The construction of rational agents is one of the goals that has been pursued in Artiicial Intelligence (AI). In most of the architectures that have been proposed for this kind of agents, its behaviour is guided by its set of beliefs. In our work, rational agents are those systems that are permanently engaged in the process of rational inquiry; thus, their beliefs keep evolving in time, as a co...

We apply conformal solution theory and extend to mixtures a recently derived equation of state for glass-forming liquids. The equation of state is based on the statistical properties of the multidimensional potential energy surface as a function of a macroscopic system’s degrees of freedom (energy landscape), and allows the calculation of an ideal glass transition locus, along which the configu...

This paper provides a modeling approach for average current control (ACC) operating in open-loop configuration. The converters chosen are non-ideal boost and synchronous continuous conduction mode (CCM). Initially, these mathematically modeled considering all the non-idealities using volt-sec amp-sec balance equations simulated MATLAB Simulink. transfer function of switch or inductor (Gid) to d...

Memristors have uses as artificial synapses and perform well in this role in simulations with artificial spiking neurons. Our experiments show that memristor networks natively spike and can exhibit emergent oscillations and bursting spikes. Networks of near-ideal memristors exhibit behaviour similar to a single memristor and combine in circuits like resistors do. Spiking is more likely when fil...

An equation proposed recently (Haase and Jansen, 1980) relates to the dependence on composition and temperature of the diffusion coefficient D and of the kinematic diffusion coefficient D* in a binary nonelectrolyte solution. This equation is now applied to our own measurements of the activity coefficients and of the diffusion coefficient in the non-ideal liquid system carbon tetrachloride + ac...

Technological scheme for the oxidation of organic wastes in SCW has been proposed. Mathematical models of all apparatuses in the scheme (heat exchangers, chemical reactor, separator) consider specific properties of chemical processes realized in supercritical water (alteration of heat capacity, enthalpy and critical parameters of mixture with changing pressure, temperature and composition). Non...

We consider the following conjecture proposed by Cornuéjols, Guenin and Margot: every ideal minimally non-packing clutter has a transversal of size 2. For a clutter C, let C̃ denote the set of hyperedges of C which intersect any minimum transversal in exactly one element. We divide the (non-)existence problem of an ideal minimally non-packing clutter D into two steps. In the first step, we give ...

Linear minimum mean square error (LMMSE) receivers are capable of suppressing multiple access interference and near-far occurrences in a code division multiple access (CDMA) system operating in multipath fading wireless channels. Their relative low complexity makes them suitable for both uplink and downlink receivers. Third generation receivers are mainly based on coherent detection. Carrier fr...

This paper first extends the result of Blakley and Kabatianski [3] to general non-perfect SSS using information-theoretic arguments. Furthermore, we refine Okada and Kurosawa’s lower bound [12] into a much more precise information-theoretic characterization of non-perfect secret sharing idealness. In the light of this generalization, we establish that ideal schemes do not always have a matroida...