Affinity propagation (AP) is a clustering method that can find data centers or clusters by sending messages between pairs of data points. Seed Affinity Propagation is a novel semisupervised text clustering algorithm which is based on AP. AP algorithm couldn’t cope up with part known data direct. Therefore, focusing on this issue a semi-supervised scheme called incremental affinity propagation c...

Fracture analysis of glass/epoxy composites under different thermal cycling conditions is considered. Temperature difference, stacking sequence, fiber volume fraction and number of thermal cycles are selected as the experimental design factors. The Taguchi method is implemented to design of the experiment and an apparatus is developed for automatic thermal cycling tests. The tensile tests are d...

The breakage of capsules upon crack propagation is crucial for achieving crack healing in encapsulation-based self-healing materials. A mesomechanical model was developed in this study to simulate the process of crack propagation in a matrix and the potential of debonding. The model used the extended finite element method (XFEM) combined with a cohesive zone model (CZM) in a two-dimensional (2D...

In this paper, we investigate the numerical error propagation and provide systematic backward stability analysis for some hierarchical rank structured matrix algorithms. We prove the backward stability of various important hierarchically semiseparable (HSS) methods, such as HSS matrix-vector multiplications, HSS ULV linear system solutions, HSS linear least squares solutions, HSS inversions, an...

A Monte Carlo method based on tracing the multiply scattered electric field is presented to simulate the propagation of polarized light in turbid media. Multiple scattering of light comprises a series of updates of the parallel and perpendicular components of the complex electric field with respect to the scattering plane by the amplitude scattering matrix and rotations of the local coordinate ...

The rst-order two-step nonlinear estimator, when applied to a problem of orbital navigation, is found to occasionally produce rst step covariance matrices with very low eigenvalues at certain trajectory points. This anomaly is the result of the linear approximation to the rst step covariance propagation. The study of this anomaly begins with expressing the propagation of the rst and second step...

A) , (L J regular QC-LDPC code of length N is defined by a parity-check matrix L L p I p I p I p I p I p I p I p I p I H     (1) where 1 1    J j , 1 1    L l and   l j p I , represents the p p  circulant permutation matrix obtained by cyclically right-shifting the p p  identity matrix   0 I by l j p , positions, with. / L N p  For a specific QC-LDPC code we define the correspo...

Optical elements such as lenses and polarizers are used to modify the propagation of light. The transformations of the optical wave front that these elements perform are described by simple and straightforward transmission matrices (Fig. 1). The formalism of transmission matrices is also used to microscopically describe the transmission through more complex optical systems, including opaque mat...

We extend the differential theory to anisotropic cylindrical structures with an arbitrary cross section. Two cases have to be distinguished. When the anisotropic cylinders do not contain the origin, the scattering matrix of the device is calculated from the extended differential theory with the help of the scattering matrix propagation algorithm. The fields outside the cylinders are described b...