The goal of this paper is to study the connection between Dempster-Shafer theory and probabilistic argumentation systems. By introducing a general method to translate probabilistic argumentation systems into corresponding Dempster-Shafer belief potentials, its contribution is twofold. On the one hand, the paper proposes probabilistic argumentation systems as a convenient and powerful modeling l...

Synopsis Application of 2-d and 3-d numerical tidal models in the marine renewable energy field has typically been to identify appropriate sites for marine energy extraction and quantify the potential energy available for extraction. Implicit in such an analysis is the assumption that local flow conditions will not be significantly altered by the energy extraction process. Considering the compl...

In this paper, we deal with the stability analysis of an object grasped by fingers with linear stiffness in the case where the gravity effect is considered. The stability of the grasp is defined based on the potential energy of the grasp. The analysis problem is formulated as finding a condition of the stiffness parameters and contact points for the position of the center of gravity (COG) to ex...

A mesoscopic analytical model of wrinkling of Plain-Woven Composite Preforms (PWCPs) under the bias extension test is presented, based on a new instability analysis. The analysis is aimed to facilitate a better understanding of the nature of wrinkle formation in woven fabrics caused by large in-plane shear, while it accounts for the effect of fabric and process parameters on the onset of wrinkl...

Customer satisfaction and customer loyalty is becoming an increasingly important factor in modern retailing a market characterized by slow growth and intense competition. Big non-European chains such as Walmart are already present in some countries and consider to buy some of the retail chains in other countries e.g. the Scandinavian countries. This development will demand even more focus on cu...

The goal of this paper is to study the connection between Dempster-Shafer theory and probabilistic argumentation systems. By introducing a general method to translate probabilistic argumentation systems into corresponding Dempster-Shafer belief potentials, its contribution is twofold. On the one hand, the paper proposes probabilistic argumentation systems as a convenient and powerful modeling l...

The vibrational levels of diatomic molecules via Morse potentials are studied by means of the system confined in a spherical box of radius `. It is shown that there exists a critical radius `cr at which the spectrum of the usual unbounded system can be calculated to any desired accuracy. The results are compared with those of Morse’s classical solution which is based on the assumption that the ...

Human action categories exhibit significant intra-class variation. Changes in viewpoint, human appearance, and the temporal evolution of an action confound recognition algorithms. In order to address this, we present an approach to discover action primitives, sub-categories of action classes, that allow us to model this intra-class variation. We learn action primitives and their interrelations ...

We improve the best known lower bounds on the distance between two points of a Morse cluster in R, with ρ ∈ [4.967, 15]. Our method is a generalization of the one applied to the Lennard-Jones potential in [2], and it also leads to improvements of lower bounds for the energy of a Morse cluster. Some of the numerical results have been announced in [1].

The most accurate electronic structure calculations are performed using wave function expansions in terms of basis functions explicitly dependent on the inter-electron distances. In our recent work, we use such basis functions to calculate a highly accurate potential energy surface (PES) for the H(3)(+) ion. The functions are explicitly correlated Gaussians, which include inter-electron distanc...