In this paper, a non-probabilistic method based on fuzzy logic is used to update finite element models (FEMs). Model updating techniques use the measured data to improve the accuracy of numerical models of structures. However, the measured data are contaminated with experimental noise and the models are inaccurate due to randomness in the parameters. This kind of aleatory uncertainty is irreduc...

introduction: continuing medical education (cme) is part of the process of lifelong learning that all physicians undertake. it has traditionally viewed by the medical profession in terms of updating their knowledge. nowadays, in order to practice effectively in the national health system, doctors need skills that extend their medical knowledge beyond updating. educational need assessment is the...

INTRODUCTION Due to a continuous emergence of new evidence, clinical guidelines (CGs) require regular surveillance of evidence to maintain their trustworthiness. The updating of CGs is resource intensive and time consuming; therefore, updating may include a prioritisation process to efficiently ensure recommendations remain up to date. The objective of our project is to develop a pragmatic tool...

There is not yet a clear agreement about the functional differences between the processing of mechanism versus covariation information in causal judgments. It has been shown recently that causal belief updating does not depend on the information’s origin but on the reliability of new information fed to the updating process (Perales, Catena, Maldonado, & Candido, 2007; Perales, Shanks, & Lagnado...

Background model updating is a vital process for any background subtraction technique. This paper presents an updating mechanism that can be applied efficiently to any background subtraction technique. This updating mechanism exploits the color and spatial features to characterize each detected object. Spatial and color features are used to classify each detected object as a moving background o...

This study focuses on the problem of "time" affecting spatial data. The most substantial temporal problem for comprehensive use of spatial data is “time inconsistency”. Reducing “time inconsistency” within individual data, among multiple data, and between data and the real world can be achieved by frequent updating. The utilization of remote sensing is an effective method for updating various l...

Data is the core of Geographical Information System (GIS). Collecting and updating geographically referenced and descriptive data is necessary for GISs. Ignoring the updating process will obviously decrease the usefulness of GIS; therefore, GIS databases must be updated to make better use. There are different methods to collect and update GIS data, for example, by field survey, remote sensing, ...

When a mobile robot uses vision for self-localization and obstacle avoidance, the results of image processing become available after a variable computational delay. If the robot keeps moving during image processing, results become available after the robot has left the position where the image was taken. This is the problem of control in presence of intermittent delayed feedback. This paper pro...

In order to update the cadastral database and maintain it's topological consistency automatically (or semi-automatically) during the updating process, an event-driven incremental updating method of cadastral database considering topological integrity is proposed in this paper. In this method, five kinds of cadastral spatial change is divided to five kinds of basic events: node-moving, union, sp...

identification of damping parameter is usually more complicated and unreliable comparing to mass or stiffness identification in structural dynamics. there are many factors such as intermolecular friction, coulomb friction and viscous damping affecting the damping mechanisms in a structure. therefore it is difficult, and in some cases impossible, to describe the details of damping mechanisms by ...