Spot welds have a significant part in the creation of automotive vehicles. Since integrity of, for example, car, is dependent on performance multiple welds, it important to ensure quality each spot weld. Several attempts been made order determine but most them do not focus applicability manufacturing process. weld inspections are often performed using back heating. However, during manufacturing...

The recognition of Arabic Named Entities (NE) is a potentially useful preprocessing step for many Natural Language Processing Applications, such as Statistical Machine Translation (SMT). Due to peculiarities of the written Arabic language, this task is however rather challenging. In this paper, we present a detailed study of Arabic NEs in the context of a SMT system. We present our statistical ...

Even though convinced of their ef®cacy, software development managers are looking for ways to reduce the cost of inspections. Recent work shows that inspections by two engineers have as good results as by using a larger team of ®ve. This indicates that pair programming might be effective as an inspection technique, as other research shows that a meeting is not necessarily better than not meetin...

Personal automobile emissions are a major source of urban air pollution. Many regional and local governments across the United States (US), Europe, and Asia have inspection and maintenance (I/M) programs designed to reduce pollution from personal transportation. But there is little empirical evidence directly linking mandated inspections, maintenance, and local air pollution levels. To test for...

ÐWe have found that, when software is developed by multiple, geographically separated teams, the cost-benefit trade-offs of software inspection change. In particular, this situation can significantly lengthen the inspection interval (calendar time needed to complete an inspection). Our research goal was to find a way to reduce the inspection interval without reducing inspection effectiveness. W...