In the AEC industry, there is a large number of standards and codes which ensure the structural stability, reliability, usability of the building under design. Accordingly, checking the conformity of the building design with these requirements is a crucial process. Nowadays this checking is performed to a large extent manually based on two-dimensional technical drawings and textual documents. D...

We present a high-level declarative programming language for representing argumentation schemes, where schemes represented in this language can be easily validated by domain experts, including developers of argumentation schemes in informal logic and philosophy, and serve as executable specifications for automatically constructing arguments, when applied to a set of assumptions. Since argumenta...

the success or failure of an organization has a direct relationship with how its human resources are employed and retained. it is the case that organizations keep large amounts of information and data on entrance evaluations and processes. this information, however, is often left unutilized. data mining is considered a solution for analyzing these data. this paper is investigating educated and ...

During the development of many diseases such as cancer and diabetes, the pattern of gene expression within certain cells changes. A vital part of understanding these diseases will come from understanding the factors governing gene expression. This thesis work focused on mining association rules in the context of gene expression. We designed and developed a tool that enables domain experts to in...

Building a Fuzzy Inference System (FIS) generally requires experts’ knowledge. However, experts’ knowledge is not always available. When there is few experts’ knowledge, it becomes hard to build a FIS using one of supervised learning methods. Meanwhile, Q-learning is a kind of reinforcement learning where an agent can acquire knowledge from its experiences even without the model of the environm...

the complexity and diversity of international assignment or license of iprs and the territoriality principle, makes determining their applicable law difficult. the rules governing iprs, are distinct from applicable law to contractual issues, hence the importance of characterization in these contracts. party autonomy and the discretion of courts are faced with restrictions including competition ...