Advances in scientific computing have allowed the development of complex models that are being routinely applied to problems in disease epidemiology, public health and decision making. The utility of these models depends in part on how well they can reproduce empirical data. However, fitting such models to real world data is greatly hindered both by large numbers of input and output parameters,...

There is a substantial literature suggesting that computer-assisted interviewing has advantages over face-to-face and written self-administration of interviews in venues eliciting sensitive information similar to that sought in blood donor history screening. We review some of the recent developments in blood donor history screening, the evidence suggesting that automated interviews should be us...

In this paper we propose an improved Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithm based on Decomposition (MOEA/D), i.e. metamodel-assisted compact MOEA/D, to efficiently solve the ontology meta-matching problem. Particularly, we dedicate to determine the optimal ontology alignment by tuning four different basic similarity measures, i.e. Syntactic Measure, Linguistic Measure, Taxonomy-based Measure an...

We analyze theoretically and study experimentally the mechanisms of enhancement of the sum frequency and second harmonic generation in a finite one-dimensional photonic band gap structure with second order nonlinearity under Bragg diffraction conditions. It is shown that, near the photonic band gap edge, the efficiency of conversion in sum frequency and second harmonic generation processes can ...

In this paper, we study matching integral graphs of small order. A graph is called matching integral if the zeros of its matching polynomial are all integers. Matching integral graphs were first studied by Akbari, Khalashi, etc. They characterized all traceable graphs which are matching integral. They studied matching integral regular graphs. Furthermore, it has been shown that there is no matc...

schema matching is a critical step in many applications, such as data warehouse loading, online analytical process (olap), data mining, semantic web [2] and schema integration. this task is defined for finding the semantic correspondences between elements of two schemas. recently, schema matching has found considerable interest in both research and practice. in this paper, we present a new impr...

The leaky coaxial cable (LCX) based intruder detection system detects intruders by making efficient use of time-variation of the channel impulse response among the cables. Recently, a compressed sensing (CS)-assisted intruder detection system has been proposed for improving the accuracy of the intruder detection. Although the CS-assisted system can improve the false detection probability perfor...