writing for the client not for history

... The project report: Writing for the client, not for history 150 11.3.1 The purpose of and audience for the final report 151 11.3.2 The rough outline: Structuring the final report 151 11.3.3 The ... illustrate how these student teams applied the design tools they were learning (Again, further details can be found in the Acknowledgments, the Notes at the end of Chapter 2, and the References ... external clients, it is typically the client who motivates and presents the starting point for design That is why a designer’s first task is to question the client to clarify what the client really...

Ngày tải lên: 10/03/2016, 13:35

... The size effect is due t o stored energy release into the fracture front, and is not governed by Weibull-type statistical theory Experimental evidence on the existence of the size effect, hitherto ... NOPSlS In the first o f i t s series of four state-of -the- art reports under preparation, the Committee describes the basic concepts of fracture mechanics o f concrete, the existing theoretical ... (work-of-fracture) method, the Jenq-Shah and Karihaloo-Nallathambi methods, and the size-effect method Experimental determination o f the characteristic length for nonlocal continuum models and the strain-softening...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2014, 21:58

... understood by the user Consider for example, the case when the current clock time is t, and the user wishes to find clusters in the stream based on a history of length h Then, the macro-clustering ... target The leader nodes estimate the probability of the target's direction and determines the next monitoring region that the target is going to traverse The leaders of the cells within the next ... driven practitioners Given the lack of structurally organized information on the topic, the book will provide insights which are not easily accessible otherwise In addition, the book will be a great...

Ngày tải lên: 08/11/2013, 02:15

... the each record in the data cannot be distinguished from at least k other records For this purpose, we only maintain the summary statistics for the data points in the clusters as opposed to the ... of the training stream is not used for the creation of the micro-clusters This portion of the training stream is referred to as the horizon fitting stream segment The number of points in the ... process needs to be performed both for the clustering and classificiation algorithms with minor differences Therefore, we present the results for the case of clustering By setting the number of micro-clusters...

Ngày tải lên: 08/11/2013, 02:15

... log(1/6) The bound on the accuracy of each split can then be extrapolated to the behavior of the entire decision tree We note that the stream decision tree will provide the same result as the conventional ... significantly saves the time of recalculating the criteria for all the attributes with each incoming record of the stream The accuracy of the output can be further improved using multiple scans in the case ... uses information theory to calculate the window size The main idea behind the system is to change the sliding window of the model reconstruction according to the classification error rate If the...

Ngày tải lên: 08/11/2013, 02:15

... because the MFI can be different in each segment, and when we combine them together, we need the counts for the itemsets which are frequent but not maximal However, estimating the counts for these ... Xg At the end of time t, the values computed for each coordinate at the grid need to be normalized The process of normalization is the same for either the forward or the reverse density profiles ... subtracting the density at spatial location X fiom the density at X (eperturbation along the ith dimension), and dividing the result by E The smaller the value of E ,the better the approximation Therefore,...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 13:15

... computation and storage of the cuboids along the path The aggregations along the drilling path from the mlayer to the o-layer are performed during the generalizing of the stream data to the m-layer, which ... probability Pi For the tuples in the set Qi, let vl, 212, , V N ~ denote the values of the attribute being summed, and let Ai be their sum The approximate answer produced by the system will be the sum ... the relative errors for all queries are the same, the effective sampling rate Pi for each query qi will be proportional to the Ci value for that query, since Pi = Ci/ei = Ci/emaz Therefore, the...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 13:15

... induction on the height of the tree The base case consists of the root node and its children The claim is trivially true for the root node For a node n that is the child of the root, the top-level ... depends on the rate rj in the same way Therefore, changing rj does not affect the ratio between the Pi values for these queries The only impact that a small change to rj will have is to modify the sampling ... to the prefix path probability of node x To prove the theorem, we first prove the claim that for each node x other than the root, the prefix path probability of x is equal to Px The proof of the...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 13:15

... included in the set S , then we only need to increment the count by Therefore, the footprint size does not increase On the other hand, if the value of the current point is distinct from all the values ... method for computation of the wavelet coefficient, and is optimal for the case of the Euclidean error, it is not necessarily optimal for the case of the Lm-metric For example, consider the time ... corresponding to the ith value, then the second moment estimation is exactly the size of the self-join We further note that the dot product function is not the only one which can be estimated from the sketch...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 13:15

