Characteristic speciation of airborne volatile organics in Kaohsiung, the largest industrial city in Taiwan, is present in this paper. Hourly concentration of airborne volatile organic compounds (VOCs) was monitored by on-line GC/FID and 3 hours-averaged sample was parallel conducted by canister during rush hour. Field sampling works were conducted at a traffic station (Qian-Jin) and an industr...

A parallel algorithm for solving the multinephron model of the renal inner medulla is developed. The intrinsic nature of this problem supplies suucient symmetry for a high-level parallelism on distributed-memory parallel machines such as the iPSC/860, Paragon, and CM-5. Parallelization makes it feasible to study interesting models such as the rat kidney with 30; 000 nephrons. On a high-end work...

This paper presents a stable neural identifier for multivariable nonlinear systems. A state-space representation is considered based on both parallel and series-parallel models. No a priori knowledge about the nonlinearities of the system is assumed. The proposed learning rule is a novel approach based on the modification of the backpropagation algorithm. The boundedness of the identification e...

The ongoing work in WCDMA standardization (e.g. High Speed Downlink Packet Access work item in 3GPP) evaluates Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) transmission schemes involving multiple antennas in both the base station and the terminal. In this paper we consider both orthogonal and non-orthogonal space-time transmission concepts where one or two parallel M-QAM modulated symbol streams are t...

The concept of hydraulic impedance is widely used for periodic or oscillating flow scenarios in applied transients. This paper proposes an equivalent circuit-based discrete model the system power station. circuit established by analogy between water hammer wave propagation pressurized pipes and electromagnetic conductors. at a given location obtained calculating total specific series parallel c...

In this paper we put forward a way of modelling reasoning with cases as it is described by writers such as Levi. This style of reasoning concentrates on finding and refining particular distinctions amongst cases which bear on the outcome. It thus contrasts with work such as HYPO in which such distinctions are the product of initial analysis of the domain, and so come already fixed. We provide a...

In this paper we describe an approach to the problem of weighting various factors that contribute to an analysis or outcome of a problem situation and discuss issues about weighting as they touch upon our case-based reasoned HY@O. In HYPO, we take the approach of delaying for as long as possible any assignment of weights-and of symbolically comparing the “weights” of competing factors. We call ...

We propose a model of price formation in Double Auction markets which employs the strong simplifying assumption that agents neglect strategic feedback effects and regard themselves as playing a Game against Nature. Agents otherwise are strict expected utihty maximizers employing Bayesian updating procedures. We prove the optimality of simple (‘aggressive reservation price’) strategies in our ge...

In this short paper we introduce some novel arguments based on legal cases represented as sets of dimensions. Although there has been much work on arguments based on factors, there has been relatively little recent work which has exploited dimensional representations. The arguments that we consider have a flavour quite distinct from those generated from cases represented as factors, which lack ...