N -gram models are used to model language in various applications. For large vocabularies, even a very large corpus is insu cient to estimate a raw ratioof-counts trigram model. One common way to overcome this problem is by linear interpolation of the trigram model with lower order models. The interpolation weights can be varied as a function of the current history, to re ect the con dence we h...

The embedded coder has an attractive feature that the coding bitstream can be truncated later at any point and still decoded a perceptible image. It is common in conventional coding to improve the subjective quality of the coded image through adjusting the quantization step size inversely proportional to a set of visual weights. However, such scheme will not be effective in the embedded coder a...

The objective of this article is to develop an empirically based framework for formulating and selecting a vendor in supply chain. This study applies the fuzzy set theory to evaluate the vendor selection decision. Applying Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) in obtaining criteria weights and applied Technique for Order Performance by Similarity to Idea Solution (TOPSIS) for obtaining final ranking...

we introduce an implicit method for nding a common element of the set of solutions of systems of equilibrium problems and the set of common xed points of a sequence of nonexpansive mappings and a representation of nonexpansive mappings. then we prove the strong convergence of the proposed implicit schemes to the unique solution of a variational inequality, which is the optimality condition fo...