The Federated Learning (FL) paradigm faces several challenges that limit its application in real-world environments. These include the local models' architecture heterogeneity and unavailability of distributed Internet Things (IoT) nodes due to connectivity problems. factors posit question "how can available models fill training gap unavailable models?". This is referred as "Oblique Learning" p...

The independence of imposed vanishing conditions is a foundational issue for wide range research in algebraic geometry. In this spirit, if X⊂Pn reduced subscheme, we say that X admits an unexpected hypersurface degree t and multiplicity m requiring at general point P fails to impose the expected number on linear system hypersurfaces containing X. Conditions which either guarantee occurrence hyp...

As organizations are becoming increasingly dependent on Information Technologies (IT) to run their business processes, they are also becoming more susceptible to its discontinuity. Anecdotal evident exists for many cases of IT service interruption that resulted in strategic consequences such as financial losses, negative stock market reactions, reputational damages or even organizations’ existe...

Feature selection methods have been successfully applied to text categorization but seldom applied to text clustering due to the unavailability of class label information. In this paper, we first give empirical evidence that feature selection methods can improve the efficiency and performance of text clustering algorithm. Then we propose a new feature selection method called “Term Contribution ...

Sudden unexpected nocturnal death syndrome (SUNDS) is a distinct clinical entity in previously healthy, young, Southeast Asian males. It is well known in the Philippines and more recently recognized in the U.S. by nonspecific autopsy findings, with no evidence of underlying disease and absence of toxic drug or alcohol levels. In 1973-89, 14 cases of apparent SUNDS came to coroner's autopsy in t...

We have recently proposed a general approach to engineering protective wrappers as a means of detecting errors or unwanted behaviour in systems employing an OTS (Off-The-Shelf) item, and launching appropriate recovery actions. This paper presents results of a case study in protective wrapper development, using a Simulink model of a steam boiler system together with an OTS PID (Proportional, Int...