Copyright © 2008, IGI Global, distributing in print or electronic forms without written permission of IGI Global is prohibited. AbstrAct Decision-making is a process of choosing among alternative courses of action for solving complicated problems where multi-criteria objectives are involved. The past few years have witnessed a growing recognition of soft computing (SC) (Zadeh, 1998) technologie...

Nonlinear PCA type learning has been recently suggested for signal subspace decomposition and sinusoidal frequencies tracking, which outperformed the linear PCA based methods and traditional least squares algorithms. Currently, nonlinear PCA algorithms are directly generalized from linear ones that based on gradient descent (GD) technique. The convergence behavior of gradient descent is depende...

Arlen C. Moller is a doctoral candidate (e-mail: moller@psych. rochester.edu), Richard M. Ryan is a professor (e-mail: ryan@psych. rochester.edu), and Edward L. Deci is Professor of Psychology and Gowen Professor in the Social Sciences (e-mail: deci@psych. rochester.edu), Department of Clinical and Social Sciences in Psychology, University of Rochester. The authors thank Glenn T. Moller and Jac...

Distributed bisimilarity is one of non-interleaving equivalences studied on concurrent systems; it refines the classical bisimilarity by taking also the spatial distribution of (sub)components into account. In the area of verification of infinite-state systems, one of the simplest (most basic) classes is the class of Basic Parallel Processes (BPP); here distributed bisimilarity is known to coin...

NICOLAS PUGEAULT∗,§, FLORENTIN WÖRGÖTTER†,¶ and NORBERT KRÜGER‡,‖ ∗Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing, University of Surrey, GU2 7XH Surrey, UK †Computational Neurosciences Group Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 37083 Göttingen, Germany ‡The Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute, University of Southern Denmark, DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark §[email protected] ¶[email protected]...

THE EVIDENCE for and against the presence in cells of embryo and foetal mice of transplantation antigens, the cell-bound substances provoking the rejection of allogeneic tissue homografts, rests on two classes of experiments: those relying upon serological techniques for the detection of the antigens, and those involving some test of transplantation antigen activity in intact animals. Experimen...

We consider the abstract scattering structure of non homogeneous linearized Vlasov–Poisson equations from viewpoint trace class properties which are emblematic theory \[13, 14, 15, 19]. In dimension 1+1, we derive an original reformulation is class. It yields existence Moller wave operators. The background electric field periodic with 4 + $\\varepsilon$ bounded derivatives.