In this paper we survey our results on model validation, change detection, and diagnosis, based on the local approach. We see this work as a counterpart of the central contribution by Lennart Ljung to a systematic approach to system identification. We reuse concepts brought by Lennart such as: model set, true system model, identification method, and we enrich this set of concepts by considering...

Linear System Identification yields a nominal model parameter, which minimizes a specific criterion based on the single input-output data set. Here we investigate the utility of various methods for estimating the probability distribution of this nominal parameter using only the data from this single experiment. The results are compared to the actual parameter distribution generated by many Mont...

regarding the importance and high proportion of iranian manufacturing industries' export in nonoil export basket, and their impact on economic growth, it is essential that effective factors on the manufacturing industries' export be investigated. this paper investigates the impact of human capital on the export of iranian industries, using a panel data set of 2-digit isic manufacturing industri...

The morphosyntactic categories of tense, aspect and mood are traditionally considered to be properties of verbs. However, the morphological expression of these categories within the nominal system is attested across a range of languages. Drawing on data from a number of languages, we provide a preliminary sketch of the phenomenon of nominal tense with nominal scope that is, cases in which nomin...

In most learning systems examples are represented as xed-length \feature vectors", the components of which are either real numbers or nominal values. We propose an extension of the feature-vector representation that allows the value of a feature to be a set of strings; for instance, to represent a small white and black dog with the nominal features size and species and the set-valued feature co...

despite the existence of a large variety of competency frameworks for medical graduates, there is no agreement on a single set of outcomes. different countries have attempted to define their own set of competencies to respond to their local situations. this article reports the process of developing medical graduates' competency framework as the first step in the curriculum reform in tehran univ...

Computation of a satisfactory policy for a decision problem when the parameters of the model are uncertain is a problem encountered in many applications. The traditional robust approach is based on a worst-case analysis and may lead to overly conservative solutions. In this paper we directly quantify the robustness to uncertainty and consider the tradeoff between the nominal performance and rob...