We consider information-theoretic key agreement between two parties sharing somewhat different versions of a secret w that has relatively little entropy. Such key agreement, also known as information reconciliation and privacy amplification over unsecured channels, was shown to be theoretically feasible by Renner and Wolf (Eurocrypt 2004), although no protocol that runs in polynomial time was d...

Under the information and knowledge economy era, strengthening the enterprise strategic management can realize its sustained development in the intense market competition environment, increase its ability of adapting environment, and enhance the competitive strength and the competitive advantage. To evaluate the enterprise strategic management performance (ESMP) scientifically and accurately, t...

It is difficult to remove subjectivity from assessment, especially when the assessed material is highly subjective by nature. While one assessor deems work to be of high quality, a second may view it as poor. Moreover, although two assessors may agree that the work is of satisfactory quality, they may nevertheless proceed to grade it significantly different, based on their interpretation of wha...

Risk analysis of swell and shrinkage is essential to properly evaluate engineering stability and safety of expansive soils. Herein a novel model for risk analysis of swell and shrinkage of expansive soils was proposed by means of coupling set pair analysis with stochastic simulation of triangular fuzzy numbers. A concept ofmulti-element connection number for a set pair, which consisted of measu...

Present analytical functions and conventional cartographic modeling techniques in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are based on Boolean logic, which implicitly assumes that objects in a spadal database and their attributes can be uniquely defined. The inherent constraint of the classical set theory does not allow for partial set membership conditions and imprecise information in GIS. The in...

maximizing economic earnings is the most common goal in cut-off grade optimization of open-pit mining operations. when this is the case, the price of the product has a critical effect on optimum value of cut-off grade. this paper investigates the relationship between optimum cut-off grade and price to maximize total cash flow and net percent value (npv) of operation. in order to visualize this ...

Some clinical factors have been useful in predicting prognosis in high-grade gliomas, however, unexpected differences in survival time have generated attempts to search for more precise parameters. It is clear that tumour behaviour depends mostly on gene alterations. Known single gene alterations failed to accurately define survival time, however, recently, the gene profiling based on microarra...

This paper presents a method based on fuzzy regression to analyze fatigue crack growth data, where the variations of the parameters are not only due to measurement errors but also system errors. A membership function is used to describe the system errors. Crack growth data under constant and random amplitude stress are analyzed and the results are compared with conventional least-squares regres...

Abstract Artificial neural network is revolutionizing business and everyday life, bringing us to the next level in artificial intelligence. It has a unique ability extract meaning from complex data find patterns detect trends that are too convoluted for human brain. This paper analyzes impact on different computational organizations by using innovative structure of bipolar spherical fuzzy relat...