A semi-continuous hidden Markov model based on the muluple vector quantization codebooks is used here for large.vocabulary speaker-independent continuous speech recognition in the techn,ques employed here. the semi-continuous output probab~hty densHy function for each codebook is represented by a comhinat,on of the corre,~ponding discrete output probablhttes of the hidden Markov model end the c...

SUOWA operators are a new family of aggregation functions that simultaneously generalize weighted means and OWA operators. Semi-uninorms, which are an extension of uninorms by dispensing with the symmetry and associativity properties, play a fundamental role in their definition. In this paper we show several procedures to construct semi-uninorms. The first one allows us to obtain continuous sem...

This paper is devoted to the study of perturbed semi-infinite optimization problems, i.e., minimization over ]R with an infinite number of inequality constraints. We obtain the second-order expansion of the optimal value function and the first-order expansion of approximate optimal solutions in two cases: (i) when the number of binding constraints is finite and (ii) when the inequality constrai...

In this paper we study a reducibility that has been introduced by Klaus Weihrauch or, more precisely, a natural extension of this reducibility for multi-valued functions on represented spaces. We call the corresponding equivalence classes Weihrauch degrees and we show that the corresponding partial order induces a lower semi-lattice with the disjoint union of multi-valued functions as greatest ...

To fabricate a virtual shape into the real world, the physical strength of the shape is an important consideration. We introduce a framework to consider both the strength and complexity of 3D frame structures. The key to the framework is a stress-oriented analysis and a semi-continuous condition in the shape representation that can both strengthen and simplify a structure at the same time. We f...

It is shown that sequences of generalized semi-Markov processes converge in the sense of weak convergence of random functions if associated sequences of defining elements (initial distributions, transition functions and clock time distributions) converge. This continuity or stability is used to obtain information about invariant probability measures. It is shown that there exists an invariant p...

We study a specific convex maximization problem in the space of continuous functions defined on a semi-infinite interval. An unexplained connection to the discrete version of this problem is investigated.

This paper is an attempt to generalize, simultaneously, the ring of real-valued continuous functions and the ring of real-valued measurable functions.

Blake A. Allison⇤, Adib Bagh†, and Jason J. Lepore‡. October 5, 2016 Abstract. We provide sufficient conditions for a game with discontinuous payoffs to be weakly reciprocally upper semi-continuous in mixed strategies. These conditions are imposed on the individual payoffs and not on their sum, and they can be readily verified in a large class of games even when the sum of payoffs in such games...