Nowadays, Barton’s Joint Roughness Coefficients (JRC) are widely used as the index for roughness and as a challenging fracture property. When JRC ranking is the goal, deriving JRC from different fractal/wavelet procedures can be conflicting. Complexity increases when various rankings outcome from different calculation methods. Therefore, using Barton’s JRC, we cannot make a decision based on th...

background: gp41 of hiv (human immunodeficiency virus) is a protein that mediates fusion between viral and cellular membranes. the agent, t-20, which has been approved for hiv inhibition, can restrain gp41 function in the fusion process; nevertheless, it has disadvantages like instability, high cost of production and injection form to be delivered twice a day. methods: several molecules like nb...

Ensuring high quality data when collecting and integrating information from heterogeneous sources into a data warehouse is a challenging problem. In this paper, we propose a model for XML data fusion, which allows the integrator to define data cleaning rules for solving value conflicts that may have been detected during the integration process. These rules resemble decisions that are made by us...

This paper compares different fusion processes in terms of error probability and robustness. To begin with, simple fusion operators are studied in the general framework of two binary sensors (Maximum Likelihood and logical fusion functions like ‘or’, ‘and’...). In the sequel, the comparison is extended to likelihood vectors adding other fusion operators (T-norms, Tconorms, means operators). Fin...

We consider the problem of specifying data structures with complex sharing in a manner that is both declarative and results in provably correct code. In our approach, abstract data types are specified using relational algebra and functional dependencies; a novel fuse operation on relational indexes specifies where the underlying physical data structure representation has sharing. We permit the ...

The Web contains a significant volume of structured data in various domains, but a lot of data are dirty and erroneous, and they can be propagated through copying. While data integration techniques allow querying structured data on the Web, they take the union of the answers retrieved from different sources and can thus return conflicting information. Data fusion techniques, on the other hand, ...

Due to ubiquitous sensors (GPS, Accelerometer), easy of use apps (Facebook, Twitter etc), presence of audio & video recording devices and higher internet connectivity, the key characteristics of raw data is changing. This new data can be characterized by 4Vs Volume, Velocity, Variety and Veracity. Moreover, due to popular trend of crowd sourcing or citizen sensors, it is reasonable to assume th...

IMultisensor data fusion refers to the acquisition, processing and synergistic combination of information gathered by various knowledge sources and sensors to provide a better understanding of a phenomenon. It is a fascinating and rapidly evolving field that has generated a lot of excitement in the research and development community. These concepts are being applied to a wide variety of fields ...