Despite recent development in producing chemical medicines, associated side effects have led to increased use of medicinal plants and natural compounds. Soil salinity, especially in arid and semi-arid regions, is a serious threat to global agriculture. Nowadays, efforts have been made to find benchmarks that can effectively select salt-tolerant or salt-resistant genotypes. In this regard, the u...

The XML standards that are currently emerging have a number of characteristics that can also be found in database management systems, like schemas (DTDs and XML schema) and query languages (XPath and XQuery). Following this line of reasoning, an XML database might resemble traditional database systems. However, XML is more than a language to mark up data; it is also a language to mark up textua...

Todays business workflows, e.g. in administration, have a strong need for support by information technology, because they heavily rely on the efficient and fluent interaction of human actors and artificial systems. At the same time, workflow tasks supported or automatically executed by computers get more and more complex. Intelligent agents try to cope with both of these settings by providing a...

Traditional Web-based educational systems still have several shortcomings when comparing with a real-life classroom teaching, such as lack of contextual and adaptive support, lack of flexible support of the presentation and feedback, lack of the collaborative support between students and systems. Based on the educational theory, personalization increases learning motivation, which can increase ...

As networked systems grow in size, the amount of data available to users has increased dramatically. The result is an information overload for the user. In this project, an intelligent information filtering system reduced the user's search burden by automatically eliminating incoming data predicted to be irrelevant. These predictions are learned by adapting an internal user model which is based...

The proposed Universal Intelligent Interface (UII) consists in two parts. One is a universal part, another is a problem depended part. UII, modeling user in the Frame Network User Model (FNUM), is designed as a shell system which supports a knowledge base and a number of learning agents. The system treats separately (not necessary independently) various elements of user model within the frames ...

car-following models, as the most popular microscopic traffic flow modeling, is increasingly being used by transportation experts to evaluate new intelligent transportation system (its) applications. a number of factors including individual differences of age, gender, and risk-taking behavior, have been found to influence car-following behavior. this paper presents a novel idea to calculate the...

This paper presents an intelligent user interface agent architecture based on Bayesian networks. Using a Bayesian network not only dynamically captures and models user behavior, but it also dynamically captures and models uncertainty in the interface's reasoning process. We present an approach that allows our intelligent interface agent (IIA) to alter its own topology to better adapt itself to ...

In large open pit mines prediction of Peak Particle Velocity (PPV) provides useful information for safe blasting. At Sungun Copper Mine (SCM), some unstable rock slopes facing to valuable industrial facilities are both expose to high intensity daily blasting vibrations, threatening their safty. So, controlling PPV by developing accurate predictors is essential. Hence, this study proposes improv...