Multi-layered handsheet making with laboratory sheet machine.

A Multi-layered Immune Inspired Machine Learning Algorithm

Artificial Immune Systems (AIS) have recently been proposed as an additional soft computing paradigm. This paper proposes a new multi-layered unsupervised machine learning algorithm inspired by the vertebrate immune system. The algorithm has been tested on benchmark data and has shown a great deal of potential for data reduction and clustering tasks. This paper presents an overview of the algor...

Phase Conductor on Multi-layered Attentions for Machine Comprehension

Attention models have been intensively studied to improve NLP tasks such as machine comprehension via both question-aware passage attention model and selfmatching attention model. Our research proposes phase conductor (PhaseCond) for attention models in two meaningful ways. First, PhaseCond, an architecture of multi-layered attention models, consists of multiple phases each implementing a stack...

Multi-layered folding with voids.

In the deformation of layered materials such as geological strata, or stacks of paper, mechanical properties compete with the geometry of layering. Smooth, rounded corners lead to voids between the layers, while close packing of the layers results in geometrically induced curvature singularities. When voids are penalized by external pressure, the system is forced to trade off these competing ef...

Thermoelectric properties of single-layered SnSe sheet.

Motivated by the recent study of inspiring thermoelectric properties in bulk SnSe [Zhao et al., Nature, 2014, 508, 373] and the experimental synthesis of SnSe sheets [Chen et al., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2013, 135, 1213], we have carried out systematic calculations for a single-layered SnSe sheet focusing on its stability, electronic structure and thermoelectric properties by using density functiona...

An AHP-Delphi Multi-Criteria Decision Making Model with Application to Environmental Decision-Making