... deletions The resulting sequences of updates on the join view constitutes the output stream of the stream join Note that deletions from the windows can result in deletions from the view Therefore, ... [34, 121 The straightforward approach of sampling each input uniformly and then joining them does not work -the result may be arbitrarily skewed and small compared with the actual result The hardness ... compute the time it took for each such packet to reach the other router As another example, an online auction system may generate two event streams: One signals opening of auctions and the other...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 13:15

... However, the space required for this scheme is also linear in the size of the largest window The reason is that we need to maintain half of the features at the lower level to compute the feature at the ... general, B[2i] denotes the low coordinate and B [2i 1 denotes the high coordinate along the i-th dimension Note that for SUM, MAX and MIN, B has a single dimension However, for DWT the number of ... B& denotes the i-th MBR at level j for stream S 1:beginprocedure 2: w := W (the window size at the lowest resolution); 3: tnowdenotes the current discrete time; 4: forj:=Oto J d o 5: Bfi := the...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 13:15

... most, for most of the time Maybe the thermostats are broken or set wrong? For wg, the largest weights correspond to sensors and 3, then to and If we examine the data, we notice that these streams ... as we often expect to be the case, the number k of the hidden variables is much smaller than the number n of streams Therefore, we can apply any forecasting algorithm to the vector of hidden variables ... ALGORITHMS Theforgetting factor X will be discussed in Section 5.0 (for now, assume X = 1) For each i, di = tEtli and xi is the component of xt+l in the orthogonal complement of the space spanned by the...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 13:15

... space, they employ a down counting approach Essentially, they update the support counts for the discovered itemsets as the data set is processed Furthermore, for all the discovered itemsets, they ... members may not overlap, the other cluster members may have statistics on portions of the cluster not accessible to the clusterhead), the clusterhead is responsible for analyzing the flow of ... The clients are distributed across the network and pose queries The summaries computed at the central site are cached adaptivelyat the clients The access pattern, i.e reads and writes, over the...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 13:15

... and the clusters are used to define rules describing the state of the system In the state monitoring process the nodes collaborate to update the state of the network by applying the rules to the ... In the method proposed by [lo], the network is divided into clusters and the cluster heads calculates the target location based on the signal readings from the other nodes in the cluster The ... includes the sensors around the moving target As the target moves, the tree dynamically evolves by adding and pruning some nodes The node close to the target is the root of the tree where all the...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 13:15

... Wavelets for Multiple Measures, 182 Feature Extraction for Indexing, 243 Fixed Window Sketches for Time Series, 185 Forecasting Data Streams, 261 Forward Density Profile, 91 Frequency Based Model for ... Load sheddinifor Aggregation Queries, 128 Loadshedding for classification aueries, 145 Loadstar, 145 LWClass Algorithm, 49 MAIDS, 117 Markov Inequality, 173 Maximum E m r Metric for Wavelets, ... Window Model, 149 Sliding Window Model for Frequent Pattern Mining, 63 Spatial Velocity Profiles, 95 SPIRIT, 262 State Management for Stream Joins, 213 Statistical Forecasting of Streams, 27 STREAM,...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 13:15

... arithmetic has the (n + 1)-st order scaling property Proof The proof for the binary operations follows directly from the denition of the remainder bounds for the binaries Similarly, the proof for the intrinsics ... the BA performance depending on the number of pre-iterations Again, for the purpose of the problems studied by the authors, the fact that the enclosures obtained in the xed point search are not ... which leads to a vg for the composition For details in their own notation, see for example [47], p 52 and p 105f as well as [49], p 91 There are other operations that not have the high-order scaling...

Ngày tải lên: 12/01/2014, 21:47

... of the tongue center, the radius of the tongue body, the position of the tongue tip, the jaw opening, the lip opening and protrusion, the position of the hyoid, and the opening of the velum The ... decoupled, and the formants of the tract are the formants of the back cavity plus those of the front cavity If now the noise source is just downstream of the constriction, the formants of the back ... the ith section become the input quantities for the i + 1st section Therefore, if Ki is the chain matrix for the ith section, then the chain matrix for the variable-area tract is approximated by...

Ngày tải lên: 22/01/2014, 12:20

... BC Nowadays, the portions may not be so small, as one is for sleep and the other is for wakefulness The balance between these two phases of our life has become an important issue for modern medicine ... resistance These preliminary findings are discussed in Chapters and 10 Another important risk factor for SRBD is male gender Estimates for the ratio of males to females with SRBD depend on the population ... Indeed, the robust ultradian rhythm of the sleep–wake cycle in rodents (21) ensures that there are prolonged periods of wakefulness even during the resting phase (22) Therefore, it can not be...

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