of an integrated knowledge-based machine-aided translation system called PANQLOSS. The ISI-specific work includes the development of English sentence generation and sentence planning capabilities and the construction of an Ontology of concepts to act as the semantic lexicon for all modules of the system as a whole. In addition, we continue to enhance Penman's existing generation technology, to ...

Nicola Pedroni, E Zio, A Pasanisi, M Couplet. Empirical comparison of two methods for the Bayesian update of the parameters of probability distributions in a two-level hybrid probabilistic-possibilistic uncertainty framework for risk assessment. ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part A: Civil Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), 2015, pp.04015...

The Penman-Monteith equation is useful for computing evaporation rates of uniform surfaces, such as dense vegetation or bare soil. This equation becomes less useful for evaluation of evaporation rates at the regional scale, where surfaces are generally characterized by a patchy combination of vegetation and soil. This is particularly true in the arid and semi-arid regions of the world. The appr...

Daily evapotranspiration (ET) rates are needed for irrigation scheduling. Owing to the difficulty of obtaining accurate field measurements, ET rates are commonly estimated from weather parameters. A few empirical or semi–empirical methods have been developed for assessing daily reference crop ET, which is converted to actual crop ET using crop coefficients. The FAO Penman–Monteith method, which...

The American Society of Civil Engineers’ (ASCE) quadrennial report card exhibited the grim picture nation’s transportation infrastructure [...]