This study is devoted to discrete sizing optimization of truss structures employing an efficient discrete evolutionary meta-heuristic algorithm which uses the Newton gradient-based method as its updating scheme and it is named here as Newton Meta-heuristic Algorithm (NMA). In order to enable the NMA population-based meta-heuristic to effectively explore the discrete design space, a term contain...

Fusion frames are valuable generalizations of discrete frames. Most concepts of fusion frames are shared by discrete frames. However, the dual setting is so complicated. In particular, unlike discrete frames, two fusion frames are not dual of each other in general. In this paper, we investigate the structure of the duals of fusion frames and discuss the relation between the duals of fusion fram...

Hidden Markov Model is a popular statisical method that is used in continious and discrete speech recognition. The probability density function of observation vectors in each state is estimated with discrete density or continious density modeling. The performance (in correct word recognition rate) of continious density is higher than discrete density HMM, but its computation complexity is very ...

in this paper, a positive definite semi-discrete mixed finite element method was presented for two-dimensional parabolic equations. in the new positive definite systems, the gradient equation and flux equations were separated from their scalar unknown equations.  also, the existence and uniqueness of the semi-discrete mixed finite element solutions were proven. error estimates were also obtaine...

background due to the importance and uniqueness of the characteristics of the health sector, one of the most important priorities of the ministry of health is measuring the efficiency and quality of services which are provided for the people who refer to the health sectors. in all health systems, responding to the needs and wishes of patients is a crucial priority. objectives the main purpose o...

In contrast to the classical discrete choice experiment, the respondent in a rank-order discrete choice experiment, is asked to rank a number of alternatives instead of the preferred one. In this paper, we study the information matrix of a rank order nested multinomial logit model (RO.NMNL) and introduce local D-optimality criterion, then we obtain Locally D-optimal design for RO.NMNL models in...

in proposition 2.6 in (g‎. ‎gruenhage‎, ‎a‎. ‎lutzer‎, ‎baire and volterra spaces‎, ‎textit{proc‎. ‎amer‎. ‎math‎. ‎soc.} {128} (2000)‎, ‎no‎. ‎10‎, ‎3115--3124) a condition that‎ ‎every point of $d$ is $g_delta$ in $x$ was overlooked‎. ‎so we‎ ‎proved some conditions by which a baire space is equivalent to a‎ ‎volterra space‎. ‎in this note we show that if $x$ is a‎ ‎monotonically normal $t_1$...

In this paper, a positive definite semi-discrete mixed finite element method was presented for two-dimensional parabolic equations. In the new positive definite systems, the gradient equation and flux equations were separated from their scalar unknown equations.  Also, the existence and uniqueness of the semi-discrete mixed finite element solutions were proven. Error estimates were also obtaine...

Supervisory control and fault diagnosis of hybrid systems need to have complete information about the discrete states transitions of the underling system. From this point of view, the hybrid system should be abstracted to a Discrete Trace Transition System (DTTS) and represented by a discrete mode transition graph. In this paper an effective method is proposed for generating discrete mode trans...