The University of Rochester is a small, private University established in 1850, originally as a Baptist-sponsored institution. During the early 20th century, the University grew significantly, in part due to the efforts of George Eastman, the founder of Eastman Kodak. During this period, the Medical School, the Institute of Optics, and the Eastman School of Music, all currently nationally known...

The 2009 stimulus package released a burst of pent-up creativity in the applications submitted by US researchers, but there was a complicating factor with funding decisions: the need for quick results. Quinn Eastman provides a progress report.

Cephalometric analyses are useful for planning and provision of orthodontic treatment. A and B points are used to resemble the anterior part of maxilla and mandible and N represents the anterior part of the cranial base. The position of N may influence measurements of SNA, SNB, and ANB and changes of N in the antero-posterior plane are thought to have a larger influence on the above measurement...

a real-time optimization (rto) strategy incorporating the fuzzy sets theory is developed, where the problem constraints obtained from process considerations are treated in fuzzy environment. furthermore, the objective function is penalized by a fuzzified form of the key process constraints. to enable using conventional optimization techniques, the resulting fuzzy optimization problem is then re...

This paper proposes a combined canonical variate analysis (CVA) and Fisher discriminant analysis (FDA) scheme (denoted as CVA–FDA) for fault diagnosis, which employs CVA for pretreating the data and subsequently utilizes FDA for fault classification. In addition to the improved handling of serial correlations in the data, the utilization of CVA in the first step provides similar or reduced dime...

The Tennessee Eastman chemical process is a well-defined simulation of a chemical process that has been commonly used in process control research. As chemical process plants are getting more complex, the pressure on chemical engineers to develop accurate models for monitoring and control purposes is increased. In this paper, we explore the idea of using Genetic Programming (GP) technique to mod...