Plackett-Burman design was employed to screen 8 parameters for ethanol production from kitchen garbage by Zymomonas mobilis in simultaneous saccharification and fermentation. The parameters were divided into two parts, four kinds of enzymes and supplementation nutrients. The result indicated that the nutrient inside kitchen garbage could meet the requirement of ethanol production without supple...

We consider the problem of deciding if a set of points can be covered by two discs with centers p and q and common radius r such that the ratio d(p; q)=r is bounded below by a user supplied constant. We also present an O(n 2 log 2 n) algorithm for this problem.

The fuzzy Lyapunov method is investigated for use with a class of interconnected fuzzy systems. The interconnected fuzzy systems consist of J interconnected fuzzy subsystems, and the stability analysis is based on Lyapunov functions. Based on traditional Lyapunov stability theory, we further propose a fuzzy Lyapunov method for the stability analysis of interconnected fuzzy systems. The fuzzy Ly...

In this study, 27 polarimetric parameters were extracted from Radarsat-2 polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (SAR) at each growth stage of the rape crop. The sensitivity to growth parameters such as stem height, leaf area index (LAI), and biomass were investigated as a function of days after sowing. Based on the sensitivity analysis, five empirical regression models were compared to determine...

PO-HSUEH HUANG, YIN-TE TSAI AND CHUAN-YI TANG Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering Tamkang University Taipei, 251 Taiwan E-mail: [email protected] Department of Computer Science and Communication Engineering Providence University Taichung, 433 Taiwan E-mail: [email protected] Department of Computer Science National Tsing Hua University Hsinchu 300, Taiwan E-mail: cytang@c...