Classical Description Logics (DLs) [2] cannot properly deal with the endemic imprecision of biomedical knowledge. For example, the current version of the SNOMEDCT ontology defines a “Perinatal Cyanotic Attack” as a cardiovascular disorder occurring in the perinatal period and manifested through cyanosis. This definition depends on two vague notions, namely the perinatal period—the period of tim...

Geothermal and unconventional hydrocarbon reservoirs are often characterized by low permeability and porosity. So, they are difficult to produce and require stimulation techniques, such as thermal shear deactivation and hydraulic fracturing. Fractures provide porosity for fluid storage and permeability for fluid movement and play an important role in production from this kind of reservoirs. Hen...

In the previous chapter, we have made an analytical study regarding the completion time and the due time of each job, in order to find out the satisfaction level of demand maker in a flow shop scheduling. But this chapter differs in the study that here each job has to process on equi potential parallel machines at first stage and then on other succeeding machines in a specified order. Some addi...

In this paper is shown that the probability-statistic methods application, especially at the early stage of the aviation gas turbine engine (GTE) technical condition diagnosing, when the flight information has property of the fuzzy, limitation and uncertainty is unfounded. Hence is considered the efficiency of application of new technology Soft Computing at these diagnosing stages with the usin...

We present in this paper a connectionist model that extracts interaural intensity di erences (IID) from head related transfer functions (HRTF) in the form of spectral cues to localize broadband high frequency auditory stimuli, both in azimuth and elevation. A novel discriminative matching measure (DMM) is de ned and optimized to characterize matching this IID spectrum. The optimal DMM approach ...