Researchers and policy makers often use data from nationally representative probability sample surveys. The number of topics covered by such surveys, and hence the amount of interviewing time involved, have typically increased over the years, resulting in increased costs and respondent burden. A potential solution to this problem is to carefully form subsets of the items in a surve...

In a fuzzy classifier with ellipsoidal regions, each cluster is approximated by a center and a covariance matrix, and the membership function is calculated using the inverse of the covariance matrix. Thus when the number of training data is small, the covariance matrix becomes singular and the generalization ability is degraded. In this paper, during the symmetric Cholesky factorization of the ...

This paper contributes a method for combining sparse parallel graph algorithms with dense parallel linear algebra algorithms in order to understand dynamic graphs including the temporal behavior of vertices. Our method is the first to cluster vertices in a dynamic graph based on arbitrary temporal behaviors. In order to successfully implement this method, we develop a feature based pipeline for...

In this paper, two sets of sufficient conditions are obtained to ensure the existence and stability of a unique equilibrium point of unforced first-order fuzzy relational dynamical systems by using two different approaches which are both based on the fuzzy relational matrix of the model.In the first approach, the equilibrium point of the system is one of the centers of the related membership fu...

Let V ∈ R be a nonnegative matrix. The nonnegative matrix factorization (NNMF) problem consists of finding nonnegative matrix factors W ∈ R and H ∈ R such that V ≈ WH. Lee and Seung proposed two algorithms which find nonnegative W and H such that ‖V −WH‖F is minimized. After examining the case in which r = 1 about which a complete characterization of the solution is possible, we consider the ca...

Abstract: The remote center compliance (RCC) mechanism is of great use for practical designs, especially if a pure rotation about a virtual point is required. The analysis of compliance properties and rotational precision for RCC mechanisms are very important for mechanical design in applications where precision is required. This paper formulates an analytical method for the compliance and rota...

Timecare Service Center is an official service center in Indonesia that provides aftersales services for watch products with certain brands have established cooperation. has problems the field of estimators task repairing damage to customer products. The estimator department often experiences overload, which a negative impact on employees and customers. A quality analysis carried out determine ...

Abstract C -band Mueller matrices for the Green Bank Telescope are presented here which enable on-sky Stokes parameters point sources at beam center to be determined. Standard calibrators, 3C 138 and 286, were observed using Spider program steer telescope across a broad range of R.A. on both sides zenith transit. For this analysis, only observations peak pattern used rather than full sweep runs...