Steel Plate Shear Wall (SPSW) is an emerging seismic load-resistant system that, compared to other systems, enjoys the advantages of stable ductile behavior, fewer detailing requirements, rapid constructability, and economy. American seismic provisions decree that a SPSW should be designed as a moment frame with a web infill plate. Specifically, in case of buildings taller than 160 ft, it decre...

Software components as reusable building blocks for software are becoming widely used in software engineering. However, so far there has been little attempt to apply this programming and design paradigm in the domain of general-purpose operating systems. This paper analyzes several nice properties of component systems which might be beneficial in operating system design, the obstacles which eme...

This paper introduces the various forms of analogy in NARS, a generalpurpose reasoning system. NARS is an AI system designed to be adaptive and to work with insufficient knowledge and resources. In the system, multiple types of inference, including analogy, deduction, induction, abduction, comparison, and revision, are unified both in syntax and in semantics. The system can also carry out relat...

This short (work in progress) paper describes recent updates to the “Adaptive Hypermedia Architecture” (AHA), developed at the Eindhoven University of Technology (TUE). AHA has been used for two courses at the TUE, and experimentally also in a kiosk information system. The next set of applications of AHA consists of an adaptive geological atlas and an adaptive and personalized version of the (c...

Factor analysis was applied to individual type traits (TT) scored in primiparous cows belonging to two dual purpose Italian breeds, Rendena (REN; 20 individual type traits evaluated on 11 399 first parity cows), and Aosta Red Pied (ARP; 22 individual type traits evaluated on 36 168 primiparous cows). Six common latent factors (F1 to F6; eigenvalues ⩾1) which explained 63% (REN) and 58% (ARP) of...

Making potable water through desalination plants is a very important process in Iran where clean water is highly required. On the other hand, large amount of fossil fuel sources leads to the development of gas turbine power plants all over the country. Furthermore, Persian Gulf in the south and Caspian Sea in the north could be the main sources for supplying potable water in water scarcity area...

To date, work on formalizing connectionist computation in a way that is at least Turingcomplete has focused on recurrent architectures and developed equivalences to Turing machines or similar super-Turing models, which are of more theoretical than practical significance. We instead develop connectionist computation within the framework of information propagation networks extended with unbounded...

This paper describes a general purpose system based on elementary motion and rigid-body detection that is able to efficiently segment moving objects using a sparse map of features from the visual field. FPGA implementation allows real-time image processing on an embedded system. The modular design allows to add other modules and to use the system in very diverse applications.

This paper addresses the problem of probabilistic reasoning as it applies to Truth Maintenance Systems. A Belief Maintenance System hal! been constructed which manages a current set of probabilistic beliefs in much the same way that a TMS manages a set of true/false beliefs. Such a system may be thought of as a generalization of a. Truth Maintenance System. It enables one to reason using normal...

We describe the evaluation process of HyperContext, a framework for general-purpose adaptive and adaptable hypertext. In particular, we are interested in users’ short-term, transient, interests. We cannot make any prior assumptions about a user’s interest or goal, as we do not have any prior knowledge of the user. We conducted evaluations on two aspects of HyperContext. One evaluation was compl...