The gene expression data shows the expression values of ten thousands of genes under hundreds of experimental conditions [1]. The data is useful for various applications such as cellular processes analysis, gene functions prediction and diseases diagnoses [2, 3]. However, some values in the gene expression data are missing due to image corruption, dust or […]
Nations all over the world depend on oil and gas for fuelling of cars, generation of electricity and other domestic purposes. Oil exploitation and exploration with associated spillage have been increasing at alarming rates [1, 2]. During oil exploration, production, storage and transport activities, crude oil and products spill onto land and waterways. Oil spillage […]
Fuzzy sets were introduced in 1965 by Zadeh as a novel way of representing vagueness. This theory provides a tool to describe the characteristics of a too complex or ill-defined system to admit precise mathematical analysis. Most of the time, the logic of human reasoning is not based on traditional two-valued or even multi-valued logic, […]
With the remarkable growth of demand for flat panel displays in recent years, having a wide verity of applications such as televisions, computers, cameras, hand phones, medical equipments, toys and etc, there is a stiff competition among manufacturers for high throughput product lines and low priced manufacturing. The demand for larger sizes of mother glass […]
Fleisch and Tellkamp [1] reported that shrinkage accounted for 2%–4% of sales in the US retail industry in 2001. Atali et al. [2] distinguish in their paper between three main sources of inventory discrepancies which are not taken into account in the classical inventory models: (1) Shrinkage, (2) Misplacement of products, and (3) Transaction errors. […]
Independent component analysis is a solution for blind source separation problem. The goal of Independent Component Analysis (ICA) is to find a linear transformation of multivariate data such as random vectors such that its components becomes statistically independent. Independent components also are called sources and input vectors are known as observations. Considering stable random vectors […]
Over the fast development of new technologies, data with low resolution gathered from manufacturing processes, such as the synthesis and characterization of nano-composite processes or surface roughness consisting of the finer irregularities of the surface texture, thus recorded as interval values are commonly seen. There are several situations and examples for interval observations are inevitable […]
The research in extractive Text Summarization (TS) covers a wide range of features that are used to determine the most salient text segments to include them into the final summary. Different approaches select different features and methods, starting from the very basic ones like term frequency, position of the sentence within the original document, assigning […]
We live in the age of applied sciences. Just consider the role of applied biology responsible for the unbelievable progress in medicine or applied physics and applied chemistry, forming the basis of modern industry and modern infrastructure in general. Our society is also hardly imaginable without the applications of social sciences like economics, sociology, social […]
Within the area of multi-agent systems there has recently been a development towards making the organization of such systems explicit. However, while drawbacks of classical (agent-centered) multi-agent systems have been listed, the actual advantages of making the organization explicit have not been thoroughly investigated and the approaches compared. This paper summarizes our work with such […]