coalbed methane (cbm) plays an important role in coal mining safety and natural gas production. in this work, the cbm potential of b2 seam in parvadeh iv coal deposit, in central iran, was evaluated using a combination of local regression and geostatistical methods. as there were 30 sparse methane sampling points in the parvadeh iv coal deposit, no valid variogram was achieved for the methane c...

An exploration with two main goals is presented: 1. Modeling a self-contained "intelligent building," the Mars Arctic Research Station (MARS) habitation unit, and interaction with its users. The modeling effort seeks representation of invisible aspects of the interactions between the station and its users rather than visible forms. 2. Examination of how (or if) the modeling process contributes ...

A 3-level modeling framework to adaptive resource management in mobile augmented reality systems (MARS) is proposed, which is based on comprehensive data structuring and analyzing of their specific hardand software features. At the conceptual modeling level an ontological specification of MARS resources is constructed, at the logical modeling level a case-based reasoning algorithm is elaborated...

Multivariate adpative regression splines (MARS) provide a flexible statistical modeling method that employs forward and backward search algorithms to identify the combination of basis functions that best fits the data and simultaneously conduct variable selection. In optimization, MARS has been used successfully to estimate the unknown functions in stochastic dynamic programming (SDP), stochast...

The model of adaptive hinging hyperplanes (AHH) is proposed in this paper for black-box modeling. It is based on Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines (MARS) and Generalized Hinging Hyperplanes (GHH) and shares attractive properties of the two. By making a modification to the basis function of MARS, AHH shows linear property in each subarea. It is proved that AHH model is identical to a spec...

Coalbed methane (CBM) plays an important role in coal mining safety and natural gas production. In this work, The CBM potential of B2 seam in Parvadeh IV coal deposit, in central Iran, was evaluated using a combination of local regression and geostatistical methods. As there were 30 sparse methane sampling points in the Parvadeh IV coal deposit, no valid variogram was achieved for the methane c...

The application of “Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines”(MARS) to the problem of modeling duration of a set of segments used in a text-to-speech system for German is presented. MARS is a technique to estimate general functions of high-dimensional arguments given sparse data. It automatically selects the parameters and the structure of the model based on data available. The result is a mode...

We report the detection of intense emission from magnesium and iron in Mars’ atmosphere caused by a meteor shower following Comet Siding Spring’s close encounter with Mars. The observations weremade with the Imaging Ultraviolet Spectrograph, a remote sensing instrument on the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN spacecraft orbiting Mars. Ionized magnesium caused the brightest emission from th...

After 55 days of mapping by the High Energy Neutron Detector onboard Mars Odyssey, we found deficits of high-energy neutrons in the southern highlands and northern lowlands of Mars. These deficits indicate that hydrogen is concentrated in the subsurface. Modeling suggests that water ice-rich layers that are tens of centimeters in thickness provide one possible fit to the data.