Reservoir modeling is a critical step in the planning and development of oil fields. Before a reservoir model can be accepted for forecasting future production, the model has to be updated with historical production data. This process is called history matching. History matching requires computer flow simulation, which is very time-consuming. As a result, only a small number of simulation runs ...

One of the important issues in data mining is the “interestingness” problem. Past research and applications have shown that in many situations a huge number of patterns can be discovered from a database. Most of these patterns are actually useless or uninteresting to the user. But because of the huge number of patterns, it is difficult for the user to identify those interesting to him/her. In t...

The concept of fuzzy matching in translation memories can take place using linguistically aware or unaware methods, or a combination of both. We designed a flexible and time-efficient framework which applies and combines linguistically unaware or aware metrics in the source and target language. We measure the correlation of fuzzy matching metric scores with the evaluation score of the suggested...

ÐOne of the major problems in the field of knowledge discovery (or data mining) is the interestingness problem. Past research and applications have found that, in practice, it is all too easy to discover a huge number of patterns in a database. Most of these patterns are actually useless or uninteresting to the user. But due to the huge number of patterns, it is difficult for the user to compre...

Ahotly debated topic inmachine translation is human evaluation. On the one hand, it is extremely costly and time consuming; on the other, it is an important and unfortunately inevitable part of any system. This paper describes COSTAMT Evaluation Tool, an open stand-alone tool for human machine translation evaluation. It is a Java program that can be used to manually evaluate the quality of the ...

With the expansion of telecommunication and online technologies for the purpose of survey administration, the issue of measurement validity has come to the fore. The proliferation of automated audio services and computer-based survey techniques has been matched by a corresponding denigration of the quality of traditional phone survey data, most notably as an outcome of falling response rates. T...

In this paper, we propose a method for automatically inferring the different page templates used to layout the document content. The first step of the method consists in performing a logical analysis of the document. Depending of the coverage of this step, a given number of document elements will be labeled. Then geometric relations are computed between these labeled elements, and page template...

History matching is the process of modifying the uncertain attributes of a reservoir model to reproduce the real reservoir performance. It is a classical reservoir engineering problem and plays an important role in reservoir management since the resulting models are used to support decisions in other tasks such as economic analysis and production strategy. This work introduces a dynamic decisio...