Rapid product lifecycles and high development costs pressure manufacturing "rms to cut not only their development times (time-to-market), but also the time to reach full capacity utilization (time-to-volume). The period between completion of development and full capacity utilization is known as production ramp-up. During that time, the new production process is ill understood, which causes low ...

In this paper a hierarchical classification framework using the feature-weighting tree for the objective of applying diverse weighting to acoustic features is proposed for speech recognition. The hierarchical feature-weighting tree with a flexible structure complexity can be constructed optimally with the optimal splitting for the recognition confusion graph. Based on the minimum classification...

Matt Stowe and Subhash Kak . Abstract: This paper examines the memory capacity of generalized neural networks. Hopfield networks trained with a variety of learning techniques are investigated for their capacity both for binary and non-binary alphabets. It is shown that the capacity can be much increased when multilevel inputs are used. New learning strategies are proposed to increase Hopfield n...

the educational system is designed for some students’ kind of minds (e.g., those with strengths in attention, memory, language, social skills), for others, it is a daily struggle. unfortunately, the academic setting rarely accounts for this variability. regardless, at some point in time (for whatever reason), almost all students “hit a wall” (or face a challenge) which can make them doubt wheth...

We demonstrate that discrete Lyapunov exponents are isomorphic to numeric overflows of the capacity of an arbitrary noiseless and memoryless channel in a Shannon communication model with feedback. The isomorphism allows the understanding of Lyapunov exponents in terms of Information Theory, rather than the traditional definitions in chaos theory. The result also implies alternative approaches t...

Suppose Nature picks a probability measure P on a complete separable metric space X at random from a measurable set P fP g Then without knowing a statistician picks a measure Q on X Finally the statistician su ers a loss D P jjQ the relative entropy between P and Q We show that the minimax and maximin values of this game are always equal and there is always a minimax strategy in the closure of ...

In this paper we focus on large-scale IS implementation using the lens of absorptive capacity. Our case study concentrates on the double loop learning process that occurs over the implementation phase of ERP which we depict as a series of learning cycles. From this perspective, ERP implementation is best viewed not as a one-time process but rather as a series of implementation and practical use...

The purpose of the present study was to compare the predictive power of working memory and IQ in children identified as having learning difficulties. The term “working memory” refers to the capacity to store and manipulate information in mind for brief periods of time. Working-memory capacity is strongly related to learning abilities and academic progress, predicting current and subsequent scho...