Recently there have been advances in strati ed sampling techniques that attempt to enforce equal distributions not only across the design variables, but also onto the design space itself. This requires a numerically intensive optimization routine. Until now, no optimization strategy was able to distribute sample points evenly in the design space, but Evolutionary Algorithms (EA) act as an enabl...

We develop a theory of stratified LM -filters which generalizes the theory of stratified L-filters. Our stratification condition explicitly depends on a suitable mapping between the lattices L and M . If L and M are identical and the mapping is the identity mapping, then we obtain the theory of stratified L-filters. Based on the stratified LM -filters, a general theory of lattice-valued converg...

The fundamental groupoid of a locally 0 and 1-connected space classifies covering spaces, or equivalently local systems. When the space is topologically stratified, Treumann, based on unpublished ideas of MacPherson, constructed an ‘exit category’ (in the terminology of this paper, the ‘fundamental category’) which classifies constructible sheaves, equivalently stratified etale covers. This pap...

We study the space of all continuous fuzzy-valued functions  from a space $X$ into the space of fuzzy numbers $(mathbb{E}sp{1},dsb{infty})$  endowed with the pointwise convergence topology.   Our results generalize the classical ones for  continuous real-valued functions.   The field of applications of this approach seems to be large, since the classical case  allows many known devices to be fi...

With the advent of location-independent access to massive collections of searchable content on the World Wide Web and the convergence of text, images, audio and video in multimedia computing environments, we have come a long way towards seamless access to the information needed for commerce, security, and society. Language, however, has the potential to balkanize the information space. This cha...

It is very common in an enterprise daily operation to solve Container Loading Problem (CLP). Especially, it is an important issue in the logistic management. The problem aims to determine the arrangement of objects with the best utilization ratio in a container. It belongs to the combinatorial optimization problem. In this paper, a two-phased method focusing on the improvement of the efficiency...