Flow allocation problem is one of the important steps in reliability evaluation or optimization of a stochastic flow network. In a single source single sink networks it is easy to determine the flow on each path by using one of best known methods. While, in the case of multisource multisink flow network the file allocation problem becomes more complicated and few studies have dealt with it. Thi...

Being sustainable and producing little waste products, the renewable energy knows a rapid deployment. Unfortunately, the intermittent characteristic of these energies makes them difficult to control. The influence of this aleatory character can be reduced with the coupling of two or more sources of renewable energy and secondly with a sound management of storage systems. This new configuration ...

One of the chief difficulties of building distant-microphone speech recognition systems for use in `everyday' applications is that the noise background is typically `multisource'. A speech recognition system designed to operate in a family home, for example, must contend with competing noise from televisions and radios, children playing, vacuum cleaners, and outdoors noises from open windows. D...

In order to fuse a multi-source B2C E-commerce system, this paper implements a new multisource fusion B2C mode business system application development, which can provide customers with efficient and reliable comparison and cross-platform business system of choose and buy goods. By analyzing the Multi-source fusion B2C E-commerce system demand of business process reengineering and Petri net theo...

BACKGROUND UK revalidation plans for doctors include obtaining multisource feedback from patient and colleague questionnaires as part of the supporting information for appraisal and revalidation. AIM To investigate GPs' and appraisers' views of using multisource feedback data in appraisal, and of the emerging links between multisource feedback, appraisal, and revalidation. DESIGN AND SETTIN...

In the last decade, Radiofrequency (RF) energy has proven to be safe and highly efficacious for face and neck skin tightening, body contouring, and cellulite reduction. In contrast to first-generation Monopolar/Bipolar and "X -Polar" RF systems which use one RF generator connected to one or more skin electrodes, multisource radiofrequency devices use six independent RF generators allowing effic...

INTRODUCTION The assessment and maintenance of competence for pediatricians has recently received increased attention. The aim of the present study was to investigate further the use of multisource feedback for assessing pediatricians in practice. METHODS A systematic literature review was conducted using the electronic databases EMBASE, PsycINFO, MEDLINE, PUBMED, and CINAHL for English-langu...

OBJECTIVE To provide recommendations for the collection and management of multisource and multimethod data in studies of children and adolescents with pediatric conditions. METHODS We discuss limitations of single-source and single-method data collection strategies. We review strategies for collecting and managing multisource and multimethod data, including coverage of the literature on level...

In this paper, we propose a classification system based on a multiple-classifier architecture, which is aimed at updating land-cover maps by using multisensor and/or multisource remote-sensing images. The proposed system is composed of an ensemble of classifiers that, once trained in a supervised way on a specific image of a given area, can be retrained in an unsupervised way to classify a new ...

In this paper we describe ARKTOS, a system that uses a Dempster-Shafer rule base to integrate data from multiple sources in order to classify sea ice. ARKTOS analyzes SAR imagery to generate a feature set that describes the image. Next it fuses the SAR-extracted features with digital grid climatology data and sea ice concentration data extracted from SSM/I imagery. The fusion is achieved by a s...