Satellite Image Time Series (SITS) have become more accessible in recent years and SITS analysis has attracted increasing research interest. Given that labeled training samples are time effort consuming to acquire, clustering or unsupervised methods need be developed. Similarity measure is critical for clustering, however, currently established represented by Dynamic Warping (DTW) still exhibit...

copper smelting slags are hard materials. therefore,to recover their copper by flotation method, grinding should be carried out to obtain optimal particle size. copper smelting slags in the bardeskan district, with work index of 16.24 kwh/st, were grinded for 65 minutes to reach an acceptable degree of freedom for the flotation tests, with particle size of 80%, smaller than 70 μm. with this gri...

For a broad class of nonlinear regression models we investigate the local Eand c-optimal design problem. It is demonstrated that in many cases the optimal designs with respect to these optimality criteria are supported at the Chebyshev points, which are the local extrema of the equi-oscillating best approximation of the function f0 ≡ 0 by a normalized linear combination of the regression functi...

We investigate optimal designs for discriminating between exponential regression models of different complexity, which are widely used in the biological sciences; see, e.g., Landaw (1995) or Gibaldi and Perrier (1982). We discuss different approaches for the construction of appropriate optimality criteria, and find sharper upper bounds on the number of support points of locally optimal discrimi...

Optimal control of many-server heterogenous service systems with service times that have a special hyper-exponential distribution, denoted by H ∗ 2 , which is a mixture of an exponential distribution and a unit point mass at 0, is considered. A static priority policy that assigns priorities to server pools based on their service time distributions is proposed. This policy is shown to be asympto...

This paper develops the concept of a contour of complete nonuniqueness and shows its application to the optimal design (optimal layout) of simple trusses transmitting a concentrated force to a presscribed, arbitrary foundation contour. As an example, a symmetric two-bar truss with compressed bars is considered, and the constraints refer to various kinds of elastic instability of the system.

For a broad class of nonlinear regression models we investigate the local Eand c-optimal design problem. It is demonstrated that in many cases the optimal designs with respect to these optimality criteria are supported at the Chebyshev points, which are the local extrema of the equi-oscillating best approximation of the function f0 ≡ 0 by a normalized linear combination of the regression functi...