Today’s, the transportation facilities such as terminals, street, bridge, etc, represent the major investment in highway network. Every year tremendous resources should be invested to maintain these facilities. Among them, the Bridge Management System (B.M.S.) has been necessitated by large imbalance between extensive bridge repair and maintenance needs and limited available budget. So the main...

past earthquakes have demonstrated that old rc bridges may be seismically vulnerable. bridge responses during the last decades illustrated the necessity of the seismic assessment of bridges especially those which were designed with old codes. in this research an existing concrete bridge representative of the most common bridges in the highway system in iran are studied. push over and nonlinear ...

The paper presents the application of a Technical Mapping and tacit knowledge elicitation in industry in order to promote the modeling of tacit knowledge to explicit and represent it in the form of production rules for use in manufacturing processes. The technique was applied with the involved people in the lithographic process in a Metallurgical Company located in southern Brazil. Knowledge of...

The sparsity problem in collaborative filtering (CF) is a major bottleneck for most CF methods. In this paper, we consider a novel approach for alleviating the sparsity problem in CF by transferring useritem rating patterns from a dense auxiliary rating matrix in other domains (e.g., a popular movie rating website) to a sparse rating matrix in a target domain (e.g., a new book rating website). ...

A computer system which aids computer engineers in fault diagnosis is described. The system, called CRIB (Computer Retrieval Incidence Bank) is shown to fit into the class of pattern-directed inference systems. Emphasis is placed on the "before" and "after" phases of system generation and it is shown why, to be called an expert system, these phases are important. The forms of knowledge used in ...

introduction bacterial meningitis is a known infectious disease which occurs at early ages and should be promptly diagnosed and treated. bacterial and aseptic meningitis are hard to be distinguished. therefore, physicians should be highly informed and experienced in this area. the main aim of this study was to suggest a system for distinguishing between bacterial and aseptic meningitis, using f...

Data can be acquired, shared, and processed by an increasingly larger number of entities, in particular people. The distributed nature of this phenomenon has contributed to the development of many crowdsourcing projects. This scenario is prevalent in most forms of expert/non-expert group opinion and rating tasks (including many forms of internet or on-line user behavior), where a key element is...

In this paper methods for determination of perceptual quality of speech transmission and speech enhancement systems are discussed. The rating categories introduced in the listening test (7.) are not meant to replace existing "objective" or "technical" measures. They are meant to complement the description of a device under test and place more emphasize on the end-users impression of the system....

Bridge vibration control is an important issue whose purpose is to extend the structural service life of bridges. Normally, the bridge is modeled as an elastic beam or plate subject to a moving vehicle. However, the moving truck on a bridge is a complicated problem that must still be researched. In this paper, we propose a new method, to overcome the huge load in the bridge a load cell is used ...

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