This paper discusses region-based representations useful to create connected operators. The filtering approach involves three steps: first, a region tree representation of the input image is constructed. Second, the simplification is obtained by pruning the tree and third, and output image is constructed from the pruned tree. The paper focuses in particular on several pruning strategies that ca...

We consider the descriptive complexity of some subsets of the infinite permutation group S∞ which arise naturally from the classical series rearrangement theorems of Riemann, Levy, and Steinitz. In particular, given some fixed conditionally convergent series of vectors in Euclidean space Rd, we study the set of permutations which make the series diverge, as well as the set of permutations which...

this paper considers the automatic design of fuzzy rule-basedclassification systems based on labeled data. the classification performance andinterpretability are of major importance in these systems. in this paper, weutilize the distribution of training patterns in decision subspace of each fuzzyrule to improve its initially assigned certainty grade (i.e. rule weight). ourapproach uses a punish...

the current paper proposes a technique for the numerical solution of linear control systems.the method is based on galerkin method, which uses the interpolating scaling functions. fora highly accurate connection between functions and their derivatives, an operational matrix forthe derivatives is established to reduce the problem to a set of algebraic equations. several testproblems are given, a...

in this paper, we present a revised similarity measure based onchen-and-chen's similarity measure for fuzzy risk analysis. the revisedsimilarity measure uses the corrected formulae to calculate the centre ofgravity points, therefore it is more  effective than the chen-and-chen'smethod. the revised similarity measure can overcome the drawbacks of theexisting methods. we have also proposed a new ...

this paper is to identify the determinants of risk management and measure its impact on strategic management in tondgooyan petrochemical company during 2013-2014 in mahshahr city. the research method used is a descriptive-survey one. the population contains 200 employees. to test the hypotheses, the researcher uses a questionnaire consisted of 45 questions. the results are tested by kolmogorov-...

piezoelectric actuators are widely used in micro manipulation applications. however hysteresis nonlinearity limits accuracy of these actuators. this paper presents a novel approach utilizing a piezoelectric nano-stage as slave manipulator of a teleoperation system. the prandtl-ishlinskii (pi) model is used to model actuator hysteresis in feedforward scheme to cancel out this nonlinearity. a pas...