... Mi(ti) = M i ( i ) then T else F ) where T stands for True and F for False 20 The sound and complete axiomatization of the above semantics is quite standard and for instance is given in paper by [Ras]6 ... information system and a distributed information system (DIS) Next, we introduce local queries and give their standard semantics Finally, we show the structure of discovery layers and action layers ... Computing based on rough set and rough mereological approaches (see, e.g., Zadeh and Kacprzyk 33 , Zhong et al 35 , Lin , Polkowski and Skowron 22 ' 25 > 26 ; Skowron and Stepaniuk 29 , Nguyen et...
... held, and a work area on the left hand side where the puzzle is constructed The Helper’s screen (right) shows the target solution on the right, and a view of the Worker’s work area in the left hand ... model with a visual-only model, and developed a visual salience algorithm to rank the visual objects according to recency, exposure time, and visual uniqueness In a hand-processed evaluation, they ... for the Worker and Helper are illustrated in Figure Figure The Worker’s view (left) and the Helper’s view (right) The Worker’s screen (left) consists of a staging area on the right hand side where...
... RESERVED iii DEDICATION To my beloved parents Guanghui Fu and Lan Chen, my dear wife Wenjie Sun, and my grandparents for their unconditional love and encouragement iv ACKNOWLEDMENTS I feel so grateful ... opening my eyes to the world and encouraging me to pursue my career abroad, and to my beloved wife, Wenjie Sun, for making our family full of joy, support, and understanding v ABSTRACT Automatic ... documents and the performance is measured by the commonly used precision, recall, and F scores For example, Yang and Liu applied Support Vector Machines (SVM) on the Reuters 21578 collection and produced...
... machine-oriented or job-oriented and examples for both types are presented in Fig 1.4, where jobs J1 and J2 are scheduled O11, O12, and O13 are three operations of J1 and O21, O22, and O23 are operations ... technology and Dr Bud Fox for providing valuable opinions and helping me to improve my writing skills I also thank the most important people in my life: my husband, Zou Chunzhong, for his patience and ... steady demand and is most suitable for a flow shop pull system It may not equally benefit dynamic job shops where demands are variable Finally, dispatching rules are widely adopted in practice and...
... demands on water quality for schrimp and rice production in the Mekong river delta, vietnam Pages 221-226 in F Ghassemi, M McAleer, L Oxley and M Scoccimaro, editors Modsim 2001 The Modelling and ... Thus, it will be possible to simulate the model on landscapes similar to reality and validate the model by comparison between simulated data and data from the field Figure Soil Characteristics ... It requires the agreement and participation of the institution in charge of the decisions, the appropriation of the methodology by local and legitimised scientists and their medium –term involvement...
... G (by R2B and A2B ) (by R2K and A2K ) (by R2B , C1, and A2B , k -fold) E-KNOWk (ψ) → (by R2K , CK1, and A2K , k -fold) G for all k ≥ C-BELG (ψ) → C-BELG (χ) (by RC2 and C3) (by RCK2 and C4) C-KNOWG ... domains and to explicitly communicate and reason about teamwork Human society only exists by virtue of our ability to work together in dynamic and flexible ways Plus of course, human society exists and ... models, team structures and the overarching architecture behind TeamLog from Kim Does, Harmen Wassenaar, Alina Strachocka and Andrzej Szałas In addition, Kim, Michał and Alina also offered a...
... methods, recent trend of purely data-driven methods, (Barzilay and Lee, 2004; Daum´III and e Marcu, 2006; Tang et al., 2009; Haghighi and Vanderwende, 2009), have shown remarkable improvements Our ... summarization methods discover salient features by measuring similarity between candidate sentences and summary sentences (Nenkova and Vanderwende, 2005; Conroy et al., 2006) While such methods are effective ... pom ,l and psn ,l are obtained using Eq (2) and then normalized (see Fig.1.b) Algorithm Tree-Based Sentence Scoring Tree-Based Sentence Scoring 1: Given tree T from sumHLDA, candidate and summary...
... three linear Markov chains We generalize Jelinek and Mercer’s original recursive mixing scheme (Jelinek and Mercer, 1981) and form a lattice to handle the situation where the context is a mixture ... approach by Brants et al (2007) follows a standard MapReduce paradigm (Dean and Ghemawat, 2004): the corpus is first divided and loaded into a number of clients, and n-gram counts are collected at each ... pruning on charts (Jelinek and Chelba, 1999; Jelinek, 2004) where T ′ l is a set of N parse trees for sentence W l N in document d and || · || denotes the cardinality and T ′ N is a collection...
... structural relations of the layer, pointers and alignments and indirectly by locational and medial relations (cf Fig 4) An annotation layer contains elements and defines structural relations between ... crossing the borders between the structural and featural tiers and between the locational and medial tiers Now we examine the border between the locational and structural tier An operator can be used ... two sets of segments and returns those segments that are present in both lists and have the same start and end positions The anchored operator takes an annotation element and returns true if the...
... We can also use +R and -R as a gold standard for evaluating the separation of typical(S) into distinct positive and negative subsets posTypical(S) and negTypical(S) via (7) and (8) The lexicon ... stereotypical properties or behaviors X and Y are linked via coordination, as in “hot and humid” or “kicking and screaming” A bidirectional link between X and Y is added to the support graph if ... process of populating +R and -R, we identify a reference set of 478 positive stereotype nouns (such as saint and hero) and 677 negative stereotype nouns (such as tyrant and monster) We can use...
