the developments of the iran-iraq war scene following the iranian victory in faw which changed the balance of power in favor of iran caused the iraq not only to intensify her attacks against the residential areas and industrial circles, but also increases the using of chemical weapons during her attacks in ground battles as a deterrent factor. in other words, the iraqi decision-makers when unde...

INTRODUCTION Nowadays several rating systems exist for the evaluation of the sustainability of buildings, but often their focus is limited to environmental and efficiency aspects. Hospitals are complex constructions in which many variables affect hospital processes. Therefore, a research group has developed a tool for the evaluation of sustainability in healthcare facilities. METHODOLOGY The ...

Many algorithms for inferring a decision tree from data involve a two phase process First a very large decision tree is grown which typically ends up over tting the data To reduce over tting in the second phase the tree is pruned using one of a number of available methods The nal tree is then output and used for classi cation on test data In this paper we suggest an alternative approach to the ...

We design efficient on-line algorithms that predict nearly as well as the best pruning of a planar decision graph. We assume that the graph has no cycles. As in the previous work on decision trees, we implicitly maintain one weight for each of the prunings (exponentially many). The method works for a large class of algorithms that update its weights multiplicatively. It can also be used to desi...

which these fields have developed independently of one another. From one perspective, this is not surprising. 3 Neuron Cell Press Each field seeks to understand behavior at a different level of analysis, and sometimes with different inten-Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 tions. However, seen another way, the lack of interaction across these fields is quite surprising, given the potential Introduc...