finding problem, by taking these features into account. To improve the truth-finding efficiency, we reformulate the multi-truthfinding problem model based on the mappings between sources and (sets of) values. New mutual exclusive relations are defined to reflect the possible co-existence of multiple true values. A finer-grained copy detection method is also proposed to deal with sources with large profiles. The experimental results on three real-world datasets show the effectiveness of our approach.
Many real-world applications rely on multiple data sources to provide information on their interested items. Due to the noises and uncertainty in data, given a specific item, the information from different sources may conflict. To make reliable decisions based on these data, it is important to identify the trustworthy information by resolving these conflicts, i.e., the truth discovery problem. Current solutions to this problem detect the veracity of each value jointly with the reliability of each source for every data item. In this way, the efficiency of truth discovery is strictly confined by the problem scale, which in turn limits truth discovery algorithms from being applicable on a large scale. To address this issue, we propose an approximate truth discovery approach, which divides sources and values into groups according to a userspecified approximation criterion. The groups are then used for efficient inter-value influence computation to improve the accuracy. Our approach is applicable to most existing truth discovery algorithms. Experiments on real-world datasets show that our approach improves the efficiency compared to existing algorithms while achieving similar or even better accuracy. The scalability is further demonstrated by experiments on large synthetic datasets.
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