... comparatives to coordination and quantification, and he pays little attention to lexical ambiguities Cresswell's work (Cresswell 1976) handles both adjectivals and adnominals and is closer in spirit ... (e.g (Bronnenberg, Bunt, Landsbergen, Scha, Schoenmakers, and van Utteren 1980) and (Ryan, Root, and Olawsky 1988)) with a Mapping Selector that communicates with the user and returns the results ... Two exceptions are the recent papers of Ballard (1988) and Rayner and Banks (1988) The former treats adjectival and adnomihal comparatives, and is primarily concerned with the interpretation of...
... computer simulations (De Lange, 1974) and in deterministic computer simulations (Fernando and Gianola, 1986; Smith and Hammond, 1987; Tallis and Leppard, 1987) Smith and Hammond (1987) used multivariate ... r2< x 10- where r and F are the right-hand side of equation i and the estimated right-hand side of equation i, respectively The animals selected for breeding were mated either randomly or assortatively ... random mating increased as heritability increased and as selection intensity decreased Similar trends have been reported in the literature and Gianola, 1986; Smith and Hammond, 1987) Smith and...
... ROCERK < TERK; (ii) ROCPLC > TPLC and ROCERK < TERK; (iii) ROCPLC < TPLC and ROCERK > TERK; and (iv) ROCPLC > TPLC and ROCERK > TERK Figure lists these conditions and their phenotypic consequences, ... of change for both PLCγ and ERK (i.e., ROCPLC and ROCERK at 2.65 × 5.9 and at 2.65 × 6.0 nM) are lower compared with those in Fig (i.e., ROCPLC and ROCERK at 2.65 × 31.1 and at 2.65 × 31.2 nM) ... proliferation [23], and autocrine receptor-ligand dynamics [24,25] We argue that a more detailed understanding of a complex cancer system requires integrating both molecular- and cellular-level...
... acknowledge and thank my entire family for their love and support I only need to observe my parents to understand how to be a man with strong will and pure and kind heart These are the most treasurable ... enthusiasm and tireless hardwork have been the most invaluable encouragement to me I also wish to thank Prof Ben M Chen for his advice and inspiration, which will stay with me for life His enthusiasm and ... attitude in life and research make me feel that I could conquer the world if I want Furthermore, I am pleased to thank my fellow students and colleagues in ACT lab for their friendship and wonderful...
... operate and what restrictions and constraints there are All assumptions to the environment will be described in Section 3.1.1 Actuators and Sensors are the ”hands and legs” and ”eyes and ears” ... and path planning by Kulatunga et el for autonomous ground vehicles in material handling [72], by Yin and Wang in nonlinear resource allocation [73], and by Zhenhua et el in task allocation and ... having complete and accurate information and making all the decisions andand issuing the orders Such is the case with a multi-agent system architecture comprising a centralized command-control center...
... research His trust and scientific excitement inspired me and I am glad to work with him I sincerely thank Prof Rangaiah Gade Pandu and Prof Lim Khiang Wee, whom constituted and chaired my research ... (Jackson, 1991) Applications of PCA and its variants for process monitoring can be found in Chiang and Braatz, (2003); MacGregor and Kourti, (1995); and Chen and Liu, (2002) Most of the reported ... variable From the figure, variables and 2, and 3, and 16 and 18 appear to be linearly correlated, while no direct correlation is apparent between variables 6, and 11 Scatter diagrams have been...
... III: Maximal and end values for the short typical scenario 88 Maximal and end values for the long typical scenario 92 Maximal and end values for the short typical scenario 95 Maximal and End values ... Introduction As cities become more and more densely populated, due to the increasing urbanization throughout the world, the demand for transportation and the number and density of road vehicles also ... lengths are used for peak and non-peak periods To calibrate the phase times, the average demands must be known, and the signals cannot be modified to respond to a change in demand, unless they are...
... route, and a route maintenance phase, whereby dynamic changes along the route is monitored and updated Examples of reactive routing protocols are Ad Hoc On-Demand Distance Vector Routing (AODV) and ... (DSR) Among these protocols, AODV, OLSR and TBRPF are already part of the IETF recommendations [10], [49] and [39] For a survey and comparison, refer to [18] and [52] 1.1.2 Medium Access Control ... operate on, and a wireless medium is very different from a wired one To begin, wireless medium has limited bandwidth due to spectrum scarcity and hardware constraints Optimized use of bandwidth...
... research and industry leading hardware and software platform) [1] are small devices with limited and generally irreplaceable battery power, small memory, constrained computational capacities and transmission ... algorithms, and limiting the amount and distance of communication are necessary design parameters in order to achieve an efficient, energy-aware and scalable solution Fur- 1.1 Wireless Sensor Networks and ... action choices [10], [11] In the standard RL model, the learner and decision-maker is called an agent and is connected to its environment via perception or sensing, and actions, as shown in Figure...
... contributions DJ and RB designed, executed, and wrote up the study CG, GKH, and JM obtained the study data and assisted with study development and execution All authors read and approved the ... service introduction and the incidence and rate of ICU readmissions, and (d) to assess changes in the same adverse events in hospitals that had not introduced an MET service Materials and methods Ethical ... ward CA and readmission to ICU) are presented as means ± standard deviation for absolute values and rates of events (adjusted for total ICU admissions) in the 12-month periods before and after...