Almost every person has a life-long personal name which is officially recognised and has only one correct version in their language. Each personal name typically has two components/parts: a first name (also known as given, fore, or Christian name) and a last name (also known as family name or surname). Both these name components are strongly influenced by cultural, economic, historical, politic...

T he veracity of scientific research has become a topic of public discussion recently [1]. This article examines why mathematicians correct errors at a slower pace than many other researchers (see Figure 1). Some sociological aspects of mathematics research may make mathematicians averse to publishing corrections, while mathematics journals have comparatively weak procedures to assure the corre...

e Problem Currently, librarians, archivists, and museum professionals can choose from a large universe of representation standards (see Figure 1). Each of these standards exhibits various strengths and weaknesses based on the problems they are engineered to address. Unfortunately, standards developers do not always explicitly articulate the problems or the contexts that shaped a particular sol...

Technical systems are in general not guaranteed to work correctly. They are more or less reliable. One main problem for technical systems is the computation of the relisystem description ability of a system. A second main problem is the problem of diagnostic. In fact, these problems are in some sense dual to each other. In this paper, we will use the concept of probabilistic argumentation syste...

we require y = (α, . . . , α), α ∈ (0, 1]. If we now compare the size of these two subsets of [0, 1]n (actually, they are lines, see Figure 1), then we see that the latter is larger, i.e., the latter sequence xcase 2 is more likely than xcase 1. b) i) The check that (X1, . . . , Xn) indeed is an element of the given simplex is identical to a). ii) We define the set F = Fs as described in the pr...

8 1094-7167/03/$17.00 © 2003 IEEE IEEE INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS grown significantly over the last decade, from virtually nothing to a network of over 25,000 kilometers crossing the nation. It’s now the second-longest system in the world, behind the United States. Meanwhile, the Chinese automobile industry has expanded explosively over the last few years. It will reach 20 percent of the worldwide aut...

Introduction The present paper introduces a model, which describes different phases that typically occur in situations, in which a researching subject (e. g. an author, an institution, a country etc.) needs to be evaluated and in which some kind of reward (e. g. monetary in the form of a bonus or funding) is based on this evaluation. This model, the present author calls it the “vicious circle o...

A V-shape is an infinite polygonal region bounded by two pairs of parallel rays emanating from two vertices (see Figure 1). We describe a randomized algorithm that, given n points and an integer k ≥ 0, finds the minimum-width V-shape enclosing all but k of the points with probability 1− 1/n for any c > 0, with expected running time O(cn(k + 1) log n(log n log log n + k)).

The need for dynamic operation in the process industry is described by Backx et al. [1]. The economics are increasingly driven by the market and this requires flexible supply chains. In such an environment it is much harder to optimize economic performance while maintaining the required product quality and honoring operational constraints. Therefore it is expected that the current industrial st...

In this work, we have studied the problem of arranging randomly scattered wireless sensor antennas in a way that guarantees the connectivity of the induced communication graph. The main challenge here is to minimize energy consumption while preserving node connectivity [2]. In order to save power, increase transmission capacity and reduce interference, antennas should communicate along a wedge-...