This paper presents a logic programming approach, based on the Event Calculus (EC), for representing and reasoning about triggered scenarios (TS), an expressive dialect of message sequence charts widely employed in software requirements engineering to specify system behaviour. We introduce a sound translation for triggered scenarios into an EC-based Answer Set Programming (ASP) representation, ...

| In this paper, we overview Interactive EC (evolutionary computation) research, showing the status quo and its remaining problems. The interactive EC technique optimizes systems from human interaction with computers. Recently, interest in this approach has increased in many application elds that we categorize into the artistic, engineering, and educational elds. We then overview the research w...

Quality function development (QFD) is a planning tools used to fulfill customer expectation and QFD is a systematic process to translating customer requirement (WHATs) into technical description (HOWs). QFD aims to maximize customer satisfactions related to enterprise satisfaction. The inherent fuzziness of relationships in QFD modeling justifies the use of fuzzy regression for estimating the r...

BACKGROUND As endometrial cancer (EC) prevalence increases with obesity, we aimed to determine whether EC characteristics depend upon obesity type: 'standard' (SO) or 'metabolically healthy obesity' (MHO). PATIENTS & METHODS 258 EC patients were included. Data on anthropometry, blood hormones, lipids and glucose, and tumor features were collected. RESULTS EC clinicopathologic characteristic...

the objective of the present study was to investigate the effects of bacterial additives on chemical characteristics and ruminal degradability of alfalfa silage. in this experiment the treatments consisted of: 1-untreated alfalfa silage (control), 2-treated with ecosyl (ec), 3- lacticil maize (lm), and 4- a combination of both additives, ec and lm, at half level of treatments 2 and 3. silos wer...

Aim: Upper gastrointestinal tract carcinomas are major health problem around the world. Esophageal cancer (EC) is usually diagnosed at an advanced stage; therefore most therapeutic approaches are palliative. The aim of the study was to investigate the possible relationship between serum activities of paraoxonase (PON1) and arylesterase (ARE), and clinicopathological characteristics in EC. Metho...

Quality function development (QFD) is a planning tools used to fulfill customer expectation and QFD is a systematic process to translating customer requirement (WHATs) into technical description (HOWs). QFD aims to maximize customer satisfactions related to enterprise satisfaction. The inherent fuzziness of relationships in QFD modeling justifies the use of fuzzy regression for estimating the r...

ground settlement due to the shallow tunneling in urban areas can have considerable implications for aboveground civilinfrastructures. engineering geological characteristics of the tunnel host ground including geotechnical parameters of surrounding soil,groundwater situation, and in situ stress condition are amongst the most important factors affecting settlement. in this research, groundsettle...

the first training courses on entrepreneurship started in the united states of america in the 1960s. today entrepreneurship education has been included in the curricula of numerous colleges throughout the world. considering the significant role that entrepreneurship plays in the economic development and poverty alleviation, the iranian higher education system helped establish the faculty of ent...

Language statistics are widely used to characterize and better understand language. In parallel, the amount of text mining and information retrieval methods grew rapidly within the last decades, with many algorithms evaluated on standardized corpora, often drawn from newspapers. However, up to now there were almost no attempts to link the areas of natural language processing and language statis...