High power and miniaturization of motors in an in-wheel drive system, which is installed inside the wheels of a vehicle, are required for directly driving the wheels. In addition, an efficient cooling system is required to ensure high driving performance and durability. This study experimentally evaluated the heat dissipation performance of a 35-kW-class large-capacity in-wheel motor equipped w...

We describe the development of the Safe Tractor Assessment and Rating System (STARS), a design-based tractor safety rating system that can be applied to new or used tractors to provide an objective assessment of their inherent safety features. A predictive rating system model, based on technical inspection, was used. Key principles underlying the system included the potential for design feature...

We compare three popular techniques of rating content: the ubiquitous five star rating, the less used pairwise comparison, and the recently introduced (in crowdsourcing) magnitude estimation approach. Each system has specific advantages and disadvantages, in terms of required user effort, achievable user preference prediction accuracy and number of ratings required. We design an experiment wher...

A roentgenographic knee evaluation system endorsed by The Knee Society is included in this year's proceedings to encourage uniform reporting of the results of total knee arthroplasty. No rating system is ideal, but if many surgeons and centers use the same reporting system, then relative comparisons will at least become possible. Agreement on a new system by many experienced surgeons and instit...

an efficiency-centred hierarchical model is developed to assess the performance ofwastewater treatment plants (wwtps). specifically, a new treatment performance index (tpi) hasbeen proposed to determine the overall treatment performance of wwtp by analysing the tpivalues and the weights of individual treatment phase for overall treatment performance. threemodules have been developed to examine ...

The goal of our content rating and fake detection system is to automatically detect files having paedophile or pornographic content in a P2P system. It evaluates the content of a file using user preferences, the idea being that if a given user is interested in two files, this means that these files are somewhat related. Based on this idea, we build a graph of common interest between files and e...

This paper introduces an augmentation hybrid system, referred to as Rated MCRDR. It uses Multiple Classification Ripple Down Rules (MCRDR), a simple and effective knowledge acquisition technique, combined with a neural network. Introduction As we move from the Information Age to the Age of Information Overload, Information Filtering (IF) has gained significant attention in the research communit...

This paper describes a method of performance evaluation and remaining life prediction for an aged reinforced concrete (RC) T-girder bridge by J-BMS RC version via close visual inspection data, and also verifies the assessment results obtained as outputs from the Bridge Rating Expert System (RC-BREX) which is a subsystem of the J-BMS, to evaluate the effectiveness of the system. The Bridge Manag...

Collaborative Filtering (CF) is the most widely used prediction technique in Recommendation System (RS). Most of the current CF recommender systems maintains single criteria user rating in user-item matrix. However, recent studies indicate that recommender system depending on multi-criteria can improve prediction and accuracy levels of recommendation by considering the user preferences in multi...