Some new rank methods to select the best prototypes from a training set are proposed in this paper in order to establish its size according to an external parameter, while maintaining the classification accuracy. The traditional methods that filter the training set in a classification task like editing or condensing have some rules that apply to the set in order to remove outliers or keep some ...

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Introduction Control units in a safety-critical area must fulfil a lot of requirements concerning the reliability and the robustness. These requirements must be fulfilled in a raising magnitude by the control unit software. To guarantee the compliance of these requirements, the control unit software is tested with external malfunctions, as for example due to noisy sensors, disturbed communicati...

Hysteresis loop curves are highly important for numerical simulations of materials deformation under cyclic loadings. The models mainly take account of only the tensile half of the stabilized cycle in hysteresis loop for identification of the constants which don’t vary with accumulation of plastic strain and strain range of the hysteresis loop. This approach may be quite erroneous particularly ...