In this paper, we introduce the notion of an extended metric space ($p$-metric space) as a new generalization of the concept of $b$-metric space. Also, we present the concept of $(psi ,varphi )_{Omega}$-contractive mappings and we establish some fixed point results for this class of mappings in ordered complete $p$-metric spaces. Our results generalize several well...

jachymski [ proc. amer. math. soc., 136 (2008), 1359-1373] gave modified version of a banach fixed point theorem on a metric space endowed with a graph. in the present paper, (g, φ)-graphic contractions have been de ned by using a comparison function and studied the existence of fixed points. also, hardy-rogers g-contraction have been introduced and some fixed point theorems have been proved. s...

Spatial disagregation is needed when environmental models of climate, air quality, hydrology, etc. require input data at a finer scale than available or when models produce outputs at a coarser scale than required by users. Area-to-Point Kriging is a common geostatistical framework to address the problem of spatial disaggregation from block to point support. Spatial disaggregation using Area-to...

Corresponding Author: Youssef T. AL-sheikh, Ph.D., M.S., C(ASCP), Moran Eye Center, 65 North Medical Drive, Salt Lake City, UT 84132; email address [email protected] Health information technologies can deliver complete medical information to the point of care when needed. The set of organizing principles, systems, standards, procedures, and policies that integrates health information ...

Logistic regression has been widely used in classification tasks for many years. Its optimization in case of linear separable data has received extensive study due to the problem of a monoton likelihood. This paper presents a new approach, called bounded logistic regression (BLR), by solving the logistic regression as a convex optimization problem with constraints. The paper tests the accuracy ...

Construction projects consist of multiple components such as on-site equipment resources, site layout, labor productivity, unexpected external events, and human decisions regarding resource allocation and activity rescheduling. Stochastic spatial and temporal interactions between those components result in dynamic complexity of construction projects. Decisions made in such dynamic task environm...

Keywords: parametric, classifier, similarity-based. A parametric classifier builds class models and classifies test points as being from classes that they are most likely to belong to, given the class models. Over the summer, I worked with Professor to develop a parametric classifier that builds models based on only the similarity between samples. The parametric clas-sifier was compared to othe...

At the moment, 14 European Talent Centres belong to the recently formed European Talent Support Network, which, in the long run, can bring new dimensions to pan-European cooperation in supporting young talented people all over Europe.  Exchange and adaptation of best practices, spread and application of scientific results, possibilities of mutual visits of young talents, their teachers, me...

0307010. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the agencies. ABSTRACT In contrast to conventional multicriteria decision aids we take the point of view of environmetrics: Let first the data speak, and then let us derive a ranking. In the present paper we introduce an improved "...

The distribution information of data points in two classes as the structural information is inserted into the classifiers to improve their generalization performance. Recently many algorithms such as S-TWSVM has used this information to construct two nonparallel hyperplanes which each one lies as close as possible to one class and being far away from the other. It is well known that different c...