A totally semantic measure is presented which is able to calculate a similarity value between concept descriptions and also between concept description and individual or between individuals expressed in an expressive description logic. It is applicable on symbolic descriptions although it uses a numeric approach for the calculus. Considering that Description Logics stand as the theoretic framew...

Selection models are appropriate when the probability that a potential datum enters the sample is a nondecreasing function of the numeric value of the datum. It is rarely justiiable to model this function, called the weight function, with a speciic parametric form, but is appealing to model with a nonparametric prior centered around a parametric form. The Bayesian analysis with Dirichlet proces...

Cost assessment related to age of multiple components is discussed. We use definitions of equivalent ages in multi-dimensional life to illustrate how cost characteristics should be fairly assessed. Pricing of used items with residual value and assigning warranty for used items as a function of item’s age are the subjects of our study. Numeric examples based on correlated Bivariate normal distri...

Origins of decimal arithmetic • Decimal (base 10) arithmetic has been used for thousands of years • Algorism (Indo-Arabic place value system) in use since 800 AD • Many early computers were decimal Decimal computation today • Pervasive in financial, commercial, and human-centric applications – often a legal requirement • Benchmarks do not reflect actual use • 55% of numeric data in databases ar...

HIV evolution model that describes the dynamics of concentrations of uninfected and infected cells is considered in the paper. The introduction of dimensionless variables and parameters leads to the initial boundary value problem for singularly perturbed system of partial integro-differential equations. By Tikhonov-Vasil’eva boundary functions method asymptotic solution with boundary layer is c...

In this paper, a hardware implementation of the Covariance Matrix Adaptation Evolution Strategy (CMA-ES) algorithm is presented. This algorithm is based on the adaptation of the covariance matrix, initially it is focused on a region of the particular search space and subsequently, it moves or grows along the search space, as appropriate to find the optimum value. The experimental results reveal...

WordNet::Similarity is a freely available software package that makes it possible to measure the semantic similarity and relatedness between a pair of concepts (or synsets). It provides six measures of similarity, and three measures of relatedness, all of which are based on the lexical database WordNet. These measures are implemented as Perl modules which take as input two concepts, and return ...

Naive Bayesian classi ers utilise a simple mathematical model for induction. While it is known that the assumptions on which this model is based are frequently violated, the predictive accuracy obtained in discriminate classi cation tasks is surprisingly competitive in comparison to more complex induction techniques. Adjusted probability naive Bayesian induction adds a simple extension to the n...

Naive Bayesian classiiers utilise a simple mathematical model for induction. While it is known that the assumptions on which this model is based are frequently violated, the predictive accuracy obtained in discriminate classiication tasks is surprisingly competitive in comparison to more complex induction techniques. Adjusted probability naive Bayesian induction adds a simple extension to the n...

Several kinds of statistical properties can be rapidly extracted from visual displays (e.g., luminance and roughness, Olive, A., & Torralba, A. (2001). Modeling the shape of the scene: a holistic representation of the spatial envelope. International Journal of Computational Vision, 42, 145-175). Here, we investigate whether this phenomenon extends to meaning contained in Arabic numerals. Observ...