With fuzzy linguistic rules complex handwriting patterns can be represented in a broad linguistic domain, thus facilitating a flexible and widely valid recognition scheme. Based on the multi-layered human visual recognition system a multilevel fuzzy rule based classification system is proposed and explained. The constraints which influence the structure of this system applied to handwritten sym...

Multi-level transactions are a variant of open nested transactions in which the subtransactions correspond to operations at different levels of a layered system architecture. The point of multi-level transactions is that the semantics of high-level operations can be exploited in order to increase concurrency. As a consequence, undoing a transaction requires compensation of completed subtransact...

Internal cognitive models are useful methods for the implementation of motor control [1]. The approach can be applied more generally to any intelligent adaptive control problem where the dynamics of the system (plant) is unknown and/or changing. In particular, paired inverse-forward models have been shown successfully to control complex motor tasks using robotic manipulators [1]. One way this i...

There is an increase in the demand for data mining applications on the web. With the increase in the size of data sets there is also a demand for scalable generic solutions. Scalability and generic data mining models can be provided with the use of distributed computing. In this paper we propose the use of a multilayered framework for a distributed data mining system. A multi-layered architectu...

Layered dielectric media is encountered in many electromagnetic problems such as analysis of multi-layered substrate/superstrate microwave circuits and printed antennas as well as modeling the terrain with a dielectric stratified medium. In this section a procedure for evaluating the dyadic Green’s function for a multi-layered (with planar interfaces) medium with arbitrary positions of the sour...

applications such as video streaming grow in importance and popularity, addressing user utility function for these multi-layered multimedia applications in NUM formulation becomes vital. In this paper, we propose a new multi-layered user utility model that leverages on studies of human visual perception and quality of experience (QoE) from the fields of computer graphics and human computer inte...

Multiple plumes of chlorinated organic compounds (PCE, TCE, and cis-1,2-DCE) are present above drinking water standards in groundwater underlying Camp Stanley Storage Activity (CSSA). One such plume has migrated off-post and is now impacting more than 20 drinking water wells within the Middle Trinity Aquifer. The off-post groundwater plume is defined by a series of traditional monitoring wells ...

Foams, and particularly the polypropylene foam, are more and more often used in the area of injury protection and passive safety for its energy absorption capacity. This multi-scale material is constituted of mesoscopic beads with a large variability of the material properties. To study the effects of these mesoscopic heterogeneities on both the macroscopic and the local behaviors, numerical si...

Analytical studies are carried out to investigate groundwater head changes in a coastal aquifer system in response to tidal fluctuations. The system consists of an unconfined aquifer, a semi-confined aquifer and a semi-permeable confining unit between them. An exact analytical solution is derived to investigate the influences of both leakage and storage of the semi-permeable layer on the tide-i...

Performance analysis of multi–agent system can be done by experiments with real system, simulation or analytic methods. Now, multi–agent technologies, e.g., (Deloach et al., 2001; JADE), are often based on Unified Modeling Lanuage (UML) (Booch et al., 1999; UML, 2007) or its modifications. The following analytical approaches: queuing network models (Kahkipuro, 1999), stochastic automata network...