In this article the accumulated results out of the effects and length of the manufacture and production projects in the university and research standard have been settled with the usefulness definition of the process of project management for the accessibility to the proportional pattern in the “time and action” stages. Studies show that many problems confronted by the researchers in these proj...

In this work, a novel method, based upon Hopfield neural networks, is proposed for parameter estimation in the context of system identification. This subject is a very active field of research, because even when a model of a physical system is available, some parameters may be uncertain or time varying. In our methodology, identification is formulated as an optimization problem, profiting from ...

The subject of perforation in typhoid fever is one of perennial interest both to the physician and the surgeon. Upon the early recognition of its occurrence by the physician depends the success of interference by the surgeon. It is a field in which the surgeon has been more often baffled than victorious, and one in which he has but a limited opportunity of enlarging, and profiting by, his own p...

In this paper we present a new application for confidence measures in spoken language processing. In today’s computerized dialogue systems, language identification (LID) is typically achieved via dedicated modules. In our approach, LID is integrated into the speech recognizer, therefore profiting from high-level linguistic knowledge at very little extra cost. Our new approach is based on a word...

The field of Computational Geometry is devoted to geometric problems and to finding efficient algorithms for solving them. Given that the problems of the field are typically concerned with geometric objects and manipulations of such, it appears natural to visualize the geometric context of a problem when studying it. This thesis describes the design and implementation of a framework for the vis...

This paper presents an approach for learning complex tasks on real robots, like walking or kicking in a humanoid soccer robot, profiting at most from the possibility to run simulations of a virtual model of the robot. This approach avoids to damage the real robot in the time consuming trials needed to learn a correct behavior and avoids to overfit the virtual robot model. The basic idea is to r...

Abst rac t . Symbolic state space traversal techniques are one of the most notable achievements in the fields of formal verification and of automated synthesis. Transition functions and transition relations are two alternative approaches. In terms of efficiency, transition functions have proven to be superior, although the transition relation is much more expressive. This paper brings the trans...

Volume 94 No. 9 September 2011 was sentenced to168 months in prison and ordered to pay $9.5 million in restitution for his part in the five-year long scheme. In December, the parent company of two New Jersey hospitals paid $7.9 million to resolve allegations that the hospitals wrongfully obtained excessive outlier payments. In March of 2010, a cancer center in Florida agreed to pay $12 million ...