As was seen in previous modules, stress analysis even of simple-appearing geometries can lead to complicated mathematical maneuvering. Actual articles | engine crankshafts, medical prostheses, tennis rackets, etc. | have boundary shapes that cannot easily be described mathematically, and even if they were it would be extremely difficult to fit solutions of the governing equations to them. One a...

In this paper we perform experiments on the fully dynamic single source shortest path problem on directed graphs with positive real edge weights. We propose an experimental analysis of three diierent algorithms: Dijkstra's algorithm, and two output bounded algorithms by Ramalingam and Reps 15] and by Frigioni, Marchetti and Nanni 12]. The main goal of this paper is to provide a rst experimental...

Not linear methods for statistical data analysis have become more and more popular thanks to the rapid development of computers. The fields in which they are applied to are as various as the methods them self. Generative topographic mapping (GTM) has been developed by [Bishop et al. 1997] as a principal alternative to the self-organizing map (SOM) algorithm [Kohonen 1982] in which a set of unla...

In recent years we have seen a tremendous growth in the volume of text documents available on the Internet, digital libraries, news sources, and company-wide intranets. Automatic text categorization, which is the task of assigning text documents to pre-specified classes (topics or themes) of documents, is an important task that can help both in organizing as well as in finding information on th...

ii Preface This book is intended as required reading material for my course, Experimental Design for the Behavioral and Social Sciences, a second level statistics course for undergraduate students in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University. This course is also cross-listed as a graduate level course for Masters and PhD students (in fields other than Statistic...

Rigorous analysis and evaluation of real implemented robotic systems for intelligent tasks are rarely performed. Such systems are often extremely complicated , depending not only onìnteresting' theoretical parameters and models, but on many assumptions and constants which may be set almost arbitrarily. We view all task implementations as particular parame-terizations of the task goals they repr...

To reveal the mechanism of the easy discretization and low damage in kernel dispersal, this paper analyzes the microscopic analysis of beak structures and finds that maxillary outside cells of the beak are dense and hard. Besides, the cuticle wrapping on maxilla of chicken's beak can reduce corn kernels damage in the discrete process of ear. From force test of corn ear, we find that value of x ...

In the GA approach the parameters that influence its performance include population size, crossover rate and mutation rate. Genetic algorithms are suitable for traversing large search spaces since they can do this relatively fast and because the mutation operator diverts the method away from local optima, which will tend to become more common as the search space increases in size. GA’s are base...