in this study, thermoplastic polyolefin elastomeric (tpo) nanocomposites were fabricated by friction stir processing. the effect of different pin geometries on clay dispersion and mechanical properties of the tpo nanocomposite reinforced with 3% wt nanoclay has been first investigated. the optimum pin geometry namely threaded cylindrical pin was then used to fabricate the nanocomposites contain...

Recently, tuning the weights of the rules in Fuzzy Rule-Base Classification Systems is researched in order to improve the accuracy of classification. In this paper, a margin-based optimization model, inspired by Support Vector Machine classifiers, is proposed to compute these fuzzy rule weights. This approach not only  considers both accuracy and generalization criteria in a single objective fu...

We propose Adaptive Incremental Mixture Markov chain Monte Carlo (AIMM), a novel approach to sample from challenging probability distributions defined on a general state-space. Typically, adaptive MCMC methods recursively update a parametric proposal kernel with a global rule; by contrast AIMM locally adapts a non-parametric kernel. AIMM is based on an independent Metropolis-Hastings proposal d...

The Evidential Reasoning (ER) approach has been developed to support multiple criteria decision making (MCDM ) under uncertainty. It is built upon Dempster’s rule for evidence combination and uses belief functions for dealing with probabilistic uncertainty and ignorance. In this introductory paper, following a brief introduction to Dempster’s rule and the ER approach, we report the discovery of...

The rule technological landscape is becoming ever more complex, with an extended number of specifications and products. It is therefore becoming increasingly difficult to integrate rule-driven components and manage interoperability in multi-rule engine environments. The described work presents the possibility to provide a common interface for rule-driven components in a distributed system. The ...

We study a functional method to extract the V−A condensate of dimension 6 from a comparison of τ -decay data with the asymptotic space-like QCD prediction. Our result is in agreement within errors with that from conventional analyses based on finite energy sum rules. Supported by PROCOPE, EGIDE Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]

Fuzzy rule-based classification system (FRBCS) is a popular machine learning technique for classification purposes. One of the major issues when applying it on imbalanced data sets is its biased to the majority class, such that, it performs poorly in respect to the minority class. However many cases the minority classes are more important than the majority ones. In this paper, we have extended ...

In this study, thermoplastic polyolefin elastomeric (TPO) nanocomposites were fabricated by friction stir processing. The effect of different pin geometries on clay dispersion and mechanical properties of the TPO nanocomposite reinforced with 3% wt nanoclay has been first investigated. The optimum pin geometry namely threaded cylindrical pin was then used to fabricate the nanocomposites contain...