The real world is composed of sets of objects that have multidimensional properties and relations. Whether an agent is planning the next course of action in a task or making predictions about the future state of some object, useful taskoriented concepts are often encoded in terms of the complex interactions between the multi-dimensional attributes of subsets of these objects and of the relation...

The real world can be successfully modeled as consisting of sets of objects, whose associated properties change over time. Relationships among these objects are critical to understanding the world, whether in classifying a current situation or in predicting its future behavior. An intelligent system, then, should be able to incorporate these types of relationships into its reasoning about the w...

In wireless sensor deployments, network layer multicast can be used to improve the bandwidth and energy efficiency for a variety of applications, such as service discovery or network management. However, despite efforts to adopt IPv6 in networks of constrained devices, multicast has been somewhat overlooked. The Multicast Forwarding Using Trickle (Trickle Multicast) internet draft is one of the...

Prior research has shown that prescription drug spending grew substantially during the decade of the 1990s. This analysis uses 1996 to 1998 State Medicaid Research File (SMRF) fee-for-service (FFS) data for 29 participating States to provide insight into the factors driving this growth. The analysis examines cost variation by census region, State, Medicaid basis of eligibility, and therapeutic ...

The resilience of building structures—as plain technical/physical/engineering systems or complex sociotechnical exposed to perturbations and change—has become increasingly important as natural disasters are on the rise world is changing rapidly. Existing frameworks focused mainly responses perturbation events their functional recovery, while change appears be left out. This study applies system...

The seismic performance of elliptic braced moment resisting frame (ELBRF) is assessed here and is found that the structural behavior is improved and is of free of architectural space. The demand for seismic performance of ELBRF is estimated through conventional pushover methods of 3, 5, 7, and 10-story ELBRF frames and they are compared with special moment resisting frames (SMRF) and X-Braced C...

Diaphragms are a fundamental part of the earthquake-resistant system, and in terms rigidity, it is essential to transmit dynamic loads on base structure.Also, floor openings response buildings against progressive collapse issues that have received less attention.In this study, opening surfaces their positions potential steel moment-resisting frame (SMRF) were investigated according alternate lo...