temperature restrictions on aqueous effluents dictate that streams with a temperature higher than the permitted level needed to pass through cooling systems to reduce the effluent temperature before discharge. in this study, by considering the grouping design rules based on pinch technology, an optimum design for a distributed effluent cooling system, has been developed. a counter-flow wet cool...

Gestalt principles are rules for the organization of perceptual scenes. They were introduced in the context of philosophy and psychology in the 19th century and were used to define principles of human perception in the early 20th century. The Gestalt (form, in German) principles include, among others: proximity, the grouping of closely positioned objects; similarity, the grouping of objects of ...

Association rule mining is a well established and popular data mining method for finding local dependencies between items in large transaction databases. However, a practical drawback of mining and efficiently using association rules is that the set of rules returned by the mining algorithm is typically too large to be directly used. Clustering association rules into a small number of meaningfu...

In this paper certain knowledge and software engineering methods integration issues are discussed. The principal idea is to consider an effective design and implementation framework for rule design with UML, and implementation with Java. The solution proposed in the paper consists of using a custom knowledge engineering design method for rules in the design stage. The rule base is then transfor...

We propose two algorithms for grouping and summarizing association rules. The first algorithm recursively groups rules according to the structure of the rules and generates a tree of clusters as a result. The second algorithm groups the rules according to the semantic distance between the rules by making use of an autometically tagged semantic tree-structured network of items. We provide a case...