Cooperative design in engineering raises several requirements, such as modeling the complicated design object, hypermedia support, coordination support, open architecture for integrating current applications and modeling the process of cooperative design. In this paper, we propose an information model for cooperative design system to meet these requirements. This model, called HyCD, has three l...

It is very important to get financial supporting for Small and Medium Business(SMB) from the banks, which can set up a effective credit assessing system so that it can dispel misgiving of bank in the cause of the loaning to SMB. According to the credit grade assessment for SMB in practice and the related theories, a set of index system which assesses a SMB’s credit grade is established. Basing ...

Urbanization transforms urban-rural landscape and profoundly affects ecological processes. To maintain a sustainable urbanization, two important issues of land-use need to be quantified: the comprehensive variation of urban-rural construction land and the specific models for consolidating these lands. The purpose of this study is to develop a framework to assess the change of urban-rural constr...

Protein-protein interaction extraction is a challenging information extraction task in the BioNLP field. Several kernels focusing on a part of syntactic information have been proposed for the task. In this paper, we propose a method to combine multiple layers of syntactic information by using a combination of multiple kernels based on several different parsers. We evaluated the method using sup...

Automatic human detection is an important application where security is the main concern. As human detection problem involves classification of two objects as humans and others, a human detection using intelligent video surveillance system is presented using support vector machine to detect human in surveillance field. In this paper, in order to improve the efficiency of the machine learning 2D...

A novel process involving a paper-based ultrafiltration (UF) membrane was developed via paper coating technology. The membrane employed a paper sheet as support layer and a coated thin film layer of adhesive. The proper selection of paper sheet support layer was crucial to the performance of the ultrafiltration membrane. A paper sheet with beating degree of 85SR and basis weight of 50g/m was ch...

In this paper we describe a novel extension of the support vector machine, called the deep support vector machine (DSVM). The original SVM has a single layer with kernel functions and is therefore a shallow model. The DSVM can use an arbitrary number of layers, in which lower-level layers contain support vector machines that learn to extract relevant features from the input patterns or from the...

3D printers based on the Fused Decomposition Modeling create objects layerby-layer dropping fused material. As a consequence, strong overhangs cannot be printed because the new-come material does not find a suitable support over the last deposed layer. In these cases, one can add some support structures (scaffolds) which make the object printable, to be removed at the end. In this paper we prop...

This work aimed to investigate the potential of remote sensing to provide information on the spatial distribution of habitats in the Alpine region. Specifically, the performances of different classification methods, namely Maximum Likelihood (ML), Decision Tree (DT) and Support Vector Machine (SVM) were investigated for land-cover mapping using multitemporal RapidEye data. Results showed that S...

Here we test our conceptual understanding of V1 function by asking two experimental questions: 1) How do neurons respond to the spatiotemporal structure contained in dynamic, natural scenes? and 2) What is the true range of visual responsiveness and predictability of neural responses obtained in an unbiased sample of neurons across all layers of cortex? We address these questions by recording r...