Fuzzy inference engines based on the existing fuzzy theory are inadequate to perform reliable decision making. Besides requiring the fuzzy sets and data to be normalized, the inference engine is also sensitive to noise in observational data. Inaccurate conclusions are produced if noise is present and also when the fuzzy sets are not normalized. In this paper, a new term "similarity' (o) and the...

ARTigo is both, a gaming platform and an artwork search engine: While playing, ARTigo’s users leaves annotations describing artworks; these annotations are automatically processed by a higher-order latent semantic analysis for building, and continuously improving, an artwork search engine. ARTigo’s search engine has been developed for, and with, art historians and covers more that 65,000 artwor...

Object-oriented rapid prototyping tools geared towards multimedia, such as Max/MSP/Jitter and Pd/Gem, serve as a powerful foundation for efficient multimodal crosspollination and integration. Although both Max and Pd support OpenGL, the lack of scalability, user-friendly 3D editor, and physics engine makes them less desirable solutions for the rapid development of complex environments and physi...

Development of Gasoline Engine Management Systems control features Tata Consultancy Services in alliance with a leading Tier-1 supplier has developed control and diagnostic features to be implemented for a Gasoline Engine Management System (EMS) that will be used in a passenger car that meets EU4 emission norms. From the high level requirements provided by the Tier-1 , the control features deve...

The queries entered into search engines register hundreds of millions of different searches by tourists, not only reflecting the trends of the searchers' preferences for travel products, but also offering a prediction of their future travel behavior. This study used web search query volume to predict visitor numbers for a popular tourist destination in China, and compared the predictive power o...

TOG and JOSH are two fully Globus-enabled grid scheduling tools based around Grid Engine, the Globus Toolkit and a variety of data grid technologies. These tools were originally developed by the EPCC Sun Data and Compute Grids (Sun DCG) project. This paper describes these tools and their use in e-Science projects in the UK and abroad. 1. Grid Engine & Globus Grid Engine [1] is an open source di...

The performance of the conventional engine-cooling system has always been constrained by the passive nature of the system and the need to provide the required heat-rejection capability at high-power conditions. This leads to considerable losses in the cooling system at part-load conditions where vehicles operate most of the time. A set of design and operating features from advanced enginecoolin...

Abstract: Reduction of NOX emissions and fuel consumption are the main topics in engine development, forcing the adoption of complex techniques and components, whose interactions have to be clearly understood for proper and reliable operations and management of the whole system. The investigation presented in this paper aimed at the development of integrated control strategies of turbocharging,...

In this current era, increasing computing power, effort to reduce prototypes’ cost and time, and shorten design-toproduct time urges the need of numerical computation. Higher cooling’s load or requirement is attributed by higher power of engine. Also, higher quantity of heat exchangers and vehicles’ styling resulted limited space at vehicles’ hood. These factors have caused the design job of ve...

In our days, the cloud computing wins a great importance. So it becomes the refuge of many companies especially Small and Medium sized enterprises (SMEs), since it provides computer services witch fits with demand and charged according to their use. Now the evolution towards the cloud is promoting that orchestration business process to be run as a service (Orchestration as a Service (OaaS)). Oa...