About 1115 rules in Aṣṭādhyāyī from A.4.1.76 to A.5.4.160 deal with generation of derivative nouns, making it one of the largest topical sections in Aṣṭādhyāyī, called as the Taddhita section owing to the head rule A.4.1.76. This section is a systematic arrangement of rules that enumerates various affixes that are used in the derivation under specific semantic relations. We propose a system tha...

the method of entropy production minimization for finding energy efficient paths of operation of process equipment is first presented using an instructive example with optimal control theory. with refer-ence to the earlier investigations, the researchers present some design rules that relate to the designs’ en-tropy production. minimum entropy production is not obtained in special cases, not ge...

In the paper an extended knowledge representation for rules is considered. It is called Extended Tabular Trees (XTT2) and it provides a network of decision units grouping rules working in the same context. The units are linked into an inference network, where a number of inference options are considered. The original contribution of the paper is the proposal and formalization of several differe...

From a general perspective, urbanism can be assumed as a bipolar world. On one hand, large-scale plans formulated by official organizations are shaping urban environment and the entirety of our cities; on the other hand, social activists and artists, active in the field of cities, are making an effort to give it a human character. According to De Certo (1984), the first approach to city, adopte...

We demonstrate the use of a visual data-mining tool for non-technical domain experts within organizations to facilitate the extraction of meaningful information and knowledge from in-house databases. The tool is mainly based on the basic notion of grouping association rules. Association rules are useful in discovering items that are frequently found together. However in many applications, rules...

This paper describes a new extensible query optimization framework that resolves many of the shortcomings of the EXODUS and Volcano optimizer generators. In addition to extensibility, dynamic programming, and memorization based on and extended from the EXODUS and Volcano prototypes, this new optimizer provides (i) manipulation of operator arguments using rules or functions, (ii) operators that ...

Extracting knowledge from large amount of data while preserving the sensitive information is an important issue in data mining. Providing security to sensitive data against unauthorized access has been a long term goal for the database security research community. Almost all the research in privacy preservation is limited to binary dataset. Business and scientific data contain both quantitative...

Problem statement: For solving complex issues, the current tendency goes towards the swarms behaviors, realized on a basis of collective interactions, which results from a cooperative work favoring exchanges between individuals of a same group at microscopic level and allowing the emergence of complex collective behaviors at macroscopic level. Many models were inspired by these attitudes to fin...