The objective of this study is to investigate the thermal efficiency and power production of typical models of endoreversible heat engines at the regime of minimum entropy generation rate. The study considers the Curzon-Ahlborn engine, the Novikov's engine, and the Carnot vapor cycle. The operational regimes at maximum thermal efficiency, maximum power output and minimum entropy production rate...

The construction of efficient and effective decision trees remains a key topic in machine learning because of their simplicity and flexibility. A lot of heuristic algorithms have been proposed to construct near-optimal decision trees. Most of them, however, are greedy algorithms which have the drawback of obtaining only local optimums. Besides, common split criteria, e.g. Shannon entropy, Gain ...

In this paper, we prove the existence and uniqueness of weak entropy solutions to the Burgers-Poisson equation for initial data in L(R). Additional an Oleinik type estimate is established and some criteria on local smoothness and wave breaking for weak entropy solutions are provided.

Explanation-based generalization is used to extract a specialized grammar from the original one using a training corpus of parse trees. This allows very much faster parsing and gives a lower error rate, at the price of a small loss in coverage. Previously, it has been necessary to specify the tree-cutting criteria (or operationality criteria) manually; here they are derived automatically from t...

The fuzzy cross-entropy for intuitionistic hesitant fuzzy sets and their application in multi-criteria decision-making Juan-juan Peng, Jian-qiang Wang, Xiao-hui Wu, Hong-yu Zhang & Xiao-hong Chen To cite this article: Juan-juan Peng, Jian-qiang Wang, Xiao-hui Wu, Hong-yu Zhang & Xiao-hong Chen (2015) The fuzzy cross-entropy for intuitionistic hesitant fuzzy sets and their application in multi-c...

This paper investigates the application of error-entropy minimization algorithms to digital communications channel equalization. The pdf of the error between the training sequence and the output of the equalizer is estimated using the Parzen windowing method with a Gaussian kernel, and then, the Renyi’s quadratic entropy is minimized using a gradient descent algorithm. By estimating the Renyis ...

this study has aimed to analyze and evaluate the natural and agricultural hazards of guilan province. guilan province, due to the presence of multiple life zones and the existence of permanent rivers, suitable lands and important wetlands, can produce a variety of crops and livestock productions, which gives this province a prominent statues and natural and agricultural hazards could result in ...