the changing of round and back vowel /u/ to unround and front vowel [i] occurs in lori dialects as well as some other persian dialects. this vowel change includes both unrounding and fronting. this paper aimed at coming up with an inclusive ranking of constraints to explain occurrence and nonoccurrence of this vowel change in various phonological environments in silahkori dialect within optimal...

The minimum error entropy (MEE) criterion has been successfully used in fields such as parameter estimation, system identification and the supervised machine learning. There is in general no explicit expression for the optimal MEE estimate unless some constraints on the conditional distribution are imposed. A recent paper has proved that if the conditional density is conditionally symmetric and...

This paper describes recent results from the robotics community that develop a theory, similar in spirit to the theory of computation, for analyzing sensor-based agent systems. The central element to this work is a notion of dominance of one such system over another. This relation is formally based on the agents’ progression through a derived information space, but may informally be understood ...

In this note we address the problems of obtaining guaranteed and as good as possible estimates of system parameters for linear discrete–time systems subject to bounded disturbances. Some existing results relevant for the set–membership parameter identification and outer–bounding are first reviewed. Then, a novel method for characterizing the consistent parameter set based on homothety is offere...

In this paper, optimal digital redesign is studied within the framework of sampled-data control theory. In particular, multirate discretization of analog controllers is considered using an H 2 or H 1 optimality criterion. Solutions are obtained via multirate H 2 or H 1 optimization with a causality constraint due to the multirate structure. In two design examples studied , comparison of the pro...

Bounded rationality concerns the study of decision makers with limited information processing resources. Previously, the free energy difference functional has been suggested to model bounded rational decision making, as it provides a natural trade-off between an energy or utility function that is to be optimized and information processing costs that are measured by entropic search costs. The ma...

Quantitative electron microscopy can benefit from an accompanied statistical experimental design. Using parameter estimation theory, an optimality criterion based on the statistical precision with which parameters of an object can be measured is proposed. It is intended to be objective and it depends on object and electron dose, which are usually not accounted for in the literature. The criteri...