In practical applications of control in industry many problems appear due to the presence of variable delays and sensor malfunctions causing loss of data availability during a certain amount of time. Thus, the joint handling of the reasoning procedure (in our case using fuzzy rulebases), the missing measurements (scarce data) and the use of irregular sampling patterns is needed to replicate hum...

Analyse trends and moods from the environment (social networks, blogs, forums, etc.) by combining semantically-enriched UGC with corporate data A hierarchy of topics must be defined to perform effective analyses, but topics are HETEROGENEOUS FUZZY EXPRESSIVE UNPREDICTABLE META-STAR is an alternative to star-schema for modeling topic hierarchies, which combines meta-modeling, navigation tables, ...

Artists continue to search for new methods of creation of artworks. The trend to interactive multimedia installation work requires systems that allow participants to interact in subtle ways. The paper describes a number of non-conventional interfaces to computer mediated art works achieved using small Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC) called ‘Stamps’. These are programmed in BASIC and can be...

After considering the kinetical interaction principle (KIP) introduced in ref. Physica A 296, 405 (2001), we study in the Boltzmann picture, the evolution equation and the H-theorem for non extensive systems. The q-kinetics and the κ-kinetics are studied in detail starting from the most general non linear Boltzmann equation compatible with the KIP.

In this paper we want to model consumer acceptance of non conventional foods. In our context, non conventional foods are defined as foods that have been scientifically modified to posses desired characteristics or traits. Examples of non conventional foods are processed foods, genetically modified foods, functional foods and neutraceticals. We intend to model consumer acceptance of genetically ...

We consider “brane-universes”, where matter is confined to four-dimensional hypersurfaces (three-branes) whereas one extra compact dimension is felt by gravity only. We show that the cosmology of such branes is definitely different from standard cosmology and identify the reasons behind this difference. We give a new class of exact solutions with a constant five-dimensional radius and cosmologi...

Different from traditional methods which use two-dimensional images and gray levels to recognize human faces, this article shows a known shape extraction methodology applied to the extraction of 3D human faces conjugated with a conventional and non conventional algorithms for face verification. The SORFACE project involves two main knowledge areas, 3D shape extraction and pattern recognition. T...

In this paper the author presents some non-conventional thoughts on the complexity of the Universe and the algorithmic reproducibility of the human brain, essentially sparked off by the notion of algorithmic complexity. We must warn that though they evoke suggestive scenarios, they are still quite speculative. 1 Introductory remarks The algorithmic (program-size, or Kolmogorov) complexity of a ...

In the paper a survey on non conventional preference modeling is presented. Some philo-sophical discussion on the logic and foundations of human preferences is presented as the firstattempt to provide an axiomatization of the subject. The use of preference models in decisionaid however introduces such parameters to put serious questions to the possibility to build acomplete norm...