An important question when eliciting opinions from experts is how to aggregate the reported opinions. In this paper, we propose a pooling method to aggregate expert opinions. Intuitively, it works as if the experts were continuously updating their opinions in order to accommodate the expertise of others. Each updated opinion takes the form of a linear opinion pool, where the weight that an expe...

We present a novel vector ridge detector which is designed to automaticaly find the right scale of a ridge even in the presence of noise, multiple steps and narrow valleys. One of the key features of such ridge detector is that it has a zero response at discontinuities. The ridge detector can be applied both to scalar and vector quantities such as color. We also present a parallel perceptual or...

Distance learning involves a lot of work of human assistants. These assistants need to be connected for answering student doubts and questions. Intelligent agents can do part of this work. However a problem appears with this promised possibility: how to connect educational applications with these agents. This paper presents a solution to this problem, in which both the capture of student’s inte...

Models of electrical interconnects, including inductance and skin effect, are reviewed. The models are used for estimating the performance of electrical interconnects, particularly related to delays, data rates, and power consumption for off-chip and on-chip interconnects and for clock distribution. It is demonstrated that correctly utilized, electrical interconnects do not severely limit chip ...

Ferroan anorthosite VHK basalt Oldest basalt APOLLO 14 OLDEST MARE BASALT REVISITED: POSSIBLE PETROGENETIC CONNECTION BETWEEN MG GABBRONORITE AND VHK BASALT. T. Arai, H. Takeda, M. Miyamoto, and H. Kojima, Antarctic Meteorite Research Center, National Institute of Polar Research, 1-9-10 Kaga Itabashi Tokyo 173-8515, Japan, [email protected], Research Institute, Chiba Institute of Technology, Ts...

Someday, perhaps soon, we will build a machine that will be able to perform the functions of a human mind, a thinking machine. One of the many problems that must be faced in designing such a machine is the need to process large amounts of information rapidly, more rapidly than is ever likely to be possible with a conventional computer. This document describes a new type of computing engine call...

Objective: This research aimed at evaluating the moderator role of school connection on the impact of violent friends towards aggressive behaviors in adolescent students of Tehran high schools. Methods: A sample of 3529 participants from Tehran high school students was selected using multistage sampling method. Participants completed school connection questionnaire (SCQ), Iranian adolescents...

This paper compares different approaches which provide guaranteed assurance to connection-oriented group communications based on the use of working and backup disjoint route sets. Specifically, we present experimental results showing the effect of disjoint backup route sets on mesh/tree/ring: (1) feasibility and (2) cost.

1. An overview of the problem My aim is to trace the thinking-in-change (Noss & Hoyles, 1996) during the co-ordination of two epistemologically distinct faces of distribution. By co-ordination here, I refer to the connection between a data-centric perspective on distribution, which identifies distribution as an aggregated set of actual outputs, and a modelling perspective on distribution, which...