Maximum entropy (Maxent) is useful in many areas. Iterative scaling (IS) methods are one of the most popular approaches to solve Maxent. With many variants of IS methods, it is difficult to understand them and see the differences. In this paper, we create a general and unified framework for IS methods. This framework also connects IS and coordinate descent (CD) methods. Besides, we develop a CD...

The construction of codes in the projective space for error control in random networks has been the focus of recent research. The Plücker coordinate description of subspaces has been discussed in the context of constant dimension codes, as well as the Schubert cell description of certain code parameters. In this paper we use this classical tool to reformulate some standard constructions of cons...

Climate change could potentially alter the hydrologic cycle processes, such as precipitation, which affect surface runoff, temperature and relative humidity and are closely related to evaporation and streamflow in water bodies and evapotranspiration from plants. An ensemble of data composed of a baseline (base climatology) of the 19611990 model and climate projections were run (from 2025 to 205...

With the popularity of devices that are able to annotate data with spatial information (latitude and longitude), the processing of spatial queries has received a lot of attention from the research community recently. In this paper, we study a new query type named Top-k Spatial Keyword Preference Query that selects objects of interest based on the textual relevance of other spatio-textual object...

This paper reformulates image-based visual ser-voing as a constraint-based robot task, in order to integrate it seamlessly with other task constraints in image space, in Cartesian space, in the joint space of the robot, or in the " image space " of any other sensor (e. g. force, distance). This approach allows us to fuse various kinds of sensor data. The integration takes place via the specific...

Traditionally dynamic analysis is done using Newton’s universal laws of the equation motion. According to Newtonian mechanics, x, y, z, space-time coordinate system does not include a term for energy loss, an empirical damping “C” used in equilibrium equation. Energy loss any governed by thermodynamics. Unified Mechanics Theory (UMT) unifies motion Newton and thermodynamics at ab-initio level. ...

This paper shows the development of fieldbusses in factory automation and examines how new requirements from Industrial Internet of Things will impact communication technology. It further explores what future developments can be forecasted given that the Industrial Internet of Things defines that machines automatically coordinate and exchange information leading to increased real time requireme...

The annihilation-creation operators a(±) are defined as the positive/negative frequency parts of the exact Heisenberg operator solution for the ‘sinusoidal coordinate’. Thus a(±) are hermitian conjugate to each other and the relative weights of various terms in them are solely determined by the energy spectrum. This unified method applies to most of the solvable quantum mechanics of single degr...

As a direct consequence of the Galton-Pearson-McCartin Theorem [10, Theorem 2], the concentration ellipse provides a unifying thread to the Euclidean construction of various lines of regression. These include lines of coordinate regression [7], orthogonal regression [13], λ-regression [8] and (λ, μ)-regression [9] whose geometric constructions are afforded a unified treatment in the present pap...