Reconsideration is a belief change operation that re-optimizes a finite belief base following a series of belief change operations—provided all base beliefs have a linear credibility ordering. This paper shows that linearity is not required for reconsideration to improve and possibly optimize a belief base.

This paper presents a general investigation into the improvement of modal scaling factors of an experimental modal model using mass additive technique. Data base required by the proposed method consists of an experimental modal model (a set of complex eigenvalues and eigenvectors) of the original structure and a corresponding set of complex eigenvalues of the mass-added structure. Three analyti...

A two-step system identification is presented to estimate modal properties of a base-fixed model from ambient vibration records on multi-story building with soil-structure interaction (SSI). In the first step output-only stochastic subspace method employed for estimating SSI. second are modified estimates, by using theoretical relations between multi-degree-of-freedom SSI and its equivalent der...

The algorithm to compute theory prime implicates, a generalization of prime implicates, in propositional logic has been suggested in [16]. In this paper we have extended that algorithm to compute theory prime implicates of a knowledge base X with respect to another knowledge base Y using [2], where Y is a propositional knowledge base and X |= Y , in modal system T and we have also proved its co...

In the Evidential Probability (EP) (Kyburg and Teng 2001) framework, interval-valued probabilities are assigned to events given a knowledge base containing statements about logical relationships of classes of objects as well as statements about relative frequencies pertaining to some of those classes. We are interested in the robustness of this inference with respect to perturbations in the giv...