Response surface methodology is a common tool in optimizing processes. It mainly concerns situations when there is only one response of interest. However, many designed experiments often involve simultaneous optimization of several quality characteristics. This is called a Multiresponse Surface Optimization problem. A common approach in dealing with these problems is to apply desirability funct...

We describe an application of information extraction for building a directory of announcements of scientific conferences. We employ a cascaded finite-state transducer to identify possible conference names, titles, dates, locations and URLs in a conference announcement. In order to cope with agrammatical text that is typical for conference announcements, our system uses orthographic features of ...

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Chantal Vallée is the head coach of the women’s basketball team at the University of Windsor in Canada. She holds a master’s degree in sport psychology with a focus on building successful programs. She has received 12 conference and 2 national coach of the year awards, produced 4 national team members, and has won 5 national titles. In her last seven seasons, she has maintained a 93% winning pe...

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