Combining logic with probabilities is a core idea to uncertain reasoning. Recently, approaches to probabilistic conditional logics based on first-order languages have been proposed that employ the principle of maximum entropy (ME), e.g. the logic FO-PCL. In order to simplify the ME model computation, FO-PCL knowledge bases can be transformed so that they become parametrically uniform. On the ot...

Measuring the inconsistency degree of a knowledge base can help us to deal with inconsistencies. Several inconsistency measures have been given under different multi-valued semantics, including 4-valued semantics, 3-valued semantics, LPm and Quasi Classical semantics. In this paper, we first carefully analyze the relationship between these inconsistency measures by showing that the inconsistenc...

Recently, distance learning (DL) has made great achievements in the area of communication space development and the automatic administration of educational processes [1]. Considerably less attention has been paid to the particularities of didactic materials design for DL. The authors claim that a special methodology of didactic material design, based on a cognitive approach, has to be developed...

A numerical study that focuses on the maximum displacement response of reinforced concrete structures subjected to earthquake loading is presented. The specific item of the interest is the increase in maximum displacement caused by biaxial base excitation as compared with that for uniaxial base excitation. The maximum displacement of structural systems structures subjected to uniaxial base exci...

We study an incremental network design problem, where in each time period of the planning horizon an arc can be added to the network and a maximum flow problem is solved, and where the objective is to maximize the cumulative flowover the entire planning horizon. After presenting twomixed integer programming (MIP) formulations for this NP-complete problem, we describe several heuristics and prov...

INTRODUCTION "Research" in design has a long but not very robust history. Individuals have published on the subject almost from the time design was recognized as something to be taught (engineering and architectural design theories have been in the literature since Roman times). Yet, despite exceptional efforts by some individuals, the degree of interest in research among the design disciplines...

Since McCulloch and Pitts presented a simplified neuron model (1943), several neuron models have been proposed. Among them, the binary maximum neuron model was introduced by Takefuji et al. and successfully applied to some combinatorial optimization problems. Takefuji et al. also presented a proof for the local minimum convergence of the maximum neural network. In this paper we discuss this con...

Commiphora wightii is an endangered, endemic species found in the Thar Desert of Rajasthan, India and adjoining areas of Pakistan. The populations of this plant are rapidly dwindling due to overexploitation for their medicinally important resin. Analysis of nucleotide sequences of the internal transcribed spacer of rDNAs revealed low genetic diversity ( = 0.03905; w = 0.05418) and high popula...

The concept and theory of base isolation system are widely accepted at the present. To accomplish the predicted behaviours of the base-isolated buildings, the design for base isolation system is regarded as the dominant factor of the success of isolated buildings. Although the base isolation design can be fulfilled using Uniform Building Code 1997, conceptual design is yet necessarily analyzing...