in some statistical process control applications, the quality of the product is characterized by thecombination of both correlated variable and attributes quality characteristics. in this paper, we propose anovel control scheme based on the combination of two multi-layer perceptron neural networks forsimultaneous monitoring of mean vector as well as the covariance matrix in multivariate-attribu...

An object-based methodology for knowledge representation and its Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) implementation is presented. The methodology includes class, perspective, domain, and event constructs for representing knowledge within an object paradigm. The perspective construct allows for representation of knowledge from multiple and varying viewpoints. The event construct allows a...

Events are central elements of human experience. Formally, they can be individuated in terms of the entities that compose them, the features of those entities, and the relations amongst entities. Psychologically, representations of events capture their spatiotemporal location, the people and objects involved, and the relations between these elements. Here, we present an account of the nature of...

In this paper we describe a time management approach to distributed agent-based simulation. We propose a new time management policy by joining optimistic synchronization techniques and domain-specific knowledge based on agent communication protocols. With respect to our experimental results, we assume that our approach helps to prevent too optimistic event execution. Consequently, the probabili...