The latest IBM zSeriest processor, the IBM System z10e processor, provides hardware support for the decimal floating-point (DFP) facility that was introduced on the IBM System z9t processor. The z9t processor implements the facility with a mixture of low-level software and hardware assists. Recently, the IBM POWER6e processor-based System pe 570 server introduced a hardware implementation of th...

We propose a nearest point algorithm (NPA) for optimization of a family of Support Vector Machines (SVM) methods. Geometrically, optimizing SVM corresponds to finding the nearest points between two polyhedrons. In classification, the hard margin case corresponds to finding the closest points of the convex hull of each class. The soft margin case corresponds to finding the closest points in the ...

n engl j med 366;12 nejm.org march 22, 2012 1069 action led physicians’ organiza­ tions and the pharmaceutical in­ dustry to adopt increasingly re­ strictive codes of conduct related to industry support of continuing medical education (CME). The Ac­ creditation Council for Continu­ ing Medical Education (ACCME), which accredits CME providers, progressively developed an aggres­ sive system of id...

Overview This paper presents the development of a Graphical User Interface (GUI) to a Decision Support System (DSS) for NonPoint Source (NPS) pollution control on watershed scales. The GUI and all components of the DSS are entirely embedded in ERDAS IMAGINE and the system is launched from the main toolbar. The system uses IMAGINE's GIS functions for data storage and pre−processing, SML for hydr...

We have applied different ways of decision conferencing as an approach to support complex decision making problems [see e.g. Hämäläinen and Leikola 1996; Hämäläinen et al. 1998, 2000a, 2000b, 2001]. In decision conferences, also called facilitated workshops, all the decision making parties are gathered to discuss and process the problem thoroughly. All the relevant alternatives are evaluated wi...

in this paper, we introduce a new concept of fuzzy generalizedcontraction and give a fixed point result for such mappings in the setting of fuzzy m-complete metric spaces. we also give an affirmative partial answer to a question posed by wardowski [d. wardowski, fuzzy contractive mappings and fixed points in fuzzy metric spaces, fuzzy set syst., {bf 222}(2013), 108-114].some examples are also g...

The monoid $Cb$ of name substitutions and the notion of finitely supported $Cb$-sets introduced by Pitts as a generalization of nominal sets. A simple finitely supported $Cb$-set is a one point extension of a cyclic nominal set. The support map of a simple finitely supported $Cb$-set is an injective map. Also, for every two distinct elements of a simple finitely supported $Cb$-set, there exists...