Logical Qubit Layout Problem for ICM Representation

Multi-start simulated annealing for dynamic plant layout problem

In today’s dynamic market, organizations must be adaptive to market fluctuations. In addition, studies show that material-handling cost makes up between 20 and 50 percent of the total operating cost. Therefore, this paper considers the problem of arranging and rearranging, when there are changes in product mix and demand, manufacturing facilities such that the sum of material handling and rearr...

Plantinga and the Logical Problem of Evil

Logical Structures for Representation ofKnowledgeandUncertainty,

of Book Logical Structures for Representation of Knowledge and Uncertainty, by Ellen Hisdal, Physica Verlag Heidelberg, A Springer Verlag Company. A knowledge representation system must be able to draw inferences or answer questions concerning previously supplied knowledge and information. For this purpose the book uses a new truth table logic with built-in probabilities in addition to truth va...

Logical Foundations for Belief Representation

This essay presents a phi l osophi cal ond computotionol theory of the represento-tion of de re, de dlcto, nested, and quasi-indexical belief reports expressed i n natural language. The propositional Semantic Network Processing System (SNePS) is used for representing ond reasoning about these reports. In particular, quasi-indicators (indexical expressions occurring i n intentional contexts and ...

Document image understanding: geometric and logical layout

Document Image Understanding encompasses the technology required to make paper documents equivalent to other computer exchange media like oppies, tapes, and cdroms. The physical reader of the paper document is the scanner just like the physical reader of the oppy is the oppy drive and the physical reader of the tape cartridge is the tape cartridge drive, and the physical reader of the cdrom is ...