usually, in monitoring schemes the nominal value of the process parameter is assumed known. however, this assumption is violated owing to costly sampling and lack of data particularly in healthcare systems. on the other hand, applying a fixed control limit for the risk-adjusted bernoulli chart causes to a variable in-control average run length performance for patient populations with dissimilar...

in some statistical process control applications, the quality of the product is characterized by thecombination of both correlated variable and attributes quality characteristics. in this paper, we propose anovel control scheme based on the combination of two multi-layer perceptron neural networks forsimultaneous monitoring of mean vector as well as the covariance matrix in multivariate-attribu...

Index compression has been a major issue in the field of Information Retrieval Systems. In particular, due to the impressive figures involved with Web Search Engines (WSEs) the compression of the index is not an option anymore but it has become a must. The most important index compression methods are designed to work for Inverted File (IF) indexes. These methods are based on the assumption that...

We show how models for prediction with expert advice can be defined concisely and clearly using hidden Markov models (HMMs); standard HMM algorithms can then be used to efficiently calculate, among other things, how the expert predictions should be weighted according to the model. We cast many existing models as HMMs and recover the best known running times in each case. We also describe two ne...