Beyond Affinity Propagation: Message Passing Algorithms for Clustering Inmar-Ella Givoni Doctor of Philosophy Graduate Department of Computer Science University of Toronto 2012 Affinity propagation is an exemplar-based clustering method that takes as input similarities between data points. It outputs a set of data points that best represent the data (exemplars), and assignments of each non-exem...

artificial neural networks (ann) have shown to be a powerful tool for system modeling in a wide range of applications. the focus of this study is on neural network applications to data analysis in egg production. an ann model with two hidden layers, trained with a back propagation algorithm, successfully learned the relationship between the input (age of hen) and output (egg production) variabl...

this paper is mainly focused on noise pollution problems related to the use of wind turbines. the installed turbines are vestas v52 and the farm map under study is a typical rural area in south italy, in which a wind farm has been recently installed and made operative. since the area is rural and the number of vehicles per hour is negligible, noise emitted by roads does not affect the predictio...

makran subduction zone (msz) offshore of iran and pakistan is one of the most tsunamigenic sources in the indian ocean. historically, the msz has generated some tsunamigenic earthquakes like that of 28 november 1945 with the death tool of more than 4000 people along the coasts of iran, pakistan, india, and oman. in this study, the tsunami hazard associated with the msz is investigated. at first...

the goal of this study was to predict the moisture content of paddy using machine vision and artificial neural networks (anns). the grains were dried as thin layer with air temperatures of 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, and 80°c and air velocities of 0.54, 1.18, 1.56, 2.48 and 3.27 ms-1. kinetics of l*a*b* were measured. the air temperature, air velocity, and l*a*b* values were used as ann inputs. the res...

Object version propagation is a means of managing versions of complex objects automatically. Complex objects are objects linked to other objects by dependence relations such as composition, inheritance, association, equivalence, etc. The object version propagation model presented in this paper associates the version propagation capabilities, called version propagation strategies, with relations...

To implementation of mobile ad hoc network wave propagation models are necessary to determine propagation characteristic through a medium. Wireless mobile ad hoc networks are self creating and self organizing entity. Propagation study provides an estimation of signal characteristics. Accurate prediction of radio propagation behaviour for MANET is becoming a difficult task. This paper presents i...