The OWL is a language for representing ontologies but it is unable to capture the uncertainty about the concepts for a domain. To address the problem of representing uncertainty, we propose in this paper, the theoretical aspects of our tool BeliefOWL which is based on evidential approach. It focuses on translating an ontology into a directed evidential network by applying a set of structural tr...

The concept of Information Propagation has been studied to illustrate the particular, discrete, and explicit behavior of the nodes in a complex and highly distributed and connected networks. The complex network structure exhibits various challenges towards information propagation due to the usage of diversified communication protocol and dynamic behavior in the context of uncertainty. This pape...

modelling of crack propagation by finite element method under mixed mode conditions is of prime importance in fracture mechanics. this paper describes an application of finite element method to the analysis of mixed mode crack growth in linear elastic fracture mechanics. crack growth process is simulated by an incremental crack-extension analysis based on the maximum principal stress criterion,...

Professor Michael Goodchild is perhaps the best known GIScientist in the world. Indeed, he coined the term in a landmark 1991 paper in which he argued that geographic information systems (GIS) was a term that poorly described the spatial theory and commensurate analysis that had flourished with the development of computational cartography (Goodchild, 1992). Geographic information science, by co...

Expectation propagation (EP), a family of methods for iterative approximate statistical inference closely related to belief propagation, is linked to a hybrid between Dykstra’s algorithm with cyclic Bregman projections and the method of alternating Bregman projections from convex analysis via the use of the information geometry of exponential families. Doing so justifies extrinsic information e...