Chen and Mangasarian (1995) developed smoothing approximations to the plus function built on integral-convolution with density functions. X. Chen (2012) has recently picked up this idea constructing a large class of smoothing functions for nonsmooth minimization through composition with smooth mappings. In this paper, we generalize this idea by substituting the plus function for an arbitrary fi...

The Dual Imaging Cerenkov Experiment (DICE) was designed and operated for making elemental composition measurements of cosmic rays near the knee of the spectrum at several PeV. Here we present the first results using this experiment from the measurement of the average location of the depth of shower maximum, < X max >, in the atmosphere as a function of particle energy. The value of < X max > n...

The creation of a Product Family is an alternation of decomposition and synthesis steps. Composable architectures emphasize the composition of products, decreasing the importance of a priori decomposition. The products and intermediate compositions can be viewed as recursive aggregation levels. Careful tradeoffs are required between the size of an aggregation level and the way it will be deploy...

We present a new optimization method for nested SQL query blocks with aggregation operators. The method is derived from the theory of dependency implication. It uniies and generalizes previously proposed (seemingly unrelated) algorithms, and can incorporate general database dependencies given in the database schema. We apply our method to query blocks with max, min aggregation operators. We obt...

There are many ways to elicit honest probabilistic forecasts from experts. Once those elicited, there aggregate them into a single forecast. Should the choice of elicitation method inform aggregation method? In “From Proper Scoring Rules Max-Min Optimal Forecast Aggregation,” Neyman and Roughgarden establish connection between these two problems. To every they associate that improves as much po...

Erythrocyte acts as a scavenger. When reactive O2 species are produced beyond its antioxidant capacity, it loses its structural integrity resulting in aggregation. Thus, aggregation has been a useful marker to detect inflammatory state. This is assessed by slide test in this study, which was currently available indirectly through ESR. To test for erythrocyte aggregation by a slide test in myoca...

BACKGROUND The assessment of fat mass and fat-free mass in relation to the symptom-limited maximal exercise duration (Max(dur)) of a treadmill test allows for insight into the association of body composition with treadmill performance potential. OBJECTIVE We investigated the complex associations between fat mass and fat-free mass and Max(dur) in a population setting. DESIGN The Max(dur) of ...

Ontology matching is an essential operation in many application domains, such as the Semantic Web, ontology merging or integration. So far, quite a few ontology matching approaches or matchers have been proposed. It has been observed that combining the results of multiple matchers is a promising technique to get better results than just using one matcher at a time. Many aggregation operators, s...

In the literature on social choice with fuzzy preferences, a central question is how to represent the transitivity of a fuzzy binary relation. Arguably the most general way of doing this is to assume a form of transitivity called max-star transitivity. The star operator in this formulation is commonly taken to be a triangular norm. The familiar max-min transitivity condition is a member of this...