Mappings between ontologies are easily harmed by changes in the ontologies. In this paper we explain a mechanism to define modular ontologies and mappings in a way that allows for local containment of terminological reasoning. We have also developed a change detection and analysis method that predicts the effect of changes on the concept hierarchy. This method determines whether the changes in ...

In this paper, five conditions that have been proposed by Cobb and Shenoy are studied for nine different mappings from the Dempster-Shafer theory to the probability theory. After comparing these mappings, one of the considerable results indicates that none of the mappings satisfies the condition of invariance with respect to the marginalization process. In more details, the main reason for this...

By use of a new viscosity approximation method, we construct an explicit iterative algorithm for finding common fixed points of a sequence of nonexpansive mappings with weakly contractive mappings in the framework of Banach spaces. A strong convergence theorem is obtained for solving a kind of variational inequality problems. Our results improve and extend the corresponding ones of other author...

New fixed point results for a pair of non-self mappings defined on a closed subset of a metrically convex conemetric space which is not necessarily normal are obtained. By adapting Assad-Kirk’s method the existence of a unique common fixed point for a pair of non-self mappings is proved, using only the assumption that the cone interior is nonempty. Examples show that the obtained results are pr...

We introduce a new iterative scheme for nding a common elementof the solutions set of a generalized mixed equilibrium problem and the xedpoints set of an innitely countable family of nonexpansive mappings in a Banachspace setting. Strong convergence theorems of the proposed iterative scheme arealso established by the generalized projection method. Our results generalize thecorresponding results...

We present a novel method for translating keyword queries over relational databases into SQL queries with the same intended semantic meaning. In contrast to the majority of the existing keyword-based techniques, our approach does not require any a-priori knowledge of the data instance. It follows a probabilistic approach based on a Hidden Markov Model for computing the top-K best mappings of th...

For the problem of low recognition rate on low resolution face images, a super-resolution method for face recognition based on correlated features and nonlinear mappings is proposed in this paper. Canonical correlation analysis (CCA) is applied to establish the correlated subspaces between the features of high and low resolution face images, and radial base functions (RBFs) are employed to cons...

In this paper, we introduce a new concept in set-valued mappings which we have called condition $(UHS)$. Then, adding this condition to a new type of contractive set-valued mappings, recently has been introduced by Amini-Harandi [Fixed and coupled fixed points of a new type contractive set-valued mapping in complete metric spaces, Fixed point theory and applications, 215 (2012)], we prove that ...

A method for mapping a closed, triangulated surface of genus 0 onto the unit sphere was developed using a parameterization based on spherical coordinates analogous to latitude and longitude combined with the Mercator scaling. The algorithm was tested on 77 protein and DNA surfaces and produces correct (bijective) mappings. The mappings produce relatively uniform distortion, as judged by angular...

The purpose of this paper is to present the definition of [Formula: see text]-contractive mapping and to discuss the relation of [Formula: see text]-contractive mappings and [Formula: see text]-contractive mappings. Furthermore, the generalized [Formula: see text]-contraction mapping principle has been proved without the uniqueness condition. Meanwhile, the generalized [Formula: see text]-contr...