in this paper the design, implementation, and evaluation of an experimental-scale potato yield monitoring system is presented. the main objective of this research was to develop a method for accurate mapping of potato yield. at the first stage an instantaneous yield monitoring system was mounted on a potato harvesting machine. this system consisted of a weighing tray, two load cells, a shaft rp...

Statistics and information are considered the most important source of power in organizations and the source for all managerial activities. If correct and comprehensive information are readily at hand, incorrect decisions will be reduced to a minimum. The purpose of this study is to review the effects of hospital information system in regards to effectiveness of decisions made by managers. The ...

Software performance prediction methods are typically validated by taking an appropriate software system, performing both performance predictions and performance measurements for that system, and comparing the results. The validation includes manual actions, which makes it feasible only for a small number of systems. To significantly increase the number of systems on which software performance ...

The EA Sports Player Performance Index is a rating system for soccer players used in the top two tiers of soccer in England—the Premier League and the Championship. Its development was a collaboration among professional soccer leagues, a news media association, and academia. In this paper, we describe the index and its construction. The novelty of the index lies in its attempts to rate all play...

An important part of dialogue management in a dialogue system is topic management: The system has to keep track of topic aspects (current topic, context, obligations, : : : ) in order to be able to resolve ambiguities and to respond in a cooperative and sensible way. In the schisma project, we are developing a system that takes part in a conversation about theater performances and is able to ma...

This paper presents a global methodology to build a nonlinear regression when the number of available samples is small compared to the number of inputs. The task is divided in two parts: selection of the best inputs and construction of the approximator. A first SOM is used to compute clean correlations between the inputs and the output. A second SOM is built to link the output to the selected i...

Analysis of the experimental observations and comparison with magnetic measurements have pointed out relevant nonlinear terms in the DAΦNE wigglers and in the "C" corrector magnets. Different optics configurations aimed at reducing the impact of nonlinear terms have been studied and their effects on the collider performances are presented.

this study aims to inspect the performance of the wastewater treatment system of the pars oil refinery. quantity and quality of wastewater are determined through samplings and measurements. the performance of system is evaluated considering total suspended solids, total dissolved solids, phosphate, chemical oxygen demand, biochemical oxygen demand, ammonia nitrogen, furfural, oil and ph. for pr...

Inspired by our exploration of the applicability of automated question answering (QA) technology to the task of business intelligence and general design science principle, we advocate a meta approach to the QA (fact seeking) applications since it does not rely on a single system and may provide the necessary accuracy and responsiveness. We present our prototype of a fact seeking meta engine, th...