Requirements elicitation has been recognized as a critical stage in system development projects, yet current models prescribing particular elicitation techniques are still limited in their development and application. This research reviews efforts aimed at addressing this, and synthesizes a common structure consisting of project contingencies, elicitation techniques, logic of fit, and a success...

Manipulation of deformable objects will be discussed. Manipulation of deformable objects is de ned as controlling deformation of objects as well as their positions and orientations. The manipulation is a fundamental and important task in many industrial elds. In fact, there exist many operations of deformable objects such as textile fabrics, rubber parts, paper sheets, strings, and foods. In or...

We consider the problem of segmenting a large population of customers into non-overlapping groups with similar preferences, using diverse preference observations such as purchases, ratings, clicks, etc. over subsets of items. We focus on the setting where the universe of items is large (ranging from thousands to millions) and unstructured (lacking well-defined attributes) and each customer prov...

We present a line feature matching method for model-based camera pose tracking. It uses the GPU for computing the best corresponding image line match to the edges of a given 3D model on a pixel basis. Further, knowledge about the model is considered to improve the matching process and to define quality criteria for match selection. Each edge is rendered several times with image offsets from the...

   In this paper, a new robust approach based on Least Square Support Vector Machine (LSSVM) as a proxy model is used for an automatic fractured reservoir history matching. The proxy model is made to model the history match objective function (mismatch values) based on the history data of the field. This model is then used to minimize the objective function through Particle Swarm Optimization (...

chemical vapor deposition (cvd) is one of the most popular methods for producing carbon nanotubes (cnts). the growth rate of cnts based on cvd technique is investigated by using a numerical model based on finite volume method. inlet gas mixture, including xylene as carbon source and mixture of argon and hydrogen as carrier gas enters into a horizontal cvd reactor at atmospheric pressure. in thi...

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This paper proposes a new version of the Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) namely, Modified PSO (MPSO) for model order formulation of Single Input Single Output (SISO) linear time invariant continuous systems. In the General PSO, the movement of a particle is governed by three behaviors namely inertia, cognitive and social. The cognitive behavior helps the particle to remember its previous visi...

1 This study presented a model-based image-matching (MBIM) motion analysis 2 technique for ankle joint kinematic measurement. Five cadaveric below-hip 3 specimens were manipulated through a full range of ankle joint motions in bare-foot 4 and shoed conditions. The ankle motions were analyzed by bone-pin marker-based 5 motion analysis and MBIM motion analysis techniques respectively. The root me...